The Truth About How to Write Your Resume

The Truth About How to Write Your ResumeWriting your resume is not something that a lot of people think about when they are trying to get a job. Many people just hire people who can write their resumes so they don't have to think about it. But before you go and use any other person's resume or just cut and paste any words from an email, keep in mind that you have the right to do this so that you don't put yourself at a disadvantage when it comes to getting your dream job.Resumes should not be your only way of getting a job but instead it should be one of the many ways. It may take you a while to get where you want to be because a lot of people make the mistake of putting their resume in a pile with all the others and never look at it again. But after that, once they see that it got some results and they received an interview or two, they start putting it into action again.When writing your resume, you should first look at how your previous experiences have helped you build your prese nt experience. It is a good idea to check out your resume and see if it includes your qualifications and accomplishments that made you stand out from other applicants.By looking at your previous resume, you will be able to determine what the most important aspects of your previous career were. You can put this information in your resume as much as possible so that it does not feel like a bunch of garbage. At the same time, your employer will also know that you are serious about your job search.With your experience, you can include your job experiences as much as possible. This will make it easier for you to put in the major points that you feel are worth including in your resume. This is especially true if you have more than one job.Writing your resume includes thinking about the qualities that you think are important in any particular job. By taking a close look at your work experiences, you will be able to see if you need to include any skills, achievements or other significant ab ilities that are a part of what makes you such a great candidate for a particular job.When writing your resume, you should keep in mind that it is not just your personal qualifications that are important, but rather what you can contribute to your prospective employer. You can include what you can do for them by having relevant experience in your resume.

Hawaiis Teachers Are Struggling to Keep Up With the Cost of Living

Hawaii's Teachers Are Struggling to Keep Up With the Cost of Living To return to Hawaii, Reene Hatakeyama took a $15,000 pay cut. The elementary school teacher with more than a decade of experience had been working in Washington for her whole career, but, upon having children, she felt the urge to return home to Hawaii â€" closer to family and closer to her native Hawaiian culture. But a similar job in Hawaii meant thousands off her paycheck. Her family moved from a three-bedroom home in Washington to a 700-square-foot apartment in Maui, with the same average monthly mortgage payment and monthly rent of $1,500. A year after she returned to Hawaii, she altered the trajectory of her career, leaving her 10-month-a-year classroom job for a 12-month-a-year curriculum coordinating job to earn slightly more a year â€" but still about $5,000 less than her teaching gig in Washington. And from Maui, she watched teachers in Washington earn higher wages â€" further widening the gap between what she could be making there and what she makes now. Hatakeyama’s experience reflects many of those seen by other educators in Hawaii as they struggle to make ends meet in a state where the median home price is $800,000 and 48% of publicly educated students are considered economically disadvantaged, according to the state’s Department of Education. Ranked as the worst state for teachers based on a number of factors in a recent study from WalletHub, Hawaii is suffering from a demonstrable teacher shortage crisis â€" one that has increased class sizes and, in turn, placed a third of students in classrooms taught by long-term substitutes or emergency hires. Educators are teaching with outdated textbooks, insufficient supplies, and dealing with hefty shipping costs they often have to front themselves. “The lower income affects everything: what our children have access to, what our teachers have access to. Just paying teachers better so that we’d at least attract and retain teachers, make our class sizes smaller â€" I could go on and on,” Hatakeyma, speaking to MONEY from her office where she was working during a fall break holiday, says. “We are so far behind.” The Hawaii State Teachers Association, the union that represents 13,000 teachers in the state, has been fighting for more funding for years. They have proposed different funding mechanisms and bills to the state legislature year after year, offering solutions and alternatives, with no avail. This month, the teachers may have had their biggest disappointment yet. The Hawaii Supreme Court removed the union’s proposed constitutional amendment from the November ballot after critics slammed its vague language. The amendment would have, ideally, paved the way for a property tax on second homes worth $1 million or more that would have gone directly toward public education funding. “We think of stuff in Hawaii as paradise, but the hard part is our education system, unfortunately, is underfunded and creating huge problems for creating education opportunities for our students,” says Corey Rosenlee, the president of the HSTA and a social studies teacher in Oahu. Critics worried the constitutional amendment would spur property tax hikes for middle-class families and make Hawaii’s already expensive housing market even worse. Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that does not fund public education, in part, by property taxes, and the union had estimated that introducing this amendment specifically would have brought in hundreds of millions more a year to the state’s school system. The decision abruptly ended months of campaigning and canvassing for teachers. They wrote more than 9,000 pieces of testimony â€" detailing the hardships they’ve endured in their profession â€" for the state legislature to consider. They squeezed in phone calls and on-the-ground work between their classes and second jobs. Educators who spoke with MONEY say they are disappointed voters will no longer get to decide the fate of the funding initiative they spent so long putting together but, they say, the fight will still go on. “We must continue this conversation, and this conversation must lead to results,” Rosenlee says. “The stakes are too high.” After all, teachers in Hawaii aren’t alone. Educators across the country have held walk-outs, protests, and demonstrations over the last year to demand better pay and working conditions. Many have worked second or third jobs to make ends meet, and others have left the profession entirely as a result of low wages. Some are running for office, and others are renting out their homes to be able to afford to live in the cities they teach in. For a variety of reasons, teachers across the country have worked to dispel misconceptions about their jobs and demand better working conditions and pay. Similar ballot initiatives will be considered in states like Utah, Colorado, and Missouri this November â€" but through different kinds of tax hikes. In Colorado, for example, voters are considering a measure that would increase the state’s corporate tax rate and create a graduated income tax for residents earning $150,000 a year or more. But teachers in Hawaii will have to keep working to get any kind of ballot initiative considered. On a national level, teachers in Hawaii find it hard to explain their plight, especially as millions of tourists flock to the islands each year for vacation and idealize the state for its tropical beaches. Recent estimates from the National Education Association show Hawaii teachers earn, on average, $56,049 â€" a figure that places them in the middle of the pack for teachers nationwide, too. But educators say that’s not enough to afford to live there â€" and Hawaii’s steep cost of living is a large reason why WalletHub ranked it the worst state for teachers. “People say it’s the price of paradise,” says Lisa Morrison, a student activities coordinator at a middle school in Maui. “But you don’t find teachers on the beach grading papers.” Teachers from Keaau Elementary School in Hilo on Hawaii’s Big Island campaigned for the constitutional amendment before school in October 2018. Courtesy of the Hawaii State Teachers Association The state’s education system has seen a 61% increase in teacher vacancies since 2010, says Rosenlee, the union president. With just one school district across the entire state, teachers who spoke with MONEY say they feel limited in their options. And some public school teachers feel undervalued, in part due to the state’s historically high percentage of private school enrollment. (Honolulu was the second-highest city in the country for private school enrollment, according to 2014 research from Trulia.) The issues come amid decades of hardship for teachers and students, perhaps best seen in 2009 when a state budget crisis led to a furlough program that shortened the school week to four days, prompting uproar from parents and residents. “Simply being able to afford a place to live and a certain quality of life? That’s not the worst thing for a teacher to want,” Morrison adds. “When teachers are struggling to be able to continue in their profession, we have the one job where it directly affects children. If we’re not around, who else is going to do it?” With damaged buildings and outdated facilities that could take years to fix, teachers in Hawaii want better funding to improve the classroom environment for their students. Logan Okita, HSTA’s secretary-treasurer and a first-grade teacher in Oahu, says she looks out her window each day to see a playground that has been out of commission at her school for five out of the six years she has worked there. Working under these conditions â€" while pushing for better funding â€" is exhausting, she says, but “because it’s for our students and it improves their learning conditions, it’s a battle worth fighting.” Despite opposition to the constitutional amendment from business groups and the state’s four counties, the effort to spread awareness did make an impact: most residents agree schools should get more funding, in one way or another, teachers and state lawmakers say. That includes the constitutional amendment’s strongest opponents, the Affordable Hawaii Coalition, which formed with the purpose of taking this initiative off the ballot. The next steps are unclear, and instituting any kind of additional or heightened tax in the future is sure to face pushback. The state’s governor says he will be looking at “all” funding options to better aid public schools, and state Superintendent Christina Kishimoto says Hawaii’s Board of Education and Department of Education will use a third party to conduct research on salary compensation for teachers adjusted for the state’s cost of living to better put their earnings in perspective. “The better our schools are going to be, the better our future is going to be,” says Sarah Tochiki, a band teacher in Kauai who spent at least an hour a day canvassing for the constitutional amendment. “There could be a cure for cancer sitting in one of our classrooms. Or the next Einstein. Or the next Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We have to be giving them the best education we can.” For now, it’s back to the drawing board. This post was updated to clarify the amount of money HTSA’s proposal would have brought in for Hawaii’s school system.

