Life Delights

Let’s be honest, as a gardener we’ll find you looking to buy a garden fork UK or alternatively checking out that Gardeners’ Heaven garden fork — but let’s not forget, only over centuries have we come to a point where you can. Hoes and shears are relatively new adaptations, but you probably already know, gardens are as old as humanity. This leisure occupation traces its roots back to the storied cradle of civilization. Ancient peoples cultivated gardens for pleasure, for spirituality, and for practical reasons. The vital vegetables and similar edible plants would mingle with pools of fish. While admittedly the bulk was grown as food some plants were grown to honor some of their deities. Additionally, other roots, prized highly by the temples, were grown in locations away from the gardens.

They weren’t the only civilization to design early farmsteads. The list also includes the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Persians, who all also incorporated building projects of significant size into gardens. As you’d expect, one other example of a civilization who practiced this would be the Romans — though the Greeks dedicated themselves to the potential for sustenance of their farmsteads and nothing else.

For them, hoes and spades were the fresh innovations that garden forks and rakes would be in a later age — real differences even before contemplating the kind of raw materials employed. Spades were simple stone things to begin with, but later pieces used iron, copper, and bronze.

The confusion of Europe’s Dark Ages led later civilizations to set down the primitive garden fork and all the other garden tools — save for the churches, who grew certain herbs and flowers.

Bit by bit we returned to the occupation of designing flower gardens to enjoy. This trend went on up to the 1600s, at which point gardens became far more established and precise. Several superb representations of this include knot gardens and hedge mazes, which were drawn from sophisticated textures. Such rules aren’t still essential, so there’s honestly nothing to worry about — have fun, and don’t be embarrassed regarding investigating how to fix some irritating lawn rake deformity or leafing through some lawn rake review. William Kent and others glanced at the traditions — so set now that they were metaphorically stagnant — and threw away those that obstructed their plans, mingling a natural panorama with interesting statuary and other such decorative touches. Granted, things have altered over the centuries, but gardens are still loved for similar reasons to our ancestors’. Regardless, they are still some of the most relaxing settings on earth.

A modern job search campaign is by nature very intricate. While the internet has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates increased competition for choice jobs and possible challenges for job hunters.

Job search needs to be thought of as a personal, highly directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network of colleagues is your source for information and opportunities.

So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job board and got over 650 applications in a week. For a single opening. That’s increased competition for jobs.

Had a strong person gotten ahold of us before we placed the ad, they could have gotten the job prior to getting all that competition. How? By finding someone who knows an employee at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew of the job for at least 10 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be careful to check your application materials thoroughly before submitting them. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily eliminated with a fast triage process. How? The same way any employer would. By passing over resumes where the objective didn’t match our job posting. By rejecting candidates whose cover letters gave us grounds not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by rejecting job hunters who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the good news is that job boards give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those positions are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another potential problem to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be investigated on the net. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to rock our thinking about who to hire.

AA-Careers provides a all-inclusive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!