A Career Center at UC Berkeley Can Help You Land Your Dream Job

A Career Center at UC Berkeley Can Help You Land Your Dream JobIf you want to know how to write a resume that will land you the job of your dreams, then look no further than your career center at the University of California Berkeley. There, students who are interested in getting a job in their chosen field will be able to get professional training and education to help them get on the right track towards their goals.One thing that they can do is to attend seminars on different ideas of the course. The best thing about these seminars is that they will give you the best pointers to put into practice the best resume writing tips you need to have. At times, they can be free and help you do the research that you need to do to find out the best materials on resume writing.To help the students that attend the career center that the University of California Berkeley, find jobs, it offers several different training courses. These courses can also be taken online and will help the students in coming up with the resume tips to get hired.At the online session, students can learn how to make the best use of the internet, how to market themselves online and gain exposure. They can also be taught the importance of having a blog. The blogs can be used as tools to earn more from their profession or from a small business.The career center's seminar can also be an eye-opener to the students because the seminars give them great advice that will help them come up with the perfect resume. For instance, at times, students can come up with a resume for a successful president who has not done anything especially if that candidate has not even been a member of any chamber of commerce yet.These days, more students are attending the online seminars offered by the career center. This is because the students, especially the students from around the globe, can now use this Internet to communicate and find help from others in finding the best resumes. These are the same professionals that th e schools have trained to serve their students.This means that the students are not going back to school for another year in order to gain a diploma in resume writing but because they simply want to gain some skills to land that job of their dreams. At times, these students do not even have to leave their homes to get that job because employers always prefer candidates who have the ability to generate ideas on their own. This means that resume writing is something that can be learned on the job.

The Write Stuff 2 Friends Open a Stationery Store

The Write Stuff 2 Friends Open a Stationery Store In 2007, Pittsburgh stay-at-home mom Evvy Diamond found herself getting itchy. With two of her three sons getting ready for college, she felt it was time for her to earn an income. Meanwhile, her friend Amy Bass, a VP at a money-management firm, was hitting a midlife crisis: “As I approached 50, I decided I could no longer work for someone else. I needed to own something.” In time, the two friends’ goals would align. As Diamond pondered what to do, she recalled her love of notepaper. “Even as a child, I would save the last piece of stationery of every set because I didn’t want to part with it,” she says. Inspired, she bought a letterpress and tried her hand at designing cards. Buoyed by the response from friends, Diamond rented a booth at the 2007 Stationery Show in New York, which landed her several small orders. Then she thought she got her big break: 5,000 cards for a prestigious New York shop. Only that $12,500 order was canceled before she got paid â€" and she was left holding the cards. “I knew I could sell them, but it wasn’t going to happen out of my garage.” Within weeks, she signed a lease for a small retail space nearby, and opened a boutique called Nota Bene to sell made-to-order stationery (her own and others’). Soon Bass began lending a hand after work, and Diamond quickly realized she needed her friend’s business savvy. So they struck a deal: Bass invested $25,000 and signed on as full-time partner. “We’re like two pieces of a puzzle,” Diamond says. The shop makes most of its revenue â€" on track to be $500,000 this year â€" from wedding invitations. But the women found a niche with in-house printing to personalize notecards from vendors like Crane and William Arthur. They’ve also begun stocking items like calendars and pottery, which get people in more regularly. “We found people were coming in for invitations and buying gifts,” Bass says. Nota Bene has plenty of online competition in these areas, but “people still want the personal connection,” notes Diamond. Same goes for the owners. Bass says the greatest reward is when a satisfied client says, “Oh, my gosh, I need to give you a hug.” BY THE NUMBERS Amount needed to start up: $20,000 Diamond’s small initial investment went toward rent, paper, album samples, and fixing up the retail space. She tapped savings from sales generated by her home-based business, along with a line of credit and credit cards. Pay Bass gave up to work for Nota Bene: Six figures Bass and Diamond pay themselves $40,000 salaries and reinvest the rest of their profits. Both have working spouses, so aren’t relying on their pay for groceries. That said, Bass says she’s learned to budget more carefully. Projected annual revenue growth for the next three years: 25% Nota Bene’s owners plan to expand their bridal business by marketing to wedding planners. Some brides spend $10,000 on invitations, programs, and thank-yous. “But we can also work with women who only have $500 to spend and make it feel special,” says Diamond.

