Finding Scholarships that Fit.
This is part 2 of 2 Scholarship Workshops with Becca Lippman. The first session will be at Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch on Thursday, April 4 on the topic College Scholarship Basics.
For part 2 of 2 Scholarship Workshops with Becca Lippman, we'll meet at Claremont Branch on Thursday, April 11 for: Finding Scholarships that Fit.
We will first clear the way to bring energy and engagement to your resume by identifying low priority content in your Experience section. Items to be dismissed or rewritten might be duties, processes, and other details of job descriptions. Employers’ job postings can alert you to key words and desired outcomes that should be featured in your resume, such as skills, achievements, challenges met, changes implemented, and differences made.
How can you impress your reader and increase your resume’s chances of moving into the “must interview stack.” You may need to present your strengths with greater impact. This could mean getting more deeply immersed in the job postings, which will help identify key words. You may find you need to add more relevant bullet points that show evidence of your potential. Are you using tools, training opportunities, and resources that can make a difference? Are your work samples top notch? Are your stories of achievement soundbite-ready?
In this introductory workshop, Becca Lippman demystifies the complex networks and application processes related to scholarships. She will break-down the complex landscape of scholarships for college and introduce an approach towards navigating merit and community-based scholarships. Participants will gain a clear understanding of where scholarships come from, why they often feel difficult to find, and what the realistic timeline is when it comes to seeking and winning scholarships for college.
Why do you need to watch out? Quickly stated, the reason is that old news may not fit a new day. Adding your current or most recent job before earlier employments may give you the sense that you have completed the updating task. Stopping at this point, though, may undermine your chances to be a good fit to the job you now seek. A better approach is to back up and first research the key words used in job postings as well as identify industry changes, and observe job trends. Then adjust your descriptions and bullet points in your earlier employments also.
Nooworks clothes company founder Jennifer D'Angelo will talk about how she started her company and how they find such wonderful designs! West Branch Community Meeting Room, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Registration required. Call 510-981-6270.
Thursday, November 9 | 12:00 to 1:15 PM
Online Zoom Event
Most of us don’t experience feedback as a gift, but rather a threat... Something we dread. This perception introduces a paradox where we can only improve by gathering the feedback we are initially hesitant to accept.
The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce and the Berkeley Public Library are pleased to announce the return of the
Berkeley Business Bootcamp
"How to Attract Your Ideal Buyers Through Review Mining"
with Mimi Zhou, PhD
Thursday October 12 at Noon via Zoom.
Are you ready to make the leap? Let’s examine ways to overcome challenges of career re-entry and transitioning. As a candidate in transition, you need to approach the job search differently. Your task is to become a contender in an environment thick with competing candidates, some of whom have the advantage of direct experience in the industry and in the job you are targeting. We will discuss novel techniques and approaches and show examples of resumes that pass through barriers.
We will focus on questions around resumes—PLUS best practices in updating your LinkedIn profile. You can substantially improve your profile by replacing LinkedIn’s default settings. You will learn to personalize your L-I website address, select an image (banner) at the top, and swap out your headshot to meet today’s best practices. Then we will show ways to set up the headline that fits below your headshot. Hint: many people use their job title, but additional possibilities may match important key words more closely.