Top 5 tips to find a new job

Congrats, you are finally graduated from your University. The only snag is where and how to find a new job corresponding to your studies? Here are some tips for you.

Well-presented and coherent resume and cover letter

First of all, make sure to have a correct and coherent resume and cover letter. State explicitly there why you are the best candidate for a given job offer. In other words, “be clear”. Ask an advice from an expert if needed be to correct some mistakes there in. Information has to be coherent in the resume and the cover letter. Before writing them down, read the job description and carefully target it to your desire to work in the company. Go online or on TV and try to discover what is the job seeker searching for as well as key elements that ca be discussed during a probable interview.

Searching scrupulously

Depending on studies you have followed, you can start researches. Job application may not be directly answered a few days after the deposit. Nevertheless, you will need to be patient and keep on searching. There are hundreds of websites on the Internet that can provide you with job offers that can meet your needs and requirements. Search on newspapers, keep connected with friends and ask them if there is an offer somewhere that may be interesting for you.

Use social networks

Social networks can work for both personal and professional use. Get involved in professional social networks, participate in forums and do not hesitate to show your degree and competences off. Networking is considered to be the number one in networking strategy. Sooner or later, you will receive an answer from a recruiter. You can also use options such as online notification to remind and alert you of a job offer.

Do what it takes to stand out among the crowd

Human resources boards receive and have to read about hundreds of resumes per day. They do not have enough time to read them carefully. Due to this situation then, you have to find ways to make your resume stands out from others. Copy paste from the Internet can be a real danger.  Online models are quite the same and using them is giving HR chances not to read yours. Moreover, target your documents (letter of application and cover letter) to the special job you are applying for. Make sure it does not contain error. You can also call the employer and share your excitement and enthusiasm concerning the job offer.

Be confident and don’t give up

Take this last tip in your heart. You may have tried everything but the future still remains unopened. Getting discouraged can happen to everyone and especially to students searching for their first or their new job. Looking for a job is a competitive market. If you give up too early, you are loosing the trade. Even if many people are lacking of motivation and initiate, let it be not you.  Perseverance is important in any field of life.

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SHARPEN THE “AXE” IN YOUR LIFE

Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it.

The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work.

The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.
“Congratulations,” the boss said. “Go on that way!”

Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees.

The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.

“I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

“When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked.

“Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…”

Reflection:

Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don’t take time to sharpen the “axe”.

In today’s world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less happy that ever.

Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay “sharp”? There’s nothing wrong with activity and hard work.

But we should not get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like our personal life, taking time to get close to our Creator, giving more time for our family, taking time to read etc.

We all need time to relax, to think and meditate, to learn and grow.

If we don’t take the time to sharpen the “axe”, we will become dull and lose our effectiveness.

Your Healing Is Within Reach

Several years ago, my brother was allowed to witness an open-heart surgery. During the procedure, the patient's heart had been stopped from beating. When it came time to restart it, despite repeated attempts, the medical staff was unable to cause the heart to beat again. Finally, although the patient was obviously unconscious, the surgeon leaned over and spoke into the patient's ear, "We need your help. We cannot get your heart restarted. Tell your heart to start beating." Incredibly, in that instant, the patient's heart began to beat again!

Proverbs 13:12 tells us, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." But the diagnosis can change! God has promised healing to the brokenhearted (Luke 4:18). There is a crisis point, however—one we all reach—in the process of healing from hope deferred: choosing to embrace the healing process. Hope—and healing—is a choice that must be made.

As you probably know too well, experiencing hope deferred does not require a choice—pain and disappointment are facts of life. Healing, however, does require a choice. Making the simple but powerful choice to hope again is the first step toward healing.

Wilma Rudolph, three-time gold medalist in the 1960 Olympics and once known in the field of running as the world's fastest woman, said, "The doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."

Born prematurely into a very poor family and the 20th of 22 children, Wilma was not permitted to receive care at the local white hospital. For the next several years, her mother took her once a week for two years to the nearest medical facility that would treat her—a 90-mile round trip. Wilma Rudolph's life is an amazing story of achievement against the odds—but the story began with the right choices.

Like the Olympic champion and her mother, you will have to choose the power of hope. I realize this puts some of the responsibility for healing on you, but it is also an incredibly liberating truth. Healing—freedom from hope deferred—is a choice that can be made. 

