Welcome to Preparing for Success EmployabilityResume Preparing for

Welcome to Preparing for Success Employability-Resume

Preparing for Success Employability Resume Writing

Job Search Process � Understand Yourself-Strengths, Skills, and what kind of work you are able do � Find jobs-networking, websites, � Apply-create supporting documents such as resume, cover letter, references list, thank you letters � Interview � Accept the job! � OR learn from the experience and keep searching.

Watch “Resume ZEN” on You. Tube. Discussion: A RESUME is more than an employment doc. It’s a life assessment tool. § § § What do you want on your resume in 5 years? What are you doing now that you don’t want to be doing in a year? What do you see yourself doing in 5 years? If you don’t think about where want to be, where will you be in 5 years? More skill-more responsibility-more $. Life’s not all about money, but increased $ does come with increased skill. § So how can you increase your skill set? § Nothing, no experience, is ever wasted—mistakes included. �Keep LEARNing, Keep GROWing!

Resume Writing �Why? – this is who you are on paper �Employers are busy �Highlights and helps you think of your key strengths �Goal: Get and prepare for interview

Writing a TARGETED RESUME � Standard to create a resume TARGETED to the job you are trying to find � Easy with electronically saved resumes to make changes and save. A Living Document. � You may have several different resumes.

� Name, What’s on it? address, phone, email � Profile-key strengths and skills � Employment: Reverse CHRONOLOGICAL order going back 10 - years or FUNCTIONAL skills list � Job Title, Company, Dates, Duties • Bullet points describing duties • Actions and results � Education- if age is a factor, leave off the dates of degrees and diplomas; high school not needed

What’s not on it? � NO OBJECTIVE —why? ? � NO REFERENCES—make and copy a separate list

Why make a resume when you’ll put all this information on an application anyway? � They’re different! And have different purposes and goals: � Resume’s goal is to get you an interview. � Application employer. is a legal document for the

� SUCCINCT Tips & CONCISE—short phrases not long sentences � Use KEY WORDS of the industry � WHITE SPACE � BULLETS � ACTION VERBS to describe job tasks & results • ACTION ----- RESULT • Present Tense-current job • Past Tense-former jobs � PERFECT spelling, grammar, punctuation � FRESH EYES-work, set aside, look again

Resume Sample Discussion

Begin resume, save and turn in � Open Word. Use sample resume in book as example. � Add Name, Address, Phone, Email � Add Skills, Education, Employment � You’ll have more time to finish when we next meet. � Save to desktop or flash drive, email to self-I’ll come around and help with this � Print and turn in rough draft today

DIRECTIONS TO SAVE YOUR RESUME AND EMAIL � TO yourself (if you don’t have a flash/thumb drive � Save to desktop: � Click File (upper left, blue) � Click Save As (underneath File) � File Name: Your name resume Month 2015 � On left side of window, click Desktop or your flash drive, usually called “Removable Disk E: or F: � Click Save � Document is now saved on the computer’s desktop screen or to your flash drive.

EMAIL RESUME to YOURSELF TO SAVE IT � Open your email account � Click Compose � In “To” box, type your email and jeanne. Schmidt@mcckc. edu peter. warner@mcckc. edu, simon. muturi@mcckc. edu � In the “Subject” box, type “Your name resume” � Click the paperclip � Save As box will open. Click the location on left where you saved your resume. When you find the resume, click it once � Click Open. The resume will attach to the email. � Click Send.

Credentials and Skills-Warehousing Education Metropolitan Community College Warehousing and Logistics Associate – Month 2015 Forklift Operator Card OSHA 10 -hour General Industry Safety Card National Career Readiness Certificate- Month 2015

Credentials & Skills-Basic Machining Education Metropolitan Community College Saw and Drill Press Operator Certificate - Month 2015 OSHA 10 -hour General Industry Safety Card National Career Readiness Certificate (if you pass Work. Keys) Technical Skills Summary Select proper band saw blade material � Calculate appropriate length of blade for saw � Cut and weld blade and install on band saw � Cut steel to specifications using blade welded and installed � Create layout using height gauge or combination square and blue layout fluid � Sharpen drill bit by hand on pedestal grinder � Select proper RPM for the drill press and type of material � Use peck drilling to make holes without damaging drill bit �

Credentials-Basic Welding Education Metropolitan Community College Basic Industrial Welding Certificate-Month 2015 OSHA 10 -hour General Industry Safety Card National Career Readiness Certificate

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