#Microsoft Office skills

[itstimeforstarwars]

I'm an argumentative bastard just like both my parents but I try not to get into fights too much because a lot of arguments just turn into a waste of time but fuck man. It's really hard sometimes.

[anonymusbosch]

trying to figure out how to describe my skills on my resume like. the best I can say it is "good at noticing. good at figuring out" what's going on with an electromechanical system. and sure I can break it down into things like "develop system-level understanding to enable effective troubleshooting" or "perform root cause analysis" or "validate and verify hypotheses" or other such gobbledegook, but none of those quite get at the thing. tongue-in-cheek I might call it engineering intuition; I might borrow the phrase "mechanical empathy", but when I'm talking to myself I kind of just call it "looking at things and saying 'hmmm'"

[fingertipsmp3]

Trying to sign up to this freelance website as a ghostwriter/essay writer/etc & realising that truly the only thing I don’t like writing is bios

[imaginejolls]

my place of employment has stiffed me on my salary more than usual for the month of January which is just, excellent. anyway does anyone know if those "what job should you do?" quizzes are any good?

[skilcamp]

Is Learning Microsoft Office Difficult? Tips for Success and Efficiency

Introduction Are you wondering, "Is learning Microsoft Office difficult?" Many people ask this question when they start their journey with Microsoft Office. In this blog, we'll explore whether mastering Microsoft Office is challenging and share practical tips to make the learning process smoother and more efficient.

Understanding the Complexity: Is Learning Microsoft Office Difficult? The vast array of features can seem overwhelming when you first start with Microsoft Office. However, understanding the basics can help you answer the question, "Is learning Microsoft Office difficult?" Generally, the difficulty level depends on your familiarity with similar software and your willingness to practice.

Breaking Down the Components: Is Learning Microsoft Office Difficult? Microsoft Office consists of various applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Each has its unique set of functions. If you're asking, "Is learning Microsoft Office difficult?" remember that breaking down the learning process into manageable parts can simplify it. Focus on one application at a time to gradually build your skills.

Tips for Overcoming Challenges: Is Learning Microsoft Office Difficult? To tackle the difficulty of learning Microsoft Office, use these tips:

Utilize Online Tutorials: Many free resources are available to guide you through different features. Practice Regularly: Hands-on practice can make complex tasks feel more intuitive. Join a Community: Engaging with online forums or local groups can provide additional support and answers to your questions.

Boosting Efficiency: Is Learning Microsoft Office Difficult? Learning Microsoft Office effectively involves adopting strategies that enhance efficiency:

1. Keyboard Shortcuts: Memorize common shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

2.Templates: Use templates to streamline repetitive tasks and ensure consistency in your documents.

Conclusion In summary, while the question "Is learning Microsoft Office difficult?" can seem daunting, breaking down the learning process and employing effective strategies can make it much easier. With practice and the right resources,

[draconicsplendor]

Why do some university students two years younger than me not know how to use Microsoft Office? I knew that schools don't teach computer skills as much as they used to, but like... this is worrying.

[threesixfivedgtl]

Top 10 ‘Must Have’ Digital Tools for Businesses

Modern technology now exists within every area of business. Not only the IT department use digital tools to assist with their day-to-day tasks, all departments from HR to Finance rely on software to help them with their work. These tools have massively increased productivity within modern businesses, taking away manual processes and physical copies of data. This means staff are able to focus on the tasks that are really important. It also helps with security of data and data loss protections, as your data is held within secure platforms and is organised and backed up for safety. Our consultants have completed projects for some of the UKs largest companies and have noticed some must have digital tools for businesses used within most companies. These top 10 digital tools for businesses are very common in the big firms, but seen less within smaller organisations.

There are plenty of tools that are used in businesses these days and it seems like there is a new app released daily. However, there are some must have apps that are used within most modern organisations. As digital experts, we see all kinds of tools being used, here are the top 10 digital tools we see being used in most companies. We see these as the must have tools for businesses in 2023!

1. Travel Booking System

Booking corporate travel can often be a long drawn out process. First placing the booking through the travel company, printing receipts, multiple levels of approval, then reimbursement. With a digital travel booking system, you can do away with all that hassle and have everything automated through the system.

