Two weeks ago I attended a resume building workshop held by the Starr Career Development Center. I got there early and entered the class as I waited for the presenter to arrive. Well, presenter decided to show up a half an hour late, which was very irritating, but on the other hand I can now put patience on my resume. Well anyway the workshop proved to be useful. During the presentation I learned that it is no longer necessary or necessarily good to have an objective on my resume. I was slightly surprised by that but really relieved. I had learned two years ago that an objective was necessary but I wasn’t good at writing them and hated writing them, so that was some good news for me. Additionally I saw some formatting examples and examples of how to highlight what was important. This was helpful to me because I have a resume that is geared towards a more creative career and I also have one that is geared towards a more corporate or business type of field. My creative resume is well formatted to that area and highlights my skills but my corporate resume is not the greatest and needed some work. The formatting presented to me was more geared towards the corporate side of things so that was very insightful. After seeing that I went home and reformatted my corporate resume and now it is in a much better place than before. Overall despite the late start I gained a lot for this workshop and now all that’s left to do is accept the job offers.
Author: r.clifton
Brooklyn Museum Trip
This past Friday I went to the Brooklyn Museum. I have been going to this museum for as long I can remember. Whenever I have an assignment to do it is my go to, but not just because it is easy to get to. Every time I visit there seems to be a new exhibit that I have not seen before. This time I walked right into the first exhibit that I saw, “The Legacy of Lynching.” The exhibit contained various examples of injustices that occurred in the past. I didn’t have time to look at everything so I skimmed the exhibit to see what stuck out. I stopped by a video of a man that was in jail for thirteen years. I had missed what the crime was but the important thing was that the man stayed in jail or that long only because the court had refuse to re-examine bullets that would hav been proven to not have been his and rendered him innocent. It was later determined that the man was innocent and the judge who had sentenced him was racist, but the man had already served the time. After that I walked around reading quotes and looking at pictures. The thing that caught my attention the most was a quote by Bryan Stevenson that said “Slavery didn’t end in 1865. It evolved.” This surprised me. I already knew that, my family had said the same thing before and I recognized it, but it surprised me to find a public institution echoing the same thing. You always. Hear people say similar things but you never really see a public institution or company taking the risk to say the same thing. Now I’m not saying that thing aren’t better. My life is pretty good and I don’t walk around worrying about getting lynched. That being said the difference between slavery in the past and today is just that today it is more mind game or chess game. For instance in th job world today you can’t be denied a job because off race, but a boss may sneakily give you extra work or not really pay attention to you for a promotion for some miscellaneous reason. The point is that silvery today means that you can’t be whipped but you damn well mentally and socially be beaten. The museum visit wasn’t really fun. It was just validating.