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Applying for College | Bisexual | she/her | always feel free to message me about anything
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A Guide to Writing Your Resume

I recently took a very helpful youth professional development course and learned some great things I’d love to share with everyone. This post will be especially helpful for first time resume writers, but there might be something in it for everyone. 

1. What is a Resume? 

A resume is a brief summary of your abilities, experience, and skills. It’s essentially a personal advertisement for your professional career, an opportunity to convince the employer that you are worth interviewing. 

  • The average employer will only take about 15-20 seconds to read your resume.
  • It’s important that your resume is neat so the reader can find important information quickly. 
  • Limit the resume to one page. 
  • Standard font size is 11-12, but you can play with the font or margins to fit everything. 

2. Headings 

  • Start with your personal information at the top of the first page (name, address, phone number, and email address). 
  • Keep the header centered and your name on top in BIG LETTERS.

3. Education 

  • If you are still in school or have little professional experience, this will likely be the first section in your resume. 
  • Document your education and graduation year.
  • Include the location (city, state), but do not include the school address. 
  • If you attend a school with a College Preparatory Curriculum, you may list that as a bullet underneath. If you are taking Honors or AP classes (or an international equivalent), feel free to list that as well. 

4. Professional Experience 

  • List your work experience in reverse chronological order - start with your most recent experience, and work backwards. 
  • Include the employer name, city, state, and position title for each. Again, no addresses.
  • Record your dates of employment consistently, using a format like June 2016 - August 2015, or 6/15 - 8/15. Staying consistent will make your resume professional. 
  • Place current jobs in the present tense, past jobs in the past tense. 
  • Write short phrases, not full sentences (”performed experiments”, not “I performed experiments”). Start each description with an action word that describes your skills, responsibilities, or accomplishments. 
  • Make sure you are specific about your responsibilities and don’t undersell yourself!

5. Skills 

  • Most commonly listed skills are computer programs and softwares you are comfortable with, and languages you are fluent/proficient in. 
  • Be honest! If you say you’re fluent in Spanish and you’re not, but your employer hires you for your Spanish abilities…. someone isn’t going to be pleased. 
  • List skills that are relevant to your job - patience might be a good skill for working with children, while organized might be more suitable for an office setting. 

6. Honors & Awards/Extracurriculars

  • List any honors or awards you have earned, including a brief explanation if the nature of the award is unclear. 
  • List any activities that you have been involved in, making sure to include years of participation (again, be consistent with formatting). These can be in-school or outside-of-school activities.

7. General & Miscellaneous

  • Some safe fonts: Times New Roman, Garamond, Calibri, or Book Antiqua.
  • Make sure your email is professional! This has been repeated to death but it’s so, so, so important. 
  • Likewise, if you list your personal cellphone number, make sure your voicemail message is appropriate. When in doubt, just revert back to the standard voicemail greeting. 

I hope this was helpful for anyone just starting out with their resume. Please share this for those who need it. Best of luck! 

- Ellie 

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20/20 Tag Game

Aww, thank you @artsytourism for tagging me!

Rules: Answer these 20 questions then tag 20 followers that you would like to get to know better.

1. Name: Emma

2. Nickname: I don’t really have one 🤷‍♀️

3. Zodiac Sign: Leo

4. Height: 5′7″ (it’s actually 5′6″ but I’m in denial)

5. Age: 16

6. Languages Spoken: English and VERY broken Spanish

7. Nationality: Unfortunately, American

8. Favorite Fruit: ooh, probably raspberries

9. Favorite Season: its currently a tie between fall and winter

10. Favorite Scent: Woodsmoke on a cool day

11. Favorite Color: Olive green

12. Favorite Animal: raven

13. Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: ahh its a tie between coffee and tea but if a have to pick I’ll say coffee? ☕

14. Average Hours of Sleep: probably 9-10, but lately I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night

15: Favorite Fictional Characters: probably Egwene and Aviendha (i think that’s how it’s spelled) from the Wheel of Time

16. Dream Trip: I honestly haven’t thought about it

17. Blog Created: umm, 2 -ish years ago

18. Favorite Subject: currently its either history or medical terminology

19. Hogwarts House: I just took it cause I didn't remember and apparently I'm a slytherin?

20 Favorite Artists: Currently I’m listening to a lot of Madison Beer and Bea Miller, but I also love Panic! at the Disco

I tag:

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Rape Escape

  • Easy and very effective
  • Requires nothing but your body
  • Includes attack

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

Worth watching

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this. 

