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It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,
Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?
Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.
Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.
Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.
Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.
Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?
Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?
And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."
And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!
« Il faut bien se l'avouer, la vie est pleine de risques et nous ne pouvons pas rester enfermés chez soi, pour se protéger. Certes, il serait agréable de rester à l'abri quand l'orage tonne dehors. Mais si je sors, je pourrai aussi apprécier le spectacle violent de la nature, la beauté des éclairs, la force revigorante des rafales de vent. [...] celui qui atteint une sécurité a cent pour cent ne vit pas mieux, il passe a côté de la vie. [...] Nous sommes beaucoup plus solides que nous le croyons. »
Resume (Mine as an example)
Rosealee Taylor Gandarilla
rosealeegandrilla@gmail.com
gandarilla96@gmail.com
Contacts
Removed for privacy
EXPERIENCE
Dollar General, Holt, Michigan — Cashier
April 2014 - September 2016
Cashier
Janitorial
Customer Service
Kirklands, Frandor Shopping Center — Assistant Manager
September 2016 - February 2019
Assistant Manager
Conference Calls
Truck
Customer Service
Goodwill Industries, Lansing Michigan — Cashier/Wares
February 2019 - December 2020
Cashier
Wares
Cleaner
Customer Service
GPM Investments LLC (Admiral) , Lansing Michigan — Stocker/Cashier
May 2021 - March 2022
Drink Stocker
Cashier
Janitorial
Customer Service
EDUCATION
Holt High School, Holt, Michigan —High school Diploma
August 2013 - June 2014
Davenport University, Downtown Lansing, Michigan — Associates in Business Management Administrative
August 2014 - June 2016
Additional Information
Assistant to Child Care Provider for the Department of Health and Human Services since 2016 (Small Business)
Role includes:
Clocking in hours every two weeks
Printing out paperwork
Keeping Child Care Provider Informed about any changes or updates
Organizing paperwork
SKILLS
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Excel
Power Point
Accounting I
Accounting II
Ethics
Writing
Human Resources Economics and Education
Diversity
Business & Ethics
Presentation
Management
Law
Web design
Social Media
Advertisement
Digital Art
Character Creation
Gaming
Branding
Merchandising
Interior Design
Gardening
Computer Skills
Budgeting
Finances
Communication
Time Management
AWARDS
Davenport Alumni
It's properly formatted on Google, they have a Word Document that is free, you have to have a Google Account. If you use YouTube, have an account signed into it, there you go.
It will be the right-hand side next to your profile picture, click on the six dots in the shape of a square, it will be the Drive...they also have a Translate at the bottom for learning languages.
I would've figured this out sooner if I had quiet, not in debt and wasn't surrounded by children.
Here's everything that I know:
-There are 36, 37 if you count your account, apps on your Google Account
-If you need help, they'll have a generally asked questions site
-There will be tutorials on YouTube if you need help
-Take Notes, keep them simple and easy for YOU to understand, most phones, laptops and tablets will have sticky notes, word, or some alternative to Microsoft
-Every phone, laptop, tablet, etcetera will have a search bar to look up stuff on your phone, laptop, tablet, etcetera. It will be the same under settings.
-You can figure out the model of your phone blah blah blah and order parts online, I've done that with my old Gateway laptop.
-Public Libraries are a great place for Knowledge, finding books to read, going on the internet. Where I live, you'll need a library card (last I checked) If they still have it, they'll also have book sales, I found the Lord of The Rings book a long time ago.
-Nicer jobs have waitlists...at least, where I live (Michigan)
-You work too well, you'll fill 2-3 positions, like I did.
-If you live in a box and it's hot: Hot box
-You live by Nature, the branches can extend into pipes, damage them or have their roots in them... causing blockage.
-Heat rises, Heat rises
I could go into more detail, however I'm not. There are other individuals who can explain it better than I can with videos on YouTube; Spotify.
Fucking resumes
I'm so fucking useless! I can't even write a fucking resume!
I'm sick of just getting a fucking allowance. I'm sick of having to ask my friends to pay for my lunch because I have $5 in my account.
BUT NO! I can't even get a fucking tax file number. The biggest employers in the COUNTRY have NO causal positions up. SO all of my classmates have those jobs and I don't. I should've done this back in JANUARY.
I have NOTHING. No money, no social life, no enjoyment, no job and not even a FUCKING RESUME.
AND NO ONE WILL HELP ME WRITE ONE! FOR FUCKS SAKE SOME ONE HELP ME!
Today i'm doing some #conceptsketches of some #creatures while writing up a #resume while i wait for my national insurance number #graduatelife
Nothing reinforces your sense of self loathing quite like revamping your resume and cover letter.
Looking at the cover doesn't mean you've read the book.
Read the book.
Resume Cheat Sheet.
Type ALL the key/action words in white and the smallest font possible at the bottom of your resume because companies use databases that pinpoint them to select potential hires for recruiters
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YES. ABSOLUTELY YES.
Before I got into teaching, I sent my CV around. I had never worked because I had just graduated, so I wondered who would consider a newly grad with zero working experience.