Get a custom travel booking system

2. Holiday Booking System

Recording absences and tracking holiday requests is something all businesses have to do. Allowing your staff to easily and securely book holidays for keeping your staff happy. A custom holiday booking system can give staff members an easily to use tool and enable you to easily keep track of the data .

Get a custom holiday booking system

3. Employee Directory

D you work for a large organisation? Or is your business growing? And your staff are finding it difficult to keep track of who is who. An employee directory can help you easily find staff members and their contact details. This helps with staff collaboration and keep your organisation connected, especially if you are a multinational company.

Get a custom employee directory tool

4. Timesheet Management Software

Loosing track of time spent on projects and not properly connecting the tasks within a project together can affect alignment within a team. The data tracked from the timesheet management tool can then be saved in a central database and visualised in easy to understand reporting dashboards.

Get a custom timesheet management tool

5. Employee Onboarding Tool

Getting users setup and onboarded hassle-free and quickly is very important for productivity. Starting at an new role can be a daunting time, not being able to find the systems, files or people you need can keep new starters in the dark for longer. This process can be completely automated, giving staff access to the data, people and workspaces they need instantly.

Employee onboarding tool

6. Process Management Systems

Doing away with manual tasks and completely automating your companies processes is one of the best ways a company can maximise productivity. Using automation within a business is also one of the biggest cost saving tips that we can offer, as it can significantly reduce the time people spend doing unnecessary tasks.

Get a custom process management system

7. Supplier Portal

Giving your vendors a portal that they are able to log into and manage their communications with you, can not only increase productivity, but can give your company a professional look for external suppliers. This can also give you one location to manage all your vendors, which for larger organisations can become very difficult to keep track of and manage.

Get a custom supplier portal

8. Asset Management System

IT often have to lend out many assets like laptops, mobiles and accessories. These assets can often be misplaced and lost, costing companies a fortune on misplaced products. An asset management system can keep track and automate the management of lending out devices and accessories.

Get a custom asset management system

9. IT Helpdesk System

In the past your IT team would have to manually manage the incidents and requests raised by other staff members. This can cause for requests to be forgotten, or a backlog of requests to pile up, resulting in bad management of requests. These days an IT helpdesk system can help you IT department organise, manage and sign-off their requests.

Get a custom IT helpdesk system

10. Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a one-stop-shop for collaboration within a business. Apps like Outlook and Teams are used by end-users within most business, but people often do not realise the wide array of tools available as part of M365. Platforms like SharePoint and the Power Platform are often the backbone for the data held in most companies.

Find out how you can leverage M365

Bonus: Microsoft Viva

Find out more about Microsoft latest set of tools.

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The Top 10 Essential Office Skills for Success

In today’s dynamic and competitive business environment, having the right set of skills is crucial for professional success. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance in your current job, mastering these top 10 office skills can make a significant difference in your performance and employability. Communication Skills: Effective communication is the cornerstone of any…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Supervised AI isn't

It wasn't just Ottawa: Microsoft Travel published a whole bushel of absurd articles, including the notorious Ottawa guide recommending that tourists dine at the Ottawa Food Bank ("go on an empty stomach"):

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1692233111260582161

After Paris Marx pointed out the Ottawa article, Business Insider's Nathan McAlone found several more howlers:

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-removes-embarrassing-offensive-ai-assisted-travel-articles-2023-8

There was the article recommending that visitors to Montreal try "a hamburger" and went on to explain that a hamburger was a "sandwich comprised of a ground beef patty, a sliced bun of some kind, and toppings such as lettuce, tomato, cheese, etc" and that some of the best hamburgers in Montreal could be had at McDonald's.

For Anchorage, Microsoft recommended trying the local delicacy known as "seafood," which it defined as "basically any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish," going on to say, "seafood is a versatile ingredient, so it makes sense that we eat it worldwide."

In Tokyo, visitors seeking "photo-worthy spots" were advised to "eat Wagyu beef."

There were more.

Microsoft insisted that this wasn't an issue of "unsupervised AI," but rather "human error." On its face, this presents a head-scratcher: is Microsoft saying that a human being erroneously decided to recommend the dining at Ottawa's food bank?

But a close parsing of the mealy-mouthed disclaimer reveals the truth. The unnamed Microsoft spokesdroid only appears to be claiming that this wasn't written by an AI, but they're actually just saying that the AI that wrote it wasn't "unsupervised." It was a supervised AI, overseen by a human. Who made an error. Thus: the problem was human error.

