career post

For my third and last blog post I went to the starr career center. The starr career center is located in the second floor of the Newman vertical campus for those who don’t know. I went there to get help in making my resume. Making my resume is hard because I feel like I haven’t done much yet. I graduated a year early and have not interned or worked anywhere yet so I didn’t know what to put on my resume. Also it being our first semester I don’t have a gpa to put into my resume either.
At the starr career center I talked to one of the workers at the front desk. I felt bad because I felt like I was wasting his time. I didn’t really know what to ask him since I didn’t even have a draft resume. After some frustration he finally just gave me a resume pamphlet.
In the resume pamphlet I learned the basic rules of a resume such as it being one page, font size being between 10 and 12 and margins being from ½ inch to 1 inch adjusted to make your information fit neatly. I also learned recruiters spend on average 5 to 7 seconds looking at resumes. Also that 76% percent of resumes are discarded for unprofessional email addresses, spelling error and/or poor formatting. The pamphlet goes in depth into basically every part of the resume i need to know and previously did not. Again it shows what sections your resume should be divided into and also what not to include in your resume. All in all the pamphlet basically is 30 pages of what exactly i should and should not do in my resume which will be extremely helpful when i apply for internships in the future.