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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Resume Publishing Writing - Two Tips To Help You Get Started
Resume Publishing Writing - Two Tips To Help You Get StartedThe key to the success of your resume writing is going to be your knowledge of the subject and the knowledge of the subject of your prospective employer. You will need to have excellent writing skills to effectively create a document that will stand out from the crowd. In this article, I am going to share with you how you can gain a great deal of experience in the resume writing field.Resume writing is a difficult task. There are many different resumes that are available to choose from, and that makes it hard to make the best decision. This is where to resume publishing writing experience comes in. Using resume publishing writing, you can become more experienced in the process. Here are a few ways that you can use to resume publishing writing:Before you start looking for employment, it is important to make sure that you have the most effective resume. This is why resume publishing is so crucial. Using resume publishing writi ng, you can reach out to a wider market of potential employers.Once you have your target audience, you can begin to research your work history to build your resume. Search for relevant jobs and consult resumes for the ideal opportunities. The next step is to write your resume cover letter that is a short and to the point, but powerful.Interviewing for a job is a very important part of the hiring process. When you prepare for an interview, remember to answer the questions honestly and completely.Preparing for your resume can be very time consuming, especially if you plan on submitting it for publication online. Consider hiring a professional resume writer. They can assist you in composing your best resume to fit the needs of an employer.These are just a few tips to help you succeed in your resume writing. Keep in mind that you should always be self-aware when writing a resume. With the right resume, you can land a better job and move on in your career.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
From Mcdonalds Fry-Cook to Hooters Waitress, Here Are the Unglamorous First Jobs of 24 Highly Successful People
From Mcdonald's Fry-Cook to Hooters Waitress, Here Are the Unglamorous First Jobs of 24 Highly Successful People It can be easy to see the worldâs most powerful and influential people as occupying a sphere far removed from the rest us. But many of the most successful people started off working odd jobs to earn money. These 24 highly successful people prove that the path to success doesnât have to be linear. Jeff Bezos worked the grill at McDonaldâs Ted Soquiâ"Corbis via Getty Images The founder and CEO of internet-retail behemoth Amazon got his start working the grill at McDonaldâs during his summers as a teenager, according to the book âGolden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonaldâs.â âThe most challenging thing was keeping everything going at the right pace during a rush,â Bezos said. âThe manager at my McDonaldâs was excellent. He had a lot of teenagers working for him, and he kept us focused even while we had fun.â President Donald Trump collected bottles The Washington Postâ"The Washington Post/Getty Images The leader of the US grew up wealthy, but his father wanted him to learn the value of money early on. As a kid, his dad would take him to construction sites and have him and his brother pick up empty soda bottles to redeem for cash, Trump tells Forbes. He says that he didnât make much, but it taught him to work for his money. President Barack Obama scooped ice cream SAUL LOEBâ"AFP/Getty Images As a teenager growing up in Honolulu, Obama got his first gig working the counter at Baskin-Robbins, Time reports. Doug McMillon worked at a Walmart distribution center As Business Insider previously reported, Walmartâs current CEO joined the company as an hourly summer associate in a Walmart distribution center when he was 18, in 1984. He left the company to pursue a college degree, but in 1990, while pursuing his MBA, McMillon rejoined Walmartâs ranks as an assistant manager in a Walmart store before moving to merchandising as a buyer trainee, according to Walmart. He worked his way up the ranks to various senior leadership roles and took over as CEO in 2014. Robert Herjavec was a debt collector Eric McCandlessâ"ABC via Getty Images After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1984, and long before he became a celebrity investor through âShark Tank,â Herjavec took the first job he could find as the guy calling people to pay their bills. âIf youâre thinking that being a bad-debt collector was not the best way to launch a business career, youâre wrong,â Herjavec writes in his book âYou Donât Have to Be a Shark.â âI learned a lot from the job, and some lessons â" valuable lessons â" stay with me today.