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Resume Development
Your Resume: An Advertisement for Yourself
Must You Have a Resume?
T or F. The best way to find a job is to network and talk your way into a job.True IF you are: Extroverted Charismatic Fluent in speaking Visually attractive Can carry the weight of your employment
marketing presentation without supporting materials.
Must You Have a Resume?
Resume' is a specially prepared sales presentation to persuade a potential employer you are the BEST one to do the job you seek.
Your resume' helps prove what you say about your achievements, accomplishments, and abilities.
Must You Have a Resume?
Absolutely! Most employers say you need one. No time to take oral histories. People who make hiring decisions
insist on seeing a piece of paper or computer screen that spells out your qualifications.
Resumes get you an interview, interviews get you a job.
Resume': Self Advertisement
Sales presentation about you as a product
Intrigue potential employer
Entice them to invite you for interview
First impression – lasting impression
As a Sales Presentation
What skills do you bring to the organization?
Why are you worth the money you hope to earn?
How are you better than other candidates for the job?
Can you solve company or agency problems?
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Contact information Objective or summary statement Education and training Experience Skills Activities Organizations Honors and awards
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Heading: Contact information Name: First line. Often slightly larger & boldface.
Mailing Address: Street name, city, state, zip code. Permanent & temporary.
Valid telephone number. Personal number.
Other contact media. E-mail address.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Objective or Summary? Hook to grab reader attention.
Job Objective: Wellness Coordinator Skills Summary: Over 5 years of
progressively responsible wellness program experience, including program planning, implementation, and evaluation for 500+ employees.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Education List highest degree 1st – type of degree,
major, college name, and date awarded. New graduates give more detail on course work Omit high school if you have a college degree Note continuing education including seminars
related to work.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Experience. Describe present and previous positions
in reverse chronological order. Include dates of employment, company
names and locations, and specific job titles Show progression and promotions within an
organization Consider using more than one
Experience heading.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Skills The heart and soul of job-finding. Any identifiable ability or fact that
employers value and will pay for. Encompass a wide variety of
experiences. General & industry specific abilities Personal characteristics, special knowledge
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Skills. Administering aerobics programs,
analyzing participation rates, advising aerobics instructors, allocating equipment resources, desktop publishing, coordinating department events, designing fitness promotion ads, wilderness expedition problem-solving, writing injury reports.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Skills. Avoid self-ascribed attributes. Give
examples of attributes & substantiate. Dependable, sense of humor, commitment,
leadership, persistence, adaptable, crisis-resistant, creative, accept criticism – meaningless.
Brochures, 100% quota, telemarketing, spreadsheet, web site designing.
Where do skills belong on resume? Everywhere.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Activities. Can include hobbies, sports,
campus extracurricular participation.
How relevant is activity to target job?
Avoid potentially controversial activities.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Organizations or Affiliations Professional and civic affiliations Mention important offices held Relate affiliations in terms of
marketable skills. Never list membership in religious or
political organizations unless applying for position requires membership.
Step 1: Gather Your Information
Awards and honors List most achievements for which you
were recognized. Scholastic awards, athletics
recognition, work achievement. Omit if honor had nothing to do with
work or does not show in professional light.
Step 2: Design a Format
1. Reverse chronological format
2. Functional
3. Hybrid
Other Formats: Accomplishments, Curriculum vitae,
KeyWord, Linear, Professional
Step 2: Design a Format
Reverse Chronological FormatLists all employment and education,
beginning with most recent work backward
Functional FormatEmphasizes what you can do instead of
relaying what you’ve done & where you did it.
Hybrid Format: both
Step 2: Design a Format
Which format should new graduates use? Reverse chronological is not as
persuasive because irrelevant jobs. Functional directs reader’s eyes to
what you can do instead of listing stray student job or two.
Functional uses unpaid and non-work experience to your best advantage.
Step 2: Design a Format
Hybrid format shows timeline and showcases marketable skills and impressive accomplishments.
Essentially a functional tops a reverse chronological presentation of dates, employers, and capsules of each position’s duties.
Wise choice for rookies and job history gaps.
Step 3: Finishing Up
Review and refine so everything is clear. Use resume language, avoid first person. Start statements with action verbs. 100% correct grammar, punctuation, and
spelling. Have 2 or 3 people proofread it. Type on word processor. Print on laser or inkjet printer
Step 3: Finishing Up
Checking for typos cannot be completed using spell check alone. Consider these real-life resume blunders. “Consistently tanked as a top sales producer
for new accounts.” “Dramatically increased exiting account
base, achieving new company records. “Experienced supervisor, defective with both
rookies and seasoned professionals. “Seeking party-time position with potential
for advancement.”
Step 3: Finishing Up
Paper restrict to white or off-white. Print on one side only. Quality of paper immaterial when
scanned. Use white space. Do not right justify. Times Roman & Helvetica good fonts. Use at least 10 point font (11+ better). Omit underlining. Italics difficult to
read.