RESUMIX Army Electronic Rsum

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RESUMIX - Army Electronic Résumé Hands On -
Writing Workshop
Provided as a service of Army Community Service
(ACS) U.S. Army Garrison, Rock Island Arsenal
Edition of January 28, 2005
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Purposes

• To improve your résumé
• Understand that Federal vacancy announcements
  have interview questions
• Practice your interview answers
• Use the Armys e-application process
  www. cpol. army. mil

?PARS?
Problem gt Action gt Results Statements
Improve your career opportunities by changing
the question you answer! Are you good at the
skills that will solve their problems?
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Résumé Writing

• Is like putting a message in a bottle

• First lets review your message - your
  marketing pitches on why they should hire
  you ?P A R S?
• Then, well look at the bottle your résumé
  format is like a bottle provided in Army Résumé
  Builder

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Why are we doing this message for an Army
Civilian Job?

• The Department of the Army (DA) or any Federal
  Employer
• is a world-class employer
• hiring world-wide
• so they cant do face-to-face screening
  interviews.
• DA conducts its screening interviews
  electronically using an Internet-based
  application process (Vacancy Announcements,
  Army Résumé Builder and ANSWER) at its web site,
  Civilian Personnel On Line CPOL . ARMY . MIL
• They only know what you write so
  be mindful of what your write.
• The notional interview questions are
  translated out of each Vacancy Announcements
• Duty Description
• Qualifications

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Security Guard Vacancy Announcement (Duties
example)
Protects Federal Property from hazards protects
property
Stands guard at exterior and interior
gates stands guard
Insures that all incoming and outgoing vehicular
traffic is registered with the security
office Insures traffic is registered
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Think of the Vacancy Announcements Duty
Description and Qualifications Blocksas
Interview Questions Are you good at

• protecting property ?
• standing guard ?
• insuring traffic is registered ?

Answer each of their questions that they have
given to you in the announcement! Be relevant,
focused, and aligned to your target employers
problems!
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• Employers will hire the solutions to their
  problems.
• Your Federal (Army) employer has one,
  over-arching interview question -Are you
  good at the skills that will solve our problems
  as weve described them in the vacancy
  announcements duty description and
  qualifications?
• Your marketing pitch could be Yes, I am good
  at the skills that will solve your problems! If
  it worked back then, it will work great now! Let
  me tell you my relevant accomplishments back then
  .
• Use ?PARS? Problem Action Results Statements

Their PROBLEM Skills Verb-Noun Sets from
Duties and Qualifications
Your ACTION Past Tense VERB
NOUN aligned to the duties and qualifications
Your RESULTS Numbers Especially
RESULTS TIME and EXAMPLES
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Let them see you and hear you in the jobby
writing your examples
Vacancy announcement for a security guard reads
Candidate will guard gates.
For the last 6 years I correctly guarded gates.
For example while in the Army on gate-guard duty
10 of my time I inspected passes and
identification cards, directed traffic, called
for back-up when people tried to get on the base
illegally and directed visitors to the security
office. Passed all of my inspections and met the
standards.
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E - Résumé Writing

• Is like putting a message in a bottle

• Your message is ?P A R S?
• Now lets look at the Bottle the Armys
  e-format Army Résumé Builder

Given Internet Access, CPOL, MS Word, disc
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Where are we going?
1. Aligned, results-oriented Army E - résumé into
ANSWER
CPOL ANSWER System
2. E - Self-Nomination into ANSWER
Bottom of each Vacancy Announcement
3. Check back in ANSWER
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Hands-on Workshop Tasks

• Task 1 - Find and use Civilian Personnel On Line
  (CPOL) web site
• Task 2 - Use Army Résumé Builder
• Task 3 - Review and practice writing
  Army Résumé in Builder
• Task 4 - Army Vacancy Announcements (VAn)
• Task 5 - Self-Nomination system
  incorporated into the VAn
• Task 6 - ANSWER (Army Notification System Webb
  Enabled Response)

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Task 1 - Find and use Civilian Personnel On Line
(CPOL) web site
Step c. Find Army Job Application Kit
(Instructions)
CPOL Home Page References Tools
Note the alternate route to all Employment actions
c, 4
CPOL Top Pages gt Employment gt Army Job
Application Kit
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Task 1 - Find and use Civilian Personnel On Line
(CPOL) web site
Steps a. Using the Internet, find http//
cpol. army. mil b. Find and sensitize with
cursor EMPLOYMENT Section in the middle and
left c. Find (1) Search for Jobs (Army
Vacancy Announcements) (2)
Build a Résumé View Résumé Status (ANSWER)
a
b

c, 1-3
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Task 2 - Use Army Résumé Builder
Steps a. Click-on CPOL gt EMPLOYMENT gt Build a
Résumé b. CREATE initial Résumé Builder Account
(SSN, Password, Contact Info) c. Review and
practice EDIT Résumé Builder d. Review and
practice SEND minimally sufficient, initial
résumé especially ? RESUMIX (ANSWER)
safety valve resume _at_ cpsrxtp.
belvoir. army. mil
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Task 3 - Review and practice writing
Army Résumé in Builder
Steps a. Mandatory Blocks with notation b.
Instructions button c. Sections Contact
Information Work Experience Education
Additional Information Supplemental
Data d. Worksheets e. Saving résumé input (noting
any unfinished mandatory blocks)
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Task 4 - Army Vacancy Announcements (VAn)

• Steps
• Finding VAn using the CPOL Employment page gt
  Search for Jobs
• Setting and using Search Criteria by Career
  Field (job), Location and Levels (money)
  single multiple (use of CONTROL button)
• c. Reading displayed vacancy announcements (VAn)
• d. Copying selected portions of VAn (EDIT gt
  COPY) answer the questions
• e. Pasting selected portions of VAn into MS WORD
  (EDIT gt PASTE) Drafting, word counting, spell
  checking, and saving Federal Success
  Statements for use in Army Résumé Builder - MS
  Word Work Pads for PARS!

a
b
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Task 5 - Self-Nomination system
incorporated into the VAn
Steps a. Using hot-button at bottom of selected
VAn b. Review and practice of filling out and
sending self-nomination e-form
a
b
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Task 6 - ANSWER (Army
Notification System Webb Enabled Response)
Steps a. CPOL home page gt EMPLOYMENT gt View
Résumé Status (ANSWER) b. Review of Key
Functions d. Log Off (in upper right)
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Final Review
1. Aligned, results-oriented Army E - résumé into
ANSWER
CPOL ANSWER System
2. E - Self-Nomination into ANSWER
Bottom of each Vacancy Announcement
3. Check back in ANSWER
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Jon Cook, PHR, AFC
Employment Readiness Program Contractor for Army
Community Service ATTN AMSTA-RI-CF-ACS Building
110, 1st Floor, Southeast Wing U.S. Army Garrison
Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island, IL 61299-5000
[phone] e-mail RIA-ACS_at_ria.army.mil
www. riamwr. com / acsnew. htm
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Please fill out the evaluations!
Ta-DAH! It's over!