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Creating Your Resume

Creating Your Resume. The Basics. Length: No More than One Page Purpose: to showcase your RELEVANT experience (What is relevant will vary depending on how you’re using your resume.) Content: High school and later only. When you get older, use college and later only. Starting from a Template.

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Creating Your Resume

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  1. Creating Your Resume

  2. The Basics • Length: No More than One Page • Purpose: to showcase your RELEVANT experience (What is relevant will vary depending on how you’re using your resume.) • Content: High school and later only. When you get older, use college and later only.

  3. Starting from a Template • Templates give you a format for the document you want to create. They have headings, styles, margins and other details already set up for you. • To open a template, choose: • File/New/Templates on my computer (on the right hand side) • Choose the “Other Documents” tab. • Or the school SEP page has a good sample template,Sample No. 3. • Choose a template for a resume • There are many templates available; the important thing is to choose one that’s easy to read and professional.

  4. Contact Information • Use your full name (Alexander, not Alex) • Your middle initial if you want (your choice) • Your current contact info, properly capitalized & spaced • Your email MUST be professional • no smileyblueeyes@hotmail.com or hotboy28@gmail.com • I suggest some variation of your name: christy.hargrave@yahoo.com for example.

  5. Objective • The objective should always be the first thing on a resume after your name and gives your reason for preparing this particular resume. • It should 1) be a sentence fragment2) start with the word “To” and 3) tell what your purpose is in writing this resume • To obtain a position as a teacher of English in a school dedicated to promoting college readiness. • To demonstrate readiness for graduation from high school and preparedness to pursue a degree in ____. • To obtain an entry level position as a ____________.

  6. What else should I include? • Demonstrate your capability to do the job you’re applying for and your valuable skills • Divide your experience by category: • Education • Include school(s), years, special courses, GPA if good • Experience (Paid & unpaid/volunteer) • Include employer, position, brief descriptions of responsibilities, city, state and dates • Or include both Work Experience AND Volunteer Experience Categories.

  7. Additional Categories • Languages: (if bilingual) • For example: Fluent in English and Spanish. • Computer skills • List your computer proficiencies. • Proficient in Microsoft Office and Works, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as …

  8. Additional Categories • Extracurricular Activities: • These can demonstrate your dedication to a group or sport, leadership positions held, and as time management skills. • List the club or sport, followed by your role, followed by time periods • Cuisine Club, Member 2007-2009. • Awards and Merits • List the award name, followed by a brief explanation (if it’s not immediately obvious), then the date. • AP Scholar, a national award for students who earn three or higher on at least three AP tests, May 2009

  9. Working with Styles in Word • Styles are sets of information about text: font size, indenting, bullets/numbering, color, etc. • Use styles to make similar parts of your resume look the same. • Use the format painter to copy styles. • Find the paintbrush icon • Put your cursor on the text you want to copy • Double-click the format painter paintbrush. • Single click on the text you want to change the format of.

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