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Creating a Resume: Lesson 1 - Employment Exploration

Learn how to create an effective resume that highlights your skills, experience, and achievements. This lesson covers resume sections, descriptive sentences, and the importance of maintaining a current resume.

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Creating a Resume: Lesson 1 - Employment Exploration

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  1. Creating a rEsume LESSON 1 EMPLOYMENT EXPLORATION

  2. Learning objectives • Create a resume displaying accurate information for each resume section • Evaluate descriptive sentences about previous work experience • Increase their confidence in their ability to create descriptive sentences about previous work experience • Increase their value in the importance of maintaining a current resume

  3. Allows you to highlight personal achievements Displays your experience and skills Gives information about your education Importance of resumes Clearly shows how your skills align with the job you are seeking Gives potential employers your contact information so they can reach you

  4. Job resume examples Resume A Resume B

  5. Job Resume Examples (cont.) Resume A observations Resume B observations

  6. Selecting an employee Activity • Work as a small group to select one resume to “hire” as a customer service representative. • Be prepared to explain why you have selected your candidate.

  7. Resume overview

  8. Resume section: contact information • Include: • Your name • Current address • Email address • Home or cell number.

  9. Resume section: objective • Include: • Short sentences that clearly state the position you are looking for • Highlight, briefly, how your experience makes you the best candidate for the position you are seeking

  10. Objective examples Highly motivated individual seeking a customer service position that will allow me to further develop my interpersonal and communication skills. Enthusiastic customer service specialist seeking a position to utilize my expertise in customer relations and staff leadership.

  11. Resume section: experience • Include: • All of your experiences, paid and unpaid, volunteer or professional • Use action verbs to describe your roles and responsibilities • Organize experience beginning with most current

  12. Experience examples • Woodland Public Library • Organize reading material in correct order • Assemble displays and exhibits about local events occurring at the library • Clean reading desks and tables • Dutch Bros. Coffee • Set up storeroom to allow easy access to stock items • Greet guests and accurately input various orders on the computer system • Clean dining area for guests

  13. Resume section: Education • Include: • Name of institutions, degrees, and dates • List dates as “Graduation month year” • Example: June 2017

  14. Education examples • Woodland Community College • Associate Degree, June 2019 • Pioneer High School • High School Diploma, June 2017

  15. Resume section: reference • Include: • Non-family member name, relation, and contact information • Or “references available upon request”

  16. Select google document resume template Independent Practice

  17. Once you have selected the template you would like, open resume template with Google Docs Independent Practice

  18. Begin typing your information in to the template. Independent Practice

  19. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”Abraham Lincoln

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