Resume Writing Advice

How do you make a job resume?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:14:52 +0000

What’s the format? What type of information do I need to put in it? What do you need to tell them, What would be the wrong things to tell them etc. etc. This is my 1st time applying for a job
Oops, Just got out of high school, Don’t plan on going to college too soon.

Anything else you need to know? =P

There are lots of formats on the web as samples, and a few included in every copy of Microsoft Word. Basically though, for your first resume, I’d tell them the following:

Contact info (name, address phone number email address). DO NOT USE an email address that is cute, naughty, or otherwise controversial. Set up a new one if you must that contains just your first and last name, or something similar.
Skills summary: Include any relevant skills for the job you are applying for. You may have to modify this on different versions, so that employers can see the skills they are looking for. A drugstore doesn’t care about your skills at lawnmower maintenance, for example.
Education, including high school and any college/vocational courses.
Volunteer work.
Any employment history – even if it’s just casual babysitting, lawn mowing or something like that..

What you do not say: Anything to do with your age, race, relgion, political views, or opinions on social issues. Do not use more than two font faces, multiple sizes, bold, underlining, smiley faces, or other "alternative" formatting.

Spell check everything, and then have someone who’s done one before look it over. This person should also be good at spelling and grammar, and more than willing to correct any errors you may have missed. This final step is really important; we all tend to miss our own mistakes, and find those that other people make.

Good luck!

professional resume writing services?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:13:51 +0000

I’m a recent college grad and have been struggling to get a job for over a year now… I feel I’m getting close so I’m utilizing every resource I can.
Has anyone ever used professional resume writing/editing services? If possible I would like to find someone personally within the Baltimore/DC metro area but I realize most of this is probably done online. Does anyone know any good websites that aren’t a ripoff? Are these services even helpful? Thank you!

A lot of Universities in DC will provide resume/writing services. Try American University’s writing lab, you may have to claim you were a student or they could just take you as a walk-in and have no problem. They’ll really help you get off the ground.

How could professionals, making over $100,000, not know how to write a proper resume?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:13:26 +0000

I am just curious, even my 15 yr old cousin could write a resume, why can’t people who make over $100,000 write a resume? I sit here & fix resumes for these people who make triple what I make…I just don’t get it. Is it that hard to write your own resume…to line up the bullets properly? I have seen resumes using different fonts, different dates, like one job will say 10/2001 and the other March 2005 and yet another saying 03/05…has anyone every heard of consistency? Should I just start my own resume writing business?
Very true, just because they make a lot of money doesn’t mean they know how to write well. I guess I feel that makign alot of money and having an education go hand in hand but guess not.
Ronin ~ It is very sad that you feel people don’t need to know how to write properly. That you feel it’s OK for people that run this country not to be able to form a sentence. Since when has writing become obsolete? It hought before you can graduate college, you need to be able to learn how to write but I guess when you are making that much money or have the money, you can afford to pay someone to write your papers for you. It’s sad, instead of becoming more intellegent our country is just becoming more lazy.

Even though there are any number of very high-salaried employees, did we ever consider the question of how they obtained their present job? Perhaps the resume route was just a ploy to make it appear that they followed some sort of conventional prepare-and-send-in-your resume scenario. And that the resume was not a necessary ingredient on why certain people were chosen over others who had better written/finished resumes. A closer look may reveal that there is definitely "insiders" who are invited into high-paying jobs, regardless of what appears on their resumes.

It’s that old rather tired adage, "it’s not what you know, it’s who you know that will get you the job."

Good luck!

Do you love your job?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:13:23 +0000

What do you do, how long have you done it. I used to love my job, I have some great co-workers but they have changed my title and I am not sure I really want the new responsibility.
I tried to quit three months ago, but they offered me a raise to stay.

I have been doing the same or similar job for nearly six years. I work at a local credit union, opening accounts, helping people with financial difficulties, and loan applications. I love the people I work with, but I have never really enjoyed my job…I’ve been looking (with my manager/friends OK) for new positions that are different than what I currently do, so that I can try something new and exciting

I don’t know how to choose a career, how can I find a job?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:13:20 +0000

I should go to seek for a job. I graduated from college in 2008. But I don’t know what career I should choose. Any advice? I can not waste my time.
Bachelor degree

Try and do something that you enjoy and are really interested in. If you have certain talents, develop those. People are much happier when they do what they love otherwise they are just trying to get through the week. But sometimes it can take a little while to know what is right for you. People can have many career changes. Today I spoke to a doctor who is going back to study to do art.

i want to become a special needs teacher ?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:13:17 +0000

well i want to be a teacher for like the special needs kids like in high school or middle school but i dont know how to really go about doing it all, do i need to go to a university and get a bachelors degree in education then go to like a teaching program or do i just take a test and i get my teaching credentials i live in california in san diego im tottaly lost and sorry if i made any mistakes im on mt cell phone ?

