by Danny | Feb 20, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
Congratulations on receiving a job interview, NOW is not the time to panic but to prepare. Seems like each day “what to do next” interview questions come in. As a result, the following goes out to Bianca who asked: “I have an upcoming job interview at the Grand Hyatt...
by Danny | Feb 17, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
I was sitting in the lunch room, minding my own business when one of my employees decided to make an entrance. The first thing out of his lips was how anxious he was for the weekend. Granted, this weekend is a three-day event for many (though not for me or my writing...
by Danny | Feb 15, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
Dr. Kathryn Broyles, Ph.D., Program Director of General Studies at American Public University/American Military University highlights the benefits of organizing the old fashioned way, Index Card Cache: In the 2007 comedy, Kickin’ It Old Skool, former 1980‘s break...
by Danny | Feb 13, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
The issue of career placement for those with barriers is not going to go away. Consider that these past four decades have created an American working age population that includes up to 14 million people with felony records—about one in every fifteen between the age of...
by Danny | Feb 10, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
Although the rules of grammar, such as parallel sentence structure, consistency, and punctuation, do apply, the statements we create for resumes are somewhat fragments in bullet or paragraph form simply because we eliminate the pronouns (he/she, you, we). However,...
by Danny | Feb 9, 2012 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved
Catering to our talented concentration of artistic and creative professionals, Artists Square’s CEO, Racquel Cruz, asked member Dyanne Parker, owner/founder at “Canvas and Cheers, Inc., (where u paint and pARTy) the following question: Does volunteering and local...