The RESUME

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The RESUME

• Lesikar Flatley

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Types of resumes

• Traditional
• Scannable
• Electronic

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Traditional Resume

• Used in face to face meetings
• Designed for quick reading
• 1 page
• Best appearance
• No full sentences
• Logically arranged

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Scannable Print resume

• Can be scanned into a database
• Retrieved when a position is open
• Strategies
• Key words precise language
• Choose words carefully
• Font is easily read by scanner
• Times New Roman, Arial, 10-14cpi
• Italics confuse scanners

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Electronic resume

• Low-end plain text
• Formatted word processor files
• Multi-media documents
• Web-pages

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Info for Electronic Resumes

• Delete all contact information
• Use only your email address
• Put a date on the resume

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Format for Electronic Resumes

• ASCII or text files
• PDF (Adobe) see my brothers file
• HTM multimedia files

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Content

• Analyzing yourself
• Education,
• Personal qualities
• Work experience
• Special qualifications

• Analyzing outside factors
• Where do you want to work
• Will to move
• Location needs
• Then conduct job search

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More content ideas

• Background facts
• Arrange facts into groups
• Construct headings
• Contact information
• Career Profile

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Organizational strategy

• Chronological
• Functional or skills approach
• Accomplishments/achievements approach
• Highlights/summary approach

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format

• Headings
• Subheadings
• Font cpi
• 1 page
• margins

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Writing your resume

• Use action verbs
• Impersonal/consistent/parallelism
• What is legal not legal information?
• References
• 2 individuals Titles, company, phone numbers,
  

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Information elements

• Education
• Institutions, dates, degrees, major
• Employment
• Dates, places, firms, duties, accomplishments
• Personal details
• Memberships, interests, achievements
• Special information
• Achievements, qualifications, capabilities
• Reference sheet

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Lets critique some examples

• Lesikar Flatley examples
• Damn Good Resumes
• Dot.com resumes
• Electronic resumes

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Your resume

• Due March 22
• Ill read return with my recommendations