This past Thursday, I finally decided to go to the Starr Career Development Center to work on my resume. My last class ended around 4:35pm, and walk-in hours at the center began at 5pm. I got there around 5:30 because my enrollment time for classes was exactly at 5pm. After enrolling in classes that I didn’t even want to take, but had to (because all the classes I wanted were closed), I went over to the Career Center. I signed in and waited for about 15 minutes before I was called in.

Going in, I thought that my resume would need a lot of work. I had only worked on it once before with a woman at this program called Hudson Guild, and I hadn’t touched my resume since. However, the man who revised my resume (I don’t remember his name) didn’t have as many revisions to make as I thought he would. He mainly just had a lot of comments.

Basically, what I picked up from this visit was that I didn’t need to include the address of my previous schools and I should edit the years on my resume (for example, instead of saying I was in high school from ‘2013-2017’, I should just put ‘Completed 2017’). Also, he told me to change the title of one section from ‘Employment’ to ‘Experience.’ He also informed me that my resume has a lot of flexibility, and I should take certain things out if they aren’t relevant to the job I’m applying to. It’s something that I need to remember so that my resume is no longer than a page (because it’s currently over a page). For example, he said that if I was applying to a job that involved music or anything of the sort, it would be a good idea to keep my high school on my resume, because it’s an impressive performing arts school. However, if I’m applying for an office job, I wouldn’t need my high school on my resume, because it’s irrelevant.

I found this meeting to be really helpful because I’ve been meaning to update my resume since I got a new job. It was always something that I had put off for no good reason. The most awkward part of this whole experience was asking for the signature, though. I had him sign my edited resume because I actually forgot to bring my FRO book, but he didn’t mind. It was just a little weird. Regardless, I’m happy I went to go revise my resume.