It's the breakfast in plus TV Africa time for the person put up on Kotari is with us this morning He's a public affairs analyst. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Monday Yes, so put up on guitar you're looking really sharp and and lovely this morning Great to have you join us this morning Okay, so all right, let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and I start off with the board caption He talks about the Russia Ukraine war anxiety over Niger and students still trapped at Polish borders That's what you find this morning on the leadership federal government acts stranded citizens to move to Romanian Hungarian borders and you also have Russian military puts nuclear weapons and high alert Key to hold talks with Moscow. That's what you find on the top caption of the leadership CBN once has had times trigger influx of fintech banks You also have the ACF or Haneze set justice equity as criteria for 2023 presidency court acts to order probe of security votes pending and The president of Muhammad of Buhari's position on electoral act reflects relationship with NAS That's what the presidency is quoted to say Adam our community protest land encroachment by Cameroon and eight villages and eight terrorists killed in Niger and maritime workers to shut down Lagos On a potts over local content breach. That's the much we can take on the leadership this morning And over to the Nigerian treatment which has been in circulation since 1949 these headlines the lead story there federal government confirms 4,000 Nigerians stranded in Ukraine demands their safe passage with the following writers Putin puts nuclear forces on a high alert World isolating Russia European countries us to disconnect Russian banks from international financial system BP to exit 20% of its shareholding from Russian offer and the stories on page three of the Nigerian Tribune More headlines a special report how 100 or how 14.37 billion Naira? Nebsa Diverted funds stall development at Calabar Colonel free trade zones in here. We go again Special report how 14.37 billion Naira nebsa Diverted funds stall development at Calabar Carol free trade zones APC convention, I am the candidate to beat senator damu and why governors stakeholders want me quite interesting Another one. Oh my gig a malami. I add a song or Lou my others lead APC national convention sub committee Strike cost of imported vehicles to increase as trapped cargo's Accumulate charges. It's really sad one with the Declaring and forwarding agents and all those people on strike there Monsters from the Nigerian Tribune or go on your ocean to suffer prolonged power outage Legos canal train derails at Jeba pictures of those ones flood social media will weekend Father son 15 others feared killed in Niger Ghana boys killed traditional ruler 10 others in 2023 poll time table a PC PDP SDP ACF lawyers Express worry readiness for election more stories from the Tribune appeal court ruling of sets and JC decisions On again over 1,000 X judges Judiciary leaders crumble to save council embarrassing reversals and last two stories from the Tribune constitution review reports reps begin debate voting on 68 recommendations tomorrow an NDA intercepts trauma doll 809,850 euro cash from Pakistan Austria Italy at Legos airports those are the headlines coming on the front page of a Nigerian Tribune away from the Nigerian Tribune Let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning and the head of says Russia Ukraine war feels Cassidy May persist all vessel face delay on C Tanker fret rate insurance premium climbing three days and more vessels of Lloyd black and Mediterranean sea over attacks these are riders underneath the board header national assembly Snaps a sudden governor's exclude state pleas from 68 amendment This is also another header this morning. I'll you have a PC governor's meet Tuesday party names convention panel Sanu lampoons the federal government threatens the ground versities marketers comply losses on bad fuel to demand compensation and Federal government directs fleeing Nigerians to head for Romania and Hungary PDP alleges fraud in APC wins three reps seats. I Take that again PDP alleges fraud as APC wins three reps seats Oregon police arrest five suspected quarters over cops killing and That belongs to state says LG Lasg and sans That's also another interesting caption federal government rate in 1.69 trillion our company tax in 2021 that's according to the report from the National Bureau of Statistics and reps set to publish audit queries as MDA is MDA is Sean invitations These are the headlines we can take at this point in time Let's go over to the Guardian with this lead headline the fuel scarcity worsens is an NPC fails on demand Promises fuel scarcity worsens as NNPC fails on demand Promises and these riders to that headline marketers sell above 300 naira per litre It man worse hit as depo owners moment operate at loss and the SEMA calls government stakeholders to find solution and Nigeria to fly before June 20 23 says concession Commission I don't know if we can take that to the bank and Nigeria to fly before June 2023 says concession Commission and despite assent Nigerians still losing sleep over electoral act details on page three only 8145 or eight million one hundred and forty five thousand four hundred and sixteen Nigerians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Russia Ukraine war Putin puts nuclear deterrent on deterrent rather on Special Alerts and there's a picture an interesting throwback picture on one page of a Guardian this morning showing a poutine together with Samora Michelle and The current Zimbabwe and president Emerson Manangawa Samora Michelle is the one who was former husband to Mandela's wife his last wife before he died and he was a freedom fighter in Tanzania and it's quite interesting from 1973 to 1977 Putin is said to have stayed in Africa in Tanzania training freedom fighters So of course that was also the height of the Cold War era. There's a stories coming on the front page of a Guardian All right, let's have a point of bone Kitaria share his thoughts on the papers this morning once again Thank you for joining us. We do appreciate your time Okay, so I like to set off with the leadership it talks about the anxiety of a Nigerian students still trapped at Polish borders And so they are funny very difficult to return Although the federal government What you hear now is They are making a difference other countries have started to comment the question of their citizens in Nigeria I listen to the foreign affairs minister given optimism to Russia making some Very strong pronouncement Trembling fire and greenstone and I just laughed, you know, because that's like we already said The after I like to drop in the ocean We are even less than a drop in an ocean when it comes when it's compared to international politics and there is nowhere We are just excuse me. They don't recognize for our all contribution to the world. And that is it What do we have we don't think we are not the maker of the Arabian our bandit or so that the Minister for a final address is Trembling fire and greenstone quite laughable. Anyway, it is it is okay for people to express their worries No doubt about that. It is normal. Well, you should go beyond the expression of worry, you know, it has to do with the safety of Nigerians, so how do they evacuate those persons from Ukraine or neighboring countries that are in danger. How do they evacuate them? What I believe we should be here right now is that social number of persons have been evacuated Social number of persons have been moved to that it kind of turns you won't be here I'm not telling all that Nigerians are tributing. It's normal that you're tributing. What is the federal government? Because these persons are helpless It's quite unfortunate. It's not of their making. They did not invoke this war. They did not imply this war. They just found themselves like in a crossfire. So what is the federal government doing? This is the responsibility of the federal government. Our follow-up worry is just that these kids flying out of blue trotting Let's also ensure that these Nigerians leave. The way he leaves Nigeria to other countries Every now and then he should also and so he should be used to the airspace. Worry, I want to believe He's more familiar with the airspace than even the pilots anywhere in the world So he should be used to the airspace and should know how to bring these humanities These Nigerians back to Nigeria or take them to it means that it's safe for them. The war is normal I don't think that is new The news should be that the federal government has taken to ensure not just talking We want action not just talking but the federal government has evacuated These no more persons and they're still doing more just like what happened in South Africa when we had that general public When at peace, I mean that was why it was the main recognize that At least on this whole police. Not that he was Where to start out because there's a great man here. That is what we want to hear. That is what we want to see Just before we move away to another story Open up on Kateria, let's let's share your thoughts on this one now quickly It's just you know follow up to that before we move on to another Headline this morning. I mean another issue that the reports are trickling in and the complaints that we're getting is the issue of You know Nigerians being discriminated not necessarily Nigerians Well, maybe you know Africans and that's also is a major issue How what can the government the Nigerian government do about this because right now and with another this rescue mission That's going on people have been transported, you know via train and not the means moving to those borders, but People have been moved people there's a rescue mission So so the question here is whether or not is the effort of the government or is an individual effort the point here is The fact that you know Nigerians, maybe Africans are discriminated against at this crucial time What can the government do is anything that the Nigerian government can do about this? It's because of the way we are being perceived And they know that to the average African life means nothing You know this that is why about their concept But if you kill an American or you enjoy America even if an American doctor in Nigeria today I'd like you to take less than 24 hours for the American government to ensure its release and he will flow out of the country Back to America. It's not the case in Nigeria or in most African countries So how do they say it is how you present yourself that you serve your trust? I thought they are concerned Africans African governments are not interested in the lives and the security of their citizens So why should other countries be interested if they do it at all if it depends on humanitarian grounds It's a question of perception Notwithstanding the fact that the agency Africans as non-human beings That's the truth about it. And that's why you have to set the gates of all over the world They see you out as inferior human beings So they go for the superior human being and we are reinforcing that from which we are reinforcing that belief But he where we govern by the way we treat our own citizens. So you don't blame them I think what the government