How to Write Retail on a Resume

How to Write Retail on a ResumeIf you're someone who's selling a business online, then this article is going to help you build your resume for the internet, not to mention a great deal more. Here's the gist.The traditional resume is one of the most important parts of your job search, so don't make the mistake of neglecting it. In fact, there are plenty of things that you can do with this list to get a lot of the job done for you. But, there are just some things that you should do on your resume that can make a difference in how well your resume gets displayed and read by potential employers. Consider these tips for writing retail on a resume:First, be aware that placement agencies have almost no discernible effect on the selection process. They can do very little to help you, but you might think that you can influence what they do. Therefore, you should at least include a brief line or two about yourself when you've done work for the agency, but you shouldn't advertise yourself to ma ke a sales pitch for the job.A low-quality resume may sound intimidating and it can be hard to believe that you really have what it takes to get the job. You need to be realistic about how far you have to go. While it may seem like you can't move from that point to the next level, you really can.Online marketing is quite different than the way it was even ten years ago. For one thing, employers want to see exactly what they need to see to make an educated decision about your fit for the job.You need to do online marketing and promotion, including blogs, social media, and even some paid advertising. You'll need to create a web presence, so you need to have a website, and you'need to post your resume on sites like AngelList, LinkedIn, and Guru. If you get your resume published on these sites, people will see it, and they'll find out about you, which will put you ahead of the other candidates.Writing retail on a resume isn't difficult to do. Follow these few tips, and you'll be able to add your resume to that killer resume you're working on, making sure that you get the most out of your job search.

Real Estate 7 People Who Are Living Rent Free

Real Estate 7 People Who Are Living Rent Free If you don’t own your own home, you’re likely feeling the squeeze of what’s become a rental crisis. Rents will grow an average of 4.2% this year, according to a report by the real estate database ATTOM Data Solutions. Worse yet, 62% of the 540 counties the firm analyzed have fair market rents rising faster than average wages. Desperate times call for radical alternatives. Building superintendent and live-in nanny jobs are probably the most obvious routes to free rent â€" but there are other, more unusual ways to trade time and talent for a place to rest your head. Need inspiration? These five households have slashed their monthly housing costs to almost nothing. Singing for Her Supper At Judson Manor, a retirement home on the lip of Cleveland’s “University Circle,” students at the nearby Cleveland Institute of Music get a free private apartment, with a kitchen and bathroom, in exchange for occasional recitals. Since 2010, 18 students have taken Judson up on that offer, according to a spokeswoman. Justine Myers, a graduate-level oboe student and a current “artist in residence” says the arrangement is an intergenerational social experiment of sorts, with young and old mingling over coffee, happy-hour drinks and spontaneous music performances. Myers says she’s also formed lasting, meaningful bonds with her elderly neighbors, one of whom has a dog Myers walks nearly every day. “Music students get really used to living in a bubble,” she says. “You go to your apartment, to your practice room, and repeat. This has expanded my life. I’m a lot less stressed out about being busy and getting things done, because the pace is slower. It kinds of takes you out of yourself. It’s very peaceful.” Babysitting the Millennials Luke Solomon has also scored free rent by providing a service to his household â€" though his fellow residents were of a decidedly different ilk. For a number of years, Solomon lived in a San Francisco “hacker house,” a Victorian mansion converted into dorm-like living housing for budding tech gurus. Solomon, a computer programer, served as the resident advisor (RA) for his house, which was filled with students from a nearby technology bootcamp. Other hacker houses are populated by groups of entrepreneurs, or young engineers. Some have angel investors. The culture is exactly what you’d expect it to be: Young coder types up all night, frantically typing on their laptops, sometimes under a haze of pot smoke. Solomon moved out not long ago, but says it wasn’t a bad experience â€" just very Silicon Valley. “I had to deal with some weird roommate issues,” he says. “One kid wanted to do the ‘Uberman’ sleep schedule, where instead of sleeping at night, you sleep for 20 minutes every three hours. It annoyed his roommates so much, because the alarm kept waking everyone up. It’s an absurd thing to deal with that only happens in San Francisco.” Perma-sitting the Pets In 2014, Shelly and Al McCullough sold most of their belongings, found renters for their home in Canada and flew to Panama. They started out in a short-term rental home â€" but by the time it had expired, the couple had met a slew of English-speaking expats who needed someone to watch over their properties (and pets) while they traveled. For the next 18 months, the McCulloughs bounced from house to house in South America, and eventually back to North America, living for free in exchange for simple tasks like getting mail, tending to outdoor pools, and walking dogs. It was an immersive experience, for better or worse. At the start of their house-sitting career, the couple agreed to watch five dogs and a cat for 10 weeks in a remote village in Nicaragua. They were miles from a town, the water in the house wasn’t drinkable and they were forbidden from using the one car on the property for anything other than emergencies. And yet: “Every morning, we got to watch the sunrise over a crater lake,” Al McCullough says. “It was beautiful.” Hitting the Road To save on rent, some people forgo the idea of home altogether. Two years ago, Charlie Miller and Kam Biehl were living in a Brooklyn apartment that wrapped every sad New York cliche into one dingy room. The ceiling stood inches from their heads. There was no shower, so they had to use a neighbor’s. There was also no oven, so they had to use a hot plate. And it was expensive â€" particularly for what they were getting. Then, the couple bought an RV, putting down $1,000 and financing the rest. “It’s actually kind of a step up,” Miller says. “It’s 8 by 30 feet, which isn’t much smaller than where we were living. And it has a convection oven. And a shower.” It can also take them anywhere. So far, the list includes: British Columbia, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, South Dakota, Pennsylvania â€" and plenty of spots in between. To make ends meet, the couple finds temp jobs at national parks through CoolWorks.com, a job board for seasonal work that includes a category just for “jobs with RV spots.” Usually, those jobs consist of answering phones and assigning camp sites. Sometimes, they’re less glamorous: At Yellowstone National Park, Biehl cleaned 14 toilets every day. Most locations allow the pair to hold down freelance gigs, though, so Biehl can continue working as a sound engineer, and Miller as a photographer. And while the RV isn’t free â€" the couple now pays $275 a month â€" that’s peanuts compared to Brooklyn rents. As of this writing, Miller and Biehl were finishing up a stint in Tucson, Ariz. Money can be tight, and Miller says she misses the sense of community you get from calling one place home. But if you can get used to the transient nature of the lifestyle, and make friends with the “relaxed, outdoorsy” types that live in RV parks (mostly retirees), she says, it’s not half bad. “My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I never really traveled,” she says. “There are ups and downs, but I don’t have any regrets about what we did. I’m living in places I never thought I’d get to see.” Lording It Over the Manor File this last one under “life’s not fair.” New York City has 23 “historic homes,” most of which are open to the public as museums. Roy Fox lives in Kings Manor, one of the grandest of the bunch … for free. About 30 years ago, Fox and his then-wife Mary, who he says has since “had the good sense to leave” him, moved from Pittsburgh to New York. She soon found work restoring the carousel in Prospect Park, and after a chance meeting with her boss, Fox was offered an open caretaker position at the 29-room Queens mansion that once belonged to Rufus King, an early abolitionist and framer of the Constitution. Fox has been living in a renovated apartment on the third floor ever since. He doesn’t get a salary, but with free housing and utilities, he’s able to live comfortably off his pension as a retired radio host. Fox gives occasional tours of the house, he says. But Kings Manor is a city-owned building maintained by the Parks Department, so he’s not responsible for any yard, maintenance, or restoration work. On most days, visitors can find the lifelong history buff in the home’s 4,000-book library (he’s dog-eared some of the pages, he admits). Fox is a lucky man â€" and he knows it. “This is a thrill of a lifetime,” he says. “How often does this kind of thing happen?”

