Advanced Resume Writing Tips

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Advanced Resume Writing Tips

• A UC Riverside Career Center
• Workshop

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You have a basic resume.How do you add to it?

• Objective or Qualifications?
• Experience or Work History?
• Projects and Internships
• Technical and Administrative
• Leadership and Service
• Relevant Experience
• Chronological or Functional?
• Cover Letter

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Objective Statements

• For targeted, entry-level position requiring
  little specific experience.
• Seeking entry level position in marketing.
• Tightly-focused statements for a specific
  position or industry segment
• Seeking entry-level position with dynamic
  Halloween Costume company.

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Qualifications Summary
Broad range of experience and skills to hook
the reader.

• Find a success highlight.
• Honors graduate in psychology
• Focus on transferable skills
• Communication Research,
• Leadership Interpersonal
• Use language from job posting.

Detail-oriented Political Science honors graduate
with leadership, communications, and
problem-solving skills. Extensive experience
organizing and managing events with a full
understanding of institutional protocol. Seeking
position in events planning.
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What the _at_ is experience?

• Paid or unpaid
• Specific objective or task
• External accountability.

• Presentations or public speaking
• SERVICE in student organizations
• Formal or informal faculty research
• Community Volunteering or Internships
• Class projects, labs, MAJOR assignments

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Talking About Experience

• Not Job Title, but Tasks
• Sales clerk.Try this
• Assisted customers with product selection
• Cashier..Try this
• Operated cash register and balanced 1500 in
  receipts
• Accomplishments, not duties.
• Responsible for salesTry this
• Named associate of the month for record-setting
  sales.
• Data EntryTry this
• Created procedure saving 10 hours of data entry
  time

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Talking About Experience

• Use action words
• Responsible for inventory Maintained primary
  inventory
• Responsible for lab maintenance Reorganized
  and stocked laboratory
• Worked with new hires Trained new hires in
  policy and procedures

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Jobs Tasks Skills
Sales Clerk Cashier, stocking, customer
service, INVENTORY
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Skills, skills, skills!

• At least one transferable skill for each job.
• Organized last minute changes in guest list and
  table count.
• Examples of communication or writing skills.
• Wrote all event timelines and handled
  post-event debriefing.
• Specialized skills or languages.
• Natively fluent in both Korean and English.
• Technology experience.
• Basic programming skills using C, PERL, and
  Javascript.
• dont forget Online and Internet experience!
• Extensive research, referral, and resource work
  using Internet and online databases.

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Activities Relevant Jobs

• Volunteer activities can sometimes supplement a
  lack of work experience.
• Scholarships and academic awards.
• How far back?
• Relevant vs. non-relevant.

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Chronological?
Functional?

• Gaps in work history.
• Reentering workforce.
• Frequently job changes.
• Transition to new career.
• Do not exactly fit what recruiters are looking
  for in a specific position.

• One or few jobs.
• Staying in career path.
• Have exact qualifications.
• Promotional changes from job to job.

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Chronological
Functional
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Cover Letters

• Should accompany all submitted resumes.
• Complement and expand on resumenot merely
  repeat it.
• The hook that gets interviews.
• Adds personal touch.
• Shows company knowledge

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Cover Letters

• Three Critical Parts
• Introduce yourself and current situation.
• Enhance resume information andhighlight specific
  skills asked for in job announcement.
• Gives information on whencandidate is available
  forinterviews and start date.

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Cover Letters_at_ Optimal Resume
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References

• Who?
• Someone you have worked with
• Someone you have known for a long time
• Someone who is credible
• Supervisors, co-workers, professors
• Contact your references before
• Make sure your information is correct
• Names, job titles, and phone numbers

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Career Center

• Additional Career Center workshops to
• help you with your career success
• Making Professional Connections
• Internships Orientations
• Beginning and Advanced Job Search
• Interview Skills
• Special Seminars with Employer Presenters
• On Campus Interview Program Workshop

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Career Center

• Location Veitch Student Center (next to
  Health Center)
• Hours Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Web Site www.careers.ucr.edu
• Individual counseling appointments available by
  calling
• [phone]
• Drop-In Hours Mon. thru Fri.
• 10 a.m. to 12 noon
• 130 p.m. to 430 p.m.

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