Resume

The best definition of a resume from the video is....

• A one page summary of your life and work experience.

• A brief summary of your skills, achievements, and experience and how they relate to the job you are trying to get.

• A detailed list of the things that you have done in your life and how they relate to your dream job.

• A one page hand out that is basically a giant business card which you can give to anyone at any time.

Resumes are like

• advertisments

• obituaries

• addresses

• orations

How should you decide on the "perfect' resume from to use?

• Check out the MLA page. They always know the most perfect resume form.

• Just use any of them. One resume is just as good as another.

• There is no "perfect from" but you should tailor the resume to the job you want.

• Trick question: resumes are outdated.

Which of the follow should you NOT include on a resume that you posted somewhere online?

• Your Full Legal Name

• Your phone number.

• Your professional email address

What is the purpose of a personal website or professional portfolio?

• Employer's want to see completed work and it makes them more likely to hire you.

• Resumes are kind of bare bones on their on and a portfolio can beef up your resume.

• Knowing that you can make a website is a marketable skill in any job.

• The idea is to inundate your future boss with information about your glorious self.

For new professionals that don't have established careers, what order should your work experience go?

• The jobs that are going to give you the best recommendation first and the worst last.

• Most relevant experience first.

• Reverse chronological

• It doesn't really matter as long as you have some.

What does reverse chronological mean?

• Completely out of order

• Just regular number order, the first thing you did comes first.

• The most relevant experience goes first.

• The most recent experience goes first and the oldest experience goes last.

According to the video, how long to recruiters spend looking at each resume.

• 6 second

• 45 seconds

• 90 seconds

• about 3 full minutes.

Which is more imporant on a resume?

• Duites

• Achievements

On your resume, with what should you back up your achievements?

• the name of someone who saw you do it, usually a supervisor

• first hand narrative experiences

• numbers

• pretty adjectives to describe how the achievement made you feel.