Job Search Success: Secrets to help you overcome barriers to employment and get the job you want, #2

By Mark Jory

For most of us, finding that next job is hard! It's not fun.

But for some, they face barriers to employment. These issues often mean instant rejection without any consideration of whether they have the skills, knowledge, or experience to do the job!

If you live with issues like criminal convictions, being long-term unemployed, having physical or mental health issues, getting sacked, lack of work experience, want to change careers, come from a different culture, getting close to retirement age, or any one of many other issues that you feel is a barrier to gaining employment, then this book series is for you.

In this book, you will learn the first 3 of the 10 secrets that will ensure job search success.

Using the secrets in this book will not guarantee you get a job, it still comes down to how well your skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience match the job.

You must still do the work yourself; you must put in the effort, don't expect someone else to do it for you.

But utilizing these secrets will go a long way to giving you the best chance of finding work, getting an interview, and being offered a job opportunity.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Jory
• Release date: Jan 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201338749

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About the Author

Mark Jory became a Career Practitioner who has been through his career journey.

From High School, he worked seven years as a Customs Officer then took voluntary redundancy and began working as a Branch Manager in a sea freight forwarding business, which morphed into a Sales Manager role with the courier side of that business.

After arriving at work one day to be told his position was now redundant and to clean out his desk, within just one week he took on an Assistant Manager role in a retail store.

He also worked one night a week as a Kitchenhand for over a year during this time. In the three and a half years in the retail job, he found he was becoming more and more dissatisfied and disillusioned with both the work and the employer, so he took up an opportunity to become a self-employed Life Insurance Agent.

He continued in this career for 19 years without achieving any great success financially but gaining both educational and industry qualifications as a Chartered Life Underwriter, Certified Financial Planner, and Authorized Financial Adviser.

He also completed a Graduate Diploma of Business (Personal Financial Planning) via distance learning from Massey University.

In the last ten years of this job, he got involved briefly with a woman who chose to blackmail him. Threats he felt would end his marriage. The blackmail demands for money continued for more than nine years, ultimately leading to Mark running out of all his family savings and maxing out all his lines of credit.

In desperation to keep this secret from his wife and to retain his marriage, he committed fraud and forgery through his business to keep meeting his Blackmailers ongoing demands for money.

This was eventually discovered and led to him closing his business and repaying most of his debts to the insurance companies from the sale of his business.

He admitted his fraud to the Police and made a blackmail complaint. He gained two sales roles over the next 15 months before Police finally charged him.

Around this time, his Blackmailer was arrested for breaking her bail conditions and placed in prison. That afternoon she had her mother phone Mark’s wife and tell her about the blackmailing and the brief relationship eight years earlier!

Six months later Mark appeared in court to plead guilty and was remanded in custody, later being sentenced to two years and three months. He served almost 10 months in prison followed by 17 months on parole.

While in prison he worked in the prison kitchen, gaining several NZQA unit standards and completed two health papers through the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand via distance learning.

When he was released from prison, he had lost his marriage, his relationship with his adult children, his home, all his savings and investments and everything he had ever owned. He had also lost his business, career, professional status, and self-esteem.

He had however gained a criminal conviction and even though he had served his time, this conviction will follow him for the rest of his life.

Two months after his release from prison he began working a full-time night shift at a meat processing plant located 100 km south of where he lived.

A month later he also began studying a three-year full-time Bachelor of Social Services degree at Otago Polytechnic, specializing in Career Practice. In

the second year of his studies, he quit the job at the meat processing plant to take up a full-time evening factory role for a company that prints promotional products, and which was located in the city where he lived. This saved him from the significant daily travel to and from the meat processing plant.

After completing his degree, with distinction as the top student in his Career Practice speciality, he was offered the role of Careers Adviser at Otago