Monday, April 20, 2020
How to Get Resume Writing Services For Career Development
How to Get Resume Writing Services For Career DevelopmentIf you are looking for resume writing services in Jacksonville, FL, you have landed on the right place. There are lots of professionals out there who would love to take the job of a professional writer so that they could provide more writing services to their customers. These writers would not mind with helping their friends and family members so that they could get more business.Before you consider using resume writing services, you should be very careful about how you will do it. This is because you need to make it very professional and detailed enough so that you would land up with an appropriate job after your application. Also, you have to be careful about the content you want to include on your resume.You have to be very sure that what you want to write is right for you. If you find that the content on your resume is incorrect, you may not get the job. It can also affect your chances of getting more jobs. So, make sure th at what you want to say in your resume is the same as what other employers are expecting you to say.Remember that this is only a job and it is going to be very easy if you are able to do the right things when it comes to resume writing. You can find some useful tips here, which will help you with your career. This is very important so that you will be able to get the right job after you finish the resume writing services.Before submitting your resume, it is very important to know how your resume should look like. Do not make a mistake in the content and you will not make your resume an instant failure. Remember that this is the only time that your resume is going to be read by other employers, so make sure that you can get some good results from the service you are planning to use.Once you are done with the resume writing services, you can finally sit back and relax because you will be enjoying the rest of your life after doing this. You have to remember that you should not wait for long. Make sure that you start with the first step so that you can reach the final goal of landing the job.You can take a look at the job openings on the internet. If you have found a job opportunity that seems really good, you have to submit your resume online to your potential employer.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Real World at 25 The Reality Stars Real Life Success Stories
Real World at 25 The Reality Star's Real Life Success Stories In 2005, Wes Bergmann moved into a two-story warehouse in downtown Austin, Texas for the 16th season of MTVâs The Real World. For 24 episodes, Bergmann and his six roommatesâ"Danny, Johanna, Lacey, Melinda, Nehemiah, and Rachelâ"slammed tequila shots, started bar fights, and succumbed to the hot tub siren song familiar to any casual fan of the networkâs longest-running program. Bergmann, just 19 at the time, did all three in spades. A year later, he reprised his role on The Challenge, an absurdly watchable spinoff that throws MTV reality TV alumni into an obstacle course-driven gameshow that looks something like American Ninja Warrior meets Keeping up With the Kardashianâs (lot of dangling rope, lots of ugly crying). Filmed in a rotating backdrop of exotic locations, Real World cast members have a seemingly open invitation to compete for cash prizes that often top $100,000. If youâre one of the 1.6 million people who tuned into 2013âs Challenge, youâll no doubt remember the episode where Bergmann squabbles with Johnny âBananasâ Devenanzioâ"a Real World: Key West (2006) cast member Bergmann calls his ânemesisââ" over something that isnât quite clear (who has a louder voice? How close they can get without touching noses?). Between a string of expletives, Bergmann unleashes a doozy of a brag. âI have a BMW, a Porsche, a monster truck, a house and 30 companies,â he says. As embarrassed as Bergmann is by the comment today, he wasnât bluffing. Off camera, Bergmann has used the prize money heâs made from The Challenge and other MTV appearances to lay the foundations of a mini business empire. A lead investor of BetaBlox, a five-year-old Kansas City-based startup incubator, Bergmann and his partners consult, mentor, and market entrepreneurs in exchange for a 5% stake in their business. By the end of 2017, Bergmann says heâll have a share in more than 200 companies. Whatâs going on here? Reality TV stars arenât supposed to have fulfilling lives outside the microcosm of our screens â" and theyâre certainly not supposed to have lucrative careers. But for Bergmann and a handful of other Real World-ers, reality tv stardom was a springboard to something more meaningful. Their post-production accomplishments are a lesson in career reinvention â" and how to separate yourself from a reputation that precedes you. *** The first episode of The Real World premiered 25 years ago, on May 21, 1992. Today, the show still rambles on. In recent seasons, MTV has introduced a range of stunts to entice millennial viewers: Real World Seattle: Bad Blood, the latest iteration, featured pairs of cast members who are feuding in real life. But its underlying theme, to let anyone with a cable package tune into a group of ordinary young people doing ordinary, young people things, hasnât really changed. Normal people react to the specter of celebrity differently, so the career path of a Real World star isnât clear-cut. Some drag out their 15 minutes