should do is this time to pull Every day they kill us in Ghana. I don't want to say in some of this country They kill us in Ghana everyday and what do we do? Nothing. I've said it here before that if a Nigerian is killed in Ghana, then you kill 10 Ganyans in Nigeria Then at the end of the day you go to the round table. It was all I said my friend need to continue Start after that you said it You keep going to kill a Russian and see what will happen. Kill an American and see what will happen All right, open up on the time It is not true that Nigerians are killed every day in Ghana It is not true. Yes Yes, I know you would define no problem Because of that amount of misinformation I just give an example of hypothetical Okay, it's hypothetical. All right For me it's just a hypothesis I know I just want to point out for some people who might misinterpret you I agree, don't worry Even in South Africa Okay, let me use South Africa Even in South Africa we are killed every day You understand what I mean? Mr. Guterra, Nigerians are still not killed every day in South Africa It's actually a history generalization It's an example I'm both technically speaking There is no way they can kill every day It's not possible There is no way they can kill every day It's not possible There is no way South Africa is also not killed in Nigeria But the point I'm making is Deep for tax is my policy That's what the point I'm making Deep for tax is my policy And when we do that We will not accept each other We will not accept each other So what you're saying is So what you're saying is if At an example It's just, I'm using this to just Bookshed my point The person she asked I'm not really talking about I think we should use this Mr. Guterra Mr. Guterra I believe you're still a messenger of peace Because I know that you also are Highly respected We know of titles and words and all that Justice of the peace Sorry, justice of the peace If you want to write from where? That's the best piece That's the best piece Let's move on Let us not defend ourselves So I believe you're not saying If I slap you to death I'll walk away I believe you're not saying You're not saying that if Nigerian is targeted Even if I can beat you I'll just slap you to death I believe you're not saying That if Nigerian is targeted In South Africa for instance And Is killed That Nigerians should look for Any South African in Nigeria And also kill that person I believe that will be The right message across the national TV Let me say this I wanted to correct that impression That maybe some people may have Allow me to talk now You've asked the question Where in Nigeria is killed in South Africa?  I should let you say that Isn't it? Save Nigerians killed in South Africa I am not saying Nigerians killed South Africa But first look at South Africa And I love them Ok Let's move on Like you said You know Some love can lead to death Like women and children I do But like you said You're preaching peace And I'm sure you're not I know you very well You're a peaceful man You're very good You're out of your mind You're out of your mind I know you're not encouraging people To take the law into their hands Alright Let's move on Not a few papers Are giving attention to 2023 general elections Of course Yesterday we had the National Electrical Commission Publishing the long-awaited And long-expected timetable For the 2023 General elections Let's go with the Story from the Tribune The Nigerian Tribune that says 2023 poll timetable APC PDP ACF Lawyers express worry Readiness for election Your thoughts on This time to what has been released Following Mr. President's signing Of the bill It's a bit of a paradox When you say express worry Then in other words Readiness No matter what They're telling you They can do time pass better Just worry especially the APC Because A lot of those who have this Ambition Are already in office And are still in office And you know they are mandated Going by the Actuality APC Constitution They are supposed to resign At least 30 days to the primaries Now the timetable is out March 26 I'm going to have that Convention Then after that I think Hello Mr. Secretary are you there please We seem to have A bit of A connection issue But we will try our best to get back to Open a boy in Kutairia Mr. Secretary are you there please Mercy It's quite an interesting one And I do agree with him with the part Toxical nature of that headline You know expressing worry And expressing readiness at the same time But I'm sure if we read that We'll get to see that We have Some parties expressing worry Some parties expressing readiness But I'm too too too Okay wait till we have Open a boy in Kutairia Back on the line Mr. Kutairia apologies for that It happens in these days Maybe until the 5G comes on stream We have to contain this And they want to use A tough currency You know what it means not Some of them let's say for example The minister of the design They might not have access again To the president as they wish To inflate certain things The services will not answer Their calls anymore This is the tradition in Nigeria It is a major subset For that portion out to certify a repeal And you'll become an Open That is why they are really worried Because they want to use the power Of incumbents to read the election It might be a little bit difficult When considering the new electoral act It might be a little bit difficult Now these are all wrongs too If only we were worried I don't know why PDP PDP is expressing readiness But PDP is not enough That's the truth about it So let's say the governor For example if a governor wants He doesn't bother All he needs to do is tell the lieutenant And we'll still be funding the lieutenant We'll still be giving him money Most of them at the national level Are not sure of that Especially when you look at the Language of Mr. President They believe that you are your own To start it, you are your own That is their place If I'm on my own I should still be enough money And also use my office to influence the election That is why those in ATC are worried But those in PDP That's why there's a worry and express readiness Those in PDP are ready They are ready because They don't need If a governor wants you Confid to be the next to succeed it If one eye is enough It doesn't matter, it's going to sponsor you It won't be a bad idea Sorry? It won't be a bad idea No, I know Confid to be the president You'll be ready for that I know you You'll be ready That That is it Some are worried And some are ready Let's also take a look At the punch newspaper This morning and quickly on the punch It talks about the constitutional Review that's ongoing And the fact that Snop saddened Governors and exclude state police From 68 amendment Yes I'm saying let's take a look at this now The ongoing constitutional review You have 68 amendments, some things that have been Conceded, been recommended For review However, with these The issue of state police Has been excluded And at a time where the country Is under security challenges And some peasants have actually Proposed that state security If states actually control their Security architecture Then it would go a long way In carving some of the issues that we're facing Not necessarily waking up to a world Without crime And their troubles But to some extent it would probably Be reduced, especially when you talk About the numbers that we have If you look at the police force For review, but let's say with the police force now Over 211 million people And what's the number Of police that we have to please This population So one would be thinking that, you know Having a state police would be a priority For this constitutional review Well, it depends on Your own POV, your point of view If state police the partner Share to The insecurity in this country Your guess is good as mine Especially when you have Governors suffering From narcissistic personality Pissed contact Wanted to be abused The fact is this year Wanted to be abused You know, because even when a Governor or a commissioner of police By cooperating government You can see the abuse So otherwise state police It's the principle Of the presidential system of government Even with judiciary In actual fact, if you have Supreme Court of the state Then you have the Supreme Court of the country You know, it's a regular process But now you see we are eating Judges are boxed Judgments are procured And that is a warning I can tell you, yes we saw With the constitutional department The presidential department I agree, but An endurance right enough To give a governor There are so many of them If a governor who has a state Police In most cases that state police Will even have a conflict With the federal police It's a rice crime like in America The state police cannot leave His area of jurisdiction To another state Unless He has to inform the country with the Consent, the premature A criminal leaves the state To another place, you must inform Or you bring in the anti act You know that You see that you're station From your look The moment you hear anything That is negative We'll send this state police To you and nothing will happen Because it's a crime If the state police commissioner says No, you only shoot out Immediately, just like you are With the national assembly And the state house assembly And sure, if you shoot judges Go up and beg it I know that governor who has his Ugly, ugly, nothing like this Open up Open up on Qataria We have to let you go at this point I'm sorry Then you might have to say This is the way, please, like this So like the pressure what you have to do To penetrate your mind In the presence of the government In the presence of the government But may there be a view By this character We have to let you go at this point Now, thank you so much Open up on Qataria We have to go, we're really out of time And we're being prompted to leave right now Thank you so much for being part of the show And I'm sure that we have more time To talk about this So Kofi Very interesting But just before I'd like to drop this slide It's like saying that democracy We shouldn't practice democracy Because if you look at it really Are we really practicing It's democracy Really practiced to its capacity The way it should be in Nigeria And we can't constantly make an excuse That we shouldn't practice democracy Because we're not doing the real thing And so we're still here saying It's a nascent democracy We're developing I'm just thinking that we can't constantly Make all of these excuses For state police and not allowing State to control the architecture Yes indeed, merci Up next we'll look at What happened today in history And of course the Russian advance Or invasion of Ukraine Advancing on Kikhev and Kyiv We'll have a guest coming up After that segment right here On The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa


