Note to Future Employers
If you have found this journal, then you have done an easy Google Search on my name and skimmed through enough of the entries to find a link to a Live Journal community I used to belong to for alums of Goucher College. This journal was created during my freshman year of college and was continuously updated through my college experience until a few years after I graduated.
There are over 2,000 entries in this journal, many of them public and just as many locked so that only friends of this journal may read them. It would be too time-consuming and laborious to make all of the past entries private, so I'm not going to spend my time doing that.
While in college, I did not consider the fact that what I said then would have an affect on future jobs and possibilities in the future. As is often the case with young people, I didn't look too much beyond my present circumstances. Some of the entries in this journal contain implicit or explicit references to activities that many employers and professionals would not consider appropriate for a potential employee to have engaged in.
The opinions voiced in this journal and the activities I engaged in are a part of my past that I readily own up to. I was trying to discover who I was as an individual and trying to cope with the many changes that one goes through during this transitional phase in a young person's life. While I am not ashamed of these things and am willing to discuss them with you in an appropriate setting, please know that these opinions are not necessarily ones that I hold today and that these activities are not necessarily activities in which I currently participate. As of the date that this entry is written, I am a 27-year-old professional administrative assistant looking to go to graduate school to earn my Masters degree in Theatre Education. I am an accomplished actress in many local community theatres, and I am a competent adult who pays her bills on time, is in a steady, long-term relationship, and has a loving and supportive network of family, friends, and associates.
If you feel the need to reject my application or resume because of the past indiscretions outlined in this online journal, I will understand. However, if you would be willing to look past these indiscretions or to come to me for an explanation and take my current professional achievements to be the most up-to-date reflection of who I am as a person today, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Nikki C.
There are over 2,000 entries in this journal, many of them public and just as many locked so that only friends of this journal may read them. It would be too time-consuming and laborious to make all of the past entries private, so I'm not going to spend my time doing that.
While in college, I did not consider the fact that what I said then would have an affect on future jobs and possibilities in the future. As is often the case with young people, I didn't look too much beyond my present circumstances. Some of the entries in this journal contain implicit or explicit references to activities that many employers and professionals would not consider appropriate for a potential employee to have engaged in.
The opinions voiced in this journal and the activities I engaged in are a part of my past that I readily own up to. I was trying to discover who I was as an individual and trying to cope with the many changes that one goes through during this transitional phase in a young person's life. While I am not ashamed of these things and am willing to discuss them with you in an appropriate setting, please know that these opinions are not necessarily ones that I hold today and that these activities are not necessarily activities in which I currently participate. As of the date that this entry is written, I am a 27-year-old professional administrative assistant looking to go to graduate school to earn my Masters degree in Theatre Education. I am an accomplished actress in many local community theatres, and I am a competent adult who pays her bills on time, is in a steady, long-term relationship, and has a loving and supportive network of family, friends, and associates.
If you feel the need to reject my application or resume because of the past indiscretions outlined in this online journal, I will understand. However, if you would be willing to look past these indiscretions or to come to me for an explanation and take my current professional achievements to be the most up-to-date reflection of who I am as a person today, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Nikki C.