Part 3: Creating that killer résumé for yourself **FREE SAMPLE**
Here’s how to create the Holy Grail of résumés…one perfect page…for yourself.
Download the .pdf file (scroll to end of this article) and either print it out or keep it on screen for reference. The example has a list of numbers, 1 through 14, each corresponding to an arrow. This is what you need to know to make your own résumé this user-friendly.
1. This entire section is in the document Header. It helps conserve space Read more…
Part 2: Analyzing your résumé: find the good, change the bad, throw out the ugly
In the years that I reviewed and prepared résumés for people, the most common format brought to my office was what is known as the “chron” or “chronological” résumé. This basically has your name and contact information stacked at the top of the page beneath the word “resume” then shows your education history in chronological order followed by your employment history, also in chronological order and with a paragraph or more about each job. Some if these Read more…
I was wrong and I will be the first to admit it. When Scott proposed that we take this our Illinois-to-Colorado vacation in an RV I was more than a little bit hesitant. This gigantic apartment on wheels belonged to my now deceased father-in-law and since my surviving mother-in-law does not drive, it just sat helplessly on their driveway for the past few years.
This thing is a monster. Long and sleek, featuring a bathroom with shower, full bed, couch, microwave, air conditioning, flat screen TV, DVD player and more. Far from roughing Read more…
“The Bible commands us to forgive others when they have wronged us and to seek forgiveness when we have wronged others. We must do this to follow the example of God, who extends to us the ultimate pardon– forgiveness of our sins.”
Can any sin be forgiven? We think that there must be some sin too great to be forgiven.
“Any anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”…. Joel 2:32
“Forgiveness is not based on the magnitude of the sin, but the magnitude of the forgiver’s love. No sin is Read more…
“Dad Lured Son Home, Then Shot Him”
This is the headline I am confronted with as I peruse online news sources hoping for a Michael Jackson tidbit, or something about Michelle Obama’s new shoes. Violence has been a part of American society for an eternity, but it seems that in recent months people are more apt to act out violently towards their own loved ones. In some cases, it is a result of helplessness and misery over the recent economic crisis that continues to cast a shadow over this great country. People that don’t want to go down alone, opt to take everyone dear with them. Read more…
Rushing rushing everywhere. We rush like rats in a maze. Life is so short yet we chase that almighty dollar right to an early grave. Is it really all worth it.
Yet there are those amongst us that take disability or welfare who are healthy enough to stop living off my dime. It infuriates me to see those much younger than me who set on their behinds smoking dope and churning out kids by the number. They never give one thought to where their handout comes from or who suffers for their Read More...
The overpackaging of America started back when we had the Tylenol scare, but it didn’t end there. Over the decades since then, manufacturers have gotten carried away with too much package protection. You say there can never be too much, well look at any landfill and see if you still think that way.
We are becoming a plasticized society and it’s not going away when we throw it away. Plastic isn’t biodegradable, it lingers for more years than the dinosaurs did. It will continue to linger longer than nuclear fallout, it’s not Read more…
When I was a very young child, poverty was all I knew. I didn’t wish we were rich and I didn’t yearn for the latest toy I seen on T.V. We had no T.V. most of the time. Everything I knew about MY life was just normal life in general for ANYONE as far as I knew. It Read More...
The following is an actual conversation I had at the post office last week:
Me: “I’d like to send this package.”
Postmaster: “How would you like to send it?”
M: Which ever way is cheapest.
P: Express mail is $33.95, Priority is $13.50
M: What about Read More...
This is a narrative of a (mostly) true incident right before I left home for college (700,000+ miles away) the first time.
I noticed Angels doesn’t seem to have many stories of a narrative style, and since mine isn’t the average first-time-leaving-home story, I Read More...
“Thank you for marrying me again”: (Fifth of five instalments)
And so, on our fifth wedding anniversary, we are now officially married in the customs of his family and culture. In the back of his mother’s Mercedes, we are driven by his brother to the home of a maternal aunt and uncle where the wedding feast is to take place. Because we continue to be blessed with gentle rain, the original idea of having the meal outside has been scrapped in favour of inside. His grandmother has Read More...
I met my husband on the internet. Some of us think this is a cheesy way for desperate women to meet a man, but I think it’s better than meeting some liquored-up playa in a club where you can’t have a decent…or sober…conversation with the man to see what kind of person he is.
Meeting a man on line can offer you a considerable amount of freedom in exploring the man and whether or not he is worth your time to eventually meet. If you’d like to use the Internet to see if Mr. Right Read More...
I am an American and I live in South Africa. Happily.
There, I’ve said it…I have abandoned the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, and I have not had a minute’s regret since doing so. Well…actually, when I discovered there was no Dr Pepper or PeptoBismol here, I did have a twinge…
Anyway, in 2003 I decided to sell my house, pack up the trappings and accumulations of more than 50 years on this planet (after massive garage sales and multiple eBay Read More...
Part 4 of 5
Our primary purpose for this ceremony was for the tying of the thali, the wedding necklace. In the Tamil culture (the Indian ethnic group to which most South African Indians belong), the tying of the thali is the single most important part of the marriage ritual. It is Read More...
Look in anyones eyes and you will find a storied lifetime. Most are ones you’d love to read, while others are monsters best left in the dark. Wild eyed enthusiasm should never be mistaken for the wild eyes of a junkie.
Being an apartment manager one gets to see all kinds, but the worst is the tenant that makes demands while looking upon you with judgmental eyes. We have one like this. It’s obvious from the amount of traffic that goes in and out all day and night that these Read More...
When we were to be first married in California, I tried to incorporate something of my soon-to-be husband’s culture into the day. He was, after all, half a world away from his family on this most important day. I therefore asked him to find an “auspicious” day for our marriage, an Read More...
My father is a hoot. Born in 1926 in rural Iowa, he grew up on a farm in Oregon before the rural areas were electrified. After a decade or two in the Big City, he’s been back on the farm, now cosily fortified with satellite TV, a deep well with a fast pump, and all the electric lights he could ever want, for better than 20 years now.Read More...
So, it rained the whole time we were in Part 1 of 5
Well, we are back from Durban, Hubby is out of the hospital, I am mostly over my flu and subsequent head cold, and can again face the blank white screen and blinking cursor without feeling like I have to lay down for a few minutes. And yes, by the customs of my husband’s Hindu faith and culture, we are now officially wed.
We live in Cape Town, South Africa, and Hubby’s family lives in Durban, about two hours away by plane. Our wedding saga begins at the Cape Town Read More...
As a plumpish widow in my early fifties and possessing no illusions about my allure on the dating circuit, I decided to place a personal ad. I wasn’t happy with the dating sites as they were too structured for my taste…and too crass, so I opted for placing a carefully crafted ad…sans photo, as I did not want to be Read More...
