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I’ve started consulting with Peace Action who’s focused on stopping the $90 billion supplemental to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Check out my first blog post for the group.
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Here are a few resume tips and resources I’ve come across that I’ve found most useful:
Gather copies of your past quarterly or annual reviews, use the positive feed back from those reviews to evaluate your strengths, you can also lift language from the review directly onto your resume.
When you have lost your job, it’s important to check on compensation due, benefits, references, and unemployment. Review this checklist to make sure that everything is covered, then focus on your job search.
Five Things Not to Do When You Leave Your Job
Leaving a job is often upsetting, whether you were fired or finally decided to quit. You may have trouble remembering to do the right thing. Here are five things you should avoid doing.
Ten steps to find a new job, including where to look for jobs, the top job sites, how to use your connections, how to ace the interview, and how to follow up.
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- Save money because the club buys in bulk
- Support local farmers and food artisans
- Share, cook, and eat healthier foods
All of this, and more, could be yours when you join the U Street Farmers' Market Buyers' Club
Fresh, local products that may be in your weekly share(s) include:
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Bread
- Eggs
- Cheese
How it Works: Each Saturday between June 13 and November 21, 2009, the Buyers’ Club manager will coordinate a bulk purchase of products available through the U Street Farmers’ Market producers. You can pre-pay for your share(s) from week-to-week or you can pre-pay for up to four consecutive weeks in a row. One share only costs $20.
Join today!
You'll also treat your sweet tooth. This photo features baked goods from Panorama Bakery.
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After the Bike to Work Day rally I peddled over to the Center for American Progress where they were hosting a discussion about Green Jobs, using NYC as a case study. The guest speaker? Mr. Van Jones himself. If your a transit/enviro/anti-poverty advocate you know Mr. Jones. He started the group Green for All which advocates for good-paying, environmentally-friendly jobs in low-income communities and communities of color. He now works in the Obama administration as the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
B2WD delayed me a bit so I missed Van’s talk but was able to catch him in the lobby. Two reporters were asking him questions while he made his way to an open elevator door.
I held out my resume and said, “Mr. Jones, my name is Maude Bauschard. I’m an experienced political organizer who is very interested in the work that Green for All is doing.”
Van took my resume, held it up, looked me in the eye, and as the elevator doors closed replied, “I will make sure that they [Green for All] get this.”
He was solid in his answer but what more could I do, short of stepping in the elevator (which I would have done if the reporters had not been competing for his attention)? I wish I had said something more concrete about my campaign experience but, overall it was not so bad considering that I only had five seconds to deliver my ‘elevator speech.’
