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Trying To Get The Time

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For those of you who enjoyed my Job Search series over at Fan To Pro, I’m actually working on an expanded e-book version.  Just trying to get the time right now, so I can’t exactly say when it’ll be out.  I figure it was worth the effort.

Honestly, recording the experience of doing a high-powered job search in 2012 was incredibly enlightening, both for what works and what doesn’t.  It’s honestly it’s very own skillset, and the specific issues, regional differences, and little oddities often threw me.  I figure I knew what I was doing and I got surprised.

So I’ll let you know how that’s going . . . after the convention, and helping someone move, and . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

No Freak Out, Just My Geek Out

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Over at Nerdcaliber I discuss how being an “outsider” shouldn’t (and isn’t) core to being a geek, nerd, otaku and the like.

Join the ranting.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Promoting Professional Geekery #45: Write About Progeeks And Progeekery

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(For more Promoting Professional Geekery, see this Roundup of past columns.)

So you want to promote professional geekiness, to inspire, to help.  You’d like to write about it.  The only thing is you don’t have anything to write about.

You’re not a resume expert, you’re not a coach, you’re not really good at the whole advice thing.  Not everyone can do it, of course, but you know for sure that you really, are really BAD at this, or at least don’t know where to start.

Or perhaps you just don’t have enough experience to be the expert.  You’re a new progeek, an up-and-comer, or something similar.  So what can you do?

You can write about us.

Not advise, not guide, write about us.  You don’t advise or help progeeks (since you’re not sure you’re capable of it).  What you do is help show what we do and who we are.

You can:

  1. Interview people who are progeeks (Hey, i suggested that you be interviewed, so turn the tables).
  2. Analyze and write about trends in jobs and progeekery.
  3. Profile who industries or career subgroups (it might even be a book).

You get the idea.  With a bit of effort, it’s easy to help people be progeeks and improve their progeekery by giving them information and making them more visible.  If you’re not a coach, you can be a reporter and analyst.

Best of all?  In time, you’ll start getting the knowledge and skills and experience that may let you go deeper and start coaching and advising . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/