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot 

and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be

useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.

This is one of the first moves I was taught in Krav Maga, and it is one of the most effective.

It took me about a half hour to get down with practice, but once you get it, it’s an intuitive movement.

Please pass this along, it will save lives.

Important

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Please reblog this.

Please, if you see this, Reblog it. 

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If you see this, reblog please.

not witchy but definitely worth watching, stay safe

Always signal boost. Stay safe everyone.

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WATCH THIS SHIT!! It’s easy, and it’s important. Please, please stay safe

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I don’t care if it doesn’t match your “theme” or whatever, this could save someone from a lifetime of psychological trauma, PLEASE reblog it!!!

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read it could save you

I don’t know if this post has been made yet but I just want to warn everybody that if someone stops you in a parking lot and asks you if you’re interested in some perfume and hands you a paper to smell, PLEASE DON’T SMELL IT.

i repeat, DON’T SMELL IT.

Apparently the sample papers are being laced with a drug to knock you out. Please signal boost this. It can save someone’s life!

IMPORTANT

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please repost to save people idc if “its not my blog type” jUST DO IT

please

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How is you guys Thanksgiving break going?

These are some anatomical direction notes. I dont really get a break because of my homeschool program, but I have gotten to hang out with my public school friends more.

We made gluten free bread (I'm gluten intolerant) and I'm LIVING for it. And it was actually reasonably priced compared to most gluten free bread.

#student#studyblr#study motivation#study notes#studyspo#studyinspo#studyspiration#handwriting#my notes#notes#science#students#study hacks#study tips#studysthetics#studytime#medical#medicine
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so Paradise California is gone

i haven’t seen any noise about this on tumblr yet, but a fire has completely wiped out a small town in california.

they’re calling it the camp fire. over 20,000 residents have been evacuated so far, the last area estimates i heard were over an hour ago at 18,000 acres and its still zero percent contained.

this is the smoke from about 18 miles away from the fire three hours ago. if you know anyone near chico, paradise, oroville or durham california you might want to check they’re okay

UPDATE: 4PM FRI NOV. 9, 2018

the fire has completely walked over paradise, magalia, and much of the rest of butte county. it’s under 10% containment and moving towards chico, which was been mostly evacuated as well. it’s been documented as one of the top 20 deadliest fires seen in california. i know many of the people personally whose lives have been destroyed by this fire. my aunt and uncle’s home, of whom we’re very close to, was demolished last night, same goes for family friends and others who lived in paradise– which is completely gone. there are 5 confirmed deaths, several dozen missing people.

EVACUATION SITES STILL OPEN AS OF 1 HOUR AGO:

  • Butte County Fairgrounds (199 E Hazel St, Gridley, CA 95948)
  • Yuba-Sutter Fairground (442 Franklin Ave, Yuba City, CA 95991)
  • Glenn County Fairgrounds (221 E Yolo St, Orland, CA 95963)
  • Chester Memorial Hall (22 Gay Street, Chester)

HOW TO HELP/DONATE:

  1. “Currently the best way to contribute is to make a monetary donation via the North Valley Community Foundation website.” -abc7news.com
  2. “Supplies: Hope Center in Oroville (1950 Kitrick Ave Ste. A) is taking donations. Hours: Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Needs: warm clothes, shoes, socks, coats (primarily for elderly residents).” -abc7news.com

the majority of those affected by the fire in paradise were elderly people. and having known paradise and magalia myself for years, it’s not a wealthy part of california. these people will need help, and lots of it.

if you have any questions, you can message me personally or seek information online or from the above references personally.

if you cannot help yourself, please spread the word and reblog. so many wonderful people are going through a terrible thing and need your help.

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Hey guys, I'm finally back after ages! Some updates:I started homeschool about a month ago due to some mental health issues, and so far I'm loving it. I have so much more time to watercolor and take pretty notes. These are from a medical terminology class that I'm taking.

It is SO COLD outside. The temperatures have been record breakingly (is that even a word) low and the sky has been grey for over a week now.

#student#studyblr#study motivation#study notes#studyspo#studyinspo#studyspiration#handwriting#my notes#notes#students#study hacks#study tips#studysthetics#studytime
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