An aggregating post (AP) is simply a post that contains a list of links to other posts or webpages.

The purpose of an AP is to collect links to similar posts to make it easier for you (and others) to locate and access posts with one, two or three mouse clicks.

Let's say you create fifty (20) posts in your personal blog. You could click on "Your Blog" and see the full content of all of the posts, or you could add your initials to the "Keywords" section of each of your posts and then click on one hyperlink instance of your initials to see the title of all of your posts. But neither method organizes your posts. You create APs to do that - to organize links to your posts.

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Go to the next milepost of What is a "My LifeWork Portal" post and why is it important. or return to this milepost in the Roadmap.

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(COPY/PASTE and personalize this post in your personal/community blog)

My current job

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1. Job description
2. Skills I use
3. What I like about this job
4. What I don't like about this job
5. Additional Information about my current job

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(Top, Bot)

Job description

1. ...
2. .
3. .

(Top, Bot)

Skills I use. (Make sure these are also listed in My Skills)

1. ...
2. .
3. .

(Top, Bot)

What I like about this job. (Make sure these are also listed in My Values and My Interests)

1. Review the following resources for the "attributes" you want to use to evaluate each job.
   1. http://www.uwplatt.edu/careercenter/resources/ChoosingEvaluatingOffers.html

Attributes I like about my current job
Attribute	A = Weight	B = Value	C= A*B = Weighted Score
Location	4	3	12
Salary	3	3	9
Benefits
Working Conditions
Advancement opportunities
Security
?
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TOTAL			87

 

(Top, Bot)

What I don't like about this job

1. ...
2. .
3. .

(Top, Bot)

Additional Information about my current job

1. ONET listing of my current job
2. Career cluster and job path
3. Other jobs similar to my current job.
4. My Job Search Plan
5. Google searches for jobs

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• My Job Search Plan <-- My LifeWork Plans <-- My LifeWork Portal

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If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

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(COPY/PASTE and personalize this post in your personal/community blog)

Go to ONET and find your occupation listing and COPY/PASTE the link below. Add other descriptions that interest you.)

1. current job

(Here a few examples)

1. computer programmer
2. Auto mechanic (choose from 378)
   1. Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists

Return to My current job (template)

BLS info
15-1021.00
Online ONET Center

View the following details for a programmer's occupation

 

(COPY/PASTE and personalize this aggregating post in your personal/community blog)

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Keywords that described this job that could be used in a Google search to find similar jobs

List below keywords that describe your job. When compete, prioritze them so the most important keywords appear at the top.

1. (keyword)
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3. .
4. .
5. .
6. .
7. .
8. .
9. .
10. .

Now, list the top five keywords sequentially like in a sentence and go to advanced Google search to develop the list (specifically listing unwanted words), then COPY/PASTE the URL below.

Create variants and COPY/PASTE them here as well. 

1. "auto mechanic 02645"

Use the same searches in Google Alerts to send you emails of matches when they happen.

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• My Job Search Strategies <-- My Job Search Plan <-- My LifeWork Plans <-- My LifeWork Portal

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Periodically check this link to the template for this post to see if it has changed.

If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

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After you have COPied/PASTEd a template post into your blog, you need to make the following changes to personalize/customize that post to your needs.

1. Linkages
   1. Change all links in the template to links to posts you have created from those templates.
   2. If there is a Table of Contents in your post, you must edit it after you COPY/PASTE it into your new post by doing the following.
      1. An anchor is the location where one will go when they click on the link for that anchor. Links to anchors are preceeded by a pound sign "#'. Find each occurrence of a link to an anchor and remove all text between "Href=" and "#". For example, here is a partial example of an invalid link to an anchor - <a href="../3585.html#awareness">. Here is what that link should look like - <a href="#awareness">. "../3585 .html" must be removed. If there are multiple "(Top, Bot)" links, change the first one, press UPDATE to save yoru changes, then COPY the "(Top, Bot)" you changed and PASTE it over the remaining (Top, Bot)" links. (We will submit a bug report to the developer of this WYSIWYG code.)
         
   3. Return to the post that links to the post you are editting and change the link to the template to point to your copy of that template.
   4. Provide a backward link to that calling post
2. Add your initials and any other tags/keywords to the "Keywords" section.
3. If your post does not have private information in it, save it with an Access Restriction (AR) of "Public"; if you want another LWPS member to see your post, create a Group Access Restriction (GAR) for them and save your post with that GAR; otherwise use an AR of "Private".

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(COPY/PASTE and personalize this post in your personal/community blog)

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I will use the following job search strategies, in this order.

1. My networking activities to find a job
2. State-based job bank found via Career OneStop  - Get your state's information and job banks if you want to stay in your state. For example, here are a few state-based job banks.
   1. Massachusetts (Note free JOBQUEST JOB SEARCH service)
   2. Washington
3. Job banks listed in The Riley Guide,
   1. Indeed job bank
4. Google searches and Google Alerts containing my job keywords plus my ZIP code
5. Local papers
   

Additional job search resources

1. How to Job Search from The Riley Guide,
2. Google search for "a job search plan is"
3. About.com Best job search websites of 2008

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• My Job Search Plan <-- My LifeWork Plans <-- My LifeWork Portal

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Periodically check this link to the template for this post to see if it has changed.

If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

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