Author: e.zaniewski

FRO BLOG #3

Writing Winning Resumes

This writing session proved to be very useful and has given me knowledge on how to write a winning resume. The instructor informed us on what a resume contains, the format, and how to effectively write one based on our intended major.

A resume is how an employer views you and gets a general introduction of who you are and what you have accomplished so far. It must contain contact information, education, skills, and experience in jobs or through volunteering. However, things not to include in a resume are personal information (age, pictures), repetition of words, and typos or inconsistencies.

A resume entails a length of only one page and should be in black and white. It should be done in chronological order with the most current experience on top. With each experience it is important to have bullet points to give recognition for the work done during time in a job, volunteer program, or school club/team. In each bullet point there should be key words to highlight writing skills by using action verbs such as analyzed, marketed, coached, etc. Key words such as these give specifics on what you have done in your experiences. All grammar and sentence structure must be perfected and tailored to position you are applying for.

Depending on which major you are studying in, there are different key words that must be used if you want to secure an interview in your field. Keeping these tips in mind when writing a resume can lead for an employer to keep your application rather than throw it out over minor errors.

From this session, I now have a better sense of how to apply all of these steps and essential tools into future resumes I write and can put myself into the employer’s position to know how to make sure my resume is noticed and selected for a possible job interview.

 

NYC offers a variety of museums and I set out on a Friday to explore MOMA on my day off. I had gone with my sister to have a day to spend time together and show her art and some of my favorite pieces the museum offered. My favorite piece at the museum is called “Water Lilies” by Claude Monet. I had first gone to see it was in February 2016. During my first time I was captivated by the grand scale of the three panels stretching across the entire wall and a focal point in the room. The lilies sat on pinks and lilacs depicted on the water and it made me feel at ease as. Months later in May, I went abroad and had the opportunity to see his garden where he got the inspiration for this piece in his garden. It made me immediately see the vision Monet had when he originally painted this piece because his garden was a world of colors filled with pinks, lilacs, and greens everywhere.

The museum featured many other works and I had enjoyed teaching my sister about various artists and discussing the strange methods artists use to create their own version of art through sculptures, paintings and exhibits. Certain themes I found around the museum were expressionism, abstract expressionism, cubism, landscapes, and minimalism.  By having spaces dedicated to each style, there are distinct differences between all of them with cubism emerging from Picasso and Braque, landscapes portrayed by Vincent Van Gogh in Starry Night and by Salvador Dali. Art has no limits and seeks to provide a source of expression for every artist whether it is replication of something else or trying to evoke a feeling they had and translating it into their work.

Walking into this fraternity, I did not come expecting that within two hours I would learn a great deal about how beneficial a fraternity could be. It started off as general facts of what Beta Alpha Psi is founded on and what it stands for being as an honor society and representing brotherhood, community service, and professionalism.  They all collectively join as a brotherhood to boost each other up to the potential they hold within themselves and seek to bring out that potential in new members. They do so by sharpening their skills and doing workshops to strengthen skills needed in starting off in a job by doing mock interviews, editing resumes, and serving in their communities to build their character and remembering to stay humble.

The president spoke about how advertising around Baruch for Beta Alpha Psi lead to him meeting a fellow Baruch student who wanted to join and lacked the skills to become successful until he helped him along with the other members who now shaped him into becoming the executive vice president of Beta Alpha Psi currently. Together, all the members resembled a family because they all spend time together in becoming better versions of themselves and over years they have seen each other grow to gain success in their field because of older and younger members guiding them along the way.

At the end, the professionalism of the current members and the positions they held at top companies inspired me to join a fraternity/sorority because it made me envision myself in one of their places one day in securing a job in my desired career field while making a family in a fraternity that could potentially become like a second family to me.