Monday, April 20, 2020
How to Write Your First Resume Online
How to Write Your First Resume OnlineAre you wondering how to write your first resume online? Have you heard that it is very easy to get a job without any experience but with the right combination of skills? If you have, then you must know what it takes to write a resume online and do it quickly and efficiently. Below are some tips to help you along.First, you need to prepare your resume as if you were applying for a job in person. Even if it's not, you want to be prepared in the same way that a job applicant does when they meet a potential employer for the first time. Try not to leave anything out. Your resume is your opportunity to let potential employers know that you are serious about your future and willing to work hard to get it.The two most important components to write a resume are your education and work experience. When you prepare your resume, you want to present both. Do not just show your educational background, however. Be sure to list your certifications and even inclu de any certificates that you have.Some people may ask why you would want to list your certifications if you are not going to use them. The truth is that it will benefit you in the long run. First, remember that employers are interested in your ability to learn new things. In fact, it will give you an edge over other applicants since they may be unaware of the things that you have learned on your own.Your education and experience will also show you why you should be hired over other applicants. Remember that hiring managers are looking for people who have met with success and who can bring some measure of success to their company. If you have written certifications or degrees and used them to help you land an opening, you will be viewed as someone who is already successful.If you already have a job, they will be even more impressed with your work history. Just be sure to keep it clean and professional. You should always list your job title along with the dates of your employment. Alw ays list the names of your supervisors and managers, too. It will show them that you have a connection to those people and it will make them feel more comfortable hiring you.Finally, don't forget to include your phone number in your resume. Many people have no idea how to include it in their resume but once they get a notice from an employer about one that has missed it, they realize how important it is. Listing your phone number in your resume will help your job search go much more smoothly and your employer will definitely appreciate your efforts.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Is It OK to Cry At Work
Is It OK to Cry At Work Letâs face it, getting âemotionalâ on the job is a taboo most employers are pretty bad at handling â" this single Reddit thread has more than 300 competing opinions on whether itâs ever appropriate. When someone breaks down at work, it can be wildly embarrassing for everyone involved. And if youâre the cryer, it can make the people around you start to reevaluate your place in the company,or your general capacity for keeping your shit together. And even more, if youâre a woman, thatâs one more bump on a career path thatâs already stacked against you. What, then, are we to do with all of these eMoTiOnS??? Is there an easy way to bounce back from a bad day that gets the best of us? Is there a bright side to bawling like a baby in front of your coworkers? I blasted these question into the ether, via a completely unscientific social media, email, and Slack poll. I asked people to send me stories about a time they cried at work, and to describe what happened afterwards. Seven people (all women, their names have been changed) shared their thoughts. Hereâs what I learned. It comes from a place of anger âI have cried at every single job Iâve had,â says Kendra, a New York-based video producer. âEvery. Single. One.â The severity of these episodes vary, Kendra says. Sometimes she gets misty eyed, sometimes she âfull on ugly cries to the point of nearly hyperventilating.â But the source is always the same. âI know my crying at work comes from a place of anger,â she says. âIt makes me so mad that I do that, but I think itâs like my circuit breaker before I start throwing things or something.â At the start of her career, Kendra worried that her tendency to break down in tears made her look weak, or inexperienced. Sheâs held a series of high-stress jobs that require her to juggle multiple projects, tight deadlines, and competitive coworkers. The stakes are high, and she cares about her work â" when something tanks, or when someone undermines her work, itâs hard not to get emotional. But Kendraâs good at her job, and people respect her, so sheâs learned to shrug it off. âIâve stopped caring about how Iâm perceived for crying,â she says. âEnough people who matter know Iâm great at what I do.â A secret spot is clutch, if you can find one Ah, the sweet reprieve of a windowless conference room, or the handicap stall on the opposite end of your office. A good hiding spot lets you bask in your own self pity without sacrificing your dignity â" Lily, a New York-based communications director, swears by this. âI used to have my âcrying parkâ near my old job,â she says. âI would regularly get frustrated to the point of tears, but was afraid to let my boss see. I would force myself to leave the office, then would hide in the park until the tears were spent.