All right, hello, everyone, and good evening. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. My name is Jill Cleese, and I am the iSchool Career Center Liaison. And as your Career Center Liaison, I want you to know that I am available through the email, through phone, and through video chat to work with you on your career-related questions. I can do things like critique your resumes, we could set up mock interview sessions, or basically I'm really here to help you with whatever you need that has a focus on your career and job search. I do always recommend that you check out the resources on the Career Development site first, and here's what that site looks like, at least the main page. And if you can't find what you're looking for there, then by all means, feel free to contact me. So how many of you who are on tonight have visited this site, or are familiar at least with this section of the website and seen this page? How about just a show of hands, or smiley faces, so just a couple people. All right, we've got three. Good. Good, we've got four. All right, so just a few people. So I'm glad that I pointed this out. This is right on the iSchool's career, I mean, the iSchool's home page. You can see the tabs right across the top. Career Development is one of those prominent tabs. So do take some time at some point, and just check out the resources that are there, and just familiarize yourself with that process. All right, so moving on, here's what we're going to do tonight. Tonight, we're going to talk about marketing yourself for the LIS job search, and in terms of how do you represent yourself to the world? So the first session that I did last month was how do you represent yourself to the world online? We talked about social media, and we talked about LinkedIn. Tonight, we're going to talk about how do you represent yourself to the world on paper. So in that process, we're going to talk about filling out the job applications, supplemental questionnaires, talk about your resume a bit, and talk about cover letters. And then the third session, which will be next month, we'll talk about how do you represent yourself to the world in the interview. So just again, by a raise of hands, how many of you attended the session last month in talking about social media and LinkedIn? All right, so again, just a few people. So if you do want to check that out, that is available on the career sites. Let me go back here, actually, the career development site. Right over here in the green box where you see it says career webcast and e-newsletters, in that section right there is where all the recordings to the workshops that I do are available. So you could go back and you could review that session one, or you could go back and even review the session that we're doing tonight. So I want to point that out so that you know that that is there and that's available for folks. So we are recording this workshop, as you know, and do feel free to ask me lots of questions. You could type them in the chat box and feel free to type them in there at any time. I really like to get your questions. I think it keeps our workshop interactive and it helps me identify what it is you really want to know. So feel free to type them in there as we go through. All right, so for tonight, as I talked about marking yourself on paper, we're going to talk about these areas. But let's first start out talking about applications and supplemental questionnaires. So here's my main tips. And I've got a lot of information covered for this section. So you might have your questions, so again, feel free to type them in. But my top 10, or my top tips I should say for filling out applications and your supplemental questionnaires. This comes from, let me give you a little bit of background here too, so I came up with a lot of these tips. I was talking with some folks in the San Jose Public Library. They had seven positions open at one point. And for those seven positions, they had 350 applicants. That's a lot of people, right? But here's what you need to know, half of those 350 applicants did not even make it through the initial screening process. And this is why, these top tips I have on here for you are exactly why half were cut out, right, from the beginning, didn't even make it through the screening process. So number one, when you're looking at job descriptions and you're identifying if you should apply for the position or not, you must have the minimum qualifications to make it through that screening process. So you need to really look carefully at the job description. And if it's saying that you must have an MIIS and you haven't graduated yet or you're not that close to graduating, don't apply for it. Or if you're close to graduating, then you might want to contact the library, contact an HR person with that library and ask them if it's okay for you to apply for it now. Will your application be considered because you're going to be graduating say in two months? So that is a really important question. Now I have, I'm going to ask all of you a question and I want to get your feedback on this. Think about if you're right now working in the library and there's a position that comes up in that library. Just because you work in that library where you are now going to apply for that job, are you guaranteed an interview? Yes or no? What do you guys think? Type it in the chat box for me. Yes, I mean no, you are absolutely correct. The answer is no because you still must meet the minimum qualifications. And the reason I actually asked you that specific question is because that's come up from people. People have thought because they worked in the library so that the folks in the library already know them, the position comes up, they felt that they should have been guaranteed an interview. But you're not, if you don't meet the minimum qualifications, you're not going to get that interview. I also received some interesting feedback. This was from a position in a law library that was posted on Sparta Jobs, which is the San Jose State University job database where a lot of the library positions are posted. So hopefully you all know about that. But this was from a person who was posting a position in the law library. And I got the feedback from her that many of our students were applying for this position, but they weren't following the directions, meaning they weren't understanding the minimum qualifications and they were applying for the position even though they weren't qualified. And the reason she felt really compelled to let me know that is because it was a very large number of students. So I want to just point out, again, the importance of really understanding the positions that you're applying for, looking carefully at those job descriptions. And, again, if you don't meet the minimum qualifications, don't waste your time applying for it. Because the downside of just randomly applying for positions and then not hearing back really starts to take a toll on your confidence. That's really the downside. So you're just applying and you're hopeful every time you do that. Your fingers are crossed every single time. But when you don't get those callbacks, it takes a little more kind of toll on your confidence. And so that's not even worth doing right there. I have a question here from Elaine. Elaine is saying, many library pages, oops, let me go back here. I got scooted down. Here we go. So many library pages that San Francisco public have master's degrees. And I would guess at least 25, but they don't get called for interviews. So they may have met that first minimum qualification of the master's degree. But they need to also meet whatever the other minimum qualifications are. And I just happen to use the degree as one of the examples. But you do need to look carefully. And if you have, if a library has 350 applicants for a couple positions, that means it's going to be fairly competitive. So not only then are they looking at the minimum qualifications for the people that they will put into the yes, let's call for an interview pile, but now they'll start looking at their preferred qualifications. And that bumps it up a little bit in terms of who gets the interview and who doesn't. And I hope that makes sense. Rebecca has a question. How do you get experience if even the most basic jobs require skills you don't have? That's a really good question, Rebecca. And that's something that comes up often. Some of the things you have to think about are are there, what are the other ways where I can start to get some of those skills? And again, even if it's volunteering somewhere, even if it's taking a job that's not necessarily related, but it allows you to develop some of the skills that you're interested in developing so you can move in the direction that you want to move into, sometimes that experience, and I'm putting air quotes around the experience, sometimes that experience of those skills can be gained from some of the coursework that you've taken in the program, and that might be from some projects that you've done. And using and including projects or group work on your resume is an important thing to demonstrate your experience. So you can certainly do that. I often find that students don't realize that they can include that kind of thing on their resume, and you absolutely can. You could also volunteer and get involved with professional associations, and they may have opportunities for you to develop certain kinds of skills that are needed in the kinds of jobs that you want to go into, and then again, that information can be used on your resume. So I encourage you to think big, think outside the box, how can you gain those skills and how can we then put that on your resume to show and to demonstrate the experience that you do have. Elaine has another question. What if it's ambiguous? Should you air on the side of not applying? So that's a good question. So here's the rule of thumb that I go with. If I look at the job description, and I feel like I have 75% of the requirements that they're looking for, then I would go ahead and apply. But if I have less than that, then I would probably think, now it's probably too much of a long shot, and I may not go for it, depending on how competitive that kind of job is. So I used to go about that 75%, and I hope that helps. Cindy, volunteering is a huge plus where I work. Oh, thank you for saying that, because I do think that's important for people to hear that and for people to know that, that is a very, what's the word I want to use? It's a very valid way for people to get experience and to get skills and to network with people, but you can put all that information on your resume. Rebecca says, I've been doing volunteer work at two places now, a small town museum and a special collections archive in my alma mater's library. That's fantastic. Good for you. And even if, you know, you're volunteering and you have the opportunity to do something once or something, you know, it's small, and it's not even part of the actual job description, but it's something with one off that you did, but that one off relates to the kind of work that you want to go into. Well, I would include that one off on my resume, and I would, you know, talk about that experience and give it some accomplishment statements. OK, so that was a lot of conversation, just on tip number one. All right, so let's have the minimum qualifications. Number two, when you're filling out supplemental questionnaires, each question is intentional, and it serves a purpose. I mean, the questions are not just fluff. I've heard from students sometimes, like, why do they put this question on here? It doesn't seem like there's a purpose behind it. Like they'll say it seems like it's fluff, but the questions are not fluff. They're intentional and they're