Tired Of The Same Old Same Old Try A Franchise! - Work It Daily

Tired Of The Same Old Same Old Try A Franchise! - Work It Daily Are you cruising along in a job that you can do with your eyes closed, maybe even with your hands tied behind your back? Everything is humming, and your industry seems solid. RELATED: Need some career advice? Watch these tutorials! Then, bam! Something happens that shatters all your old assumptions and you start to wonder, what are my options? That’s what happened to Dennis Clouser, of Tampa, Fla., who, as a mechanical engineer, had spent 30 years in the electrical connector industry. His last job with the billion-dollar company ITT Corp. ended abruptly after his division’s largest customer, a military contractor, pulled its business once the federal government imposed massive across-the board cuts as part of “deficit reduction sequestration” in early 2013. At the age of 51, Clouser received a six-month severance package, and the company made classes available to him to help him figure out his next stage. One of those classes introduced him to the option of a franchise. Before long, Clouser lined up another job doing exactly what he had been doing for 30 years. But doubts soon started creeping into his mind. “I thought, is this it?” Clouser recounted. “The hell with it. I’ll take a chance on myself for once instead of doing what I’ve been doing until I die. Maybe I can do something different.” He had a couple of friends with franchises, and he thought, well, if they can do it, maybe he could, too. With the help of a franchise coach, he started doing his research. “101 Mobility really grabbed me,” he said, referring to the franchise that sells mobility equipment, such as stair lifts, auto lifts and ramps to help people with disabilities stay in their homes. “I could help people instead of making bombs to blow them up.” Clousen felt a personal connection to the mission of helping people deal with their mobility issues around the house since two members of his family had suffered amputations that resulted from complications from Diabetes. While Clausen was confident about his mechanical abilities â€" “I can put anything together” â€"when it came to the other aspects of running a business, from bookkeeping to managing payroll and benefits, he felt less sure of himself. That’s where the franchise company’s support really came in handy. “101 is fanatical about opening steps,” he said. “There are biweekly meetings with people in corporate” where they discuss everything from finding a location, negotiating a lease to paying taxes. “They manage you every step of the way,” he said. “I wouldn’t have been able to open without learning what I learned from them.” As part of the preparation process, he talked to franchisees, some of whom were more helpful than others, but he finds the idea of sharing one’s experiences one of the most compelling aspects of having a franchise. For example, he particularly likes the franchise’s new program, “Talk to a Franchise,” where he, now as an existing franchisee, talks to three or four potential franchisees on the phone, and they get the opportunity to ask him whatever questions come to mind. “I’m really blunt with them,” he said. For starters, he tells them starting up a franchise is a lot of work. After two years with his new business, while he acknowledged making some mistakes along the way, he would definitely do it again. The difference is now he’s got total control of his life. And while he knows he may be working until 9 p.m. doing an evaluation of someone’s home, if the water sparkles particularly bright one sunny day, and an empty parking space beckons from St. Pete’s beach, he knows he can take an hour for a swim if he feels like it. Not a bad living. Not bad at all. Related Posts Think You’re Ready For A Franchise Discovery Day? Not So Fast Worried About Starting Your Own Business? Try A Franchise The Image Factor In Buying A Business About the author Ready to make your dream of becoming an entrepreneur come true? Get your free evaluation today! Contact Dan Citrenbaum to help you create the career you’ve always wanted. As a business coach, Dan brings years of experience helping people select and buy a franchise or existing business. You can reach Dan at dcitrenbaum@gmail.com or at (484) 278-5489.   Disclosure: This post is sponsored by a CAREEREALISM-approved expert. You can learn more about expert posts here. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!