12 Resumes
Learning Objectives
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Develop a professional resume that highlights your skills, experience, education, and training.
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Explore careers in a sector that is in-demand and understand what pathways lead to those careers.
Chapter & Discussion
This chapter includes a presentation that can be navigated in a classroom setting or independently. You can access the presentation via the link below.
Building Your Professional Resume
Work through the different sections of the chapter and discuss ideas and topics as they arise. If you’re working independently, take notes instead. Notes and active discussion will be helpful in navigating this week’s assignments.
Overview
A resume is an at-a-glance catalog of your professional qualifications. Its purpose is to highlight your background and the traits that make you a good candidate. It should:
Be easy to read and show design thinking
Meet the standards of formatting
Highlight the skills, experience, and training that make you a strong candidate
A strong resume is the first and foremost way to stand out and secure a job interview.
Planning
Planning for your resume requires an extensive inventory of your professional background and a revision process to ensure that you have produced the best possible product.
Inventory Phase:
- Document all of your relevant work experience
- Record any awards, honors, and accomplishments
- Complete a transferable skills inventory and note anything that may apply
Revision Phase:
- Find a template that works for you and import your information into it
- Revise wording on your skills and bullets so that they show your strengths, sound impressive, and highlight your positive influence and deliverables
Format
Here are the major working parts for your resume format:
Front Matter: This will include your name, contact information, and a summary of your qualifications
Skills Section: This should highlight your professional and transferable skills
Experience Section: This will include your professional experience
Education Section: This will show the education and training you’ve received that qualify you for this job
Optional Sections: These can include honors and awards, certifications, and service
Examples
Indeed’s Career Guide has a number of examples sorted by industry. Please check out a few for your industry here.
Assigned Reading
Here are this week’s readings. Additionally, please read for your own personal enjoyment for 1/2 hour each day. This will be called your “Reading Zone” reading and it will coincide with many upcoming activities.
How to Make a Comprehensive Resume by Indeed
Assignment: Professional Resume
Read How to Make a Comprehensive Resume by the Indeed Career Guide, and watch the video at the bottom of the page.
Once you’ve read the article and watched the video, complete the Google Applied Digital Skills module to complete your own resume.
Google Applied Digital Skills: Create a Resume in Google Docs
Attach your resume as a Google Doc or PDF as your submission for this assignment.
OPTIONAL: You may decide to use this assignment to build a Future Goals Resume. To do this, simply include experience, training, and education that you plan on completing in the future. If you do so, please indicate future items by making their text blue in your document.
Assignment: Reading Zone Response (250 Words)
For Reading Zone, you must find a novel that is interesting to you and enjoyable to read. If you need help finding a Reading Zone book, please ask. Please read your Reading Zone book for a half-hour each day. On class days, there will be time in class dedicated to reading.
Create a response to this week’s reading that addresses the following prompts:
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In one paragraph, summarize what you’ve read this week
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In a second paragraph, talk about how you personally connect with characters or themes from the book. Does the book cover any of your skills or interests?