Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Make Sure Your Graduation Date Is Put On Your Resume
Make Sure Your Graduation Date Is Put On Your ResumeMake sure your graduation date is to put on your resume. In the last decade, people who attended universities and colleges have had a major influence on how they earn their living and are now in demand. There are millions of jobs in the private and public sectors that require graduate level education.College graduates who know what they want to do with their lives or their businesses should put their name and graduation date on their resumes. A great way to make this happen is to give out your diploma to everyone you meet. This will send the message that you are serious about what you have to say. If you are still trying to figure out how to introduce yourself to a new boss, this simple step can help.Another important thing to include on your resume is your skills and accomplishments that give you the ability to find a different job if necessary. Show employers that you are ready to start out by putting in this information on your r esume.Resume guides are available online for free. Use these resources to figure out the best way to write a resume for the specific job you are applying for. Before you get started on your new job, you should consider asking friends, family members, co-workers, and anyone else who have a recommendation for a place you can go to school.Once you have found a university where you want to attend, you should start planning ahead to what you will be doing during your university life. You will need to know when classes will start and how you can fit in with your new life.Think about the time you can spend on finding the new job. The best part about this is that you can choose how you are going to spend your time. If you have many responsibilities in your home life, maybe you should take some time off before you go back to school. As you can see, it is possible to include a graduation date on your resume. You can make sure that your college graduate knows that you value their name and acco mplishments and are ready to take them on if the situation calls for it. By keeping this information in mind, your chances of landing the perfect job and earning a degree will increase.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
TSA Employees This Is Ri-damn-diculous
TSA Employees âThis Is Ri-damn-diculous' Shakina Givens has spent more than 10 years working her way up the ladder at the Transportation Security Administration. But now, she says, the historic length of the partial government shutdown has threatened the trajectory of her career. The 32-year-old lead transportation officer based at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport doesnât want to leave the job she loves, but says she is now forced to consider other career options while scrambling to find part-time gigs and other forms of income to stay afloat as she continues to work full-time without any pay. On Tuesday, she painted one of her bathrooms in case she has to rent her home on Airbnb. âThatâs still a disheartening feeling to know that you can get up and go to work today, and get to a place that I even have to consider letting strangers come into my house because I have to make sure my bills are paid,â Givens, who is also the president of the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees union, says. âItâs hurtful.â As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on, some TSA employees say they are reaching their breaking point. âWeâve been shut down before â" for some hours, some days â" and that felt like no big deal. But now, at this point, this is ri-damn-diculous.â Morale falls lower with each day, and TSA officers â" many of whom live paycheck to paycheck and are among the lowest paid federal workers â" are feeling the hit of missing their first paychecks this past weekend. Now, after that significant milestone, even more officers are thinking seriously about quitting, union officials say. âWeâre in uncharted territory,â says Bobby Orozco, a TSA officers at Los Angeles International Airport and president of his chapter of the AFGE union. âFolks donât know what they should do: Should I quit and look for another job, or should I try to hang on and see how long I could go on for?â Some TSA officers have already quit their jobs since the shutdown began, the union has said, and a higher percentage of employees have called out of work each day in recent weeks, according to data from the agency. But, according to TSA officers, these call-outs come as the roughly 53,000 impacted agents struggle with childcare costs, car payments, healthcare costs, rents, and mortgages. TSA officers have been getting groceries at food banks and filing applications for food stamps just to put a meal on the table. Some say they are trying to pick up extra work with Uber, Lyft, or food delivery services. To curb gas costs, some TSA employees are carpooling to work, and others have been sleeping over at each otherâs houses to shorten the length of their commute. The growing length of the shutdown makes the situation more untenable â" and staying financially afloat becomes less feasible. âWeâre trying to scrape by,â says Victor Payes, a TSA officer at the Los Angeles International Airport. âIf thereâs no money coming in at all, I definitely couldnât go until the end of this month.â âA lot of us did not expect to be in the position weâve found ourselves in,â Payes adds. To lessen the blow, on Jan. 11, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a tweet that agents would receive one dayâs worth of pay and a $500 bonus â" both of which agents were supposed to receive Tuesday. Some TSA officers say they received their checks this week and bonuses Thursday morning. But others havenât received theirs at all â" or got less money than they were expecting, officers say. âWhile I realize this is not what you are owed for your hard working during pay period 26 and what you deserve,â Pekoske wrote, âI hope these actions alleviate some of the financial hardship many of you are facing.