How To Cancel An Interview - Work It Daily

How To Cancel An Interview - Work It Daily In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a growing complaint among my friends who are small business owners. They’ve experienced an increase in candidates not showing for interviews or cancelling an interview at the last minute with wacky excuses. Related: How To Answer: Where Else Are You Interviewing? Knowing how to cancel an interview is important if you don't want to burn bridges. If you have been invited for an interview, but can’t attend for some reason, take the following steps to ensure that you don’t ruin your chances at future employment. Contact Them ASAP As soon as you know you won’t be able to interview, contact your recruiter or the person who set-up the meeting. Most recruiters and hiring managers are understanding enough to realize that life happens and it sometimes gets in the way of even the best intentions. If possible, try to reach the person in multiple ways, via phone and e-mail, to ensure that your message is received. Politely request that the person call or e-mail you back with confirmation that your message was received. Be Honest There’s probably a legitimate reason why you can’t attend the interview at the established time. Be honest and convey that message. If your reason is legitimate, there’s probably a good chance that the interview can be rescheduled at a more convenient time. There’s really not a need to make up excuses or tell lies. Your honesty does not need to include specific details about an illness or family emergency. In fact, most interviewers won’t want to know the specific reason, especially if it’s something personal or medical-related. Apologize And Move Forward Recognize that you are causing an inconvenience, apologize, and determine next steps. If you still want an opportunity to be considered for the job, end your conversation by asking about setting up an alternate interview time. If you’ve been fortunate enough to obtain a new position with another employer before the interview, it’s still best to call and share that information with the recruiter or hiring manager. No shows are very frustrating because the interviewers have blocked time on their calendars to meet with you. If you aren’t interested in being considered for the position any longer, you can help the employer by allowing them to resume the recruiting and interviewing process. Furthermore, there may be a time in the future that you will again want to be considered for a position with that employer. If that’s the case, it’s best to handle interview cancellations professionally and with tact. Many companies maintain candidate files and would be able to refer back if you re-submit a resume or application for consideration. If you’ve blown off an interview once, it could hurt your chances of being asked to interview again in the future. Related Posts Information You Must Have Before Your Interview The Secret To Acing A Job Interview How To Handle Tough Interview Questions   Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!