as long as possible, with help from The Challenge and the occasional party appearance, where they can charge thousands of dollars just for showing up. Others fade into relative obscurity. Ruthie Alcaide, one of the most popular cast members from one of the most popular seasons in Real World history, falls somewhere in the middle. Alcaide made her mark on the very first episode of The Real World: Hawaii (1999), where she binge drank her way to the hospital shortly after meeting her new roommates, with rehab following shortly thereafter. Now 40 (and sober), Alcaide has chopped off the long, black hair she donned on the show, and avoids talking about it when she doesnât have to. Alcaideâs girlfriend, who was born outside the U.S., didnât know she was dating a reality star until the two had been together for nearly a year. When she first joined the Real World cast, Alcaide was a student at Rutgers University. She had no solid career plans, and describes her time on MTV as a serendipitous nudge into an industry she was destined for. During one season of The Challenge (she did four of them), Alcaide struck up a conversation with some of the camera crew. They were having a blast, she recalls, and unlike the people they were filming, didnât face any of the pressure to perform, act, or dress for a national audience. In 2014, Alcaide launched a production career of her own. It was a slow start â" she had to convince a lot of people she was worth taking a chance on. âIt was difficult at first,â she says. âPeople wonder what you have to offer, as if youâre not a person who can be interested in an actual career. I had to adapt quickly.â In the years since, Alcaide has worked as a production coordinator and assistant for dozens of film and tv sets â" including reality shows like Bad Girls Club, and Big Brother. She wants to work as a creative producer someday, and is building her resume with music video and commercial shoots. Itâs not a new goal so much as a latent one: digging through a box of college mementos, she recently found an old notebook with movie and TV pitches scribbled alongside her lecture notes. âI never thought I would get serious in production,â she says.âIâm finally putting two and two together.â Emily Schromm from The Real World: D.C. (2009) offers another perspective on the reality star career track. Raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, Schromm was working at a Starbucks on the University of Missouri campus when a Real World casting director asked her to audition. âI lived such a sheltered life,â she says. âI wasnât allowed to watch the show, so I didnât know what to expect. But I knew I wanted to get out.â Schromm was just 20 years old when the D.C. season taped, and she looked, acted, and spoke like anyone her age. But thereâs a certain, inescapable self-consciousness that comes from seeing your mannerisms and mistakes play out on national television, she says, and it sent her into a downward spiral. Naturally athletic, Schromm agreed to go onto The Challenge after the season ended. She placed third in her first competition, and was motivated to train for another. By her third challenge, Schromm was in the best physical shape of her life, she says, and her mental health followed suit. She won that challenge, and left the series with a new outlook on life. Today, Schromm is a Denver, Colo.-based health and wellness coach, founder of a series of online 21 day fitness programs, and CEO of Evolved Motion, which makes a patented backpack that turns into a weight training device. Four years after her last Challenge, Schromm still gets recognized every time she goes to a bar in Downtown Denver â" often by fans who try to convince her to go back on it. âItâs hard to say no to those shows,â Schromm says. âItâs a consistent paycheck, and itâs easy to get stuck in that adrenaline addiction. But for now, I love the daily challenge of being my own boss.â *** There are more dramatic Real World to real world transitions. Sean Duffy (âBoston,â 1997) is a Republican representative for Wisconsin. Mike âThe Mizâ Mizanin (âBack to New York,â 2001) is a WWE wrestler. Pamela Ling and Judd Winick, â(San Francisco,â 1994) are a doctor and comic book artist, respectively (and have been married since 2001). MTV never really left any of these people â" from wedding announcements to Wikipedia pages, The Real World seems to follow them everywhere. âAustinâsâ Bergmann thinks about that a lot. Heâs dreamt of being an entrepreneur since he mowed lawns as a kid, he says, and was studying business at Arizona State University during his MTV debut. But people have trouble conflating his on- and off-screen personas. âItâs tough to get someone to believe what Iâve accomplished,â he says. âEither they donât believe me, or they think it was all given to me by MTV. Itâs easier for people to sit in those two schools of thought.â Bergmannâs dalliances in reality TV are blips on the radar screen of his career trajectory, he says. But occasionally, he gets sucked back in. Through the end of June, fans can watch Bergmann compete in The Challengeâs latest iteration, a charity version airing now on MTV. This time around, a group of professional athletes, like UFC fighter CM Punk and retired NFL linebacker Kamerion Wimbley, join in on the fun. And yeah, so does Bananas. Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the new season of The Real World as The Real World: Bad Blood. Itâs The Real World Seattle: Bad Blood.
