RESOURCES
Life After College
Securing a job after college can be difficult, and is something many people worry about. In this video, there is some step by step tips on how to build your resume. While building your resume, you are able to display and identify any strong skills that you may have, any experience as well as any certifications. This video is helpful because it breaks down each step in building a resume. Things like how to organize it, what sections you should have and what to add to it are shared.
Frank, T. (2019, May 19). 8 Tips for Writing a Winning Resume. Retrieved from
Staying active and being social after college is important. It helps you meet new people, stay healthy and builds you as a person. This article gives you different suggestions on how you can stay active in your community, how you can build your social relationships with people and how you can maintain a healthy living.
Autumn at University Language. (2018, May 8). How to Maintain Your Social Life After
College. Retrieved from
https://www.universitylanguage.com/blog/graduation/how-to-maintain-your-social-life-a
ter-college/
Preparing for an interview does not only mean having your resume and showing up for the interview but actually taking the time to get to know the company, the position you are applying for and looking presentable during the interview. This website provides interview etiquette tips, research tips and practice interview tips. This is helpful because it helps you prepare mentally, visually and verbally for your interview. It helps you realize other important aspects in an interviewing process.
Doyle, A. (2019, September 18). How to Get Ready for a Job Interview. Retrieved from
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/how-to-prepare-for-a-job-interview-2061361.
Paying off your student loans is challenging and can be very overwhelming when you do not have a plan. This video is important because it describes the types of interests on your student loan, how you can handle your payments and the repayment options that you do have. This video helps you become responsible when paying back your student loans.
Steph & Den. (2020, January 16). STUDENT LOAN DEBT Repayment Options (Canada).
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTDku0AHVvU
How to Acknowledge Your Privillage
When discussing privilege is it imperative to recognize that although you have experienced hardships an individual can still be privileged. This article provides advice to those who are not only social workers but individuals who are having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that they benefit from privilege.
Ebbit, K. (2015). Why it's Important to Think About Privilege - and Why it's Hard. Global Citizen. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/why-its-important-to-think-about-privilege-and-why/
Lillian Medville is an artist and activist that developed an experience-based card game that provokes conversation about privilege and social justice through her understanding of culture and power. Through this Ted Talk, she forces others to take a vital step towards change.
Tedx Talks. (2020). Your Privilege Is Showing | Lillian Medville | TEDxBeaconStreet [Video]. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4b_ojKx6UI
This article provides an array of resources for those who want to become educated about the relationship between race and privilege. This is not just a guide for those who are white but for people of colour as well. It is important to acknowledge that this is just a starter guide, and additional research should be done. There is a call for unity as countless Black individuals are being killed by police officers and receive no justice.
GoodBlackNews. (2020). “Acknowledging Your Privilege and Becoming an Ally”: a Guide to Resources for White Folks. Good Black News. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://goodblacknews.org/2020/06/04/acknowledging-your-privilege-and-becoming-an-ally-a-guide-to-resources-for-white-folks/
Jane Elliot is an award-winning activist that is well known for her blue eyes and brown eyes experiment, this is an anti-racism experiment that shows others how easy it is to learn prejudice.
OWN. (2020). Jane Elliott's "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" Anti-Racism Exercise | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN [Video]. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPoSMULI5U
Normalizing Therapy & Being Transparent
This website provides a selection of resources that can provide those who are looking for therapeutic tools to gain an understanding of themselves, how to deal with their anxiety or to become aware of healthy boundaries and how to execute them. I feel that it is helpful for everyone to have access to such websites to be able to gain knowledge that will benefit them successfully.
T. (n.d.). Anxiety Articles for Therapists. Retrieved August 05, 2020, from
In this ted talk, Jennah Dohms expresses the need to break out of unhealthy habits and the reassurance that comes along with being transparent. She mentions that being honest with yourself and others comes from a place of love no matter how hard it may be. One must learn to take accountability that gives many benefits to experiencing that.
