At all. Okay. All right. So before we get started, I'm just curious. I always like to throw out a question or a burning question that's on my mind before I get started with the session. So just out of curiosity because I know that my wife and I had been watching a lot of TV streaming, a lot of television on like Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and things like that. So we are now, we just wrapped up or we're finishing up our show Lost. We went back and watched the show lost, that everyone watched in 98, early 2000s. So I'm just curious, what is everyone's streaming if you're watching any of your finding any time to watch TV, what does everyone streaming right now on Netflix? Because it's a little maybe helped, helped me decide what I'm going to watch next. So just go ahead and throw in the chat just to break the ice. What does everyone watching or is anyone have any recommendations? All right. No recommendation. Oh, here we go. Okay. Nama. Okay. So someone's watching NAMA. Okay. So the name is it doesn't translate directly atypical. I for I forget things out atypical, maybe I'll check that out. Queensland and I loved queens gambit that was awesome. Does not have to be on Netflix, just anything. Attack on Titan. I haven't heard of that. It's also looked at up House of Cards, loved it watched a couple of years ago. Haven't seen flight attendant ought to look into that. I've heard good things offline it into though. I feel like HBO puts our goal. They're just there. They hit the nail on the head every time. Okay. Perfect. All right. That was awesome. The I'll take these suggestions or recommendations in and input those. Okay, another attack on Titan ought to look that up. Okay? And peaky blinders. I love peaky blinders, so yes, nerd on. Thank you. Okay. So let's go ahead and get started with our workshop. So today we're gonna be talking, like I said, about resume. Resume writing, a cover letter writing, and CV for those who are pursuing maybe a position in academia. So here we go. Okay, so today the major takeaways from this session are the following, right? We want to measure where you are in the resume design process. Do not feel like you are behind someone or ahead of someone in pursuing or, I'm sorry, or finalizing your resume. Everyone here is at a different pace. We have a lot of undergraduate students we in this room that are maybe freshman or sophomore. We also have masters and PhD students who are, have more experience and have maybe a fuller resume. So wherever you are, we're going to talk about measuring where you are and where you fall in line with that. We're going to talk about defining resumes, all the different parts. And then we're going to talk about the different career center resources that are available to you after this workshop. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started. So we're going to talk about measuring where you are. So just I usually do this in person. And so obviously we can't do that today in person. So just think about, you know, rhetorically, do have a resume, right? Think for a second. Have you had or the written resume in the past? Maybe you have a resume sitting right in front of you right now and you're looking over it and you have questions about it. Think about maybe you have a resume that's outdated and you need to update it. Okay. And then the next thing is, do you have professional experience rate for those that are thinking about, okay, where do I start with a resume? I have no idea. And that's why I'm here at this workshop. Do you have professional experience? Think about your past, right? Think about your past, maybe 510 years. Have you gained experience in your life that you feel like would be able to help you pursue an opportunity in your industry? Right? Okay. And then lastly, are you involved in anything on campus, any volunteer organizations or any organizations whatsoever that you feel like would help you benefit you. In a professional setting. Maybe you're a, you're on a leadership role at in, at a and r in an RSO. Or maybe you're involved in something off campus, like an organization, maybe like a cultural organization that you feel like might help your resume. So just, just think about those things as we go through this presentation. Okay, so now we're going to talk to you about a resume. I'm going to talk to you about what are what is a resume in and what are the different parts. So a resume is simply, it's a picture of who you are when you're not in the room. Okay. So just think about this for a second. Okay. If you were you you were applying for a job and There's a there's a boardroom, right? And you walk into this boardroom and you're invisible and you can't talk and you can't say anything obviously. And this person, the person the hiring team, needs to know about you, that's where this resume is, right? It's a piece of paper that defines your professional background, right? It's a summary of who you are. Okay. And so the goal of the resume oftentimes is to get an interview, okay. Somehow in some shape or form is to get an interview with the company. Okay. And you want to do so with a strong resume, right? A strong document that talks about your brand and your, your professional background. To gain an interview, again, an opportunity to speak further with accompany, Right? Okay. Just like we did for the first exercise, just rhetorically think about, is your resume right now an accurate picture of you? Maybe you had a resume about ten years ago, right. And you haven't cleaned it up. And if you look at that resume tip from 10 years ago, you're like, I'm on a different path now. I have a completely different idea on what professional or what profession I want to, I want to be in, or what industry I want to land in. And so maybe your resume from 10 years ago is not an accurate picture of who you are now. Does the resume does your resume and the experiences on your resume support the job that you want? Okay. It's probably one of the number one questions I get when I review resumes with students is, should I leave this off or should I put this on my resume? And my answer to a, to a student is put, put some, you want to make sure the things that are on your resume is something that would benefit you in getting a job that you're applying for, right? So for example, I'm going to use myself for this example. So I had a lot of jobs in high school, right? In my primary education. And so I worked at for example, I worked at a shoe store, a retail store for her. She was new balance. And so when I applied for