This film, "Santa in Animal Land," was made in 1948 and just smacks of something churned out for that new medium that no one knew how to program: television.
The acting, writing and direction are disturbingly similar to early John Waters films. The puppets themselves are creepy, especially Santa, who looks like he has a crystal meth problem. Better to keep this one from the children.
Monday's session of job search boot camp was stultifyingly boring for the first two hours, as they were devoted to discussing motivation and how to keep it. The fact that the guy doing the speaking was not terribly motivational didn't help, and I had heard all the quotes and tricks to stay motivated. Just as my eyes were glazing over, we had a break.
The second half of the afternoon was devoted to the concept of networking, and specifically portals for virtual networking. The cold hard fact is that 80% of jobs are filled via networking and not by filling out applications on a website or mailing resumes in response to job postings online.
They also discussed effective networking, as opposed to just attending meet-and-greets and shoving your business card in every available hand. The techniques they discussed take some time, but I can see how they would put you in a great position to be in the mind of many influential people.
Today we're going to discuss using LinkedIn as a way to build a cyber network. More and more, recruiters are going to these business specific social networking sites to do their culling for job candidates. It's definitely interesting enough that I will be going back. On Wednesday, we're going to do mock interviews with actual recruiters to get feedback on the good, the bad and the ugly of sitting as a candidate for a position. I'll keep you all posted.
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