purposeful, and they serve a purpose for that library for the screening process. The main thing is that the questions that a particular library chooses to include on a supplemental questionnaire indicates what's important to that library. So it gives you a clue based on those questions, what they're really looking for, and what's important to them. So number three, when you're filling out applications or you're filling out the supplemental questionnaires, do not leave anything blank, even if you have to put an N-A in there because it doesn't relate to you. That's better than just leaving it blank, because sometimes leaving something blank can read you out or screen you out of the process right away. So do, again, every question is intentional, so do put something in there. Another important point, point number four, when you are answering supplemental questions, don't overthink it. So I've heard this from public librarians, the managers there who are hiring, they're saying don't add citations, don't give me footnotes, don't go on and on and have a very long answer. Just answer the question, don't overthink it. They don't want, they don't, you're not trying to show them how you know how to do citations and footnotes, just answer their question. That's what they're looking for. Number five, your answers to the questions demonstrate to them why you want to work there. So think about your answers in those terms, because that's what they're looking for. And again, it's going to be a team of people, a committee of people who are going through the supplemental questionnaires. So on some level, your answers and the person looking at your answers, it may be slightly subjective because it's different people who are looking at it. But overall, the committee and the team are looking for the same things, the same types of qualities. So again, think about how you're answering that question and how that demonstrates to them why you want to work for their particular library. So where Becca has a question, what if you draw a blank because you can't answer a question?  So again, just don't leave anything blank because that could be an automatic, your screened out of the process. Number six, again, the questions are designed for the librarians who are looking at your answers to really learn a little bit more about you and from your answers to try to determine if they think you're going to be a good fit for their organization, for their culture. So there's a lot that goes into your answers, but again, they just want you to be true to yourself and to not overthink it. Number seven seems so common sense, but it feels so very, very important. Absolutely proofread your answers because grammar and spelling are definitely used to weed people out. So be very, very careful. Look over what you've written several times and make sure that it is grammatically correct and they're not spelling errors because that's the silliest reason to get weeded out of a job applicant pool, but it happens all the time unfortunately. And the last point here is save a copy of all of your documents. They're one of the librarians at San Jose Public shared with me that somebody had, you know, filled out their questionnaire and sent everything in, but one of the pages for whatever reason didn't come across correctly. So it was missing one of the pages, but the librarians actually called the person and said, hey, we're missing one of the pages. Can you go ahead, can you resend that to us? So it's not that they just weeded the person out right away. They thankfully let the person know and the person had saved the copies of their answers so they were able to give them the copy. So I thought that was just a really good tip to keep in mind. Definitely save all of your documents. Okay, any last questions regarding filling out applications or filling out your supplemental questionnaires? And if you still think of things you could certainly type them in afterwards too. All right, so the next section I want to talk about are applicant tracking systems or ATS. So applicant tracking systems are those systems when you apply online and your resume goes directly into a database or the applicant tracking system. And the ATS kind of reads, and I'm using air quotes again, reads your resume. And it's looking for certain words, keywords, key skills. And those key words and key skills are determined by HR or by the hiring manager. But here's some things that you want to look out for. So the goal for you submitting online is for your resume to basically be a match. And you do that by using the same key words and verbiage that you find in the job description. And that's what I call tailoring. So if you work with me on your resume, I use the word a lot. You're going to tailor your resume to the jobs that you're applying for. And really what that does mean is it means looking carefully at the job description and identifying the verbiage that they're using and changing it up on your resume. You can change out words to be a match. You can use the same language that's on the job description. That's a fine thing to do. But that's kind of your goal in getting past the applicant tracking systems. And again, that kind of goes back to meeting those minimum qualifications. So for example, if a position you're applying for, a minimum qualification is having your MLIS. But yours is not finished yet. It's not completed yet. And you apply for the job. The system could pick that up. And you could be weeded out right off the bat, meaning your information will never even get in front of the hiring manager because you've been weeded out. So you do need to check those things very carefully. Number two, so I just said that. The system's designed to screen out those who don't meet the minimum qualifications. But the piece I wanted to add to that is your documents, your resume, could be a supplemental questionnaire. The documents are actually automatically scored through the ATS before the hiring manager even gets to look at a resume, meaning the applicant tracking system can rank the top 10 to 20% of candidates. And those are the ones that will go over to the HR person or to a recruiter. Now, it doesn't mean that every organization or every public library or academic library uses one of these systems. But I wanted you to know about them and basically how they work. It's just an important thing to know about. And when you're applying online, if you notice there's a qualifying question.  Then there might be a question that pops up that you need to ask. So you answer the question and again, I'm just going to go back to an easy example. Say the question is do you currently have Masters of Library and Information Science? Based on your answer right there, you can either be weeded in or weeded out right there based on your answer. So if you get an automatic rejection message that pops up right away, that's a good sign for you that you didn't pass that auto screen. So you actually do have the option, depending on what the question is, to go back in, resubmit and, you know, if you're still being truthful and that's you could change your answer. I'm certainly not suggesting that you go in and lie to make it pass the system. But I'm just kind of, I want you to let you know how the system actually works. That you might go in, answer your question and then it goes, okay, thank you, but you don't meet our minimum qualifications or something like that. You know already you were weeded out. Questions about applicant tracking systems, APS systems for anybody? All right, if you guys think of something, please do type it in and let me know. All right, so let's talk a little bit about resumes. Looks like Elaine's typing a question and so I'll see when that pops up too. But I will continue on. I see a lot of resumes and generally these are some of the things that I see. So I just wanted to point out kind of at a high level some of the things that I'm seeing with student resumes. The first thing I notice a lot is there's poor formatting and from poor formatting that really means not using the white space on the page effectively. You want your resume overall to be visually appealing. You want it to look contemporary. You want it to be very easy to read. You want to have a nice flow of information. So I think I've got an example on here. Well this looks kind of squished because it's on the slide. But just as an example you can see how the page is used. There is enough white space but not a lot but there's enough that it's still easy to see things. Things are written in such a way that it has a nice flow and it's easy to find things. So think about formatting. It's very, very important to have on the resume. Another thing that I see is that resumes are too general and what that means is that they're not really tailored towards any particular job and they lack focus. So you want to put in enough information so that the reader gets a really solid idea of what it is you've done so they can determine if you can do what they need you to do in the future. So for me being too general is, you know, three or four word statements, shelved books, took customer inquiries or answered customer inquiries. Those kinds of things are far too brief. You've got to tell more. You've got to get some more skill words in there and what am I trying to say here? Words that really describe what it is that you can do and you know what those words are by looking at job descriptions and again identifying the verbiage and bringing those into your resume. So another thing that I see is people making assumptions, meaning they won't go into a lot of detail on the resume because they will make the assumption that the reader or the employer or the HR person, well they must know that I have done this and this because I was a library page. But nobody's going to make assumptions when they're going through the screening process on your resume. Again, you have to be very specific and you have to say what it is you need to say, not figure out or guess that somebody's going to know what you did because they will never take the time to do that. So don't make assumptions, just be very clear about what you want to say. Another thing that I see again is that the content of the resume is not tailored to support the objective. So the objective again is the job that you're applying for and you want to make sure that everything in your resume has purpose. But everything you've chosen to include on your resume adds value towards the type of job that you're going for and again you do that by how you write your statements and the words that you use in your statements. So overall I think that your experience on your resume, it should tell a story. It should tell a story in terms of the progression of your experience and your skills as you have developed them and the different types of jobs that you've had. Another thing that I see is there is too much non-relevant information on a resume. So most people who come into the program have had a career before they chose to come to library school and it's important to include the work that you've done in the past because there's some really solid skills in there that can transfer over into the LIS environment. So what you don't want to do is fill your resume with a lot of statements that relate specifically to what you had done in