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Homework: Finish your Resume for homework if you did not complete in
class.
Advertisement
selling a
product….YOU!
Specifically your
skills, experiences,
and attributes.
First meeting
between you and
the employer
Overall it’s your FIRST STEP
towards employment.
How long do you think an
employer looks at each
resume?
The average employer looks at a resume
between 10-15 seconds. This is the time
they decide to either KEEP IT or TOSS IT.
OBJECTIVE
Neat Neat
Well-organized Well-organized
Resume You
The Header
What should be included?
Name
Permanent and present address
E-mail address
Telephone number
Examples
Management trainee position with a specialty
retailer.
Technical sales with an energy related industry
in the Southwest. Long range goals of regional
sales management.
To obtain a position as field service
representative with XYZ Software Corporation.
Education
Date or expected date of graduation
Graduation Date: May 2014
Expected Graduation Date: May 2015
GPA
Major or overall at least 3.0
Round down to the nearest tenth
3.0 not 3.062
GPA: 4.0, Summa Cum Laude
If under a 2.5 do not add
Activities
Everything you’re involved in -- clubs,
sports, programs, activities like band,
art, drama, journalism in school and out
of school. You can put them in order of
significance or most recent.
Underneath each activity, write at least
one brief description tells what you did.
Start with a strong action verb and follow
it with specifics.
Volunteer (Community)
Experience
Include events you have participated
either in or out of school. Describe what
you did. Start with strong verbs. Be as
specific as you can.
Experience
Use the term "experience"
What is considered experience?
Full and part-time jobs
Self-employment
Volunteer work
Practicum, field, and cooperative education
Information to include
Job Title
Dates of employment
Company name
City & State
Work Experience: Don't forget non-traditional work,
such as babysitting or helping out with the family
business. For each item, include the job title, name
of organization, location, dates, and description of
responsibilities.
Listing Responsibilities
Use bullet points
Start of each line with an action verb
Present tense if currently employed
Past tense if no longer employed
Vary your choice of verbs
Tailor skills and experiences to the position
for which you are applying
Be concise while providing enough detail
Achievements & Awards
Don’t limit yourself here.
This can be a laundry list or a detailed description.
Order by date
Reverse chronological
Rank order by importance to the career objective
Do not say Member of …
Emphasize your leadership roles
Spell out the organization’s name:
Do not use abbreviations or acronyms
Resume Dos
Use action verbs
Use short, concise sentences
Use #, %, $ amounts
Keep resume easy to read
Keep resume about one page
Resume Don’ts
Do not use the pronouns such as I, me, my, etc.
Do not include references
Do not clutter your resume with nonessential
information
Do not make any misrepresentations
Do not include personal information
SSN, age, sex, height, weight, marital status,
photograph, etc.
Use Strong Action Verbs
Accomplished, achieved, acquired, adapted, addressed, administered, advised, allocated, analyzed, applied, appointed, appraised,
approved, arbitrated, assembled, assessed, assigned, assumed, assured, audited, authored, awarded
Briefed, broadened, budgeted, built
Calculated, chaired, changed ,charted, coached, combined, communicated, compiled, completed, composed, computed, conceived,
conceptualized, concluded, conducted, consolidated, constructed, consulted, contracted, controlled, converted, convinced,
coordinated, corrected, counseled, created, cultivated, cut
Debugged, decreased, defined, delegated, delivered, demonstrated, designated, designed, detected, determined, developed,
devised, diagnosed, directed, discovered, dispatched, distributed, doubled, drafted
Earned, edited, effected, elicited, eliminated, empowered, endorsed, engineered, enhanced, enlarged, enlisted, ensured, entered,
established, estimated, evaluated, examined, exceeded, executed, expanded, expedited, explained, explored, expressed,
extended
Filed, filled, financed, flagged, focused, forecast, formulated, found, founded
Gathered, generated, granted, guided
Halved, handled, headed, helped, hired
Identified, ignited, implemented, improved, incorporated, increased, indexed, influenced, initiated, innovated, inspected, installed,
instituted, instructed, insured, interpreted, interviewed, introduced, invented, inventoried, invested, investigated, issued
Joined, justified
Kept
Launched, learned, leased, lectured, led, licensed, lobbied
Maintained, managed, manufactured, matched, measured, mediated, met, modified, monitored, motivated, moved
Named, navigated, negotiated
Obtained, opened, operated, ordered, organized, overhauled, oversaw
Participated, patented, perceived, performed, persuaded, placed, planned, posted, prepared, presented, presided, processed,
procured, produced, proficient, programmed, prohibited, projected, promoted, proposed, provided, published, purchased,
pursued
Qualified, quantified, questioned
Raised, ranked, rated, received, recognized, recommended, reconciled, recorded, recruited, redesigned, reduced, referred,
regulated, rehabilitated, reorganized, repaired, replaced, replied, reported, represented, rescued, researched, resolved,
responded, restored, revamped, reviewed, revised
Saved, scheduled, screened, selected, served, serviced, shaped, shared, showed, simplified, sold, solved, sorted, sought, sparked,
spoke, staffed, started, steered, streamlined, strengthened, stressed, stretched, structured, studied, submitted, substituted
,succeeded, suggested, summarized, superseded, supervised, supplied, surveyed, systematized
Tackled, targeted, taught, terminated, tested, toured, traced, tracked, traded, trained, transcribed, transferred, transformed,
translated, transported, traveled, treated, trimmed, tripled, turned, tutored
Uncovered, understood, understudied, unified, unraveled, updated, upgraded, utilized
Vended, verbalized, verified, visited
Waged, weighed, widened, won, worked, wrote
Any Questions???