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Three Stars Media Plans Holiday Toy Drive For
Children in Orlando
Three Stars Media Plans Toy Drive for Orlando Children
During a job search, your resume is everything. That’s specifically why at Applicant Tree we’ve placed a particular monetary value on it. It’s important to not let the small details tarnish that value. The document needs to be short, concise, and to the point. It needs to be a model of efficiency. Here’s some quick tips on how to achieve that.
1. Keep the descriptions of your past jobs short and punchy. A resume shouldn’t be the novel of your career, it should be the highlight reel. Boil each job’s duties down to four or five distinct marketable duties. What are the skills you used everyday that are of interest to another employer?
2. Keep your job history to the bare minimum. Go back three jobs or five years, whichever comes first. In this rapidly changing world, the job skills from 10 years ago are often irrelevant. If you want to appear like an innovator, include only modern skills.
3. Keep your education short as well. List only the degrees that really matter. If you graduated from a community or junior college before going on to University, only the university degree really matters. Simply list the type of degree and the college that awarded it to you.
The key to it all is a balance of white space to text, to invite an employer to read it. Too much text and you’ll be skipped over for the next resume on a very large stack. You just have to say more with less.
Pretty soon Christmas trees will be sprouting up in living rooms all across the country. Although it can be difficult to get all of the lights strung around the tree and actually lit up, the real challenge is to fill up the bottom of the tree with presents.
The tried and true response to this situation for thousands of Americans is to get a seasonal job at one of the many thousand retail outlets who will soon be overstuffed with exasperated shoppers looking for that one perfect gift. They need the extra hands, you need the extra cash – it’s a perfect fit.
The real trick is to maximize the experience to your advantage. Before heading out to the local mall and turning in a slew of applications at randomly selected stores, take something into consideration first. Is there a specific store you could lend some of your extra time to that would actually help you stuff the bottom of that tree with wrapped goodies?
Most stores extend generous product discounts to their seasonal staff. This way you can save on the gifts that you’re buying the most while earning the extra cash to pay for it all. Some stores even have employee appreciation days where extra deep discounts are given to assist employees with their gifting.
How do you determine which store will maximize your Holiday dollars? First make a list of who you plan to buy for this year and include what type of present you typically buy for them. Hopefully, you’ll sense a pattern that should actually tell you what store you should work at. For instance, if the bulk of your Holiday gift-giving is for children then you may want to apply at a toy store. Or if you predominantly buy for a slew of electronic gizmo obsessed brothers then an electronics store might serve you best. If you have an eclectic mix of gifts to give and can’t sense a pattern, perhaps a national discount department store may do the most amount of good to your bottom line.