Then I noticed that all the people who saw my resume completely ignored my badass Master of Arts degree with summa. They had eyes only for "skills in digital drawing and logo design" and "mild knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and Paint Tool SAI." They didn't give a damn that said 'skills' were acquired as a hobby watching YouTube videos in my spare time while I was an undergrad. I didn't even know if I should've included them at all in my CV.
So my nerdy fellas, take everything you can do, even if it sounds useless for a potential job, and rewrite it in a charming way in your resume. It's not lying, it's not cheating: it's still something you can do, thus a skill. It may turn out extremely useful ;)
how to include Dungeons & Dragons on your resume
Dear internet,
Please give me all the advice you have on writing cover letters. Like, the closer you can get to literally just writing a cover letter for me, the better. Ok bye.
Hi lovely Elle,
Do you have any suggestions for making a resume more impressive?
Any recs on specific things that will make someone stand out?
Hi Lovely Anon,
I recommend using the Investment Banker Template (scroll to the very bottom of the website for the word doc link)! It's extremely organized, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to read (fun fact, recruiters spend on average 3 SECONDS looking at a resume before making a decision on the candidate), A few additional tips:
Tailor Your Resume: Customize your resume for each job application. Highlight relevant skills, experiences, and accomplishments that match the job description.
Quantify Achievements: Instead of just listing job responsibilities, quantify your accomplishments with numbers, percentages, or other metrics. For example, "Increased sales by 30%" sounds more impressive than "Responsible for sales."
Use Action Verbs: Begin each bullet point with a strong action verb to make your accomplishments more dynamic and engaging. For example, instead of saying "Responsible for managing a team," say "Led a team of 10 members to achieve project goals."
Show Impact: Focus on how your actions positively impacted your previous employers. Whether it's saving costs, improving efficiency, or increasing revenue, demonstrate your contribution to the organization's success.
Include Relevant Keywords: Many companies use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to screen resumes. Incorporate keywords from the job description to ensure your resume gets past these systems and into the hands of hiring managers.
i hope youre all lying and hyping your cv/resume’s up
Do you know of anyone who is great at resume writing? I’m 25 and stuck in a rut getting an actual “big girl” job. I’m still working part time and cannot get any other full time job atm.
Well, I’m actually great at writing.
You are going to be great at resume writing.
Layout
•Most sites have templates these days but I will give you a guide anyway.
•Your personal information should be at the top — name, address, phone number, email, LinkedIn (if you have that)
•Your name should be in very large letters/bolded.
•The body should be in 12 pt font.
Fonts: Times New Roman, Calibri, Garamond
•One page only. The employer is only taking so many seconds to read your resume so do not make it longer (unless you have too much stuff to fit on one page which is rare)
•Use bullet points
•Resume should pretty much be without photos unless your profession calls for otherwise
•PDF format
Education and Activities
•List your educational background. Since you have little professional experience, this will take up majority of your resume.
-> Degree you have, University attended, year graduated
•Scholarships received, honors received
•Be sure to include where you went to school, city and state. Don’t include any school addresses.
•List honors and awards, only include a brief explanation if said award is unclear.
•List activities you’ve been involved in with the year(s).
•Titles received in extracurricular activities/leadership roles
•Impressive achievements outside of school
•Volunteer work you have accomplished, your role in the foundation and how much time allocated
Experience
•Any experience must go in chronological order. Recent then work backwards, with the employer name, city, state, and title on each job. (no actual addresses...)
•Part time jobs are appropriate to list, so please list them
•Current jobs must be listed in present tense, while past are always in past tense...
•Use the same dates throughout. If you’re going to use “June 2020” and “July 2020” then use that format. Or “7/2020”. Whatever you do, don’t mix them together.
•No long winded sentences. Always keep it short with action words “managed finances in Spring 2020”/“designed graphics for XYZ in Fall 2019”
-> It has to describe your skills and what you can do.
Skills
Don’t sell yourself short on your soft and hard skills... but don’t lie either. Don’t say you can code if you can’t, don’t say you speak Spanish if you can’t speak it fluently.
•List the programs you are proficient at.
•Whatever skills that are relevant to the job — list it.
Hard Skills (Measurable abilities).
Examples: Foreign language proficiency, coding/computer programming, certificates, SEO marketing, Data management, Powerpoint, Excel, Online networking, Nursing, Law, Writing to name a few
Soft Skills (Personal skills).
Examples: leadership, effective communication, creativity
Examples of action words being used in a resume
•Organized and coordinated major projects for XYZ organization (date 2020)
•Developed and executed marketing strategies for sorority organization Fall 2019
•Collaborated and communicated with Student Government Association through secretary role in (insert date)
Resources for words to use in a resume:
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Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:
‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’. If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV.
Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.
Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. ‘[Full name] CV’ is best.
USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.
I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising.
Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people don’t do this.
Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for.
I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. I’m overworked and tired. Make my job easy.
“I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.
For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you can’t teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.
This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.
And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.
And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,
Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?
Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.
Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.
Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.
Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.
Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?
Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?
And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."
And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!
It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,
Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?
Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.
Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.
Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.
Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.
Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?
Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?
And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."
And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!