your job in the past. For example, so you worked in the insurance field and so part of your job was looking through claims and identifying if claims were going to be processed or how much money people were going to get back. And so you might be putting that on your resume because you're like, well that's what I did in that job. But even though you did that in that job, that doesn't relate over into the LIS environment. So what you want to stop and think about is what skills did I use in that job or what skills did I develop while I was in that job that can be used in the LIS environment that can transfer over and that's what I want to write my accomplishment statements about from my insurance job. So maybe what you focus on is your communication skills or your listening skills or your ability to do in-depth research. Well maybe it's your customer service skills. So you really think about what are some of those things that you did that do relate and that's what you focus on. So I hope that makes sense to people. Something else that I notice that students will oftentimes leave off of their resume are the projects that you've done in your coursework and frankly that's a missed opportunity because you have done so much great stuff in your program, I mean in your coursework. And a lot of it obviously is virtual. You're working with virtual teams. That's a skill in itself right there. So thank you Heather. Where you put those projects, here's, let me see, let's go to this example here that I had. Here we go. Okay, so right here is a section for Sally's projects. So basically she's got education up towards the top which you would all want to have your education towards the top right now because you're currently in a program so you want somebody to see that right away. Relevant coursework is something that's optional but I think if you lack a lot of related experience this is a very important piece to have. You can also list some of your skills right up here at the top and then before I get into my experience I often list my projects. So I give the project a title. It doesn't have to be an official title, just kind of a title to identify what you were doing. You could put SJSU so the reader gets a sense of where you did this project and you could put the date so you might have 2014 or maybe it's a project that you're doing right now so maybe you'd write in progress. And then you can write some bullet point statements. So you might, this one says independently designed and implemented a collaborative teaching strategy that the librarians can use to teach patrons how to take advantage of new technologies, present findings to a virtual focus group, create an interactive environment and successfully facilitating a Q&A session. So that's one way to talk about a project and some skills that you've got. Here's another one, government documents project. Analyze the availability and ease of use of the legislative history documents in traditional depository libraries, compile the results, made recommendations for the 25 page report. So those are just two examples but I typically will put the projects up here and then I will get into the experience. Okay. So think about what projects you could include and think big. Use as many as you can, again especially if you're lacking related experience. This is a great way to really show and give value to what you've been learning in your MLS program. I'm going to get a drink of water real quick. So Jordan has a question, is it likely an employer would want to see a copy of the course project? No, it's really not likely. What they most likely would do would be ask you some questions about it. Oh, so I see Jordan on your resume that you worked on a virtual team putting together a or how about planning an event for students at a conference. So tell me a little bit more about how you were able to coordinate a team virtually. If you weren't there with people, you know directly in person, how are you able to coordinate that? So they're going to ask you some questions perhaps based on what they're seeing on your resume, but rarely would they ask for the actual course project. I haven't even heard of anybody saying that, but they will ask you questions. So you want to be able to, you want to remember the project and be able to talk about it for sure. Other questions about your projects and how you would include them? And people, students actually, I find that you all often forget that and I have that as a last bullet point, that working in a virtual environment, doing a virtual online program, working with folks via distance learning is definitely a skill. And there's few people out there, honestly, who have that skill set. So don't take that one for granted as well. That's something that you could use to your benefit, particularly based on the job that you're applying for and what they're looking for in somebody, but that could be a real, real important selling point for all of you. Another thing that I noticed that students will forget and leave off are their technical skills or their computer capabilities. And again, I find that students kind of forget about that or take it for granted. But the fact that you all, depending on when you came into the program, we used to have Illuminate. Now, obviously, we have Blackboard Collaborate. People might be using D2L. All the different technology that you're using just to get through this program, those are skills, and you can put that information on your resume, certainly, or basically depending on the job that you're applying for if it relates, but I'd probably still put it on there too. Okay, so let's kind of check this out. This is just a sample of a resume. It's even a little chopped off, but it gives us a place to talk about resumes. So this is kind of a basic resume format. There is no one exact way to write your resume because you all have different skills and experiences that you're bringing into the program. Some of you are career changers. Some of you have been working in the field.  So you all come in this graduate program with varied backgrounds, which means your resumes are going to look different as well, as they should. So this sample for me really just provides a good example for us to look at, and it does give us that starting point to kind of talk about some of these sections here. So when you all look at this, what do you notice about this resume? Or what do you like about this resume? Or what do you dislike about this resume? So go ahead and give me some comments and we can start chatting about it. So Elaine says this resume looks a little crowded, but do you think it's formatted clearly? It's a little, honestly, it's got a little squished in the way it looks when I put it on the slide here. So if it wasn't, didn't have that squished look, I honestly think it's okay.  I'll usually take it down to about 0.8 all the way around, and that usually gives me plenty of room. I use the space of the page, which means I don't indent things really far into the center. I want to use that space on the page, but as long as it's visually appealing and it's easy to read, then you're good to go. So you are always writing and formatting a resume, one for applicant tracking systems, typically, depending on what kinds of jobs you're applying for, and then you're also always writing it for the human eye, because the human eye is always going to look at it. So you do want it to look good. Heather's question is the relevant coursework that relates to the job that she's applying for, yes. So what is she applying for? Reference librarian. We have reference information, research methods, design, and infrastructural stuff. Yes, so when I, for me, when this is relevant coursework, it is. It's relevant towards the job that you're applying for, or if it's related coursework, it's related towards the job that you're applying for, which means you wouldn't list every single course that you've taken. But I'll tell people, think about the courses you've taken that you would want an employer to know that you have foundational knowledge in. And that can help you determine which courses to put on there. Okay. Let's see what else. A couple of just basic things about formatting. So we talked about the margins on the side. For font size, the smallest that you'd want to go is 10. The largest that you'd want to go is 12. So don't go any larger than 12. No need to make your name, you know, 20-size font. But just bring it all down. Keep it all in that same sort of, same flow. You want to pick nice, clear font styles, something like Times New Roman, Calibri, Verdana, Aerial, those work really well. So things that have nice, clean lines. Definitely use some bolding, because when things are bolded, that's where your eye goes to it. So the bolding just helps certain things stand out. Bullet points are fantastic for your statements versus a paragraph form. Again, you want it to be easy to read. Employers give you maybe six to 10 seconds when they're looking over a resume. So you want things to stand out and pop out and be very easy for them to find it. So let me see if there's some other sections I want to talk about here. Objectives are optional. I kind of leave it up to you. But if you choose to use one, you want it to be very specific. Like this is very specific. Seeking a reference librarian position in a public library. Or maybe it would be seeking the reference librarian position at the San Jose Public Library if you're applying for a specific job. Heather has another question. I usually put related experience and then other experiences. Is that acceptable? Also, your statements need to be limited to one page. Great questions, Heather. So the first part about how you have related experience and then other experience, I think that's fabulous. I love to do that myself. So I do recommend having it divided. Again, that doesn't work for everybody's resume. But if it works for your resume out there, I like it separated that way. That way you're bringing focus to all of the experience that you have that relates to the job that you're going into. Usually that's going to be kind of the top half of the resume or that first page. And then we'd have the bottom half or a second page is kind of the other stuff. That's good for someone to know. So that goes and Heather's question about does it need to be limited to one page? It does not need to be limited to one page. The answer really is if you have enough good, solid information that is relevant information to go to two pages, fantastic, go for it. But if you have one page and you've got just a little bit on the second page, then I would try to play with it to get it on one page. But it's not a hard and fast rule, mainly because so much stuff is online now that it's not that we're having all these paper copies of things. So it's fine if you have a two-page resume. Okay, let's see. What else do I want to tell you about this resume? So we have coursework with skills. So for me, your technical and computer skills, if they directly relate to the kind of position you're applying for me and they're important for that position, I'd like to have those up here towards the top. If they are less important, then those could be bumped down towards the bottom. And then again, we talked about projects, the positioning of projects. Now here would