GovCentral

Or did Gov Central go from being just me, Scoob, and Kyle (essentially) to going crazy with new posts and groups?

For how long was it approximately just you three?  I've been getting the GovCentral e-mails for a while now but for some reason I decided to join now.

Well, my activities will slow down a little once my clearance finalizes and I move to my new location down the street with the client.  Right now I'm sitting in a corner without a whole lot to do so I'm on GovCentral all day!

Kyle says ...

Things have definitely been picking up around here.  I think it is starting to make a lot of the site's features more robust.  amf, I hope this is easing some of your frustrations with the activity feed et al!

Actually, it makes it worse, now the profusion of threads and posts are even harder to keep track of as they grow in numbers!  However, I know you guys are working on it, and I really am happy to have more people posting, the site is a lot more fun with more people participating!  And one of these days someone will join who will respond to my increasingly controversial (and possibly insane) policy suggestions in the partisan politics forum, and then I can REALLY have some fun!

Well, I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down so, I'll only push until a certain point!

It has definitly picked up lately. I just hope we get more than lurkers and mailers!

People are reaching out to others to help them get a job.  Yeah, there have been a lot of groups and discussions running, but people need to get a lot off their minds while looking for the job of their dreams.  In the era of internet and applying on line instead of going to employers and filling out forms, there' s really no one to talk to except for those with whom they work and those without jobs who do they have but their friends.  I wish I had known this existed 4 years ago when we moved here from NJ!  My husband's job moved us here and we didn't have anyone to talk to about jobs.  Networking has changed from going to bars, although I'm sure that still happens, or depending on friends we see or talk with from time to time for leads.

I've seen a lot of frustration because the job that they're looking for or what they went to school for isn't coming along.  This brings them a way to get a little of that frustration while looking and waiting for someone to have that call come to them saying that they have that job.  You give them direction with the articles of what to do and what to expect.  You keep reminding them what this is for-- looking for a government job, how to do it and what to expect.  You encourage people and that's just what they need.

ScoobyDoo, we are jovial.  If this was a site where you just go, look for information, and that's pretty much it, would you have the readership and the "following" that's there ?  People are looking for direction.  People don't know how to go about achieving their dreams or the goals they have planned.  Here they get friends they would not normally get, with others helping them along the way to getting the job that they've been talking about and have some fun doing it.  Issues are brought up that people care about that touch everyone's heart at some point and time.

We don't make eye contact anymore with future employers unless we get that call; that's because of the internet.  Because the internet is  powerful, we can get twice the amount of resumes sent out than we would have if we had to hoof it from place to place!

It would be neat to talk with someone who has a job that you might be looking for, find out how he/she got it, and then follow it up yourself.  You can't get that by just looking at ads in the paper or on the internet.  The other things they are the frosting on the cake.  Even if the frosting is another color like blue (or in the case of a commercial down here) green.  You meet people, encourage them, make them believe that something is out there for them to work at.  Don't let anyone get frustrated because the jobs they are finding and even getting interviews for are not coming about as fast as they would like.

A good laugh, a beautiful thought, a comment made on a wall.  What a way of encouragement and all of those tags!  People need to read those to see what people think they are.  It's like looking at your resume and saying, "What did I accomplish?"  They know what they did, but they wonder what their accomplishments are, especially those who are older when the resume was set up differently than it is today.  By helping one another, what a way of making friends that really stick in your mind and this way you can say to yourself, this person is really insightful.  He/She helped me a lot.  Pushed me beyond my mental/emotional limits to where I am now.  You get lasting friendships this way.  You may never see or meet them, but you have touched their lives in some way.

going to college for 4 years and getting a degree is the american way of life that is what are parents tell go to school get a college degree you will get a good paying job and be set for life to bad that is not all so true anymore you now need both experience and a degree to be competitive in the world job market

And then there are those like me who have no degree and worked their way up the chain the old fashion way.

You're a rare case!

I don't know about rare. I just believe in hard work to achieve my goals. Not to say college isn't hard, I just think I can learn more with hands on.

I was given the choice of work or military. College was a choice if I paid.

Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying that it's harder to get that first foot in the door without a degree.  Once someone gives you that chance and sees that you're a hard worker and just as competent as a college grad then everything is good.  Everyone doesn't get that chance to prove what they can do and therefore struggle to be competitive or move up.