â Nina, a Brooklyn bartender, also has a âfavoriteâ place to cry. At her last job, an expensive restaurant in Manhattan, she had plenty of opportunity to use it. âWhen I was trying to save for a vacation, I would regularly work 14 days straight without taking a break,â she says. âI have wrist problems, and it hurt so bad then that I had to wear a brace. One day, my general manager pulls me aside and says, âWhatâs going on with your wrist? Do you really need to use that thing?â And then he tells me to bring a doctorâs note proving I have to wear it, or I canât work there anymore. Like I was lying or something. The next day, he brings in an HR lady who tells me the same thing. So I got a doctors note. I was miserable. So I would go to the trash area to cry every day.â A little camaraderie goes a long way Katie, a New York-based media professional, has worked in the social media departments of several major news organizations. When the going gets tough, she says, employees at young, digital brands are usually pretty good at dealing with their colleagueâs tears. âOne place I worked at felt like a flat organization [and] my manager was only two years older than me,â she says. âEveryone was in touch with their emotions, so you could cry and your peers wouldnât think any less of you.â At another magazine Katie worked at, which has been around for half a century, and does not have a workforce that is âyoung,â âflatâ or âin touch with [its] emotions,â things were quite different. Reporters could cry, she says. But they couldnât do it openly. âThere was this women restroom that has a nice lounge area and keyed entry, that everyone knew was âthe crying couch,ââ she says. âWhen we were really stressed out, or something had happened at work that had made you emotional, it all went down on that couch. Not everyone had a key, so if you saw someone asking for it, you knew what was going on.â It can be professionally damaging The aftermath of a good office cry hinges on the people around you. If your coworkers arenât hollowed-out misanthropes, letting out a few tears every now and then shouldnât raise any eyebrows. In some workplaces, though, showing any emotion can have consequences. âOne time, when I was working in marketing for a tech company, I messed up on a campaign deployment (i.e., a big email send),â says Erin, a writer and media consultant in Portland, Oregon. âIt wasnât a huge deal and I knew my boss didnât care, but I was so frustrated with myself that I started tearing up. Immediately, she got really uncomfortable and then later asked me privately if I felt like the job was âtoo stressful.â Soon after, she hired somebody else in an âunrelatedâ position and started having them take on more of my job duties. Lesson learned: when you make mistakes, pretend like itâs no big deal. Showing genuine remorse = weakness.â Or it can be a learning experience Chances are, if youâre crying because of something that happened at work, one of your coworkers, or managers, has been in your shoes. And even if they canât relate, theyâll probably want to help anyway. Let them! âI cried twice my first year teaching,â says Elizabeth, a fifth grade teacher in Illinois. âOnce because a student claimed that I treated them differently than other students in the class, and once because a parent yelled at me after her son got a B on his report card, and told me I was the reason heâs not going to become a scientist, which is âwhat he has always wanted.ââ Fresh out of college, Elizabeth started to question whether she was cut out for the teaching world. But after a tearful conversation with the principal of her school, who told her that he sees teachers cry all the time, she started to see things differently. If even veteran teachers break down, why should she be embarrassed for doing so her very first year? Now in her third year of teaching, Elizabeth says her bossâs support has helped her develop some thicker skin. âI have not cried this school year and I do not anticipate doing so,â she says. There are other worse ways to react Anyone whoâs ever witnessed an office temper tantrum knows that shedding a few tears is, in fact, a pretty healthy way to express your emotions. But bottled up anger, and the occasional rage explosion, is a more stereotypically âmasculineâ response, so thatâs the more widely acceptable workplace behavior. Lucy, a New York-based journalist, struggles with this double standard. The same people who lecture her on ânot getting emotionalâ are dismissive of the toddler-like behavior of some the men in her office. âIâm not a yeller, Iâm a tear-er-upper,â she says. A few years ago, an editor told Lucy to stay late and write a story a male colleague, who happened to make a lot more money than Lucy, had failed to deliver. â[My editor] needed to fill the copy hole and barked at me,â she says. âI barked back, but in angry tears. He freaked out. I confronted him with how I made 30% less than [her male coworker], although we were the same age and had similar experience. He sulked and gave me the silent treatment for two days.â Eventually, Lucy got a promotion, and was assigned to a different editor. She still gets misty occasionally, but the time she spent with her old boss gave her a fresh perspective on the whole thing. âIf weâre going to assign irrational behavior to the ladies, he was the biggest bitch of them all,â she says. âEverything with him was personal.â
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