You need to get a BA or BS first. You could get it in a variety of fields, though Special Education would make it easier for you in the long run.

Once you get the BA then you enroll in a credential program. When enrolled you can start teaching while you complete your credential. Or if you want you can just take classes and teach afterwards but why do that when you can get paid?

There are two types of Special Ed programs: Mild to Moderate and Moderate to Severe. Most district programs have the first ones and the county and private programs have the second one. So you will need to know which type of student you would prefer to work with.

I recently sent a resume, and i want to send a follow up email?

Michelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:11:25 +0000

Is there a form or type of letter I should write to a company who asked me to send a resume but whom I haven’t heard from for a few weeks? The owner is a close family friend and I don’t want to rude. Is their a specific format for these? Thanks

Search the web: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/morejobletters/a/followup.htm is one example

I need some new bands, please help?

Michelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:11:20 +0000

Alexisonfire, Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack, blessthefall, Saving Joshua, When We Arrive, Bring Me The Horizon, Bury Tomorrow, Flannel Mouth, Even Cameras Lie, Miss May I, A Bullet For Pretty Boy, Oh Sleeper, Memphis May Fire, Molotov Solution, Suicide Silence, Job For A Cowboy, Breathe Carolina, Refused, The Used, Paramore, Ahimsa Sunrise, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, I Killed The Prom Queen, Atreyu, Atilla, August Burns Red, The Black Dahlia Murder, Black Veil Brides, A Skylit Drive, Alesana, Bleeding Through, Bullet Fort My Valentine, Chelsea Grin, Cookiebreed, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, The Devil Wears Prada, A Day To Remember, Enter Shikari, Escape the Fate, Isles and Glaciers, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Eyes Set To Kill, Iwrestledabearonce, Five Finger Death Punch, From Autumn To Ashes, For The Fallen Dreams, Framing Hanley, Funeral For A Friend, Greeley Estates, I Eat Lightning, I See Stars, I Set My Friends In Fire, In Fear and Faith, Kill Paradise, Killswitch Engage, Mayday Parade, A Midsky Surrender, Of Machines, Of Mice & Men, One Last Hero, Our Last Night, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Silverstien, A Static Lullaby, Sky Eats Airplane, HORSE the band, This Romantic Tragedy, Watchout! There’s Ghost, We Butter The Bread With Butter, We Came As Romans, Whitechapel, Hawthorne Heights, From First To Last, Emarosa, Odd Project, Consider The Thief, Before Their Eyes, The Bled, For the Fallen Dreams, Johny Craig, Oceana, Sleeping With Sirens, This Is Hell, Burden Of A Day, Ever We Fall, Fear Before, Cowboys Versus Indians, Artist vs. Poets, Go Radio, The Word Alive, Amely, Bled Has Been Shed, Chimaira, Knights Of The Abyss, LoveHateHero, Shadows Fall, Some Girls, Peirce The Veil, Dot Dot Curve, Borkencyde, I See Stars, Armor For Sleep, Cute Is What We Aim For, Suffocation, Hit The Lights, Burden Of A Day, There For Tomorrow, Racing Kites, Phone Calls From Home, The Media Says, Eatmewhileimhot, Annotations Of An Autopsy, As Blood Runs Black, Gallows, Halifax, Parkway Drive, Sea of Treachery, Insect Guide, Epica, Amarna Reign, Nightwish, Kalmah, Picture Me Broken, Mando Diao, Paddock Party, Underoath, Saosin, Hey Monday, Children of Bodom, Trivium, Dead By Sunrise, Dead By April, A Tragedy At Hand, A Vain Attempt, Ten Second Epic, Emery, Aiden, Here I Come Falling, Glamour Of the Kill, Dying Diva, Bionic Ghost Kids, Born of Osiris, Hopes Die Last, Greeley Estates, Bayside, Brand New, Run Kid Run, We Are The Ocean, Sea Swallowed Us Whole, Kill Hannah, Brain Drill, This Is Menace, We Are the Ocean, Vanna, Architects, Emmure, Texas In July, Destroy The Runner, The Acacia Strain, Beneath the Sky, Agraceful, Boys Night Out, Four Years Strong, Set Your Goals, To Kill The King, Red War Eternal, Motionless In White, I Am Ghost, Akissforjersey, A Pass Less Traveled, Rammstein, The Rapture, Herbrightskies, Norma Jean, You Say Party! We Say Die, A Thorn For Evey Heart, From Almost The End, In Flames, The Sleeping, The Fall Of Troy, Missing in Maryland, Anarbor, Dear Whoever, Modern Day Escape, The Chariot, I the Breather, I am Terrified, Skeller Kart, Before There Was Rosalyn, Born Blind, Gwen Stacy, Living Sacrifice, Mortal Treason, Nodes of Ranvier, Sinai Beach, Sleeping Giant, Symphony in Peril, Twelve Gauge Valentine, War of Ages, Winter Solstice, With Blood Comes Cleansing , Zao, ect…

