How to make a Resume

1. How to make a Resume By the Professional Development Society

2. What is a Resume???? • A Resume is the first tool you have at your disposal towards building a career • It is a means to sell yourself to companies • It represents what you feel are your most important experiences and qualities

3. A Paper Resume Should Look Nice Have Bullets Be used for: faxing e-mailing Career Fairs Interviews An Electronic Resume Plain Text(not fancy) Used for on-line resume submission (text box) Melded to company specifications What Types of Resumes should you have?

4. Neat Clean Error Free Grammatically Correct Well organized ONE PAGE Unique Eye Grabbing What does a good Resume consist of?

5. There are 4 types of Resume formats • Chronological Resume • Functional Resume • Combination Resume • Curriculum Vitae(Vita)

6. Chronological Resume • Highlights your work experience in reverse chronological order(most recent jobs) • This is the most widely used format

7. Functional Resume • Highlights Specific skills for which the market has a high demand • Seldom used by college students or even recent graduates • Used to change jobs or careers

8. Combination Resume • Highlights specific work experience • Highlights marketable skills • Uses chronological order • Occasionally used by college students This should be the resume style of choice for most college students

9. Curriculum Vitae (Vita) • This is not “technically” a resume • It is a 2-4 page summary of academic experience, work experience, experiments, papers, and publications • This is mainly used by doctoral students

10. Electronic Resume • Keep the concepts for the Standard resume the same for this one • Make all the text the same size, without any style at all • No bullets, nothing fancy • If you need to use bullets, use an asterik * • Remember, this is only to be used when you have to put your resume into a text box to submit on-line

11. The Standard Resume

12. The Header The Header of your resume should contain: • Your Name in a big font • Your e-mail address • The Address which you use most frequently or your permanent and current address • It should also contain and phone numbers you wish to disclose

13. The Objective The Objective should be clear, concise, and to the point!!! ex ) Bad Too Vague Objective: I want to get a job ex) Good but still vagueObjective: To attain an internship in the computer industry ex) Good Objective: To attain an internship in the computer industry working with databases or networks

14. Education • First off, do not put your high school education on your resume • If you have decided upon a major, use a format similar to this: Bachelor of Science, Management Science Information Systems, May 2001 GPA 3.0 Major GPA 3.0 GPA should only but put if it is 3.0 or better

15. Honors and Awards • This section should only contain honors and awards from the time you entered college till the present • This can include scholastic and academic or extracurricular items • Give a brief description of the honor or award you received and what it symbolizes

16. Relevant Courses • This is an optional section for your resume • It can be used to fill space, and/or to define your efficiencies • Mostly this should include courses within or prerequisite courses towards your major • Interesting courses or unique courses are also a good choice for this section

17. Relevant Courses cont’d • A good way to design this section is a table • A good thought would be to keep the course names in ascending order(title size) • Also, keep similar courses together Statistics MSIS CS111 Calculus I Advanced MSIS CS112 Communication Information Technology CS211

18. Skills Section • There should be a section to denote some important skills, computer or communication • Once again making a table layout is good • You can put any skill that you have used before on your sheet, just be sure to let employers know your level or knowledge when you interview with them SQL HTML JAVA Excel Word Access Windows 95/98 Unix(SUN) Mac O/S

19. Work Experience • This section is dedicated to your most recent and/or relevant experiences • This section should have your employer and location on the first line, your position and time-span of your job on the second Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ Product Testing Internship, June 2000 - August 2000

20. Work Experience cont’d • Each experience should have at least 2 bullets explaining your role and contributions, relating it to your skill level • Tense and grammar are extremely important • If you worked a job then you developed, created, installed (Note past tense) • If you are currently working a job then you develop, create, install (Note present tense)

21. Work Experience cont’d • You must write your thoughts in complete sentences I developed an integrated networking system relating sales and marginal profit. • Poor grammar will make your resume look half-done and leave a bad impression. • If you cant take your resume seriously the why would you take your job seriously???