â The impact of the shutdown has reared its head at some major airports â" like those in Atlanta and Houston â" as security lines grow longer due to staff shortages. Videos shared on social media show makeshift lines spanning the halls of these airports and hundreds of passengers waiting to go through security. âAirports may exercise contingency plans due to call-outs and traveler volume in order to maintain effective security standards,â a spokesperson for TSA says. So Iâm at @ATLairport and this may be the longest security line I have ever seen. Even growing up here, and even for a Monday morning. One passenger told me heâd been waiting over an hour and still had about 30 minutes to go. pic.twitter.com/UL7EghujQI â" Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) January 14, 2019 Other federal workers inside and out of these airports are feeling the heat of the shutdown, too. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, in addition to AFGE and other federal employee unions, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for forcing employees to work without pay. On Wednesday, a NATCA union official described air travel as âless safeâ than it was before the shutdown began. This week, the Trump administration ordered tens of thousands of furloughed employees to return to work â" without pay â" as their positions became, once again, essential. Thousands of federally contracted workers around the country have been furloughed without the guarantee of back pay, and the longer the shutdown continues, the more contracted workers will be put in the same position. Thereâs little optimism the shutdown itself will end anytime soon, too. President Donald Trump, sparring with Democrats over funding for his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, said earlier this month the shutdown could last âmonths or even years.â âWeâre tired of being played like political pawns,â says Orozco, who has worked at LAX for nearly 11 years. But even when the shutdown ends, some workers worry about what could come down the road â" especially as the Department of Homeland Security sits at the center of the ongoing border wall debate. âItâs almost like thereâs a willingness to push these boundaries again in the future,â Payes says. For now, TSA employees worry about how much longer they can last. On top of fielding her colleaguesâ concerns as the local union president in Atlanta, Givens faces critical, career-altering questions of her own â" whether she likes it or not. âThere are a lot of other things I could do,â Givens says. âBut thatâs not what I want to do. I want to continue doing what Iâve been doing for the last 10 years.â
Saturday, April 11, 2020
The Danger of First-Draft Living - Work It Daily
The Danger of First-Draft Living - Work It Daily By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Tiffany Monhollon This weekend, in a bout of spring cleaning, I attacked the living room with a wild abandon, taking bric-a-brac and hastily displayed household items, like candles, off shelves to dust. I tossed books onto the dining table and unwound picture frames from tediously placed arrangements. When I looked up to survey my handiwork, I experienced how wonderful a little white space (or taupe, in this case) can be in a room. Carefully, I replaced a few items, leaving a pile of less-worthy pieces to be dealt with by garage sale. The effect was a relaxing, accomplished feeling. You see, thereâs something powerful about the art of editing. Not just in writing, but in life. Your resumeâs too full? Edit. Your career lacks focus? Edit. Your routineâs too chaotic? Edit. The First Draft But hereâs the thing. about editing. First, to edit, you have to have something to work with. In fact, writing experts say your first draft should be a closed-door process, a go-with-your-gut idea dump. Because thereâs a time for creating phrases you canât bear to part with and a time for throwing caution to the wind. And thereâs a certain flow, a rhythm you can find, when you follow the cadence of your thoughts or dreams to their natural or wildly unpredictable conclusion. Without a first draft you donât have much to work with, and expecting the first thing you try to be exactly what you want to accomplish is a recipe for disappointment, if not disaster. The pressure to perform perfectly the first go-around creates a paralysis of progress, where you get so stuck inside your own head, you lose track of the idea you had to begin with, and along with it, the confidence to act. Life is full of this. Grappling for direction, after all, comes in stages. Enjoying this article? You could get the best career advice daily by subscribing to us via e-mail. The Power of Editing Great editors bring order to chaos. They arenât afraid of the dirty work. Theyâre rigorous, relentless, and focused. They illuminate meaning, discarding the rubbish and fluff. âTo be, or not to be, or to think about being?â Just doesnât have the same ring, does it? But hereâs the thing about editing: it requires certain sacrifice, a discipline not many of us are naturally drawn to. And, perhaps the most difficult task, even for the most accomplished editor, is editing yourself. Sure, there are tricks: Take your first draft, and cut at least 20%. But even that doesnât always go as planned. The key is to avoid just deleting haphazardly under the guise of simplification. Taking whole days out of your planner at random or trashing an entire chapter on a whim doesnât add order, it creates more chaos. Likewise, editing isnât a skill of pure subtraction. Great editing may also involve restructuring, revising, reinterpreting, or even adding the proper phrase to bring more meaning into the piece. A Work in Progress Too often, we fail to realize our lives are open for editing as we go. Sure, youâve only got one life, but why assume you have to have everything exactly right the first time? Tiffany Monhollon works in marketing, communications and social media. She writes about how today's professionals can navigate the life-line between personal and work, both online and off. Follow her on Twitter and connect with her on LinkedIn. The photo for this article is provided by Shutterstock. Have you joined our career growth club?Join For Free!
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