After a Very Very Long Hiatus

I kind of gave up on the blogging sphere and took a very long break...obviously.

Life got hectic, the novelty wore off and readership was down (not that it was very up to begin with).

But I thought maybe I'd start trying to update again and include useful things.

Ignoring the useful things for now:

Here has what has happened up til about now.

1. I was offered my temp job and became a full time, benefit eligible employee. This happened towards the end of July.
2. In the process, before I was offered the job, I almost moved to Massachusetts without a job and was going to strike it out there while living with my sister and brother-in-law. A very tough decision after I was offered the job. I struggled for about a week before deciding to stay. Who was I to spit in the face of a paying job with benefits?
3. After accepting the job, I was told, because of budget cuts, that my time was going to be split between two positions...
4. So now I am an Administrative Assistant and a Career Coordinator. Two full time jobs being done in half the time, about 19 hours a week for each, give or take a couple hours here and there.

So needless to say I was out of my head from August-September, while I was getting used to the idea, being trained in a new position, and taking up more responsibility that was left out on the temp job.

But! Experience is experience...and even though at times I feel like I'm going to strangle someone if they ask me to make 4 copies for them when the copier is larger than life right next to me, I have coped. I am learning.

I do have to say that I really have learned how to beef up my resume and cover letter.

Now for Cover Letters

Last post was just a quick link for resumes. This link below is for the daunting cover letter.

If anyone of you are like me, the cover letter is probably the toughest part. I reworked my cover letter last night and pretty much edited out the whole thing and started over.

Now if you're lucky enough to have a great brother-in-law (or other relative) like I do who reads these things for a living (among other parts of his job) then you're in a good spot to have someone help you edit (Thanks Andrew).

If not, this link might help. I know it helped me rethink a lot of my cover letter last night.

Click me! Click me!

Even if you don't have someone who is excellent at grammar and placement of sentences, find someone to check it over for typos at least. It's easy to miss them when you know what you think you wrote and just skim over the mistakes.