wholeheartedsuggestions:

there is so much good in you. it isn’t undone by mistakes or missteps. you are full of good actions, of good intentions. your good heart is beating right in your chest.

master-sass-blast:

dragons-and-gays:

shirosredknight:

boogiewoogiebuglegal:

cricketcat9:

topsecretespeonage:

neurofancier:

khirsahle:

newtsckamander:

suaimhneas-peace:

emeraldboreas:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???

“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”

I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT

NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU. Also: Dear ______: Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future]. Sincerely, @mellivorinae

THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE

YOU ARE WELCOME

My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.

should it be an email? or like a physical letter?

email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are. 

Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.

I didn’t get the job.

However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.

So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.

Either way, those letters are important.

Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it. 

Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.

Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)

As a former professional recruiter and recruiting manager, I confirm, especially for entry-level positions, where you are competing with oodles of people. This little thing can make a difference. Also the fact that, maybe, you took time to google the “interview etiquette”.

SIGNAL BOOST

The post-interview thank you notes can be a good way to recover in case you got asked a question whose answer you either didn’t know or felt was super weak. So if you follow the above given template, jump in with something like “upon further thought to your question, here’s my revised answer.” 

But yeah always send a thank you note after an interview. It’s a small thing but it makes a hell of a difference. And def send thank you messages to any recruiters who may have helped. And also after you get the job. Small things like that really go a long long way.

Holy shit I had no idea

My bf’s going through the process of finding a better job, so I’d be remiss to not reblog this.

angiethewitch:

it’s easy to say what happened to George Floyd and the consequences of it as just “oh another disaster for 2020”. it’s easy to brush it off as 2020 rearing its head again.

but this isn’t just 2020. this is last year. and the year before. it’s the last century. and next year. next month. don’t become complacent and brush it off. don’t let this become just another horrible thing that happened in 2020. it shouldn’t be forgotten. because this is every day for black people. every year.

let this radicalize you. let this be the final year this kind of thing happens. don’t let it become another 2020 disaster. don’t let things go back to how it was. we must stop treating this as another thing that happened in 2020. do not let this become the forgotten year and don’t allow George Floyd and his voice and countless black voices behind this to be forgotten - just another terrible thing. this isn’t just 2020. this is something that happens all the time. don’t let this go away.

bakwaaas:

there is so much love in friendship, people forget that

concerningwolves:

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

sleepbby:

be sure to understand ur s/o’s way of showing affection and make them aware of yours.. some ppl show affection by buying u things and some ppl will say I love u a million times and some will make u breakfast some will leave u the last ice cream, but it’s really important to know about these things bc u could not notice them and feel unloved while your s/o feels taken for granted and it’s just all a big misunderstanding so please talk about these things

passepieds:

passepieds:

passepieds:

so when a Black kid gets kidnapped and gets tortured by a group of White people it doesn’t make the news but if a White kid were to get kidnapped…it would make the national news.

13 y/o Zavion Parker was kidnapped and tortured on his way home from school in East Houston by a group of White supremacists (5 teens and 1 adult all with red hair and the adult having a tattoo the confederate flag and another tattoo saying “I hate black people”.) Zavion said when they kidnapped they took him to a shack/cabin with guns and torture items and where he sees other Black people who aren’t moving. Zavion asked why he was kidnapped, the group of White supremacists said “because you’re Black”. As the White supremacists move to the next room to load a gun, Zavion makes his escape. Zavion was found with a torn shirt and no shoes by Camecia Carmouche. Police went to Zavion’s home to follow up the lead. He, his mom, and Camecia lead the officers to the cabin/shack. According to the police they found a wooden chair, shell castings and weapons.

As of now the White supremacists haven’t been caught.

Let’s all make #ZavionPark trend today. 🗣We can’t let this go. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

phoebe-does:

The greatest piece of advice I can offer a young person who is desperately searching for someone to love, to be their other half is to be that person for yourself. Take care of yourself the way you would want a loved one to take care of you. Fill that missing half of you with love and respect for yourself. Empower yourself and send that energy into the world and you will find someone just as powerful to go through life by your side.

damianalghul:

let’s not use amandla’s coming out as gay as fodder for biphobic attacks on bisexual people especially bisexual women. Bisexuality is a valid and complete identity that is not merely a stepping stone. Although many lesbians formerly identified as bi, this does not invalidate bi identity. This phenomenon is only indicative of the difficulty of navigating sexual identity in a heteronormative patriarchy. Let’s all use our brains here!

psychedelicfelon:

pocketbucky:

nobody talks about how ugly taking care of yourself can be

yes, sometimes it’s taking a warm bath and texting memes to friends and keeping an aesthetically pretty journal.

sometimes it’s crying silently on your couch at 3am, hugging yourself and reminding yourself that you’re a good person.

self care is not always ‘aesthetic’ and cute…and that’s ok. don’t be embarrassed, just do what you need to do.

Important

arathergrimreaper:

glitchlight:

heteromanticmarkiplier:

The reason blm belongs at pride is:

A. To show solidarity for our black lgbt siblings, especially seeing as how black trans women are victimized at a higher rate than any other group.