This deliberate misdirection actually reveals a deep truth about AI: that the story of AI being managed by a "human in the loop" is a fantasy, because humans are neurologically incapable of maintaining vigilance in watching for rare occurrences.

Our brains wire together neurons that we recruit when we practice a task. When we don't practice a task, the parts of our brain that we optimized for it get reused. Our brains are finite and so don't have the luxury of reserving precious cells for things we don't do.

That's why the TSA sucks so hard at its job – why they are the world's most skilled water-bottle-detecting X-ray readers, but consistently fail to spot the bombs and guns that red teams successfully smuggle past their checkpoints:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851

TSA agents (not "officers," please – they're bureaucrats, not cops) spend all day spotting water bottles that we forget in our carry-ons, but almost no one tries to smuggle a weapons through a checkpoint – 99.999999% of the guns and knives they do seize are the result of flier forgetfulness, not a planned hijacking.

In other words, they train all day to spot water bottles, and the only training they get in spotting knives, guns and bombs is in exercises, or the odd time someone forgets about the hand-cannon they shlep around in their day-pack. Of course they're excellent at spotting water bottles and shit at spotting weapons.

This is an inescapable, biological aspect of human cognition: we can't maintain vigilance for rare outcomes. This has long been understood in automation circles, where it is called "automation blindness" or "automation inattention":

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29939767/

Here's the thing: if nearly all of the time the machine does the right thing, the human "supervisor" who oversees it becomes incapable of spotting its error. The job of "review every machine decision and press the green button if it's correct" inevitably becomes "just press the green button," assuming that the machine is usually right.

This is a huge problem. It's why people just click "OK" when they get a bad certificate error in their browsers. 99.99% of the time, the error was caused by someone forgetting to replace an expired certificate, but the problem is, the other 0.01% of the time, it's because criminals are waiting for you to click "OK" so they can steal all your money:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ema-report-finds-nearly-80-130300983.html

Automation blindness can't be automated away. From interpreting radiographic scans:

https://healthitanalytics.com/news/ai-could-safely-automate-some-x-ray-interpretation

to autonomous vehicles:

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/automated-vehicles-may-encourage-new-breed-distracted-drivers

The "human in the loop" is a figleaf. The whole point of automation is to create a system that operates at superhuman scale – you don't buy an LLM to write one Microsoft Travel article, you get it to write a million of them, to flood the zone, top the search engines, and dominate the space.

As I wrote earlier: "There's no market for a machine-learning autopilot, or content moderation algorithm, or loan officer, if all it does is cough up a recommendation for a human to evaluate. Either that system will work so poorly that it gets thrown away, or it works so well that the inattentive human just button-mashes 'OK' every time a dialog box appears":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let-me-summarize/#i-read-the-abstract

Microsoft – like every corporation – is insatiably horny for firing workers. It has spent the past three years cutting its writing staff to the bone, with the express intention of having AI fill its pages, with humans relegated to skimming the output of the plausible sentence-generators and clicking "OK":

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-news-cuts-dozens-of-staffers-in-shift-to-ai-2020-5

We know about the howlers and the clunkers that Microsoft published, but what about all the other travel articles that don't contain any (obvious) mistakes? These were very likely written by a stochastic parrot, and they comprised training data for a human intelligence, the poor schmucks who are supposed to remain vigilant for the "hallucinations" (that is, the habitual, confidently told lies that are the hallmark of AI) in the torrent of "content" that scrolled past their screens:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Like the TSA agents who are fed a steady stream of training data to hone their water-bottle-detection skills, Microsoft's humans in the loop are being asked to pluck atoms of difference out of a raging river of otherwise characterless slurry. They are expected to remain vigilant for something that almost never happens – all while they are racing the clock, charged with preventing a slurry backlog at all costs.

Automation blindness is inescapable – and it's the inconvenient truth that AI boosters conspicuously fail to mention when they are discussing how they will justify the trillion-dollar valuations they ascribe to super-advanced autocomplete systems. Instead, they wave around "humans in the loop," using low-waged workers as props in a Big Store con, just a way to (temporarily) cool the marks.

And what of the people who lose their (vital) jobs to (terminally unsuitable) AI in the course of this long-running, high-stakes infomercial?

Well, there's always the food bank.

"Go on an empty stomach."