be another thing. If you're looking at this example, if Sally's related experience was more important than her projects, then I might flip it around and I might have the related experience first. Then I would go into projects, then maybe I'd have additional information with some, you know, other random jobs on there. So again, no hard and fast rule. Kind of play with it to see which format does the best job of representing what you have to offer to an employer. Okay, so I'm going to move on. If you have some other questions, certainly ask me. But I'm going to move on to show you a job description. And the reason that I want to point this out is because I do talk a lot about tailoring your resumes to a job description. Well, I think part of that is how do you read a job description? What are you actually looking for? So this is a real job description. And what's in red is where I went through and I looked for themes. I looked for certain words that kind of kept popping up over and over, which tells me those are important areas to the hiring manager or the HR person for this job. These are the themes that I'm seeing throughout this job description and that's what's popping out. So that tells me then that those are some key words. Those are some areas that I would definitely want to focus on, on my resume and that I want to make sure I've identified, for example, that I am creative, that I am a tech savvy, that I can work in an online environment, that I'm collaborative and I can work part of a team, that I have good communication skills and interpersonal skills. So if you look through this, you definitely see the theme and the key words and that gives you a very good idea of what you want to focus on. And then this one also does a good job of showing us here's required skills, right, so we talked about that you've got to meet the minimum qualifications. And then the next section is, okay, here's the preferred. So it goes back to the question I had early on about if you've met all the required skills but you're still not getting an interview, well, that's because there may be plenty of people who are applying for that job. So now the employer has bumped into the preferred skills. So now I can take it one step higher and I can look for the people who have these additional skills. So hopefully that makes sense. Jenny has a question, how much of this should be reflected in your resume or cover letter? So that's a good question, Jenny. And I have a couple cover letter examples in here too. The cover letter, you really only need to include the cover letter if they ask for it as part of the application process. If they say just submit a resume, then by all means just submit a resume and you're not doing yourself a disservice, you're just following the instructions. If it does say include a cover letter and resume, then of course you want to do both. So for the resume, I'm absolutely including as much of these skills, these keywords as I can that are true to me, right? I want to include those. On the cover letter, let's jump to the cover letter actually. Okay, let's cover letter quick tips but let me, do I have a sample on here? Let's go to this one, okay. So cover letter, this is kind of basically a format that you want to think about for a cover letter. Think of it in three paragraphs or three sections. The first one is we're calling it your statement of intent. That's basically where I'm saying, I was excited to hear of the position for a reference library in the San Francisco Public Library. I'm currently a student at San Jose State University iSchool. We graduated in December of 2014, something like that, right? That's just my opener. But the second paragraph, the summary of qualifications, that's where you're really going to connect what you have that they're looking for. So if we go back to this job description, in the cover letter, I might say, and this is just coming off the top of my head so let me see what I can come up with, but I might say something like, I might even use some of those words.  I have had the opportunity to complete my master's degree in an online environment where I became very comfortable with using distance learning technology and collaborating with people in a virtual world. I have developed strong communication skills and have had the opportunity to develop an innovative online instructional library guide. And then maybe I go into more about that, you know, I collaborate with a group of four to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I hope that made sense, but that's where I might pull out some of these key things that relate to the job, but I don't want to repeat what's in my resume, but it's a way for me to sort of summarize the best of what I've done as it relates to that particular job. So I hope that made sense. Just let me know, Jenny, if that works for you. And then going back to the cover letter, that third paragraph is really good. Okay. The third paragraph is really just the closer. I look forward to talking with you further about how my skills of the qualifications can be a positive, make a positive impact in your library. Thank you for your time and consideration. And that's it. You wrap it up. So what I had back here were some cover letter quick tips. So definitely following the business letter format, we talked about targeting it. You need to target and tailor it every single time, which means you might have a general cover letter format that you work with, but you've got to tweak it and customize it every single time for each job that's asking for the cover letter, because if it's just a general one that you send out, just don't even waste your time. Employers are not interested with general ones. You want to address the cover letter to a specific individual. If you do not have a particular individual's name, then your last resort is to use the Deer Hiring Manager or Deer Search Committee, something like that. Always talk in terms of what you can contribute to the organization, not how the position or the organization will benefit you. I see that so many times. I am interested in this position because I can learn so much about blank. I would like to develop my skills further. They're not going to hire you because of what you want to gain from the position. They're going to hire you or talk to you in an interview because of what you can bring to them. So always make your cover letter employer-focused versus you-focused. Let's see what else. Keep it brief. You don't have to go on and on, but keep it brief and make sure it's free of errors, check the spelling, and it's got to be professional. And one full page, a full page is probably too much. Unless you are applying in an academic setting, usually writing more will be okay. So we're getting close to our time. I have a few cover letter statements here that I just wanted to point out to you. And the reason I want to point these out is because I hope you pick up that the tone of these statements is very confident. They are strong in not in annoying, overly assertive way, but they're very confident. And that's important to have that come across. So I have, it's okay to say, I have exceptional research abilities and strong foundational knowledge in blah, blah, blah. I know how and where to quickly find accurate and reliable information. That's confident. People like that to come across. The next one, I am able to directly apply, you know, what I have learned, right? I'm able to do that. The next one, I can work successfully with people at all levels. The next one, I have excellent leadership skills as evidenced by my involvement in. And then the last one, as a, you know, whatever, in turn, my favorite projects involve legal research, and I love helping other associates and partners. So everything is very confident and strongly stated with assurance.  All right. So that brings us to the end here. We have about five more minutes and I'm wondering if any of you have any last burning questions for me that relates to supplemental questionnaires, applicant tracking systems, filling out applications, writing your resume, or writing your cover letter. So if a couple of people type in some things in, I know this was a lot of information tonight, but it's all good information. So if you think about it and you come up with some questions later, certainly do email me. My email address is here and I'll be happy to get back to you. Rebecca has a question. How do you address your online program education on a resume or job application when the space or tabs don't fit? Well, that is a good question. It will fit on your resume. You know, it may not fit on the job application and that would be okay. I think for me, the resume is more important than the job application. Oftentimes, a hiring manager never sees the application. That's something that stays on the HR side, but they will definitely see your resume. So you can have, you know, San Jose State University, Master of Library and Information Science, you could say, 100% distance learning program or, you know, online program. And where it's important or when it's important to include that is when that directly relates to the kind of job that you're applying for. Otherwise, you can just put the, talk about your skills, working in a virtual environment, down in your projects or maybe in the skills section. If that makes sense, I hope that makes sense. Elaine's question. Do these tracking systems track the supplemental questionnaires or the resumes? Typically, those are just tracking the resumes. Human eyes, a human person needs to go through the answers on the supplemental questionnaires to really determine how you've answered the question if you've answered it to the way that they would like you to. So it's going to be focused on the resumes will be the applicant tracking systems. I'm sorry about the spelling error. It's no problem. Rebecca, my concern is location. I'm not sure what that means. Do you mean like geographic location? I'm not sure what you mean, Rebecca. I'm sorry. Heather, how do you deal with federal jobs that ask for very specific qualifications that you can definitely demonstrate knowledge in, but perhaps you do not have the skill 100%? Is it okay so that you're qualified in something and feel that you can back that up? Absolutely. Yes. So, I mean, for us to have a skill that's, you know, 100%, you've had to work at that for a long time. So the fact that, yes, you can demonstrate that you have knowledge and some skill level in a certain area is absolutely worth it and very important. So, again, give yourself some confidence for what you do know. And you have to learn the situation thinking, well, I'm familiar with this or I have some basic knowledge of this and I know that if this became my job, I'm going to learn it, you know, I'm going to become proficient in it. I can develop my skills even further, but I have enough to get myself started. And you have to really think about it that way. How soon can one apply for a librarian job before graduating or does one have to wait until after? That's a great question. I'd say if you're going to graduate in December, I mean, I would absolutely be applying for jobs because by the time, one, I think you're pretty close. And if you're questioning whether you're close enough, again, call the HR department or contact