Seminar 3: Writing resumes

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Seminar 3 Writing resumes

• Session 1 About the seminar purpose
• assessment
• Joining the workforce soon?
• Equip yourself with an important
• technical document
• The resume

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About the seminar
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Purpose

• By the end of the seminar, you should be able to
• structure, form content, and use appropriate
  format and language in writing resumes
• write effective resumes

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Assessment Task

• In-Class Writing A Resume
• What you need to bring
• A laptop (If no access to one, do your writing on
  paper)
• You must continue with your writing out-of
• class for revision redrafting.
• What you will write
• Either a 1 or 2 page resume based on your choice
  of a selected job advertisement
• What you will be taught
• how to write the resume- structure, content,
  format and language.
• What you need to carry out
• tasks to be completed every session (tasks will
  be used for feedback which will assist you with
  the final complete resume)

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Assessment Criteria Value

• Resume
• Structure, content, format and language
• Grade _at_ 30.

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Assessment Submission format

• Resume
• You must hand in
• a hard copy (printed) of the advertisement which
  you have chosen to write a resume for
• a hard copy (printed) of your resume, and
• a soft copy (through email to your consultant) of
  the advertisement (online, typed on an MS Word
  document or scanned), and the resume .Name your
  document using your university id followed by
  your name and the word resume eg.
  123456789_Eliza_resume . The documents must be
  word-processed as an MS Word document.
• The hard copies must be submitted in this order
• A printed copy of the advertisement
  (photocopied/cut out/scanned from the original
  source) which you have selected.
• A printed copy of the resume (targeted towards
  the advertisement).