armadillidiidae

A bunch of leaves. you peel, and you peel, and it's still just a bunch of leaves.

[unfunsized]

[utopians]

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

[bluestockingbaby]

[bitcrusherr]

[pencilbrony]

Cat Rom Drama

[human-pet-they]

DUDE GRINDR IS AWESOME

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[galileosballs]

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

(via Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends)

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

[important-animal-images]

@important-animal-images

[rolypolies]

"[blank] is a kind of dead wife" ok well i love to see women thrive so I'm thinking about all of the things that are an #alivewife

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[pudulogy]

[lemonsweet]

The other day my nephew described something as being "like if Slenderman was stuck in a little car" and I yelled YES!!!! bc I thought he was referencing this image I like but then I showed the picture and he was like how do you have an image for that where did you get that

[spiny-ant]

How's your day?

And are there any critters you've resently learned about?

I have actually!

This is Parastrachia japonensis or the Japanese Red Bug! They are a very unique insect in that they are one of the few bugs in the world that raise their young into adulthood

They EXCLUSIVELY feed on the little fruits from the Schoepfia jasinodora tree, which are not easy to come by. The bugs select the fruits they bring to their young very carefully and won't return home without the perfect fruit.

Hilariously, if the young feel that they aren't being fed sufficiently they will abandon the nest to live with another mother of the same species. This leaves the old mother childless and the new one with double to work to do.

Such funny creatures, I'm obsessed

Also look at their dumb fat babies

[sh4rkguts]

I was left speechless by the chicken nugget