the people who are posting a job and find out, hey, I'm going to graduate in December, I'm interested in the job, can I apply for it now while I still make it through the process if I have all the other qualifications. And then the other thing is, you know, the hiring process is depending on where you're applying, whether it's a public library or academic institution. Those typically take longer than corporations, typically, can't say always, but. So, I would go for it and hopefully the timing really works out. So, I guess my question is don't, or my answer is don't wait until after graduation. You want to get it started. In terms of putting out an address on the application form, I'm going to have to go back and figure out what we're saying, Rebecca, I'm so sorry. Let's see if I can make sense of this. I still don't think I get it. Sorry. I'm not following that one. Jenny, on a resume, do you suggest including the months and years? You were in a position or is only the years okay? Good question. Either one is fine. I have never heard, I've asked employers this if it matters to them, one way or the other. And I've never, either way, seems fine actually. If you want to include the months or if you just want to include the years. I tend to just go with years. I don't put the months on there. Yeah. So, I think either one is fine. Yeah. I'm sorry, Rebecca. I would not follow that. And let's see. Jordan, is there a time limit on how long we can access SJSU Career Resource after you graduate? Yeah. So, thanks for asking that, Jordan. Typically, Dr. Hirsch has given new grads a period of time after you graduate. The period's gotten shorter, so it might be a couple of months after you graduate for you to activate a career center membership. So, what that means is the iSchool will pay $25 for you to have a career center membership. And with that, then you have access to Sparta jobs. So, you can go into Sparta, the job database and check out jobs. And then you still have access to work with me, send me questions. I can look at resumes and things like that. So, you will still have access. And once you have that membership, the membership lasts for a year. And then after that year, if you wanted to pay the $25 and continue that so that you still have access to Sparta jobs, the database, you could certainly do that on your own. Oh, thanks, Karen. So, Rebecca, if the education is online and not located in a geographic location, I was wondering if that was it. So, thank you. I get it now, Rebecca. You know, so I wouldn't worry about it. You're going to have your say you're in Florida. And, you know, we're here at San Jose State. If there's a concern or you're wondering if employers are going to wonder, hey, how did you that? That's where you'd want to then say that the program for San Jose State was online. So, it might say San Jose State University online, maybe, if I'm thinking of if your space was limited to put that in there. But that's how I would just indicate it somewhere. I still wouldn't worry about doing it on the application. I might just do it on the resume like I said before. I don't think it's an issue on the application. But if we need to talk about that further because I'm not still understanding it, we can do that. All right, you guys, our time is wrapped up and I don't like to keep you past 6.30, but we did start a little bit late. That's true. But again, I thank you for your patience earlier on. If you do have some questions, please do feel free to contact me. I'm very happy to help. Thank you for joining me tonight. I absolutely appreciate your questions. Thank you. I'm glad it was informative. I always appreciate the interaction. You're very, very welcome. It was my pleasure. All right, have a great evening. Thanks, everyone.


Let's say we're playing the game of chicken. Scott and I are going to be in cars. We're going to drive cars at each other. Whoever swerves loses. So if we both swerve, we both lose. If neither one of us swerves, we both die. If Scott swerves and I don't, I get the girl. And vice versa. So let's try to make a threat. I'm not going to swerve. I take my steering wheel and throw it out the window. I'm not going to swerve. So what has Scott done? He's changed the nature of the game. He is basically, by taking his steering wheel out, he's removed his own agency. I have no choice but to swerve and lose the game or to die along with Scott. So the way to tell if signaling is good in a game or not, right, is it will help you in a game, is show someone your move. If showing someone your move makes you win, signaling is good in that game. If showing someone your move makes you lose, signaling is bad in that game. Let's do rock, paper, scissors. I signal. I've already thrown the rock. That didn't help me at all. Yeah.


Another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Taste the Beer of Dracula, it's a extra special bitter. Today we're doing a Request episode, our good friend Joel has been hounding us to do this movie since day one, so today we're talking about 1988's Waxworth. The movie was written and directed by Anthony Hickocks. He did some movies, but one notable worth mentioning is Hellraiser 3. Hell on Earth, with that seedy player guy. Zach Galligan is in this, he plays like the main male lead, and he was in Gremlins. Deborah Foreman's in this, and she played Buffy or Muffy in April Fool's Day.  Patrick McNeese is also in this, Mrs. Peele. You don't even say what he's in this, Mrs. Peele. Why? The movie starts off kind of in a mysterious way. This man being assaulted in his house, it's thrown like head first into the fireplace. It then takes us to present time. We're introduced to the main character, a rich spoiled little brat.  Two of Mark's friends are walking to school that day, and they walk past this big mansion, which I'm sure they've walked by gazillion times anyways, but now they notice that suddenly it's this Waxworth museum. And this man appears out of nowhere, he invites them, and specifies, bring four more of your friends to the Waxworth tonight for special viewing. It shows the kids at school they're being taught history by some Nazi teacher. He all goes the high old thing by accident.  Door opens, and it says, weird midget person is respecting more.  They go into the Waxworth, most of the displays are based off of horror movies and horror stories. And they look oddly very life-like. Very life-like, too life-like. Tony gets a little close to one display, gets sucked into the display, and he's in this different world. He walks up to this kind of log cabin and opens it up. Gimli from Lord of the Rings is there. He starts turning into this werewolf.  A couple of guys show up to take on this werewolf. Their gun's not even loaded, they have to take all this time to load this old gun. Drop the bullets of course.  Wouldn't you have everything ready? Just blow this thing away.  He ends up biting Tony, and Tony starts turning into a werewolf. He appears in the actual display at the Waxworth, materializes as being part of the display. Their other friend, China, ends up getting too close to this kind of vampire looking display.    His rat's like eating away, it is already eaten. He's like... One of the vampires comes down, ends up fighting with China, and they're kind of fighting over the guy who's being... Still fighting over his open wounds and everything. The brides of Dracula come down, turns into a big bloodbath. Blood spraying everywhere. In this nice white room, I like that kind of contrast. She ends up being killed, and then she becomes part of the diorama. Mark and Sarah start looking for their friends, they can't find them anywhere. That little midget guy is like, God, they've left, friends have left! They haven't appeared at school either, so they start to think something's up. Mark goes to the police. Begrudgingly, he does go down to the Waxworth to go check things out. He's close to the mummy display, and he gets sucked into that. It starts off that him and this old guy, they open the sarcophagus. The old man quickly kicks the bucket, he throws a spear into the mummy, and the mummy picks him up and runs him through.  The mummy just picks him and this girl up and throws him into the sarcophagus and seals it up. So Mark starts to do some investigating about this Waxworth, and he goes up to the attic of their house, finds newspaper clippings of the owner of the Waxworth years in the past, and he looks exactly the same then as he does now. Mark decides to talk to his grandfather's friend, Sir Wilfred, and it turns out that Mark's grandfather was into Haitian voodoo, items from some of the most evil people in the world that ever existed. Those items, it turns out, were stolen in the beginning of the movie by Lincoln, who's now owning the Waxworth. It's all super convoluted. Yeah, it's quite convoluted. Lincoln sold his soul to the devil. Sold his soul? Sucked soul. Lincoln wants to use these Waxworths. He has to feed them victims to give them enough power to bring them to life so he can take over the world. Yeah, it's like, whoa!  Mark and Sarah hatch a plan to burn down the Waxworth, and that's where we're going to end it. If you want to see what happens with Mark and Sarah and the Waxworth, keep watching. This movie is just basically tons of fun. Tons of 80s, horror, camp, fantasy, fun. This is fantasy. It pays tribute to all these classic horror movies. The Wolfman in there we have, Vampires we have. The Mummy.  Wax, wrapped in a different type of story. And they're all done better than most movies are done now. Within like 5 or 10 minutes per little scene. The practical effects are awesome in this movie. Oh yeah, for sure.  So it's like a good combo between those kind of 80s style anthology creep show. But with the big story arc that kind of wraps everything together in a nice package. Nice neat little package. The characters are pretty neat because like for example the main character, Mark, he starts off as this kind of rich little prick.  But then in the end he kind of becomes the hero. There's character development. Yeah, like the character of Sarah for example, she's kind of like the timid, quiet girl, but in the end you find out she's completely different. She's in that mucky desod. She's all being whipped and she's all into it, whipped to orgasm. It's like whoa, keep going. The fact that they were able to get all of the characters across to the viewer is amazing in such a short amount of time. And you see them hanging out at the school and stuff and there's not a whole lot of dialogue and everything but you know right away almost everything about her. Who's who, who likes who, who's jealous of who, all that kind of stuff. And you get the sense that they're all very close friends too and they do it in such a short amount of time which is great. If you haven't seen the movie we're not going to wreck the ending for you but it is one hell of a kind of final act.  You get to see Patrick McNean some special war wheelchair and old men being killed and stabbed and explosions and whippings and it's just wild.  Tons of fun, it's colorful and it's written very well and the effects are great, the characters are awesome and it's fun. It's just a fun movie. And that's really what we enjoy is a fun movie and you get a thumbs up from us. And until next time...