â Among those lessons, he says he learned that great salespeople focus energy only on serious prospects, and that empathy is often more effective than aggression when it comes to making a sale. Mark Cuban sold garbage bags Justin Sullivanâ"Getty Images When the Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur asked his dad if he could get a new pair of expensive sneakers, his dad told him he could go get a job. Cuban was 12 at the time, and he asked his dad how he was supposed to find a gig. Thatâs when one of his dadâs friends stepped in. He said he had some garbage bags he needed to sell, so Cuban went door-to-door selling the bags for $3 more than he paid for them. Lloyd Blankfein sold snacks at Yankee Stadium Joe Raedleâ"Getty Images As the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Blankfein is one of the most influential people on Wall Street. But he worked his way up from the bottom. According to his biography, âMoney and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World,â Blankfein grew up in Brooklyn housing projects and worked his first job as a concession vendor at Yankee Stadium. Richard Branson was an amateur bird breeder and arborist Paul Harrisâ"Getty Images Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, has worked for himself from day one. At the age of 11, Branson says in a LinkedIn post, he and his best friend, Nik Powell, started breeding parakeets to sell as pets to their classmates. The birds started multiplying faster than they could sell them, so they then tried their hand in a different market. As Christmas approached, they bought small fir trees and hoped to make a profit off them once they grew big â" but rabbits destroyed the trees before they could grow, he writes. Beth Comstock worked in a Rubbermaid factory Ilya S. Savenokâ"Getty Images General Electricâs first female vice chair oversaw the creation of the Hulu streaming service. But before she entered the professional world, she learned the value of hard work at a Rubbermaid factory that produced kitchenware. In a LinkedIn post, she explains that she took the summer job after her freshman year of college as a break from academic work but found herself completely overwhelmed. Sheâs still proud of learning how to work as a team to overcome the difficult months of labor. Neil Vogel sold tuxedos in a Philadelphia mall Roy Rochlinâ"Getty Images for Advertising Week New York The Dotdash (formerly About.com) CEO previously told Business Insiderthat his first real job was renting tuxedos to kids going to prom and to wedding parties. âBecause of the commission plan, which paid no commission on basic rentals, but instead paid $10 or so every time you rented a tux with tails or a terrible vest-suspenders combo, all of our effort was spent trying to rent people the most ridiculous thing possible,â he said, admitting that he and a buddy made side bets (the stakes were lunch in the food court) based on who could rent that dayâs pre-determined awful item first. âWorking retail is full of great lessons in how to deal with people, and of course sales skills are invaluable,â Vogel said. âHowever, given the surprising amount of money we made, perhaps the most important thing I learned is to be skeptical of those paid commissions to sell you something.â Pope Francis bounced for a nightclub Pacific Pressâ"LightRocket via Getty Images Before Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuits as a priest, became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and then Cardinal, and eventually won the papal crown â" thereby becoming Pope Francis â" he held a number of unglamorous jobs. According to the Catholic News Service, in his youth the pontiff ran tests in a chemical laboratory, swept floors as a janitor, and worked as a bar bouncer. Kat Cole was a star Hooters employee Cindy Ordâ"Getty Images for Cosmopolitan Before Cole became the president of Cinnabon and then group president of FOCUS Brands, she worked at Hooters for 15 years, starting as a hostess at age 17 and eventually getting promoted to vice president by the time she was 26. A star employee, at 19 she was asked by Hooters to go to Australia to help open a franchise location, and she spent much of her early 20 training global employees and managers, Fortune reports. John Paul DeJoria built and sold flower boxes Greg Dohertyâ"Getty Images The cofounder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patrón tequilapreviously told Business Insider that, growing up, his family didnât have much money, so he worked from a very young age building flower boxes for 25 cents and selling them for 50 cents. âAt 11 years old, I had a morning paper delivery route with the LA Examiner and I made $33 per month,â he said. âI gave the money to my mother so we could live a better life. Having a job was an honor.