Help Boshko beat Provost Harrison!

[Urban Ranger]

When you get an interview, you have met all the basic requirements. Now your prospective employer wants to see other things, such as your character and how good will you fit into the organisation.

Which reminds me, did you send a thank you letter?

[Provost Harrison]

A 'thank you letter'?

[Urban Ranger]

As I said, you need to work on your interview skills.

A thank you letter is a personalised letter you send to your interviewer within 24 hours of your interview. You thank him/her for the opportunity for the interview, recap the important points raised during the meeting, and put forth your strong points to meet those points.

Remember to get name(s), title(s), and address(es) of your interviewer(s).

[Bosh]

here's an updated version of my resume have info on a number of jobs (including some union ones) and will be spamming it out tomorrow:

David Boshko

Campus:
*censored*
dboshko@wesleyan.edu

Permanent
*censored*

Summary:
-Senior attending Wesleyan University, pending graduation in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History
-Two years office assistant experience, two years prep chef experience
-Working knowledge of Spanish and some knowledge of Colloquial Arabic
-Experience with interacting with other cultures due to living in Norway, Finland and Bolivia for a total of eight years.

Education:
-Currently a senior attending Wesleyan Univeristy, Middletown, Connecticut
-GPA, as of the end of the Spring 2002 Semester of 3.23 on a 4 point scale
-Courses Taken or Currentingly Taken Include:
Introductory Calculus, Introduction to Environment Science, Introduction Microeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics, Economies in Transition, Macroeconomic Analysis, Social Psychology, International Politics, Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Modern China, Arab World in the 20th Century, Issues in Contemporary Historiography, Religion and History, Intermediate Spanish I & II, Levantine Colloquial Arabic I & II and Senior Thesis Tutorial

Work Experience:
Prep Chef, May 1999 to August 2000
Seaweed Cafe, Southwest Harbor, Maine
-Learning interpersonal skills and gaining extensive experience in cutting a wide variety of food products into rather small pieces

Office Assistant, June 2001 to August 2001
Center for Humanites, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
-Editing work on book manuscipt for Professor Abelove, library reorganization, phone-answering and assorted clerical work.

Office Assistant, September 2001 to present
Ecomics Department, Wesleyan University, MIddletown, Connecticut
-Work involving the search for an East Asian Economics professor and assorted clerical work.

Office Assistant, May 2002 to present
History Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
-Tutoring disabled Professor Emeritus Butler in computer use, research assistant work for Professor Elphick involving the institution of the Aparteid and assorted clerical work.

Univeristy Activities:
-Varsity Member, Wesleyan Debate Society, 2001 to present
-Member, meeting facilitator and participant in negotiations with the administration that resulted in Wesleyan University joining the Workers' Rights Consorsium, United Student Labor Action Coalition, 2000 to present
-Member and organizer, Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations, 2001 to present
-Attendance and short-term organizing work for wide variety of marches, rallies, protests and mobilizations
-Novice Team Member, Wesleyan Men's Crew 2000
-Co-ordinator, Shabat Cooking Co-operative 2001 to present
-Member, Food Not Bombs (volunteer cooking organization) 2000 to present

[Urban Ranger]

Still doesn't work attractive.

What details can you tell me about the chef job? Why did you quit?

Arrange your working experience in reverse chronological order (newest first).

What did you teach Prof Butler?

"The search for an East Asian Economics professor"? What does that entail?

About the book you edited for prof. Abelove, it is very academic? Do you need a thorough knowledge in the subject to do the job well?

You might want to omit some of the political activities unless you are sending the resume to a like-minded organisation.

[Bosh]

that's UR!

What details can you tell me about the chef job? Why did you quit?

I basically did everything that's done with the food before it actually hits the stove (which the line chef did) I stopped doing that since its hard work and university summer jobs aren't

Arrange your working experience in reverse chronological order (newest first).

good idea.

What did you teach Prof Butler?

How to use e-mail, some basic stuff like navigating windows and internet use. Sounds easy but his only hand shakes constantly and he had a stroke last year making me have to set up and teach him routines for the simpliest things, took a lot of patience.

"The search for an East Asian Economics professor"? What does that entail?

Filing mostly

About the book you edited for prof. Abelove, it is very academic?

Fairly, its a collection of scholarly and quasi-formal/autobiographical essays, as far as I know it doesn't appear to be published yet.

Do you need a thorough knowledge in the subject to do the job well?

No.

You might want to omit some of the political activities unless you are sending the resume to a like-minded organisation.

Yup, either that or get really vague like Snapcase...

[Urban Ranger]

You can try tapping into your social networks. A couple of them springs to mind:

1. Alumni.
2. Any people in political/activist organisations you have met during the last four years.

I think you could look for jobs such as campaign organisers or fundraisers.

[SpencerH]

I've revamped my prediction, I foresee a career as either a substitute teacher, a sous-chef, or politician. Its all up to you.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I am back in the sh*t again. It appears that they will have to finish me come Christmas, and as I don't fancy my chances of being able to find a job in the meantime with how stuff goes, it looks like I will be back on the jobseekers allowance

[Ned]

Guys, why don't you consider volunteering for the military. Britain is at war, after all.

[Provost Harrison]

I don't think so

[Ned]

PH, If you join right now, you may see action in Iraq. With your education, you would be officer material. Service in Iraq would stand out on your resume and more than pay off in the long run.

[Provost Harrison]

It is against my principles...I would not join the armed forces...

[Ned]

PH, An unpatriotic attidude is detrimental to most employment in the United States. I presume it is the same in the UK.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Ned
PH, An unpatriotic attidude is detrimental to most employment in the United States. I presume it is the same in the UK.

Not really, my personal opinions are my personal opinions. Obviously our country is a lot freer when it comes towards this kind of stuff...