Working From Home Is It The Future - Work It Daily

Working From Home Is It The Future - Work It Daily Last month, the Office for National Statistics of the UK Statistics Authority conducted a study examining the relationship between people commuting to work and their personal well being, with the aim of identifying how time spent commuting and the method of travel affect life satisfaction, the sense that daily activities are worthwhile, and the levels of happiness and anxiety. Poll: Are You More Productive When Working From Home? The research concluded that commuters, on average, have lower life satisfaction scores compared to those who telecommute for work. Commuters also have diminished sense of achievement with their daily activities and higher incidence of anxiety compared to non commuters. Those with travel times lasting between 61 and 90 are the worst off. On average, all four aspects of personal well being mentioned earlier - life satisfaction, job satisfaction, levels of happiness and anxiety - were negatively affected by commutes of this duration when compared to those commuting only 15 minutes or less to work. Given this data, it is a surprise that companies would still enforce stringent no work at home policies, when knowing that doing so can lead to lower employee satisfaction that can indirectly affect performance and productivity. Commuting is a burden and in most cases it is shouldered entirely by the commuter. While some businesses do compensate individual commuters, more than half of the commuter population are not fully compensated, and a third do not feel a higher salary makes up for it. And because time spent during commute is not always converted productively, almost all commuting lead to these hours being idle and doing nothing but wait until you arrive at your destination. This is due to the nature of certain modes of transportation that makes doing something in case you want to be productive next to impossible, i.e., being packed like sardines in a rail car or even problems reading inside a moving vehicle. According to Staff.com, Sydney based online staffing site, one of the major reasons why work from home is a rising trend is because many have come to realize traveling in traffic to and from work each day is insane. To them, it is the future of work: Staff.com â€" Connecting Great Companies with Global Talent Related Posts 14 Tips For Working From Home Let Brad Pitt Inspire You To Work At Home Today Working From Home? What Your Boss Really Thinks   Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!