â Warren Buffett was a paperboy Bloombergâ"Bloomberg via Getty Images Buffett has been interested in making and saving money since he was a kid. Today, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is worth an estimated $61.2 billion, according to Forbes, making him one of the worldâs wealthiest people. At the age of 13, Buffett spent his mornings delivering copies of The Washington Post, according to Bio. That same year, he invested $1,200 of his savings into 40 acres of farmland. Oprah Winfrey worked at a corner grocery store Frederick M. Brownâ"Getty Images Winfreyâs media empire made her the first female black billionaire â" sheâs worth an estimated $3 billion today, according to Forbes. Before she made it to the top, she struggled her way out of a difficult, impoverished childhood. When she was living with her dad in Nashville as a young teenager, she worked at a corner grocery store next to her dadâs barbershop, Forbes reports. Michael Dell washed dishes Bloombergâ"Bloomberg via Getty Images As founder and CEO of Dell Inc., Dell enjoyed a rise to power during the heyday of the personal computer. Today, Dell is worth an estimated $18.7 billion, according to Forbes. But before he helped make PCs mainstream, Dell got his first job scrubbing dishes for a Chinese restaurant at the age of 12, Bio reports. David Murdock pumped gas Patrick McMullanâ"Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Murdock, the 91-year-old chairman and CEO of Dole Foods, turned the company into the worldâs largest producer and marketer of fruits and vegetables. Heâs worth an estimated $2.9 billion today, according to Forbes, but he grew up poor and dropped out of high school in the ninth grade. After quitting school, Murdock worked at a gas station until he was drafted into the Army in 1943, Forbes reports. Bernie Sanders worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker Duane Prokopâ"Getty Images for MoveOn.org After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1964 from the University of Chicago, where he was an active member of the local civil-rights movement, Sanders held a number of odd jobs, including carpenter and documentary filmmaker, before being elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, and Vermont senator, in 2007. Hillary Clinton supervised park activities Lisa Lakeâ"Getty Images for Geisinger Sympo Clinton writes in her autobiography âHard Choicesâ that she got her first paying job, other than babysitting, at 13, supervising a small park a few miles from her home in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. The former secretary of state and US senator says she had to lug a wagon full of balls, bats, and jump ropes back and forth three days a week that summer. âMy parents believed in self-reliance and hard work, and they made sure we kids learned the value of a dollar and appreciated the dignity of a job well done,â she writes Jacki Zehner sold hot dogs at hockey games Jerod Harrisâ"Getty Images In 1996, the Founding President of the Women Moving Millions charity became the first female partner at Goldman Sachs. Before that, she spent her early teens in Canada working the concession stand at games for her local farm team, the Kelowna Buckaroos. In a LinkedIn post, she says her time spent running a busy stand and making quick transactions proved to be perfect training for the Wall Street trading floor. T. Boone Pickens delivered newspapers Riccardo Saviâ"Getty Images for Concordia Summit The chairman of hedge fund BP Capital Management showed his aggressive business savvy at a young age. Like Buffett, Pickens was a paperboy. At the age of 12, he expanded his delivery route from 28 houses to 156 by taking over his competitorâs routes, according to Forbes. He has said that this taught him the value of expanding business through acquisition. Michael Bloomberg was a parking-lot attendant Bryan Bedderâ"Getty Images for IRC The former mayor of New York City is now worth an estimated $51.5 billion, according to Forbes, but he comes from a middle-class family. As a student at Johns Hopkins University, he worked as a parking-lot attendant to help pay his college loans. Madeline Albright sold bras Horacio Villalobos - Corbisâ"Corbis via Getty Images Albright became the first female secretary of state, serving under President Bill Clinton. She made it into the US as a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, since her anti-Soviet family was in danger from her countryâs communist party, according to Bio. She got her first job selling bras at a department store in Denver, she tells Forbes, and adds that she probably made next to nothing but learned how to deal with people in difficult situations. Charles Schwab sold walnuts and chickens Chip Somodevillaâ"Getty Images Schwab founded the Charles Schwab Corporation, a brokerage and banking firm, and is today worth about $6 billion, according to Forbes. He tells Stanfordâs alumni magazine that he had the entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. Schwab grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Sacramento, California, but wanted to make his own money. As a kid, he bagged and sold walnuts and raised chickens in his backyard, selling some and using others for eggs to sell. Dylan Love contributed reporting. This article originally appeared in Business Insider.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
5 Media Jobs That Didnt Exist 5 Years Ago - Work It Daily