Scripture is filled with promises that you have this power to choose life over death. The Lord actually told the Israelites to "choose life" (Deut. 30:19). You don't have the luxury of choosing never to have challenges, but you do get to choose how you respond.

People sometimes refer to their difficult times as winter seasons. There is a beautiful picture associated with this in Ezekiel 47. The prophet Ezekiel was given a vision of the river of God. In this vision, the river produced life and healing everywhere it went. Interestingly, the Hebrew word for river in the passage is nachal, and means "a stream, especially a winter torrent." Some streams and rivers are dry during certain times of the year. They fill up, however, when there is rain, or, as in this case, when the spring thaw melts the snow and ice on the mountains. Tiny rivulets develop, coming together to form streams and, eventually, becoming nachalim (rivers). Though Ezekiel's winter river began as a trickle in verse 1, it eventually became a mighty unfordable river by verse 5.

As your winter season changes to spring, God's healing will likely begin as a mere trickle. Keep choosing life! You can be confident that the river will deepen and that God will use the snow and ice of your spiritual winter to bring a deep flow of His Spirit to you. 

For those who are confused and disillusioned, for the heart grieving from pain and loss, for the faithful but weary soldier whose stream-bed is dry, for those who have lost their first love connection to God, for the Gideons of the world who are heartsick with hope deferred ... your season is changing. The warmth of spring is going to do its work, and summer is coming. 

Thank God winter doesn't last forever. The river of healing will flow to you, and you will drink its healing power. Hope deferred will end. Tell your heart to beat again!

By Dutch Sheets

Health: 7 Mistakes You're Making Folding Your Clothes

Laundry is the never-ending chore. You sort. You pre-treat. You wash. You sort again. You dry. And then you still have to fold. We asked Carolyn Forte, the director of the Home Appliances and Cleaning Products lab in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, for the common folding missteps that could ruin all of your hard work -- and how to avoid them.

1. Letting clothes sit in the dryer 
If you don't remove them almost immediately, they will start to wrinkle. But here's something you might not know: Many dryers have an extended tumbling cycle that sporadically tumbles clothes to keep wrinkles from setting in. It's a feature worth looking into if you're not the type who can jump as soon as the dryer's buzzer sounds (read: everyone).

2. Forgetting to "shake and smooth" 
Shaking out clothing and linens before folding will help your items lay flatter on the shelf. An extra shake keeps bath towels fluffy, and smoothing them out on a flat surface prevents the trim rumpling.

3. Overlooking the fabric 
Forte's rule of thumb: "Things that are slippery and hard to fold are probably best hung." This includes silk, polyester and nylon fabrics. Knits and sturdy sweaters can easily be folded without fear of creasing.

4. Folding bras in half 
"If you fold them with one cup inside of the other, you risk messing up the shape and shifting the padding," Forte explains. Instead, nest them inside each other in a row, like you might see in a store.

5. Rolling socks into a ball 
Balling socks can stretch out the ankle. For heavier socks (athletic socks or men's socks) put the two socks together and fold them in half.

6. Forgetting how something will look when you wear it 
Every item of clothing is different, but when you fold, "consider where you do and don't want creases," Forte advises. For example, don't fold sweaters or tops in half lengthwise. This will cause a crease to form right down the middle that will set in when you pile garments on top of each other.

7. Storing folded sweaters on a high shelf 
It's a familiar scenario: You reach up high for your favorite sweater, and cause the whole stack to fall to the floor. Try a lower shelf, so you can hold the pile with your free hand as you pull out the top you want.

-By SamanthaZabell

Prayer for new week

As much as God will make you blessings to others, I pray that you will never lack the resources to always go higher everyday in Jesus name!

God will stand in for you where every hope has failed, Like Bartimeous, God will position you for your breakthrough. Like Joseph, God will position the right people in place of authority who will speak for you where your voice can't be heard. Like David, God will raise covenant helper for you even from the house of your enemies. You will never be disgraced in Jesus Name. God will turn things around for better concerning you in the mighty name of Jesus, May the Lord surround you with His presence and cover you under His wings.J

Happy New Week from us ASB-World. 

