I attended the career exploration workshop on November 17th in room 3-125. I found this workshop useful because I do not know how to write a college resume.
First, the mentor told us that the format of the résumé should be as clear as possible. The best way to emphasize points is to bullet the list and start with verbs. The resume paper should be white and the margin should be one inch only. The font of the text can be Times New Roman or Arial and should be larger than 10, readable to the employers.
Then, the mentor told us what are needed on the resume: name, contact information, education, work experience, volunteer work, and awards. In addition to the basic information, language and computer skills are required.
On top of the paper, full name should be in bold. Under the full name, there should be few contact information such as address, home phone number and cell phone number.
Next is education, what degree one had obtain or in the process of perusing. In addition to degree, graduation date should be written as well.
After education, follow by work experiences, volunteer work and work. The order of the work experiences and volunteer work is to put the most recent job and volunteer on top and so on. The job description should start with a verb to emphasis the job’s responsibility.
Language and computer skill follow after award. One should explain how well one knows the language, rather fluently speaking, reading or writing. Computer skills such as one know how to process Microsoft word, power point and excel and so on. Most importantly, resume should be only one page, one sided.
Lastly, after the interview, one should email or mail a thank you note to the interviewers.