Your resume makes a personal statement about you and your career. It is a tool to showcase your skills and experience to a prospective employer. You will want to provide a well-written resume that is tailored to meet the requirements of the position for which you are applying.

Planning your resume:

• Create a list of all previous work experiences, internships, volunteer programs, extracurricular experiences, job descriptions, skills, performance reviews, school transcripts, papers you have written, presentations you have delivered, certifications, licenses, curriculum you created, awards, and honors you have received. You can get ideas from here.

• What are the important parts, key elements and typical sections of a well-written resume?

• What should be included in your resume and what resume formats can be used?

   

   

• Include Action Verbs  in describing your work related history. Underline the action verbs in the sample resumes below.

• Complete this Resume Format Worksheet as a model for your resume.
  

• Limit your resume to one or two pages.
• Only include information that is useful to the job you're applying for.
• Try to limit this information to five points you think are the most likely to help you get the job.
• Additional tips can be found here.

• Sample 1
• Sample 2

Write your resume

• Write a resume for a position in the career path you have chosen.

Is your resume ready to be sent to a prospective employer? Take the Resume Readiness Quiz and find out. Evaluate your resume.

• Evaluate the resume of one of your classmates. Make a list of items for improvement. Give this list to your classmate so he or she can make the necessary revisions. Give a copy of this list to your teacher as part of your evaluation.

   

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