On Wednesday November 4th,
we went to a career planning workshop called Resume Writing. The workshop started at around eleven, and ended a little before twelve, took altogether about an hour. Before this workshop, my other classmates and I had received a lot of warning letters telling us about how we need to dress up for this event. That only dressed in business attire then the workshop would let us in. But that day only people from our class actually dressed up, and everyone else including the TAs dressed casually. It was a little embarrassing, because everyone was looking at us weirdly, and we actually took the time out and bought those unnecessary cloths.
Anyhow, we went to the workshop, the instructor had a very informative power point that taught us step by step on how to write a good resume. He asked every one of us to say our names, intended majors and weather we have or had a job. What we didn’t do is try to remember that information while other people said them. Therefore when the instructor asked us to each say three of the names of the people that we didn’t already know, none of us remembered one. He then started telling us how important remembering details are, and on our resumes, details matter; especially our names on the resume should be the most eye catching detail of all.
The workshop was pretty helpful over all, even though most of the advices were pretty obvious and self explanatory. The most helpful one was the hand-out with a lot of power verbs printed on it, helps us better choose words that can phrase our writing on the resume, and make it sound more professional and powerful.