5 Media Jobs That Didnât Exist 5 Years Ago - Work It Daily The rapid pace of innovation has altered the career landscape, rendering some jobs nearly obsolete and creating entirely new media jobs that didn't exist a few years ago. This is especially true in the field of media, which has expanded from print, radio and television to encompass a new range of digital formats. New media professionals use the Internet to deliver information and entertainment in entirely new ways. Although the technology may be new, a combination of old-fashioned creativity, dedication, and hard work still pave the route to success. Here are five media jobs that didn't exist five years ago. SEO Strategist Although Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been around for most of the past decade, it has become increasingly important to modern day companies. SEO refers to techniques that maximize a website's search engine ranking and, ideally, place it on the first page of search results. With search engines like Google continually tweaking their ranking algorithm, technical expertise and creativity are required to develop content that regularly lands websites at the top of search engine results. Many SEO strategists are paid high consultant fees to increase clients' web traffic and revenue stream. Working in SEO requires both marketing and technical skills, as well as a deep understanding of search engine workings and web user interaction. Social Media Manager Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn have experienced an explosion in popularity in the past five years. Companies and individuals who want to leverage social media work with social media managers to create an online brand identity. Unlike traditional marketing, social media involves two-way communication between companies and potential customers. Social media tools are used to foster customer awareness, increase website traffic and create favorable buzz. Social Media Managers differ from Community Managers in the sense that their role is brand new in the past five years. Community Managers have been around on forums and blogs for the past 15-20 years. However even the role of community manager has exploded in the past 5 years with the advent of community spilling out onto social platforms. The roles are different but equally as important. Blogger What began as online journaling has become a new form of journalism. Professional bloggers create posts that may be informational, editorial or commercial. Blog posts are often part of an SEO strategy designed to attract visitors to a website and help establish an online brand or identity. Theyâre key to community management strategies as well to retain customers keep them talking engaged. They are also used by websites to help generate revenue from advertising. Even though traditional jobs in print journalism are dwindling, the opportunities for bloggers are growing at a rapid pace. App Designer The proliferation of smart phones and tablets has led to an increasing demand for well-designed apps. App designers help decide what an app will do, how it will look and how users interact with it. Companies are discovering that a custom-designed app can be a powerful marketing tool. There is also a market for apps that perform a unique function. Many designers have become overnight successes thanks to an original app that is downloaded by multitudes of users. Content Developer Web content developers research and write content for publication on websites. They also add graphics, video and sound to websites. The skills used by content developers include writing and editing, graphic design and multimedia development. They also must understand how to use website-building tools to design, layout and publish a website. Content developers may work with SEO strategists and social media managers to publicize a website, although sometimes they themselves are also responsible for these functions. Many of these careers are so novel that there are no established paths for getting trained for and finding such jobs. A multitude of websites, books and online courses teach new media skills. Once you're confident about your knowledge and skills, you can find jobs through online job postings or by attending industry conferences, seminars and workshops. When you're just starting out, an internship is a good way to get your foot in the door while taking advantage of on-the-job training. You can also network with potential customers and other professionals through blogs and social media. Developing a personal website that includes information about your training and experience is a great way to attract potential employers and advertise your skills. This article was written by Community Manager, Jenn Pedde, on behalf of CAREEREALISM-Approved Partner, 2tor â" an education technology company that partners with institutions of higher education such as University of Southern California to deliver top MSW programs. Jenn is also the co-founder of TheCommunityManager.com, and loves to travel. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!
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