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop

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back to basics

mostly free resources to help you learn the basics that i've gathered for myself so far that i think are cool

everyday

gcfglobal - about the internet, online safety and for kids, life skills like applying for jobs, career planning, resume writing, online learning, today's skills like 3d printing, photoshop, smartphone basics, microsoft office apps, and mac friendly. they have core skills like reading, math, science, language learning - some topics are sparse so hopefully they keep adding things on. great site to start off on learning.

handsonbanking - learn about finances. after highschool, credit, banking, investing, money management, debt, goal setting, loans, cars, small businesses, military, insurance, retirement, etc.

bbc - learning for all ages. primary to adult. arts, history, science, math, reading, english, french, all the way to functional and vocational skills for adults as well, great site!

education.ket - workplace essential skills

general education

mathsgenie - GCSE revision, grade 1-9, math stages 1-14, provides more resources! completely free.

khan academy - pre-k to college, life skills, test prep (sats, mcat, etc), get ready courses, AP, partner courses like NASA, etc. so much more!

aleks - k-12 + higher ed learning program. adapts to each student.

biology4kids - learn biology

cosmos4kids - learn astronomy basics

chem4kids - learn chemistry

physics4kids - learn physics

numbernut - math basics (arithmetic, fractions and decimals, roots and exponents, prealgebra)

education.ket - primary to adult. includes highschool equivalent test prep, the core skills. they have a free resource library and they sell workbooks. they have one on work-life essentials (high demand career sectors + soft skills)

youtube channels

the organic chemistry tutor

khanacademy

crashcourse

tabletclassmath

2minmaths

kevinmathscience

professor leonard

greenemath

mathantics

3blue1brown

literacy

readworks - reading comprehension, build background knowledge, grow your vocabulary, strengthen strategic reading

chompchomp - grammar knowledge

tutors

not the "free resource" part of this post but sometimes we forget we can be tutored especially as an adult. just because we don't have formal education does not mean we can't get 1:1 teaching! please do you research and don't be afraid to try out different tutors. and remember you're not dumb just because someone's teaching style doesn't match up with your learning style.

cambridge coaching - medical school, mba and business, law school, graduate, college academics, high school and college process, middle school and high school admissions

preply - language tutoring. affordable!

revolutionprep - math, science, english, history, computer science (ap, html/css, java, python c++), foreign languages (german, korean, french, italian, spanish, japanese, chinese, esl)

varsity tutors - k-5 subjects, ap, test prep, languages, math, science & engineering, coding, homeschool, college essays, essay editing, etc

chegg - biology, business, engineering/computer science, math, homework help, textbook support, rent and buying books

learn to be - k-12 subjects

for languages

lingq - app. created by steve kaufmann, a polygot (fluent in 20+ languages) an amazing language learning platform that compiles content in 20+ languages like podcasts, graded readers, story times, vlogs, radio, books, the feature to put in your own books! immersion, comprehensible input.

flexiclasses - option to study abroad, resources to learn, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, italian, russian, taiwanese hokkien, shanghainese.

fluentin3months - bootcamp, consultation available, languages: spanish, french, korean, german, chinese, japanese, russian, italian.

fluenz - spanish immersion both online and in person - intensive.

pimsleur - not tutoring** online learning using apps and their method. up to 50 languages, free trial available.

incase time has passed since i last posted this, check on the original post (not the reblogs) to see if i updated link or added new resources. i think i want to add laguage resources at some point too but until then, happy learning!!

[iamnmbr3]

Jobs listings be like:

Bachelors degree.

Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office.

Can-do attitude and ability to work well with others.

Communication skills.

15 years experience at a Sr. Director level or higher.

Salary: not listed

[kathastrophen]

Ficbinding - A5 Heft Teil 1

Ich binde meine Fics gerne als einfaches A5 Heft. Das bietet sich für die meisten, kürzeren Sachen gut an und ist leicht umzusetzen und das meiste Werkzeug und Material dafür hat man (wahrscheinlich) schon zu Hause.

Im ersten Teil zeige ich meine Herangehensweise aus einer Fic ein druckbares Dokument zu erstellen über die Broschüren-Funktion von Word. Fragt mich bitte nicht, wie das mit anderen Office-Anwendungen funktioniert.

Im zweiten Teil binde ich die Seiten und das Cover mit einer einfachen Fadenheftung.