B. Because we share similar enemies and have similar goals, and historically, black, gay, and trans liberation have all gone hand in hand.

c. the founders of blm are lgbt and doing great work and we should celebrate and welcome them when theyre in lgbt spaces

d. black trans women are literally the reason we have pride in the first place

cloverfeels:

honestly some of y’all want a significant other so badly and can’t understand why you can’t find one, but have no sense of boundaries or healthy expectations of what a relationship is like. in a committed long-term partnership you get left on read, you wait for texts back, and you can forget about each other when you’re busy. sometimes you fall asleep without saying goodnight and sometimes you’re too caught up to text each other before 6pm. that’s how it is. thinking that you can’t be deeply, beautifully in love and still wait more than “1.75 hours” for a text back is such an unhealthy and unreasonable expectation of what love is, and you shouldn’t be in a relationship if you can’t allow the other person to exist on their own apart from you. if you’re projecting your anxieties and insecurities onto a partner who doesn’t even exist yet, then you aren’t ready for one.

anamericaninestonia:

I made a text post recently about an American that I spoke to who thought Estonian was a dialect of Russian. Did it make my blood boil in rage? Abso-fruitly. But… Americans don’t really know about Estonia. (I know, shocker. Next thing you know, I’ll be telling you that the sky is blue.) I think it has something to do with how we are taught about the Soviet Union in American schools. I’ve gone to an American public school and university, so I’ve learned about the USSR almost exclusively from an American perspective until I got to Estonia. I just want to address some differences between our education systems and how it can contribute to a general American ignorance.

First of all, Estonia and America both hate the fact that the Soviet Union existed. But at least the Estonians are realistic when they speak about history of the USSR. I went to a school in a pretty conservative area, and until I started dating a Russian, I was all but under the impression that people were just wallowing in misery and open sewage until Reagan said “tear down this wall!” and Gorbachev shook in his boots at the power of the almighty Republican Jesus and obliged. Yes, the Soviet Union was America’s rival. We learned about it as a monolith of evil. I was in advanced and honour’s classes, and we never learned about how the Soviet Union possessed smaller nations.  Never.  We never learned about the struggles of Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, etc. people. We didn’t even learn about their day to day lives, or how their culture survived the Soviet Union.  Just that the entire enterprise was evil, and countries such as Estonia were lumped into this. It makes me shake with rage looking back.

Estonia on the other hand. I was absolutely blown away by the things I learned when I came here. I had no idea that there was society in the Soviet Union. Seriously, I was an honour’s student and thought it was pan-Russian anarchy. When my ex’s mom talked about going to university in 1989 I was floored because I had no idea they had university in the Soviet Union. In our classes, I never remember reading a text from anyone who lived in the Soviet Union, Russian or otherwise. Here in Estonia, I got to read literature from all different types of people who had to live under Soviet rule, go to museums, see Estonian art and other cultural pieces that were produced in this time period. For the first time, really got to learn about this, and it means the world to me that I got to have this opportunity.

I think this is why so many Americans are ignorant about the Soviet Union the states that used to be occupied by it. My uncle asked me if Russian is the official language in Estonia. My dad thought Russia was still communist until I gently explained this to him. I had to explain to other family members that yes, this is a first world country, and yes, they do have tampons here, no, you don’t have to ship them to me from America, I will be just fine. Another family member asked my Russian ex if he had ever tasted chicken or McDonald’s before (ex was and still is a serious KFC addict, by the way. Nikita if you’re reading this, you need help).

Our education system still lives in the cold war, and it has such a detrimental effect on our perception of states that were occupied by the USSR, most of them we have never gotten the opportunity to study. I do blame the American education system for the bulk of this ignorance, since our textbooks view the Soviet Union as one homogeneous boogeyman-entity. And instead of looking at the lives of people who lived in it, they’re glossed over to paint a narrative of American exceptionalism.

Here’s a message for my Estonian followers. Yes, you will hear a lot of Americans say really, really dumb things about the USSR. It’s an inevitability, like the sunrise. Please, if you are willing, take this opportunity to share with these people stories of the USSR so they can get a glimpse into Estonian history and start to understand.

jane-sloan:

anyway the entire television industry needs an entire revamp to come up with a proper way to figure out the ratings of tv shows instead of relying solely on american nielsen family viewers and certain digital platforms and that’s the tea

ela-bosak:

deitydoq:

ela-bosak:

gaysbashback:

deitydoq:

Love, Simon (2018) perfectly displays the difference between a manipulative public proposal and a sweet grand romantic gesture in the best way possible. Martin, when trying to ask a girl out, publicly humiliates her by pressuring her to say yes to him in front of a huge crowd of people and putting her in the spotlight, making her visibly uncomfortable. When Simon makes the gesture to Blue, it gives “Blue” the opportunity to back out and not show his face, therefore making Simon the only subject of ridicule if the situation goes wrong, showing his dedication and his love for Blue in that he is willing to undergo EVEN MORE humiliation to find him. This, among other parts of the movie, clearly outlines the fact that homosexual people have perfected romance to a degree that straight people have not found. In this essay I will -

op where’s the rest of it

the straights kidnapped him because he was onto their secrets

I’m still here bitch the straights can’t silence me

then finish your essay, or you fail this class