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RESUMES

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• Your Resume reflects your communication and organization skills as well as the skills expressed in the content of the document

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General Qualities:

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• Inexperienced applicants should keep their resumes down to a single page

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General Qualities:

• Even the most experienced applicants should keep their resumes down to two pages

• The average human resource manager spends about 14 seconds on each resume. You must capture the manager’s attention in this time

• Match more than your qualifications to the job - Match your character to the company

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• Make it easy to read by using lots of white space

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Some Helpful Hints:

• Make your resume professional by laser printing it - If you don’t have access to a laser printer, pay to have it printed

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• Use Action words like - initiated, organized, established, developed supervised, coordinated…

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Some Helpful Hints:

• Use quantitative descriptions

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• Concentrate on your accomplishments rather than job descriptions

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Some Helpful Hints:

• Be strictly honest - Do not exaggerate or embellish your accomplishments

• Tailor your resume to the job

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Probably the best choice for a graduating student with little work experience

• Objective - Describe your strongest qualification from the employers point of view and identify the connection between this qualification and a particular job or field of work

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Traditional Resume:

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• Education

- List Senior High School and all Universities. Include program, degree, and year of graduation. If your academic record is exceptional, state GPA and describe scale. Ranking is also useful.

Probably the best choice for a graduating student with little work experience

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Traditional Resume:

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• Experience - Present relevant experience in reverse chronological order. State the name of each company or organization, identify the city and province, and list dates.

- Describe responsibilities and accomplishments during each work term

Probably the best choice for a graduating student with little work experience

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Traditional Resume:

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• Extracurricular Activities

- List your hobbies, interests, participation in sports and community and professional activities

• References - Controversial: most experts say not to include in a resume. Instead use the term ‘Available upon Request’

Probably the best choice for a graduating student with little work experience

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Traditional Resume:

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Probably the best choice for someone with industry experience in the specified field of employment

• Objective• Related Experience• Other Experience• Education• Extracurricular

Activities• References

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Focused Resume:

After your first job, people are more interested in professional accomplishments than your academic accomplishments.

Note that Education and Experience get flip-flopped.

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A marketing document for the ample-experienced job hunter

• Objective• Qualifications• Major Achievements• Employment

Experience• Education• Awards/other

activities• References

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Functional Resume:

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• Using the headings as a guideline, tailor your resume to your skills and the job for which you are applying

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Example

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