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Top 7 Trends In Resumes To Watch
Today, the number of opportunities has expanded with the increase of diverse fields in which you can make your career. The era has ushered in new chances for active and passive job seekers trying to make their mark in their respective fields. Traditional resumes are no longer your door to employment. So whether you are just starting your career or opting for a career change, it is essential that you look into the changes seriously.
Sandy DsouzaPublished 7 years ago in JournalMillennials: Work, Education, and Pop Culture
Millennials are looked at with scorn by older generations and presented as lazy and entitled by pop culture. Often they are poked fun at in sitcoms, with their more relaxed views of the world and their political opinions. They are shown preaching peace and acceptance while forgetting deadlines and tasks. After the recent election, their very emotional responses were met with outrage (in some cases very rightfully so as classes were cancelled and college exams rescheduled).
Katrina ThornleyPublished 7 years ago in Journal- Top Story - September 2017
Struggling to Survive
To the outside world, I am a successful, intelligent person with a wealth of possibilities in front of me. However, fear and doubt seem to permeate my every thought throughout the day and I wonder if I will ever find success. I recently completed a Ph.D. in education and have multiple peer-reviewed journal articles to date.
Cody PerryPublished 7 years ago in Journal Tips for Following Up After Your Job Interview
Getting a good joboften means showing your employer that you're really enthusiastic about work. A great resume and a good interview session often only go so far. In order to nail most top positions, you will need to learn how to follow up with employers.
Ossiana TepfenhartPublished 7 years ago in JournalI'm Not A Writer
What are we? We’re storytellers. Okay, okay, I get it, please don’t groan! Just hear me out for a second. As storytellers, we don’t write blankly without reason. We don’t write for the sake of being seen by a few eyeballs, or for the ticking of views on a status bar. The art of writing is so much more complex than that. We write to tell stories, to captivate people, to make people feel something they hadn’t before. Sure, a writer knows how to put words together on a page, but a storyteller knows how to spur an emotional reaction with those words.
Austin FisherPublished 7 years ago in JournalHow Quitting the Wrong Things and Getting Into the Right Ones Can Change Your Life
Anyone who is afraid of failure in this life will not find success. Success itself is a mix of several falls and wake ups, it is getting to a new summit each time we hit a roadblock. So many times we are misled by the media and society that success is the attainment of a certain level or position in life; there’s no level to attain, no final destination to reach.
Career Adventures in Cambodia
On a trip to Cambodia, I met three generations of people having career adventures in Southeast Asia — 50-somethings reinventing themselves, 30-somethings re-energizing themselves and 20-somethings finding themselves. Their common attributes included embracing risk, a sense of adventure, independence, empathy, pragmatism, curiosity and cultural sensitivity. Here are some of their stories with a few of my reflections.
David ShindlerPublished 7 years ago in JournalDuran
I once met a man, his name was Duran. I know, awful, who would start a story with a rhyme. Duran was the type of character that needed a rhyme to introduce him, the fabulous being he seemed to be.