Bands like those, I would name more, but yeah.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! >.<
I don’t like Dethlok or Mors Principium Est…
Kalmah is listed!
I would really love if you gave me bands with double bass like Suicide Silence, Molotov Solution, Chelsea Grin, Whitechapel, ect…
I also love hardcore/trance stuff like Asking Alexandria and A Bullet For A Pretty Boy, some Attack Attack. I do not consider Enter Shikai or Sky Eats Plane trance, I consider them Nintendocore!
I defiantly don’t like Mastodon, Lamb of god, From behind these walls, Darkest hour, Avenged sevenfold, Mushroomhead, Ex deo, The Autumn offering, Prototype Cannibal corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Cradle Of Filth, Dead poetic, Marilyn manson. THEY SUCK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!! I like screaming stuff, not a list of fags who are necrophiliacs!!!! Sorry if I offended anyone…
DIMMU BORGIR ARE SATANIST! I AM A CHRISTIAN AND LOVE MY GOD!!!!
Most if you re-posted bands I already listed…

The Faceless
Carnifex
Eat A Helicopter
Suffokate
Downtown Massacre
Every Time I Die
On Broken Wings

I write very good resumes in a professional level and quality.How much should I charge?

Michelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:09:30 +0000

I specialize in writing resumes for the Hispanic market, in English, and for the young professionals coming out to work for the first time. I write high impact quality resumes from my home. I feel I should charge well for my work but don’t want to OVERCHARGE or charge as the established places. How much is fair??

these resume writers you see on monster or hotjobs will generally charge anywhere from $100-$225 per resume. if you’re just starting out then I would say at least $80-$100 bucks per shot. might wanna make a "special" too for those who need a resume, cover letter and references all at once. could charge like $150 at least for something like that/

registered nurses: do you love your job? how much toilet/bodily fluids do you have to deal with?

Michelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:09:26 +0000

i have pretty much decided on this direction, but i’m worried about the unpleasant aspects such as mentioned in the question. any input would be greatly appreciated. (i’m accepted into an accelerated ba-bsn program that begins in january 09). getting a little worried.

As a RN for 20 years, my advice is brace yourself, you are going to see more than a usual amount of body waste. As a student nurse you will be allocated some unpleasant tasks purely to see how you cope with them.
Every day is different some days will be worse than others.
First year students are usually introduced to basic care scenarios such as providing hygiene, toileting, patient handling, colostomy care, bedmaking, medication administration, basic CPR, aseptic technique, suture removal, patient assessment, Pressure Area Care, urinalysis, taking vital signs, documentation and standard precautions.
Clients / patients will watch you while you are dealing with their personal habits so reflect positive feelings on your face even if you do not feel like it, especially for stoma / colostomy clients.
If you have an idea of where you would like to eventually work it could highlight how much bodily fluids you will deal with. For example; in the older adult field there will be quite a lot of involvement in daily living skills that may require assisting with the task of toileting and some changing / cleaning of the client.
In particular aspects of surgery you may be required to assist clients with bowel preparation both pre and post operatively.
It will vary from speciality to speciality of course.

My advice is don’t work yourself up about it because the more you get used to dealing with this part of nursing you will learn to implement your own personal coping strategies.
Just remember that we all have to perform our toileting needs but a some people will need help from time to time, and as it is the caring profession you are entering we are the helpers.
After a short while you will wonder what you were ever worried about.
Good Luck with your studies