22. Example of Work Experience Rutgers Campus Computing Facilities, Piscataway, New Jersey Computer Consultant, May 2000 - Present • Provide level I & II help desk support for 1500 users • Maintain a secure network of PCs, MACs, and X-Terms • Develop and utilize communication and interpersonal skills

23. Activities • The activities section should be set up in the same format as the experience section, but instead of the address you have a general location • Professional Development Society, Rutgers University • Founder and President, March 2001 - Present • Developed marketing strategies, areas of focus, and the unique concept of the organization • Coordinate projects and develop courses of action to increase productivity • Develop and perform presentations for computer and communication skills • Hold executive meetings, create agendas, delegate responsibilities, and manage the organization

24. Organizations (Professional Affiliations) • This section should only have the title of an Organization that you are/were in, listing your status in that organization. You can specify when you were in the organization, but it is not necessary. • Once again make the section look nice through formatting Member Capoiera Club Member, JCA Staff Writer Livingston Ledger Member, MBSA Member, Professional Development Society Member, MSIS Society

25. Projects Section • Very few people have this section, so getting the opportunity to use this is a huge plus!! • This section is used to show any lengthy, impressive, or relevant projects that you have worked on or contributed to • This should not include projects from your classes unless it is substantial

26. Projects cont’d • A good layout for this section is similar to experience and activities, but can be less wordy ex) Non-wordy Career Services Database Integration, MSIS Society • Created an easy to use access conversion of File Maker Pro and implemented it for Career Services

27. Projects cont’d ex) Wordy Access Database Conversion Project, MSIS Society Group Leader: Jay Mussan-Levy, May 2001 • Designed an access database system, converting the old File Maker Pro database into an easy to use system • Tested the program using test cases to optimize performance • Led the project group throughout the process, mediated conflicts, made decisions, and implemented a group democracy system in which everyone had equal say and power

28. Putting it all Together Remember these and you should do alright • Proper Grammar • Complete sentences • Dazzle it up • Organize it This is your sales pitch to companies, design it to leave a lasting impression

29. Jay Mussan-Levy greywolf@eden.rutgers.edu 11 Jennifer court Marlboro, New Jersey, 07746 Current 732-373-3819 Permanent 732-536-6276 Cell 732-610-2402 Objective To attain an internship relating to computer science or information technology, gain experience in developing and maintaining networks or software applications, database design, or web pages EducationRutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Informatics, May 2003 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 2003 Relevant Accounting I & II Discrete Structures Communication Coursework Data Structures(JAVA) Computer Architecture Statistics for Business Micro & Macroeconomics Information Technology Computer Science(JAVA) Computer Excel PowerPoint Word Access Skills Flash Photoshop Office 2000 Outlook Express Windows 95/98 Unix Mac O/S Assembly HTML JAVA PERL/CGI SQL Experience Rutgers Campus Computing Facilities, Piscataway, New Jersey Computer Consultant, May 2000 - Present • Provide level I & II help desk support to 1500 users as well as maintain the computers • Develop and utilize communication and interpersonal skills Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, New Jersey Product Testing Internship, Delivery Department, June 2000 - August 2000 • Created templates and queries as well as SQL queries, forms, and reports • Gave a successful presentation to upper management on my internship and accomplishments

30. Putting Everything Together cont’d Experience Marlboro Travel Association & FIFA, Marlboro, New Jersey State Licensed Soccer Coach and Referee, 1994 - Present • Mastered 3 State License courses attaining the highest state license • Attained the level 8 FIFA referee license Shapiro-Mason Campaign, New Brunswick, New Jersey Political Volunteer, September 1998 - November 1998 • Co-designed campaign literature and supervised its distribution • Involved in public relations decisions and marketing tactics Activities Professional Development Society, Rutgers University Founder and President, March 2001 - Present • Developed marketing strategies, areas of focus, and the unique concept of the organization • Coordinate projects and develop courses of action to increase productivity • Develop and perform presentations for computer and communication skills • Lead executive meetings, create agendas, delegate responsibilities, and manage the organization OrganizationsMember, MSIS Society Computer and Communication Director, Chabad House Staff Writer, Livingston Ledger Member, Minority Business Students Association Member, Capoiera Club Member, Japanese Culture Association Projects Career Services Access Database Conversion Project, MSIS Society, March 2001 - April 2001 • Normalized and converted the archaic File Maker Pro database into an easy to use access format • Designed queries which run in under five seconds when less than seven queries are run simultaneously • Presented the Project to the client with a full demonstration of the database’s functionality and versatility