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Interesting jobs in the USA

November 30, 2011|Interesting Facts, Uncategorized| No comments yet

Tired of crunching numbers or sitting in a cubicle? There are many different and interesting jobs out there in the USA. Granted, many of the most interesting are either highly competitive or pay low wages, so before you decide to throw in the towel on the insurance adjusting job, be sure you know what you are getting yourself into.

Zoo Docent

If you love wildlife and animals but are at heart an urbanite, look at being a zoo docent. Zoo docents are the teachers and naturalists that give interpretation of the animals on display. Most zoos provide full training and uniforms. Zoo docents get to be around animals like lions, tigers, gorillas and elephants on a daily basis. And when you watch the animals’ behavior, it is hard to imagine anything more interesting than that. Docnets earn low hourly wages or start as volunteers.

Mortuary Makeup Artist

If you have a penchant for the macabre and know how to apply rouge, consider becoming a mortuary makeup artist. These makeup artists are responsible for making the corpse visually presentable for open-casket services. Makeup artists work in stressful situations, often having to prepare corpses as a result of accidents or other traumatic experiences. Mortuary makeup artists earn on average $27,000 per year.

National Park Guides

Whether you enjoy the backcountry and wilderness or urban parks, working as a National Park Guide gets you out there. Take visitors out for guided walks and tours of the parks, presenting facts and information about them in accessible and informative ways. Work is either seasonal with yearly furloughs or year-round. Most National Park guides earn between $17 to $23 per hour.

Independent Animator

If you grew up watching cartoons or reading comic books and have an artistic flare, consider going back to school for animation. Independent animators get hired to produce everything from local advertisements to educational cartoons to contractors for feature animated films. It helps to have a solid operational knowledge of computers. Animators earn anywhere from $15,000 to $150,000 per year.

Crop Duster

If barnstorming in an open cockpit biplane sounds like your cup of tea, think about heading to the nation’s Mid-West to crop dust the fields. Crop dusters fly small biplanes or bush aircraft low and slow over the farms and fields, spraying anything from pesticides to seeds. During the off-season fly for aviation tourism businesses or aviation charters that specialize in sky-writing or aerial banner advertising. Independent pilots like crop dusters or tour based fliers earn on average $17,000 to $27,000 per year.

Most common resume lies

November 28, 2011|Uncategorized| No comments yet

In today’s competitive economy, many job seekers will do anything to get ahead, including lie on their resume to make the information look better. Some potential employees assume that recruiters will not check their references. In most cases, they are wrong. When employers have many job candidates to choose from, they are more likely to thoroughly verify each applicant’s experience. In particular, recruiters look for the most common lies on resumes.

Many job applicants falsify their dates of employment to cover gaps in work history. They often rationalize this falsehood by stating that the job itself was real, so they do have the experience they are claiming on the resume. However, employment dates are easy to verify with a simple background check.

Another common lie that job seekers tell is to embellish their job titles or salaries. For example, some shift managers claim to be assistant managers because the title sounds more impressive. In addition, applicants sometimes believe that if they claim they had a higher salary previously, they can ask future employers for more money. This is not necessarily true when the economy is down and employers can name their price and still fill the job, however. In fact, falsifying your title or salary may backfire and potential employers may feel that you are overqualified for the position.

Embellishing skills is another common falsehood that some applicants include on their resumes. Many applicants claim fluency in a foreign language, for example. Some job applicants are caught in this lie when the interviewer tests them on their language abilities by conducting the interview in the foreign language. In addition, some job seekers claim skill sets that they do not possess, such as computer languages or software skills. These lies are usually caught on the job when the employee can’t perform their required duties.

Some job applicants will include information that is completely false, such as false college degrees or honors. Some applicants feel that they aren’t as marketable without a college degree. This may not be accurate, however, especially in fields like journalism where experience is often more important than a degree.

In the end, it does not pay to fudge information on your resume. Even if you never authorize a background check, rest assured that businesses will conduct an informal background check through internet searches and by checking your social media sites, as well as by calling former employers.

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