Damit der Post nicht zu lang wird alles weitere unter dem Lies mehr.

Wir brauchen:

eine Fanfic, die wir binden wollen

Microsoft Word

etwas Geduld

einen Drucker

Wir starten mit unserer Fic. Ich empfehle dringend nochmal Korrektur zu lesen ;)

Im Reiter Layout den Pfeil zum Menü "Seite Einrichten" anklicken und das Menü öffnen. Darüber stellen wir die Broschüren-Funktion ein.

Dieses Menü öffnet sich.

unter "Seiten" Mehrere Seiten: Buch auswählen. Dadurch sollte sich das Vorschau-Icon zu dem kleinen Buch ändern. Seiten pro Broschüre auf "alles" belassen.

Seitenränder einrichten. Ich stelle alle auf 2 cm. Damit hab ich bisher gute Erfahrungen gemacht.

Querformat stellt sich von alleine ein. So lassen.

Über OK zurück zur Fic.

Die Broschüren-Funktion sorgt dafür, dass später im Druck die Seiten in der richtigen Reihefolge gedruckt werden. Ihr müsst also nicht darüber nachdenken, welche Seite wo im Dokument ist, sondern bearbeitet es einfach nach aufsteigender Seitenzahl weiter.

Das Dokument sollte jetzt ungefähr so aussehen.

Jetzt folgt der gestalterische Part.

Ihr seht die leere zweite Seite? Bücher beginnen immer auf einer ungeraden Seite (also 1, 3, 5 etc.), also solltet ihr eine leere Seite zwischen Titel und Beginn einfügen.

Wenn ihr ein Inhaltsverzeichnis oder ein vorangestelltes Gedicht/Bild/Zitat habt, würde ich das auch auf eine ungerade Seite schieben.

In diesem Schritt suche ich die Schriftart(en) aus, lege die Schriftgröße fest (meistens 10 oder 11) und schiebe Absätze an die richtige Stelle (s. Hurenkind und Schusterjunge) und formatiere im Blocksatz.

Außerdem füge ich Bilder und Überschriften ein. Hier sieht man das noch etwas besser:

Das ist teilweise etwas Gefummel, aber da vertraue ich auf eure Word und Google-Skills.

An dem Punkt könnt ihr natürlich eurer Kreativität freien Lauf lassen. Unterschiedliche Farben und Schriftarten für jeden Charakter? Initialen für den Kapitelanfang? Eigene Zeichnungen? Go for it!

Außerdem füge ich Seitenzahlen nach diesem Tutorial ein und formatiere sie der Gestaltung entsprechend. Auch das ist immer etwas fummelig, aber nur Geduld.

Falls ich noch etwas einkleben oder reinzeichnen will, lasse ich dementsprechend Platz auf den Seiten.

Idealerweise hat das Dokument am Ende eine gerade Anzahl Seiten. Eigentlich sollte das beim Druck keine Probleme bereiten, ich hab aber schon anderes erlebt und achte seitdem darauf.

Zum Druck:

Ich drucke auf 90gr Papier, 100 gr ist noch besser. Normales 80gr Druckerpapier finde ich immer ein bisschen arg dünn, geht natürlich auch!

Es wird beidseitig gedruckt und im Broschüren-Modus ist immer nur das gesamte Dokument druckbar, deswegen kopiere ich mir manchmal kleinere Passagen von 4 Seiten raus, um zB Schriftgröße oÄ zu kontrollieren.

Wenn ich Bilder in der Datei habe oder das Heft verschenken will, stelle ich die Druckqualität noch auf maximal. Für mich selbst brauche ich das nicht.

Jeder Drucker ist anders.

Unserer kann automatisch drehen und ich weiß, dass das Blatt über die kurze Seite gewendet werden muss, damit der Text nicht bei jeder zweiten Seite auf dem Kopf steht.

das ist trial und error und am besten probiert ihr das mit einer markierten Seite aus und schreibt es euch irgendwo auf ;)

Dann drucken und hoffen, dass alles passt und wie es mit dem Stapel Papier weiter geht, erfahrt ihr nach der nächsten Maus im nächsten Teil.

Lasst mich wissen, ob etwas unklar ist oder bei euch gar nicht funktioniert!

