Last week was national AmeriCorps week (woohoo), and I was at the Minnesota All-VISTA Conference. Lots of sessions, lots of choices, the usual hit-or-miss stuff. But lots and lots of practical info.
And all online so if you're not a Minnesota VISTA (ha), you can join in on the fun. :)
Media & PR was a little too remedial for someone with a degree in journalism, and a little too on-the-corporate side for my taste, but the presenter definitely knew her stuff and gave a good overview of what PR is and what it's supposed to do.
Paying for Grad School was crazy -- the presenter got a whole handful of degrees for free and had some good tips (check out Rotary's international ambassadorial scholarship programs!).
And I got totally overwhelmed with the amount of (good) information in Starting a Nonprofit.
The highlight session was, surprisingly, Resumes! Yeah, I've had lots of resume-tweaking training in the past, but this workshop was a great refresher after a year out of the resume world and offered a ton of little tricks to make your resume stand out of the pile. The Big One: Focus in on the "wow" in everything you write. Make sure every line and every bullet says the most about you and what you've accomplished. It's amazing how a little wording change can make a huge difference -- we made a woman who owned a mushroom farm into an agricultural entrepreneur who managed the largest provider of gourmet mushrooms in the Midwest in about 30 seconds. The presenter was phenomenal, and lucky you! All of her (and the University of Minnesota's) career services workshops are online. Check them out. It's resume season!
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