The Power of ‘I Love You’ From Dad

Here at the National Center for Fathering, when speaking to groups of men we'll often conduct some informal research about affirmation and love from fathers. Typically we'll ask, "Please raise your hand if your father told you that he loved you on a consistent basis."

The results are predictable, as are the jaws that drop in amazement. Usually only 3-4 percent of the dads will raise their hands! And I'm sure the majority of those men are still waiting to hear their dad say, "I love you" for the first time.

For me, it's another picture representing the culture of fatherlessness that we're living in, because even when dads are present in their kids' lives, too often they aren't connecting with them in a meaningful, affirming way.

Like father, like son ... dads who didn't hear "I love you" growing up often don't feel natural saying it to their children.

Now, some people may say it's no big deal. A lot of people who didn't have that benefit still grow up and do fine. But our research and experience at the National Center tells us that those three words, spoken with sincerity and backed up by behavior, can demonstrate support, encouragement, tenderness and caring as much as anything else we do as fathers.

I believe it is a big deal.

Our words—or sometimes our lack of words—can either bless or discourage our children for their entire lives. And we've heard all the excuses: "They know how much I love them." "I don't want my son to get a big head." "It just isn't what we do in our family." But those are just excuses. If we know how much it benefits our children, there's really no reason we shouldn't say it.

If, for some reason, telling your child "I love you" is too difficult for you, here are some ideas you might try as you work up to it.

o    Go into your child's room at night, when he's sleeping, and "practice" saying it to him. Keep doing this every chance you get, and before long it will feel natural enough that you can say it when he is awake. It may even slip out before you realize it.

o    Try writing, "I love you" on a card or in a letter or short note. (Just make sure you don't stop there. Work up to where you can say it to him.)

Sure, it may be awkward or even difficult at first, but it's worth it.

Eventually, you can come right out and say: "I just want you to know that I love you and accept you totally, just as you are. I love you whether you succeed or fail. I love you because you're  [insert your child's name]."

Your children gain great confidence and security from knowing you place high value on them. Use words to build them up at every opportunity. Give them plenty of "I love yous" and other positive phrases that will echo in their minds for a long, long time.

Action Points for Dads on the Journey

o    Get a small voice recorder that's attached to a photo frame (or that can be attached) and record a short message of love that your child can play over and over. (Great for young kids, or as a Father's Day gift from a child to a dad.) 

o    Honor your child by throwing a "just because" party one which says, "I love you" for no particular reason just because.

o    Find ways to reinforce your "I love you" message through actions, like a big hug at bedtime or any time, following through on promises, doing small favors, etc.

o    Use the milestone events that happen this time of year graduations, performances, sports events, etc. to communicate to your child, verbally and in writing, "I love you just as you are, and I'm proud to be your dad."

o    Ask your child to autograph his or her picture, then display it in your office like you might display something from a celebrity or sports star.

Do you have unique ways to demonstrate love to your kids? Please help other dads by commenting either below.

By CareyCasey

Ungrateful Souls

TEXT: EZEKIEL 16:15-34

KEY VERSE: “But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was” (Ezekiel 16:15).

At the manipulation of a hand-held device, one can access any part of the globe and transact multinational businesses to usher in instant wealth. Man believes he can influence the present and the future with the arsenal of inventions at his disposal. Modern advancement has made man proud and disdainful of God and His word.

The Israelites were beloved of God. After the people settled down to a life of prosperity and progress, they forsook God and plunged headlong into idolatry. God blessed them with gold and silver, but they used these jewels to mould images to worship for themselves. He provided them with fine garments, but they used same to deck their idols. The incense and oil He gave them to use in offering sacrifices to Him were used to worship their idols. Worse still, they offered their children as sacrifices to their gods. Thus, they forgot all His goodness, favour and mercies. Their actions were so disgusting that even other notorious idol worshippers, like the Philistines, would be ashamed by the extent to which the Jews excelled in evil practices. By their actions, they came under divine judgment. To them, God said: “I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee”.

We must beware that we do not slide into infidelity in our relationship with the Lord. God hates unfaithfulness. He is a jealous God and would never condone a rival in the lives of His children. Those who think that after years of walking with God, they have become wiser and more mature, and can turn away from the old and narrow way, court disaster. God will abandon them to the will of their enemies. They also need to repent so as not to spend eternity in hell.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Do not bite the finger that fed you.