GSEHD CAREER SERVICES OVERVIEW

Amanda FridayGSEHD Senior Career Counselor

Agenda Introduction  Overview Resume Workshop Questions

Office of Career Services

•Personalized career planning•Gwork: Interactive career management tool• InterviewStream•Leveraging social media•Resume writing•Cover letters and thank you notes•Skills, Interests, and Employment Assessments

Visit us at: http://gsehd.gwu.edu/careerservices

Introspection

Explore Options

Prepare & BrandConnect

Search & Apply

• Career Exploration/Introspection• Values, Interest, Personality, Skills• Career Contemplation Workshop

• Resume & Cover Letter Review Sessions

• Branding Workshops• LinkedIn Profile

• Career Counseling/Advising• Researching with LinkedIn

Workshops on: • Interview Prep, Job

search resources, & staying organized.

This information can also be found on our website!

Workshops on: • Networking,• Business etiquette,• Maintaining

connections.

Job Search Process

GWork

Resources• InterviewStream• LinkedIn• Glassdoor.com• Gwork• Idealist.org• Lynda.com• So much more!

CAREER COUNSELING

Knowledge Domain

Executive ProcessingDomain

Decision-Making Skills Domain

THE CIP MODEL

Self-Knowledge

Occupational Knowledge

CASVE Cycle

Meta-cognitions

THE RESUME

Creating a Resume: The Big Picture

Study resumes for your industry• Professor/advisors as a resource• Follow-up with internship/job supervisors• Utilize Career Center resources and LinkedIn

Identify your career goal(s)• Career Counseling, Mentors, Advisors

Job/Internship Search • How can I leverage the skills I have?• What type of experience is important to me?

• Study the Company/School District

Modern resume vs. conventional resume?

Resume ContentUse bullet points or paragraphs that:

• Start with a strong action verbs• State how or why you used this skill• 2-4 bullets per experience• Include the result, accomplishment or impact• Add a number (dollar, digit, percentage, frequency)

Paint a full picture for the employer• Ask: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How? • How much, How many, How often?• For what purpose?

References no longer on resume

Order Content•Reverse chronological order under each heading (most recent first)

Education•School/Major, GPA (major and cumulative), relevant coursework

•Study abroad, academic honors (Dean’s List, etc.)•Type of accreditation

Experience•Research, business, clinical, teaching, course-based internships

•Licensure and certifications• Jobs

Activities and Service•Leadership, volunteer, athletics

Resume Cont.

Formatting:•Consistency is key, start on the left

•Utilize month and year for dates, not “Summer 2015”•Margins: .5 -1 inch, Font: 10-12 point (use something common)

•Verbs: past tense and present tense•Leave room to rest the eyes•Use bold and italics•Hyphens (same length, spacing)

Resume Format

•For now length does not matter, no page limit

•Working document

• Include all experiences, activities, education, skills

•What are your accomplishments?

•Update as you move forward in your career

•*Keep on the cloud in case something happens to your computer!

The Master Resume MethodThis is a personal, working document to help with tracking experiences and customizing resumes.

Steps to a Finished ResumeStart with a Master Resume

Identify Most

Relevant Experien

ces

Create New

Document

Cut & Paste

Infuse Job

Description

Language

Edit, Edit, Edit

Final Product:

1-2 pages

1. Use Formula To Help Flesh Out Your Story2. Customize, Customize, Customize & Consistency3. Be A Ruthless Editor4. Write For Scanners/Skimmers5. Get In, Tell Your Story, Get out

5 Tips for a Solid Resume

•Situation: Tell them what you did.•Action: Tell them how. •Result/Impact: What did you accomplish/What was the purpose/result?

•Coordinate and collaborate with administrators, faculty and staff across campuses to develop and deliver services to students across 60+ programs

1. Use Formula To Help Flesh Out Your Story

-Master resume to the rescue!

-How do we create the one page document?•Utilize headers to highlight relevant experience•Highlight skills from the job description

• What appears most frequently?• Relevant, recent, repeated, and unique• Change the order of your bullets or action verbs

•Research industry specific examples as a guide•Connect with alumni, recruiters, faculty

• Think about how we behaviorally read a resume…

2. Customize, Customize, Customize & Consistency

Visual: What do you see?

Editing & Reviewing3. Be A Ruthless Editor

4. Write For Scanners/Skimmers• Specific headers, bold and italics

5. Get In, Tell Your Story, Get out

Where can I get my document reviewed?

•Career Services•Resume Review Appointments

•Campus and Professional Connections•Professors and advisors •Follow-up with current/past internship or job supervisors•Peers

•Convert resume and cover letter to a PDF•Complete a print and email test •Use resume paper for hard copies •Set up a filing and tracking system

•Consider: Who can I ask to be a reference?

You’re done…now what?

Questions?

Thank you!