Career Journal Articles

After reading through a couple of articles and getting different opinions on ideas, I have found that being honest is the most important thing to do. I feel like people get so worried about not being good enough, so they fabricate on their resumes, making them completely false. I think because expectations and competition is getting so high, people may feel the need to tell a small lie, which then falsifies the resume.
I also think that the article describing certain things that made resumes stand out was very interesting. Small things like using a glossy, more sturdy paper makes the world of difference. Standing out in a classy way is very important without being over the top.
Overall, I think that true statements and information is much more important than anything else. Simply keeping resumes traditional and classy is the best way to go, in my opinion.

Career Journal Thoughts

I really did enjoy reading the articles on interviewing and college. The first article in the selection that I read, I found surprisingly true! College is not all about what you learned in the classroom, it is how you learned and lived during the four years. Being able to manage odd hours and multi, multi, multitasking! This is so very true because I never thought that I would be able to do so many things at once and many times, I never even realize how many things I am getting accomplished.
I also found the article about being prepared for any question very interesting. I always thought if I were to be asked the wrong question, it would completely throw me off and ruin any chance of getting the job. The article went on to explain how you can twist the question to make sure that you get your point across (by not ignoring the question). I found this to be very useful for my future interviews and it will make me not worry so much about being correct for every, single question asked.
There really was not any advice that I disagreed upon. It was mostly very opinionated, but I found a lot of it to be true and helpful. For the most part, all job interviewing is very similar and follows a lot of the same guidelines. However, I see how each interview would vary a little depending on the job position desired.This needs to be kept in mind before going into the interview.

My life in ten years from now...

Even though it is hard to comprehend where I will be in ten years from now, I have many expectations and hopes in my future. In ten years, I will be thirty years old and out of college for nine years. I hope to have begun a successful career as an event planner in Charleston, South Carolina. I plan on being married with children at this point (scary, I know). I believe that family is the most important thing in life and this is why having children in ten years is very meaningful to me. I want to still be in South Carolina with my family because staying close is very important to me. I want my parents to be very involved in my life still, as well as my childrens' lives. I believe that keeping a very family-oriented life is very important and it means alot to me to be able to be with my family as much as possible.
I hope to be a busy and successful event planner. I think this would require establishing myself before having children. This is important to me because I will want to be with family as much as possible without having to work all of the time.

Web 2.0

Now, I'd like you to respond. What do you think the title of the video means? How does Web 2.0 affect someone who is ready to enter the workforce? How does it affect people who are already in the workforce? What do you think it means when it says that we will have to rethink everything?

I think that the title Web 2.0 is trying to explain how technology and all of its advances are taking over how we live our lives. Technology and the internet especially have come so far in the recent years, it has been almost difficult to keep up with. People have become totally dependent on their "gadgets" to get through each day normally. I think that this was shown in the video also because we are so dependent on technology and it is so dependent on us. I think that Web 2.0 affects people who are entering the workforce because to be "up-to-date", one has to be able to use technology. Almost any job would require someone to be contacted through e-mail or a cell phone. It also affects people who are in the workforce, because they have to be able to know how to adapt and advance to all of the changes. I think that we have to rethink everything constantly just because the web and technology, in general, is always changing and becoming more advanced. We have to always be able to adapt to new ideas. We also have to think of how different life was five years ago and how much more different it will be five years in the future. We need to constantly be rethinking the possibilities.