Sunday, September 21, 2008

Cover Letter Tutorial

This tutorial helped me out ALOT! I did not understand what was needed on the cover letter before I read this tutorial. I agreed with most of the advice that was given. However I did not like the fact that they say to handwrite your P.S. That just seems to me that that would be a turn off because something was handwritten on your cover letter to your resume. I feel like companies would find it unprofessional. But thats just what I think.

The most useful part of the tutorial for me was the part that talked about making it meet the companies needs and not your own. I thought that the cover letter was supposed to talk about me. I did not know that I had to write about how I can make their company better. The PS idea is a good one too but not handwritten. I would type it. I think that it would still get their attention. I also did not know that putting a cover letter on a mass sent resume would not help at all. So I feel that these tutorials were a great idea, otherwise I would not be getting a job.

Job Interview Articles

The first article that I read was titled "How to Deal with Interview Stress". I read this one because I am the worst when it comes to interviews. I hate being interviewed because it makes me a nervous wreck and I do not know what to say. This article helped me by preparing me to deal with my preinterview stress and the nervousness that comes during the interview. The second article that I read was titled "Phone Interviews: How to Get Called Back". I read this article because I will most likely be dealing with alot of phone interviews because I will be looking for jobs all over the country and will not be able to go to every state that I apply for a job to get to an interview. This article taught me how to prepare for phone interviews and what to do while I am being interviewed. It also told me where to go to keep distractions to a minimum because I am easily distracted while I am on the phone.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

My life in 10 years

I will be done with my undergraduate degree in May of 2009. I have an idea of what I want to do. I want to work with law enforcement and animal rescue; something with cruelty investigation as well. Ever watched animal cops in houston texas on animal planet? Thats somewhat of what I want to do. I am a strong believer that animals deserve to be well treated and live a happy life with a human family that loves them. I am not by any means an animals rights person because I do love to eat meat and wear leather. I believe most animals were put on this earth for us to eat. I care about the ones who show us undying love and companionship.. I want to stand up for them when they cannot. I want to do an internship with the humane society in houston this summer after I graduate.

If all that falls through I want to work on a horse farm or ranch out west in wyoming or montana. I want to be the breeding manager of the horse part of the ranch, but will still be apart of the cattle side such as cattle drives and calving season. I would also like to have a husband and a family sometime in the next ten years, but if that does not happen by then, then its not the end of the world. I would like to have a steady job before settling down. I would also like to do some traveling before I settle down with a family, whether it be just myself or with my future husband. I do not have high expectations for my life, I just want to be happy doing what I love most.