Tedx Talks. (2020). Transparency freedom | Jennah Dohms [Video]. Retrieved 5 August 2020,
from https: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkUSjaGiGzk&t=10s
This article talks about the many advantages therapy can provide you, a few of them is helping you shape your life goals and how to achieve them, how to gain a sense of who you are and what you need out of life. The article also provided tips to people struggling with concerns such as depression, anxiety and obsession and composure etc.
Team, G. (2018, August 01). Benefits of Psychotherapy. Retrieved August 07, 2020, from
In this Ted Talk, Mykola Latansky talks about the power of transparency. Being real with yourself allows you to be felt to trust. Learning how to be vulnerable helps us to be intimate and real with others and more importantly ourselves.
Tedx Talks. (2020). The power of transparency | Mykola Latansky [Video]. Retrieved 5 August
2020, from https: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mymabIlglWg
Financial Advice
This resource will allow college students to educate themselves on the importance of financial literacy and thinking beyond just saving. These tips are essential for any college student who is trying to stay out of debt and gain more financial freedom.
Mason, A. (2020). The Top 10 Straightforward Money Tips for College Students. The College Investor. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://thecollegeinvestor.com/10556/the-top-10-money-tips-for-college-students/
This website will assist in providing students with the tools needed to create a budget, in order to be able to save wisely. This resource is beginner friendly and is able to guide one through the steps to understand how to budget properly. It helps with the overwhelming feeling one might have when just starting out, it helps coach someone to reach their desired goal
Paolozzi, J. (n.d.). Top Budgeting and Money Management Tips for 2020. Retrieved August 07, 2020, from https://www.creditcanada.com/blog/budgeting-money-management-tips?utm_campaign=CA+%7C+grant+%7C+blog+-++money+management+tips+2020
Having a credit card can be a positive thing, but can also have some negative outcomes. While having a credit card, it is important to maintain it by paying your balance that is owing, if not your minimum payments. This website is helpful when it comes to maintaining a credit card because it helps you create a plan. It provides you with tips on how to keep track of your payments, how to budget yourself when using it, and how to avoid credit card debt.
Credit Cards Canada. (2016, May 12). 10 Tips for Managing Credit Responsibly,
CreditCardsCanada.ca. Retrieved August 06, from
https://www.creditcardscanada.ca/education-centre/credit-card-management/responsible-management/
This article speaks about the importance of budgeting and how to do it. It emphasizes breaking the paycheque to paycheque lifestyle and staying on track with financial goals both long term and short term. Furthermore, this article shares ideas on how to budget such as creating a spreadsheet to monitor your monthly or weekly spending. This is a great article if you are looking for motivation to save more money, while also beginning your budgeting journey.
Bieber, C. (2018). Budgeting 101: How to Start Budgeting for the First Time | The Motley Fool. The Motley Fool. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/21/budgeting-101-how-to-start-budgeting-for-the-first.aspx.
Racial Issues
this article is explaining the role that privilege plays in society. It uses explains such as racial profiling. The example that is given here is considering shopping in a store without the fear of being followed or buying a house in an area that you can afford without the consideration of your race. Furthermore, this reading goes into depth about how privilege is a larger factor in the school system. It explains the disproportionate disciplinary outcomes in schools and the importance of evaluating implicit bias in the context of vulnerable decision points that are highly susceptible to an individual’s conscious bias.
Bethesda. (2016). Understanding Race and Privilege. National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/diversity/social-justice/understanding-race-and-privilege.
This reading is about people who make statements that they don’t see colour. The author explains that when you don’t see colour, “you don’t see or hear me” (referring to herself as a black woman). This article is a great read for someone who may not understand the role that race plays for many Black and people of colour. This can explain the frustration that people with privilege may not understand.
Goodwin, K. (2020). What I Hear When Someone Says “I Don’t See Color". The Everygirl. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://theeverygirl.com/i-dont-see-color/.
This website is the homage of Black Lives Matter. On this page, you can find the history as to why this movement was started and encouraged. This site is based around anti-black racism and how to avoid it. They suggest ideas such as defunding the police. However, the target of this web page is to get people to understand that BLACK LIVES MATTER and that equality is a right, not a want.
Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. (2020). Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://blacklivesmatter.com/.