5 Tips To Boost Your Resume

Looking for résumé help? This may help you!

• Join a club
  • Yes, okay, I’m sure this has been said over and over again to you: Join. A. Club. Clubs are an easy way to get leadership experience, and they almost always will offer opportunities to you. 
  • Pretty much all clubs, even the ones with many members, need someone to step up and take responsibility. Most clubs have high membership right off the bat, leading each semester with a lot of members, and then struggling for involvement toward the end. Stick it out. After a semester or two, inquire about a leadership position, and then make sure you work hard at it. It’s just as valuable as a job, and often gives you more relevant experience.
• Get a job (Yes, even a student-worker position)
  • Even though you may start as just a desk assistant, tutor, or dishwasher, you can easily move up the food chain with these sort of things. You can start low as a student worker, and get higher into more corporate-like positions (Résumé boost!!).
• Volunteer
  • If you volunteer, you likely won’t be turned away. Also, you’ll be doing something that allows potential employers to see your philanthropic and caring side. Volunteering is not only easy, it impacts so many aspects of your life and the life of others. 
• Showcase projects you’ve accomplished or are proud of 
  • Especially if you don’t have a whole lot of work experience, use projects that you’ve done (professionally, personally, or in your education). These projects show how hard you work, and give the employer of your passions and quality of work. These can be especially helpful in interviews, or maybe, a cool project may just stick in their mind and make you more recognizable. Even relevent course work can be a resume filler!
• Tailor your résumé to the job
  • Every single person to give you tips on a résumé has probably told you this. Look at buzz-words in the job description, and fit those into your résumé so that a computer won’t automatically take you out of the running for a job you’re totally qualified for. 
  • Make sure you put your most relevant experience on your résumé! If you worked in PR 3 years ago, and you’re applying for a PR job now, put the relevant experience on your résumé! Regardless of what you’ve been doing between now and then (Don’t forget the rest of your résumé, just find a place to fit it in!)

Why I chose the iPhone 7

Many people don’t like the iPhone 7. Here’s why I do.

Maybe I’m just following the bandwagon or the latest trend, but I have been highly anticipating the iPhone 7 release. 

If you read this blog, you’ll know I’m a bit obsessive in my research. I discovered that pretty much everyone who had speculated the design of the upcoming iPhone predicted 2 things: no headphone jack, water resistance. At least I was prepared for the news.

The first reason I chose to get the iPhone 7 was because of the water resistance. I, like many of you (unless you’re all amazing super humans, which I guess is possible) have dropped an electronic device in the toilet. I just forgot it was in my pocket, and there it ended up, in the bottom of the bowl. So the insurance of having a water resistant phone is a HUGE relief.

The second reason I chose to get the iPhone 7 was because I wanted to see if the design of the 6 was tested and true, primarily the size. I really loved the size of the iPhone 5. However, I’ve seen a lot of positive response to the bigger size phones and I’m ready to give it a try. Since the 7 has the same dimensions at the 6, I figure that I’ll take the risk. 

The third reason I chose to get the iPhone 7 is because of the battery life. I am so tired of having to charge my phone more than once a day! I just want to be able to charge it at night, and have it last me until the next night. 

The fourth reason I chose to get the iPhone 7 is because I really NEED a new phone. My current phone doesn’t have a home button because it broke off, the glass is not just cracked, it is falling out in chunks. If you guys really want, I’ll post a picture, but to be honest, I’m pretty ashamed of the current state of my phone. So, if you want to see the mess that my current phone is, comment below!

Finally, the reason that I’m choosing the iPhone 7 is because I like that there’s no headphone jack. I know people probably disagree with me, but that’s fine. I think that the wires from traditional headphones are annoying and get in the way. I’m excited to get my Bluetooth headphones and to be able to have my phone anywhere and not have it all be a pain.

Comment your thoughts on the iPhone 7 below! What do you like about it? What don’t you like?

P.S. My phone just came in! I'll do an unboxing post soon!

screaming IN ALL CAPS

Why I Started a Blog

So I figured that I should let everyone who may or may not be following this blog’s progress know why it was even created!

screaming IN ALL CAPS was born because I’m a bit obsessive.

I love planning things, I love searching Pinterest for inspiration, and I absolutely love putting all my plans in action and watching them play out.

I spent hours planning exactly how I was going to decorate my dorm in a way that had my style, and fit in my budget. All in all, after hours of research and Pinspiration,  I think I only spent about $100 in total with my complete dorm decoration. 

I’m not even engaged and I already have my entire dream wedding planned out for (hypothetically☺) less than $1500 as well. (I’ll make a post about what I want and have planned out, just in case anyone who is a little closer to it than me can have my information and research. We gotta help each other out!)

The real catalyst to my blog adventure was some free fonts I found on Pinterest. I started making cute edited photos and text with cursive and block text and the dream was born.

I chose the name because one of the fonts was called “screaming in color.” I really liked that, but, as you may guess, it was taken. 

Then I started experimenting with upper case v. lower case in these edited photos and it hit me. 

I am constantly typing my text messages in all caps to show my enthusiasm, so I figured that I could bring that here as well. 

That day, 

screaming IN ALL CAPS 

was born.