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Agenda

• Reasoning behind the Resume
• Telling Your Story
• The Resume Template
• Technical Tips
• Resume Review
• Fine Tuning
• Your Writing Consultant

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Reasons for the Resume

• Communicate your skillset.
• Illustrate your fit with the organization.
• Demonstrate positive personality traits.
• Generate interest in you on a social level.
• Open doors for storytelling in the interview.
• Communicate your storyhow you came to this
  point.

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Telling Your Story

• The Laundry List Approach
• Write down everything you have done from your
  professional experiences
• Go through each experience and pull out
• Skills used
• Accomplishments/impact/RESULTS (quantify when
  possible)
• Pick best experiences (those that demonstrate use
  of the previous listed skills).
• Use buzzwords where applicable -- but sparingly.

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Telling Your Story

• Situation Action Result
• Situation What required your attention? What
  did you encounter in your job that required your
  attention?
• Action What action/approach did you take to
  solve the problem?
• Result What happened in terms of dollars,
  savings, volume, days, process, etc?

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The Resume Template

• After you identify the information you want to
  include in your resume, determine the order.
• Use CDO instruction sheet to create your resume.
• Make your resume no more than one page!

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Technical Tips

• Degree Candidate for Masters degree in
  Business Administration (MBA), 2003. or
  Candidate for Master of Business Administration
  (MBA), 2003.
• Focus in not Concentration in.
• Latin and Greek phrases italicized (e.g. pro
  bono)
• Journal titles italicized Book titles
  underlined.
• Computers no need to list basic programs.
• International students show adopted names Min
  (Charles) Liu.

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More Tips

• Punctuation
• Bullet points, text sentences, and degrees are
  followed by a period.
• No period for locations of jobs/ positions, e.g.
  GE Investments Stamford, Connecticut
• Numbers
• Thousand 500,000 or 500K
• Million 1,000,000 or 1M
• Millions 1,100,000 or 1.1MM
• Billions 5,000,000 or 5B

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Resume Review

• Check your resume for spelling errors. Spelling
  errors will kill any chances you have.
• Go through each bullet point and ask yourself,
  What does this communicate to my potential
  employer?
• Keep sentences short shorten where you can.
• Get rid of any passive sentences! Use action
  words to begin sentences. Vary your word usage.

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Resume Review

• Check resume for visual appealhave some white
  space.
• Avoid widowsone word on a line.
• Be careful using jargon from a field or company
  other than the one you are targeting.
• For ideas, you can review old resumes (these can
  be found on the CDO web site at CDP Marketing
  Yourself).

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Fine Tuning

• Get your friends to look at your resume. If
  English is not your first language, be sure to
  have a native English speaker review it.
• Have your CDO Career Advisor OR other second
  years review your resume.
• Talk to your Writing Consultant. Make an
  appointment during office hours.
• Also, you may consult SOMs Tutor-in-Writing,
  Deborah Tenney and her Student Writing
  Assistants  
• will help you with all writing needs cover
  letters, resumes, course work, business plans
• holds office hours in
  A-32 Monday 1100 a.m. 200 p.m.
• Tuesday 300 p.m. 500 p.m.
• Thursday 300 p.m. 500 p.m.
• Friday 930 a.m. 1130 a.m.
• Student Writing Assistants are available by
  appointment.
• Dai Nguyen
• Alice Steenland
• Robert Strickland
• Michael Moon

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DO NOT CARPET BOMB!!!

• Sending the same version of your resume/cover
  letter to many people simultaneously for review.
  
• This is very ineffective and inefficient.
• This practice is strongly frowned upon.
• Show your document to one person and incorporate
  the recommended changes before passing it along
  to someone else for review.

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Your Writing Consultant

• Office Hours posted in the CDO, starting Monday,
  23 September.
• Email your resume at least 24 hours in advance of
  your appointment.
• Your consultant will review your resume without
  an appointment. Be sure to allow at least 48
  hours for a response.
• Email insert
• Resume Book Deadlines
• First Draft September 27
• Final October 4
• PLAN ACCORDINGLY.

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