Living and Learning

Want to 'wow' your future employers? Chapter 4 in " Light, Bright, and Polite, for parents and teens" by Josh Ochs,  talks about social media posts and strategies that impress future employers. be authentic and professional Ochs talks about how you want to be yourself while posting and sharing things online, but at the same time you still want to make sure that everything is what you want everyone seeing while they search your name. "always consider an outsider's perspective before you share socially or voice an opinion" (Ochs, 2015).  writing skills make sure that everything you are posting is formal, spelled correctly, has all of the right grammar and punctuations. You want to seem professional while posting online. No text talk. "less is sometimes more" (Ochs, 2015). show you've thought about your future while posting online, you should consider having different accounts for your personal preference and your professional pr...

"Light, Bright and Polite, For Parents and Teens" written by Josh Ochs, talks about ways in which social media can help you impress colleges. Chapter 5, "Social networking sites that help you shine online", talk about how you can be presented positively online for everyone to see. Ochs talks about how you want the first page of Google to be everything positive about you, to knock down some negative things that might pop up, and to push It all to the second page of Google.  One way to be positively shown is through your LinkedIn account. LinkedIn is great for all ages. Middle School: school projects, what they are learning. High School Juniors: organizations, sports, clubs, volunteer work, school work/projects.  High School Seniors: organizations, sports, clubs, volunteer work, school work/projects, trips, extracurricular activities, resume, work and internships, recommendations. College Students: Everything posted above, plus some. Very detailed. Havi...

Do you need to present a project to a group of coworkers or to a a group of classmates? There are many different ways to presents your project on many different websites. I'm here today to give you some insight on a few different websites to make your presentation the best It could be.  PowerPoint by Microsoft Office was very popular back in the day. Up until Google created Google Slides , Microsoft Office PowerPoint has been in its shadow. "5 Reasons to Replace PowerPoint with Google Slides" written by Joshua Kim, talks about why you should leave Microsoft Office in the past.  Kim came up with 5 different ways that he will try to persuade everyone to switch over, his first reason talks about collaboration. With Google Slides, you can work ttogether with other people while not being with them. " The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point" (Kim, 2015). This way it's easy to wor...