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RESUME
Resume
Guidelines
The
first step in writing a comprehensive resume that really sells your skills
and experience is to collect all of the information about you that is
relevant to your job search. The
Resume Guidelines form can be used for this purpose. Additional
resources to help you construct your resume development are listings of
Action Verbs.
If you already have a
resume, but need it updated, you can either use this form or bring your
old resume and the additional information you need to add.
Please
collect this information and put it into a MS Word document on a
disk or email it to the staff member you will be seeing.
You will need to maintain a file at the Career Center that will
contain a copy of your resume to participate in most of the services and
events.
Resume
Formatting Styles
There
are two basic resume styles, the chronological and the functional with the
chronological being the most common.
Briefly, the chronological displays each position with the
experience, position title and date together and lists the experiences in
reverse chronological order. The functional typically combines skills or
accomplishments together under skills headings with the positions and
employers on the bottom. There are numerous variations on both of these
formats that are considered “combination” formats.
As a new graduate with no full-time experience we recommend using the
chronological format.
The
first example is done in a
chronological
format that you can follow if you wish.
The second example is a
scannable
version that the Career Center
suggests you use if you are sending your resume electronically.
Another
document that may assist you on the web site is “Resume Heading
Examples.”
· Examples
pf Specific Majors
ARTS
Fine Art
Graphic Art
Theatre
BUSINESS
Accounting
Finance
General Business
Industrial Engineering
Management
Marketing
Experienced Business Student
Business Student Applying
for Internship
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computer Science
EDUCATION
Elementary Education
Secondary Education
GOVERNMENT JOBS
Sample Resume
Tips from the
Career Center
Tips from the Rock Island Arsenal
HEALTH/PHYSICAL ED/SPORTS SCIENCES
Nursing
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
LIBERAL ARTS
Sociology
Resume
Checklist
Use
this to evaluate your final version.
Cover letters
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Content
Tips
· Example
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Additional
Sites - JobWeb
courtesy of the
National
Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE
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