Jack Sadler Resume:

• Profile: My name is Jack Sadler. I currently live in Chicago Illinois but I grew up in a town called Lincoln not too far from the Mississippi river.  I left Lincoln when I was 19 and moved to Chicago. I got a job as a dishwasher at a local bar and began working there. Ten years later I now own that very same bar and have begun my own private detective agency. I recently appeared twice on the Noir Not the Father show but I only ask that my time on that show be overlooked when considering me for a job.
• Work History: I currently own and operate my own bar in downtown Chicago.
• Education: I attended the local high-school where I grew up and graduated from there. I never did go to college but I take a night class from time to time. I never had the time until I owned the bar myself and could put someone else on shift for the night.
• Skills: I’m good at reading people. Working at a bar for so long has given me the skill of listening well. I don’t just listen to people stories but I listen to their attitude, demeanor, and tone. I can tell so much about a person by the way they tell their story. I can pick out the liars too. When people lie they have a certain way they carry themselves. Sometimes its a confident lie and sometimes its a very cautious lie but I can always tell. As far as other job skills go, I am good with my hand and I am a diligent worker. I have no problem starting at the bottom and working my way up to the top.
• Former Job Positions: Dishwasher and busboy at BARbarians. Manager and owner of BARbarians. Self employed as a private detective.

This week I had to do some web assignments. The first one I did was the “character resume” assignment (3 pts). The assignment instructions say that you can use Word to create your resume, so I was a little confused why this wasn’t a writing assignment, but I guess its kind of both. It has been a while since I updated my resume, so this was the perfect assignment as I became part of the Steadfast Sleuths agency. I quickly put together the profile and education sections of the resume, but struggled a little with the work history. While I value secrecy, my encounter with Shannon Mills a few weeks ago made me realize that I can’t stay hiding my Kellogg’s company past too much longer. For this resume, I included my time as the president of the company and my main projects there. The rest of the work history is common knowledge: I work as a secretary to stay low. It’s not the best job, but it does have its perks, like meeting Sarah Mustard and Sebastian Crane. The skills section was lots of fun for me, because I have learned so much in the past few weeks. Before now, I really didn’t know how to use Twitter, WordPress, or computers in general because I live in the 1950s, but now I have those skills! My other skills are nothing new. At the bottom of the resume I added a couple references, in case people want to ask about my work ethic. Maybe someone will hire me!

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I created my resume in Word, then saved it as a PDF. The difficult part was including it in this blog post. I added a link to the Word document, but when I tried to download it I got a message saying it was unsafe, so use caution there. Then I took a snapshot and cropped it in Paint, but when I uploaded the picture it was too small to read, and making it bigger made the words fuzzy and intelligible. Finally, I decided to zoom in and screen shot each third of the resume, then piece them together in Paint. I uploaded it to the blog, and it still came out tiny!! I thought, this just can’t be! Then I went in to edit the picture and found that this last picture was automatically set to a small size because it was so big. I changed the size, and now you can finally read it clearly! As it turns out, writing a resume is not as hard as figuring out how to make it legible online. All’s well that ends well, though. I should have put “dedicated to making legible documents” on my resume! I hope this resume will get me hired (should the need arise). Right now, though, I’m fine with being a secretary and detective.