Resume Basics

How do you feel about creating a resume?

• Not at all confident

• Somewhat confident

• Mostly confident

• Very confident

What should be at the very top of your resume?

• Your full name

• Your phone number

• Your email

• Your address

How should you write our school name in your resume?

• JQ

• JQUS

• Quincy Upper

• Josiah Quincy Upper School

What is one thing you have decided to add to your own resume? (ex: language, award, activity, sport, etc)

I should include somewhere in my resume that JQUS is an IB school.

• True.

• False.

How should you format your topic headers? (ex: education, activities, awards)

• in all lowercase

• in italics

• in bold

• in all upercase

How should you format the name of schools or organizations? (ex: JQUS, Upward Bound, Crimson Academy)

• in all lowercase

• in italics

• in bold

• in all upercase

True or False: It is ok if my resume is longer than 1 page.

• True.

• False.

When can you use a "fun" font on your resume?

• Anytime I want

• Never

• Only for my name and headers

The average time a prospective employer will look at your resume is:

• 30 seconds

• 1 minute

• 2 minutes

• 5 minutes