[qqueenofhades]

coming from one of those "born in mid 2000s and is now suddenly an adult, making everyone feel old," people, do you have any resources to learn how to bullshit your way through getting a job with zero experience. cause i cant even put like "babysitting" or anything since covid prevented literally any teenage-typical jobs and i kinda dont know what to put on a resume beyond the university im currently attending and the high school i graduated from. and they still dont teach you this in school even though we've complained for years 😭

Okay my chilluns, listen up. This is how to bullshit your way into a basic 1-page resume even if you think you have absolutely dum-dum-diddlysquat to put on it. I completely feel you, as it's hard as hell to get a job even in the ordinary course of things, and especially when everything seems to want 10 years of experience and a bachelor's degree (and still pays like shit). But you gotta be persistent anyway. So here follows the step-by-step guide of How To Resume:

Open a new Word (or other word-processing software of your choice) document.

Pick a nice, professional-looking font (for the love of God, no Comic Sans). Times New Roman is fine; you don't have to overthink it. My own CV is currently in Perpetua, because it's a nice serif that looks crisp and a little different, but it is still clean and readable. Garamond or Cambria or other starter typefaces are fine too. Make sure it is the right size, usually around 12pt.

Put your full name at the top, centered, in BOLD CAPITALS. Increase the typeface size a few more points on this, to make it stand out and to make it take up space.

Underneath this, in regular-sized text, put your contact information: mailing address if you're comfortable sharing it, or if not, at least your phone number and email address. Use a school email if you have it, and not some weird/in-jokey personal email.

Start a new paragraph. In a slightly smaller font (italic if you want to make it look classy) write a few words about yourself. This should be something like I am a [Major] student at [University] looking for a part-time, entry-level position in [sales, retail, office, etc]. A [year] graduate of [High School] in [City, State], I am [prompt, reliable, detail-oriented, mature, friendly, etc] and a hard worker who is eager to gain experience and positively contribute to your business.

Start a new paragraph. Change the alignment from Center to Left. Create a new heading in bold underline labeled Education.

Under this, fill in your education (college first, followed by high school). Include the institution name, city, and state, the year you graduated or expect to graduate, any honors or awards, any extracurriculars, any grade-point averages if they're good (i.e. 3.0 and above), and your expected major in college.

Start a new paragraph. Create another heading: Experience.

This is where you put absolutely anything you can think of (in chronological order, most recent first and counting backward). Did you volunteer for something ever in your life? Put it down! (Title of work, dates, location, brief description of work). Did you do yard work for someone for a weekend? Put it down! Were you (or are you) part of a student club or organization in high school or university? Have you organized or taken part in any local initiatives in your community or neighborhood? Put it down! Basically, absolutely any kind of work, paid or unpaid, that might be relevant, regardless of how long it was or when it took place.

Under that, put the new heading/paragraph Skills and Interests.

Have you worked with Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Adobe, Photoshop? Put it down! People love that shit! Do you use social media and/or know how to work it better than the average grandma? Put 'er down! You get the idea. Think of anything in your daily life that can be put in Job Language and then see if you can do that. You are in university; do you have any projects, papers, or other things that you're proud of? Have you successfully managed a (gasp) group project? Do you make any kind of art? Are you a registered voter who has taken part in civic/political organizations, drives, or events? (If not, REGISTER TO VOTE! This is your angry grandmother speaking). All of that can go down. Even if it's not job experience per se, it's life experience and shows that you are someone who is engaged with the world and working to gain more.

Last paragraph and heading: References. Ask a few trusted adults who know you well and aren't related to you, such as a favorite high school teacher or a university faculty member/degree advisor, if they'd be willing to serve as referees. Put down their full names, titles/place of work, email addresses, and phone numbers.

Voila! You have a full page resume, probably even a little more if you're lucky. Proofread, make sure the spacing is even and the alignment is right, it doesn't look weird, the text is a consistent size, it's all the same color, there are no glaring typos or grammatical errors, etc. etc. Save it as a PDF.

Boom. Done. You are now a Job Hunting Maestro.

If you get an interview, you don't need to pretend that you have tons of experience or that you're something you're not, but you can present what you ARE in a positive light anyway. Don't apologize for yourself or play yourself down pre-emptively; be confident about yourself and what you can offer. You're a college kid looking for your first part-time job, COVID prevented you from a lot of normal teenage work experience, you're willing to work hard and learn new things. Here's your resume. What would be a good time to talk again.

Good luck! I believe in you.