Hey guys, what's up Aragorn here? You asked, I answered. You guys, on Tuesday we released our first episode and you guys absolutely loved it. 100%. But anyway, we're back for more because you guys asked me questions and I've got this urge I need to answer. So anyway, let's see what you guys are saying. Hello. Last. Thumbs up. I like ducks. Looks like me and Aragorn read most of the comments and I don't want to read the rest. Oh 35, my channel! Yay! Again! This was quite entertaining and funny. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed. This was quite entertaining. Thank you. Haha. Great video, Aragorn. Keep up the brilliant work. Oh, thank you! Sorry, but I learned absolutely f*****g all from this video. Hey, the same here. I've started up a music group with friends. How can we tell people that we exist? Well, I actually have a few ideas for this. Now, this goes outside of YouTube. You can play live and I honestly think that that is probably the best thing that you can do. You can have the usual. You can license your music to people. You can promote it free, you know, do kind of royalty free tracks. A lot of people do get attracted to that and that way you will get more playtime outside of your own channel because other people will be using your music. However, I do think it's important to get live experience, whether it's just to help you as a musician or whether it's to build actual connections in the real world. And it's not to say that online isn't the real world because it certainly is. But there's a certain different type of connection when you give someone a physical handshake and you're able to talk to them directly.  Do you think it's possible that we come play here sometime? A lot of my friends are actually have a lot of friends who are into music and are doing similar things. I really think that's important and start to say that you can't have YouTube as part of it, but focus on the outside world too. Why am I so Canadian? What do you do to get your hair to look so fantastic? Actually, it's it's all special effects, to be honest. I'm actually bald. That was freaking awesome. Great job. You got a rare laugh out of me. Well, you get rare laughs out of me too. Guys, everyone should go check out EposVox and also the geek channel. He runs both of them.  Hey, Larry, here from the stream. God, I'm terrible. But like every episode and by every, I mean to because here I've only been to we have to go on Twitter to see what you guys are saying right there. Aragorn, would you ever consider going to an anime con and cosplay? Well, actually, that's something I really want to do at some point in my life. I'm even thinking maybe this year we could have some sort of meetup. Let me know what you guys think of the comments down below. Aragorn, can you give me a shout out? No. What's nine plus 10? Dude, why would you even ask such a simple, obvious, so blatantly easy question?  Did you style yourself after the llama or did the llama style itself after you? In case you guys don't know what she's referring to, it's right here. You can check it out. It's on my channel. It's about a minute long and it's the best video I've ever created. No, no, it was kind of like a mutual thing. I called him up. He's like, hey, you want to do something with our hair? And I was like, yeah, totally, man. And the rest is internet history. Anyway, guys, thanks so much for watching. If you have a question, leave it down below or on Twitter, the hashtag. Yeah, yeah. And potatoes.


Here's how you put chapters into your YouTube video. It's actually quite simple basically in the description of your YouTube video Somewhere in the description. It could be at the bottom Put zero colon zero zero and then put like intro or whatever how you however you start the video and then After that you could just put another line break and put like, you know one colon Three zero and then whatever topic meaning at one minute and 30 seconds it changes to this other topic and it'll put whatever topic Let me go and show you what I mean here. I'm gonna share my screen. All right So I basically I'm gonna put chapters underneath right now. You could see this YouTube video has no chapters It's one single red bar, right? There are there are no chapters at all So let me let me do chapters by clicking edit video and what I need to do here is to put those chapter Timestamps with topics anywhere in the video could be at the start. It could be at the bottom I think I might as well put at the bottom because it's it looks a little messy, right? It can look messy and what I did was I used Google Gemini to actually I basically say hey Are you able to create chapter titles from the YouTube video along with correct timestamps for those chapters? I gave it a link to the video and it did and I actually watched this I actually went to these timestamps and it was accurate and it's very smart because it starts with zero dot zero Column zero zero which is what it needs. Okay to start the whole YouTube This is how it you trigger YouTube to know that you're creating chapters So I'm gonna go and just copy this and let me see if what Google Gemini gives me this kind of format will work Well for YouTube chapters. I haven't literally done this before I'm gonna put it in here okay So see what it did see what Google Gemini did was it gave it gave me like okay Basically this overall chapter with these sub chapters. All right, so it might confuse YouTube Let's see if it it confuses YouTube to have two zero dot zero zeros or zero colon zero zeros click save Okay, I've saved it now.  It did it. It did it. It did it It did it so let me see here zero and you can see what the chapters are Let me go and zoom out here. You can see what the chapters are by underneath the video itself There's these there's now these topics at different different places if you click on the topics It'll show you the chapters on the right hand side. So let me see here Zero and then at 30 seconds recognizing the problems at one minute and 30 anti-work movement. Okay, let me see here zero Zero introducing the speaker Zero zero 30 hold on 30 seconds recognizing the problems, right? Yes, exactly the anti-work movement So it's doing it correctly. So next one should be 205 the dangers of chasing money. Let's see here. Whoops Where's the video 205 why chasing financial freedom? Okay, so see this is what happened 205 to 520 So it basically disregarded it disregarded all these sub chapters because it got confused So this is why if you use Google Gemini to do this, you should you should remove the overall I'm gonna do it right now. I'm gonna remove the overall ones. Okay. This was the OPC 205 to 520 this confused YouTube right there So I'm gonna remove that one because it remember this was the overall Chapter and then it kind of Gemini gave me sub chapters I'm gonna remove the overall chapter ones the ones that had a lot along see the 5 520 to 835 remove that one and Then 835 to 1220 removing that one and removing this one and removing this one and Removing what else why I've removed this one And I think that's it right anyway for the sake of the recording I'm not gonna comb over it too carefully right now. I click save. I'm gonna go ahead and open the video up again Basically in the future as people view my video the chapters will be there. Let me see here. Okay, sometimes Sometimes you have to wait because basically YouTube is processing all that information It doesn't usually happen instantly because the chapter creation has to it takes at least several minutes So let me see while I'm recording this whether it'll work or not. Ah There it is. Okay, again underneath the video topics will show up now with the time stamp So I'm gonna click on the topic and the chapters will that will now be there and look Yes, the ones remember the sub chapters or whatever. It's all there now So the nice thing about chapters on YouTube is that it does it does help with search engine Optimization because all this data is going to Google and Google loves it when there are YouTube videos that have chapters Because then it's able to point people to just particular chapters in the video when people are searching Google They might see oh check out this chapter of this YouTube video and when they click on it They'll jump directly for example to this one chapter and then they'll still be able to see your whole video But it'll just jump to that one point. So I hope this is helpful. I Want to thank Ben Wah fuchs for mentioning that the end times Like you don't have to say zero dot zero zero dash zero dot one five or whatever You don't need that you just need to start times for each chapter. That's all you need start time for each chapter like Minute colon seconds to two digits seconds, you know one minute, you know one colon Two zero or whatever space and then whatever the topic chapter or the title of the chapter should be