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Title: Writing Your Resume


1
Writing Your Resume
  • Taken from Paul V. Andersons Technical Writing
    A Reader-Centered Approach

2
What Employers Look For
  • Technical Expertise Employers want to hire
    people who, with a minimum of training, can
    perform their jobs adeptly.
  • Supporting Abilities Most jobs require a wide
    range of abilities beyond the purely technical
    one. These include communication, interpersonal,
    time management, and project management skills.
  • Favorable Personal Attributes Employers want
    motivated, self-directed, responsible
    professionals. They also want employees who will
    work well with co-workers, customers, and vendors.

3
Planning
  • Experiential Resume You arrange information
    around your experiences attending college,
    working participating in campus or community
    activities.
  • Functional Resume You organize your resume
    around your abilities and accomplishments. You
    might have headings entitled Technical
    Abilities, Management Experience, and
    Communication Skills.

4
Length
5
General Resume Strategies
  • Take an employers perspective
  • Show breadth as well as depth
  • Think creatively about your qualifications
  • Put the most impressive information first
  • Give specific details
  • Omit information that will not impress an employer

6
Drafting the Experiential Resume
  • Identifying and Contact Information
  • Professional Objective
  • Education
  • Work Experience
  • Activities
  • Special Abilities
  • Interests
  • References

7
Identifying Contact Information
  • Place your name prominently at the top. Also
    provide your postal address, email address, and
    phone number. If you have two addresses, give
    them both. No errors. Complete information, like
    zip codes and area codes.

8
Professional Objective
  • Identify the practical results you would help
    produce if you worked in the department or unit
    to which you are applying.
  • State that your objective is to achieve those
    results.

9
Education
  • GPA, if good
  • Academic honors
  • On-the-job educational experiences
  • Relevant coursework
  • Special project
  • Training programs
  • Associate degrees

10
Work Experience
  • Accomplishments
  • Knowledge gained
  • Skills, equipment, and computer programs used

11
Activities
  • At the very least, participation in group
    activities indicates that you are a pleasant
    person who gets along with others.
  • Professional organizations
  • Volunteer organizations

12
Special Abilities
  • Include unusual abilities of any sort, such as
    being selected for a choir that toured Europe or
    playing varsity sports.
  • You can give these abilities emphasis by labeling
    them with a title such as Computer Skills or
    Foreign Languages

13
Interests
  • A brief mention of your special interests will
    give evidence that you are a person who can talk
    about something other than studies and jobs. If
    the information you include under Activities
    provides information abut your interests, a
    separate section is unnecessary

14
Resume Design Elements
  • Short, informative headings
  • Lists
  • Bullets
  • Boldface
  • Italics
  • Variety of type sizes
  • Different typefaces for headings and for text
  • White space to separate sections
  • Ample margins (3/4 to 1)

15
A Few Words About References
  • On the resume or on a separate List of
    References?
  • Select people who can speak about your
    professional qualifications.
  • Choose at least three
  • Check with each person
  • Make your references look important and easy to
    contact

16
Dont Drop the Ball
Your resume must be better than good enough.
According to a 1994 Coordinating Board study,
over 50 of the resumes submitted by Texas
college and university graduates get trashed
because of misspellings and grammatical errors.
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