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 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.

6 Tips to Prepare You For College

College is a big commitment, and it's important to succeed. However, so many college students have trouble adjusting to the workload and the environment, that they simply  don’t thrive in their first semesters of college. 

I see so many people really have a hard time because they couldn’t find a document that they left on their dresser, or they can’t adjust to the new responsibilities. Don’t let yourself get left behind. 

A lot of the struggling that students deal with comes from not being prepared, so here are my tips for preparing for college!

READ. A LOT.

I know, it’s not exactly what you may want to do, but I’m not talking about classic literature. Read anything, current news, long-form journalism, current books, ANYTHING. 

One of the most essential skills you need is reading comprehension. A lot of the workload you’ll receive comes from reading a few chapters from your textbook a night and being able to retain that information. 

If you have discussion classes, chances are you need to read what you’ll be discussing first. 

The more you read, the better you’ll get at it. Read as much material as you can, soon enough, you’ll be able to read a 30 page chapter in 20 minutes with full comprehension.

PUT A LOT ON YOUR PLATE.

Trust me. Being in college means having to do lots of things like clubs, sports, and work ON TOP of your academics and social life. Putting a lot on you plate now will help you be able to manage your time better in school. 

Time management is something that is much easier to learn by doing. Sure, you might feel like you’re drowning sometimes because you haven’t slept in three days and you still have two essays to write, but, just consider it part of the learning process.

Putting a lot on your plate also makes you manage your money better too. Allocate funds towards priorities, try to save a little, and remember that a social life isn’t free. 

WRITE. A LOT.

Another skill that is crucial in college is writing. You need to be able to effectively convey thoughts and ideas in your writing. 

Make your life easier, and don't get stuck on writing. College requires a lot of writing, especially essays. Master writing a thesis, master writing with detail, master citing your sources. 

You can really easily work on your writing skills by just writing a short journal everyday. Not necessarily a diary, but just a story, something that interests you, an idea. Just write something.

GET ORGANIZED.

I’m sure you’re heard this before, but you have to be able to manage a lot of things at once in college. Your education will require effective notes, physical organization, and digital organization.

Your notes are your key to success in college. You will use them to study, you will use them to be able to actually understand the content better, and you’ll be able to use them for reference. Make sure they’re legible, but not too wordy, and that they get the point across in a way that you can understand. 

Your physical organization is more of keeping track where everything is. You don’t need to have an impeccable desk area, but you do need to have all your books, notes, papers, and things in a place where you can find them. 

Digital organization is more important now than it ever has been before. Your computer, or whatever drive you use, will let you create folders. USE THEM. I cannot stress this enough. Keep your school work separate from your other photos or documents. Don’t save everything to your desktop. Make sure the document is easy to find and edit. 

LOOK AT YOUR CREDITS.

I made the mistake of taking AP Literature my senior year of high school when I could have taken English 101 and 102. It would have been fine, but my university does not accept AP Lit as credit, so I have to take the class I could have taken in high school. 

Chances are, your high school won’t charge you by the credit hour. Colleges do. Stock up on lots of college and AP credits, and make sure they’ll transfer!!!

GET A PLANNER.

Digital or print. Keep all your homework and work schedules and club meetings in one place. It makes it a million times easier to not let assignments fall through the cracks if you do this. 

Go through all your syllabuses and put in every single assignment and due dates through the rest of the semester. 

Planners make it easy to see tasks and to use your time to accomplish those before they're due.