Friday, April 10, 2020
6 Real-Life Cover Letter Blunders To Avoid - Work It Daily
6 Real-Life Cover Letter Blunders To Avoid - Work It Daily A cover letter can be the first step of a new career journey. Or, it can be a dead end that dooms your attempts to get a job. It all has to do with how you write it. Have you made any of these cover letter blunders? Download: FREE Cover Letter Tutorial Template We collected some real-life examples of dead-end cover letters to serve as examples of what not to do the next time youâre making first contact with a prospective employer. 1. Self-Serving âIâm interested in seeing what your firm can do to help me find new clientsâ¦â FYI: Whoever is vetting candidates doesnât care all that much about what the company can do for you. Sheâs interested in what you can do for the company. And she has the luxury of being self-serving in that regard. The job seeker, typically, does not. In your cover letter, avoid describing how you can benefit from the job â" write about how the company can benefit from hiring you. Your letter should succinctly put your experience and skills in the context of the job youâre hoping to get. The employer has a need â" itâs your job to demonstrate that you can fulfill that need. And if you can prove that, youâll be closer to fulfilling your need for income, career development, and so on. 2. Desperate âIâm currently looking for any paying position freelance, part-time, or full-time.â FYI: If desperation had an odor, it would be somewhere between rotten eggs and microwaved fish â" something people would want to get away from. Fast. And like those people in the preceding stink scenario, hiring managers avoid desperation. Youâll never get a job just because you need a job. A prospective employer wants you to want to work for his company. To him, the company is a special place. He wants to feel that it would be special to you, too â" that working there would be a milestone in your career and youâd give all you could to make it successful. Even if the bills are piling up and you desperately need a job â" donât let it show. Use your cover letter to describe why you want to work at that particular company. 3. Irrelevant âIâm married and at the present time, live in a farm located on the countryside ⦠from where I attend to my clients online, grow organic vegetables and raise my two small daughters.â FYI: Youâre a person of varied interests, hobbies, and talents. You have kids or pets. Youâre in a community acting troupe. Your chili took first prize at the annual cook off. But save all these personal tidbits for small talk with new co-workers after you actually get the job. Every word of your cover letter should aim to pique the interest of the person reading it enough to get them to take a look at your resume â" and, once they do, the letter should put your resume in the context of the open position. 4. Careless â⦠and would love to offert my skills.â FYI: If you donât take the time to proofread and spellcheck your cover letter, a hiring manager will take the time to toss it in the wastebasket (or drag it to the recycling bin). 5. Lacking âPlease see my resume attached. I look forward to speaking with you.â FYI: The above is not an excerpt. Itâs the whole cover letter. As mentioned earlier, your cover letter should aim to put your skills and experience in context with the job and get a hiring manager to move onto the next step of reading your resume. It should also help you start to build rapport with a prospective employer. The example above does none of those things. 6. Lengthy On the other hand, some cover letters we heard about went on for more than 1,000 words. FYI: Thereâs a saying in the news business â" burying the lede. That is, putting the most important or interesting info deep in the body of an article when it should be up top. If your cover letter drones on for 700, 800, 900 or more words, thereâs a good chance youâre burying the lede under a bunch of superfluous stuff. Regardless if thatâs the case, the very appearance of a novella-length cover letter is enough to turn off a hiring manager â" especially when she has a hundred more cover letters waiting to be read. Keep it succinct â" three or four short paragraphs max â" and include only the information most likely to get someone to consider you a possible viable candidate and look at your resume. Youâll have plenty of opportunity to expound your experience once you get that interview. This post was originally published at an earlier date. Related Posts 5 Key Steps To A Cover Letter That Opens Doors 4 Goals Your Cover Letter Introduction Should Accomplish 4 Inside Secrets To Writing A Great Cover Letter Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!
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