There are some terms that get thrown around a lot in online poker communities. One of the most important terms for you to know is card mechanic. More importantly, you need to know if your friend is a card mechanic. A card mechanic is one of the many terms that you can use to denote a card shark or card sharp. The beauty of using this term instead of its more standard variants is that it is a little less well known. That means that you can use it on poker forums and online poker chat rooms without letting the entire community in on your joke. The only people who will know what are talking about are you and your well informed friends. A little bit of poker terminology can make you seem like you are a well educated casino goer.
Before you enter into an online poker game, however, you should ask yourself whether your friend is a card mechanic. If that is the case, you may be better of making sure that you aren’t sitting at the same table that he is. It is no fun handing all of your money over to someone who is supposed to be your good pal. You can be friends with a card mechanic, just not a fellow player.
The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job hunter, but also presents several potential challenges. It also adds great complexities, and a lot more matters to consider…and be wary of.
Job search needs to be thought of as a personalized, very directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network of colleagues is your source for job information.
So where does the net fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on a popular job site and got 600 plus responses in a calendar week. For one opening. That’s increased competition for job openings.
Had a strong person contacted us ahead of our posting that ad, they could have landed the job before having all that competition. How? By finding someone who knows someone at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 12 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?
Be careful how you submit your application as well. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily taken out with a swift triage process. How? The same way any hiring manager would. By passing over resumes where the objective didn’t match our position description. By passing over prospects whose cover letters gave us reasons not to employ them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by rejecting job hunters who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.
So the good news is that job boards give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of positions. But once those positions are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well written resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.
Another potential problem to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be checked out on the web. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some Facebook comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing crazy, but enough to swing our thoughts about who to employ.
AA-Careers provides a extensive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.
Be careful out there, and good hunting!