RESUME WRITING 101 SEPTEMBER 10 11 2014 English

RESUME WRITING 101 SEPTEMBER 10 -11, 2014

English 12 Agenda for 9/10 -9/11/2014 1. ) Warm- Up: What is a Resume? Word Splash, your thoughts 2. ) Self- reflection Step 1: List your academic honors and achievements Step 2: List your extracurricular activities. 3. ) What should you include on a resume? What are your skills and attributes? 4. ) Writing your Resume in the library 45 minutes Content Obj: SWBAT to demonstrate their understanding of writing a resume. Closing Statement: SWBAT write a resume that is free of spelling and grammatical errors. Homework: Finish your Resume for homework if you did not complete in class.

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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 To provide the skills and tools for creating and preparing your own resume

Step 1 in your packet Step 1: Write a list of the biggest academic honors you’ve earned, starting with ninth grade. These include things like honor-roll recognition, essay-writing awards, freshman awards, science competitions, and the like.

Step 2 in your packet Step 2: List your extracurricular activities. This category includes clubs you've belonged to, class offices you've held, sports, band, yearbook, and all the other nonacademic activities you've done. Don't forget non-school-related items such as volunteering at a nursing home and jobs you've worked. Include special interests like photography, hiking, writing, and so forth. If you speak more than one language, mention it. Detail your uniqueness. You're trying to paint a portrait of yourself; create an action inventory.

Why do you need a resume? q A marketing tool q To obtain an interview, not a job q Requirement of many organizations

DOES YOUR RESUME PASS THE TEST?

Resume- hidden messages q Neat q Well-organized q Error free q Attention to detail q Professional appearance q Careful & Competent Resume You

Sections of a Resume

The Header q What should be included? q. Name q. Permanent and present address q. E-mail address q. Telephone number q Where should contact information go? q. Top of the page

Objective Statement q Purpose q. Communicate the type of position you are interested in q Examples q. Management trainee position with a specialty retailer. q. Technical sales with an energy related industry in the Southwest. Long range goals of regional sales management. q. To obtain a position as field service representative with XYZ Software Corporation.

Education q Date or expected date of graduation q. Graduation Date: May 2014 q. Expected Graduation Date: May 2015 q GPA q. Major or overall at least 3. 0 q. Round down to the nearest tenth q 3. 0 not 3. 062 q GPA: 4. 0, Summa Cum Laude q 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.

ü Experience Use the term "experience" ü What is considered experience? Full and part-time jobs Self-employment Volunteer work Practicum, field, and cooperative education ü Information to include ü Job Title ü Dates of employment ü Company name ü City & State ü ü 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 q Use bullet points q Start of each line with an action verb q. Present tense if currently employed q. Past tense if no longer employed q. Vary your choice of verbs q Tailor skills and experiences to the position for which you are applying q 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 q Use action verbs q Use short, concise sentences q Use #, %, $ amounts q Keep resume easy to read q Keep resume about one page

Resume Don’ts q Do not use the pronouns such as I, me, my, etc. q Do not include references Do not clutter your resume with nonessential information q Do not make any misrepresentations q q Do not include personal information q 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, 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, 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, inventoried, investigated, issued Joined, justified Kept Launched, learned, leased, lectured, licensed, lobbied Maintained, managed, manufactured, matched, measured, mediated, met, modified, monitored, motivated, moved Named, navigated, negotiated Obtained, 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, serviced, shaped, shared, showed, simplified, 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, 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? ? ? Content Obj: SWBAT to demonstrate their understanding of writing a resume. Closing Statement: SWBAT write a resume that is free of spelling and grammatical errors.