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Morning all. One of my favourite people resigned at work and today is her last day ๐ข Elder minipeeler has started therapy but is still not going to school ๐ Miniest has decided today she is joining him, and I didn't have the time or energy to argue about it ๐คฌ๐ Old friend is in Australia for a week and is coming over for dinner tomorrow night ๐ Managed to get a load of washing done because I wasn't trying to get kids ready for school ๐
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chatgpt what are skills what do i put on my cv i didnt know problem solving is a skill that is so abstract
making good scrambled eggs is a skill
getting a cat to purr is a skill
Knowing the difference between a pretty sky and an ugly sky translates to an eye for detail.
Soft skills vs hard skills. Hard skills are skills specific to your role. Soft skills are transferrable. Problem Solving is transferrable, you would have used your problem solving skills doing research, writing papers, deciding the best way to phrase a paragraph. It sounds stupid, like the other transferrable skills (attention to detail, critical thinking, working autonomously or as a team), but they're more necessary than the hard skills you'd learn on the job (software use, specific processes, etc).
The issue with soft skills is it can be difficult to isolate and identify them within ourselves, and then to write a cohesive CV/cover letter that addresses them. Then when you get an interview, make sure you have examples of their key selection criteria as most places will interview using the STAR approach (Situation, Task, Action and Result).
I had ChatGPT write up a nice cover letter template for myself, and then edited it to sound more like me, because I find describing myself positively to others to be the most hardest of tasks. Then I memorise some STAR answers if I get an interview, so I'm not scrambling on the spot wracking my brain.
I hate the whole process tbh. Wishing you all the luck!
I recently updated my resume and I took the bullet points from my position description and put them in.
Just do the same thing if there's a role you really want to apply for and when they read your resume they'll think you were made for the position
Over three years experience catering breakfast to a diverse clientele - who often have very unique requests.
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I didn't have any long weekend plans and now it looks like I'll have even less with the forecast
Looks like it's gonna be too hot to do anything. I wish I could just melt on the couch, but alas, I have a cousins birthday this Saturday ๐ญ
I just realised it is a long weekend, I guess I will put off my Monday plans until Tuesday. I'm glad I'll be driving up the Hume tonight and not Friday, long weekend traffic and the swarms of jet skis can be a bit of a hassle.
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Cloudy apple juice and tuna mayo onigiri please
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Eggs Benedict this morning please.
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๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ ffs I was meant to call and cancel that dodgy newspaper thing, but I forgot to and they charged me 18 dollars for it. That's not that much, but I literally just signed up to read a single article, which wasn't even a free trial they still charged me like 2 dollars for it. :/
They don't even give you a heads up, hell, not even a courtesy "wait until days end", they take their fee at exactly midnight, and that's the end of it. Absolute scumbags.
On the plus side, if anybody has any articles you want from the Wimmera mail times, hmu and I'll send you the content. Unfortunately there's not even that much content in most of them, it's usually just a couple of sentences about something mundane.
18 dollars Jesus Christ I'm an idiot
Nah you're not an idiot. I kept forgetting to cancel my Xbox game pass sub for months ๐
Idk if it will help, but if you want to read an article that's paywalled, I use the website 12ft ladder (just Google it). You can paste the article URL into this site and it will remove paywalls and the like. It isn't 100%, but it works often enough :)
You're not an idiot, you just forgot. Free trials plan on doing that to people.
Ps. Not really relevant but be careful of renting to own appliances or phones too, you end up paying much higher than the actual cost of the item
Let's all just take a moment to imagine the world if that smart bloke never invented the blue LED. Imagine a world where you don't need to put duct tape over your fucking power board because the led is bright enough to light up your entire bedroom at night
I'm copying a fine art youtuber and it's working. Bright primary colours are turning into muted subtle ones. I don't have a colour wheel and am not swatching but they look close. Mixing little dabs of paint with a toothpick in a paper bowl works too but is pretty awkward. (No palette knife.)
Ps. Melbcat got very excited when I opened the paint tubes. Sounds of plastic? A bowl. Something being opened. 'What are we eating?' To be fair to her I am drinking something from a cup that looks the same as the paint water cup so may actually commit the classic blunder
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