Freshman Seminar Fall 17 LC10

A Resume Review Session with Mentor

As we all know, resume, along with cover letter, is one of the most important things to be prepared before even contemplating about getting employed, whether it be volunteering, internships, or full-time employment.

To have the full package of a prepared interviewee, one of the characters I have to experience being before officially getting employed, regularly updating my resume is undoubtedly crucial.

So, when I found out that none of the session at Starr Career Development Center was of my interests, I decided to call up my mentor to review my almost ancient resume.

Without being reminded of the document’s existence, I was not aware of how outdated my career-related documents were, let alone of the urge to duly, constantly update them.

During our conversation, I put in my most recent experience in an internship, which I did before the end of my last semester in high school. Although the responsibilities of the position — administrative assistant tasks: organizing files and registering costs on spreadsheets — were largely similar to the one before, we still managed to find subtle differences between the two. Investor relations, the department I had the pleasure to work for in my most recent career-like experience, was finance-related. That means the speciality of it was more number-oriented. Corporate engagement, of which I had very similar experience with a year ago, had given me tasks that were mostly related to policies — city, state, and federal — and the implementation of them.

My mentor was kind enough to sacrifice his time to give me a timely session on such an essential item in my life, and also gave me a reminder that everything, literally everything, in this incessant lifestyle has to be updated.

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