jobs in my field now re International Education, that was one of the opportunities, the experiences I left off. Okay, because I wanted to focus on the experiences that I had that would directly benefit me in my job, in my field of international education. And unfortunately, it would be, it would be quite a stretch for me to be able to leave that job at New Balance at the retail store on my resume. So that was something that I felt that I could leave off. And so that's something you might be considering now. And then taking the dates, making sure the dates on your resume or current. We have students that will submit resumes, outdated resumes all the time, and they forgot to update their dates. And so it's a little confusing when the hiring manager or the recruiter is looking at your resume and the dates are all over the place and they're not accurate. So making sure your resume is reflecting correct dates. Okay, So now we're gonna look at all the parts of a resume. Okay, so on the left side you're going to see those, these are the things that are mandatory. And so this is your contact information, right? You want to have your name. Of course. You want to have your email address. You want to have your phone number, and you want to have your LinkedIn URL. The reason I skipped over addressed for a second is because we're finding more and more that address is optional. And I'll tell you why addresses optional because two things. One, if they want to interview you and they want to know where you are, what your addresses. They'll find out in the interview process, right when they do the HR paperwork, things like that. It's not something that necessarily need to be on your resume when they're first reviewing your document. The other part of this is, we also see that not definitively, but there might be a little bit of bias on location, right? And so I'll give you an example, right? So let's say you're applying for a job in Silicon Valley, california and you're in Delaware. And you'll, you are up against, let's say, three candidates. And let's say the job is like marketing or PR. And so you're, you're against two candidates that currently live in California and they find out a year in Delaware. Okay. There were probably thinking to themselves, okay. Based on location, maybe this person in California already knows the market. The California market. You already know the population in California and how to relate to them better than maybe the person had Delaware. And then maybe relocation cost is a factor as well. So you're automatically, by putting your address on that, on your resume, you might be not creating or, or, or being a part of some bias, but there's a possibility that might cause a little bit of what's maybe disk discontent. So I just advise you to think about your resume when you submitted it. It is fine and acceptable in it. And I would say it's it's basically basically normal to have your address on your resume, but it is not something that you have to have on your resume. And so I do put it in the mandatory category, although it, it goes back and forth. And so that's really, it's a really a personal decision. And it goes, my example goes the other way as well. If you're applying for a job in Delaware and you're against two candidates from California, you might have a leg up or you might have a better opportunity because you're from Delaware. So it's those examples or maybe far and few between. So are few and far between. So just take that with a grain of salt in. It might not always be true. Okay, and then education. You want to list your education right below your contact information, right? So your education is is what? Come right under your contact information. You want to highlight this information and you want to put your most recent degree at the top, okay, because that's the first thing you want employers to see. It then experience straight. This is going to be the bulk, most likely the bulk of your resume. Okay, you want to put relevant experience, related experience and a DIT and finally additional experience. If so, it's kind of ranking level of one importance and by date, okay, and an optional, the C. So these things are optional. We often see them on resumes and we encouraged them because it shows other skills like, like, like leaderships qualities, leadership skills, communication skills. But you can list activities. Maybe you've been involved on campus. Maybe you've been a leader of an RSO. And then the other category of recognitions, maybe you've won some scholarships. You have some awards that you can tout. You have some publications that you want to put on there. And then skills, right? So everyone here, if you come from another country and you're an international student, you probably speak two languages. So that is something you want to put on your resume. That is something to be proud of and that's something that is very valuable, especially as global. The, the, the market or your industry becomes more and more global every day. And then the other optional thing is your objective and that can be listed at the top. You'll see some times are on resumes. My, you know, you're a student's objective is I'm a, you know, a senior in mechanical engineer seeking a blank position. So that is always optional as well to put at the top. I my opinion is it can go both ways if you have a shorter resume and maybe it is worth putting in ejected there. But if you have a lot to put on a resume that maybe you don't put that there because it just takes up it can take up space that you could be using for other things. Okay. So what does that look like? Rate. So contact information, that's your name in the largest font of your resume. So as soon as a recruiter or a hiring manager sees your resume, boom, at the very top, they know exactly who's this is. And then underneath, we'd like to see email address. Keep it professional. If you have like a personal email that like, you'll see an example here like swimmer chick. It's probably not reflecting the most professional on your end. So maybe sticking with like your UDL e-mail or even if you don't have, if you don't want to use your UDL e-mail and you want to use another personal one, maybe creating a board professional e-mail if you, if you possibly can, and then phone number, making sure your voicemail is professional. A lot of students don't think about that. Maybe you had a silly voice mail that you created in high school or along a long time ago or maybe your, maybe your voicemail isn't in English. So maybe it's time to update your voicemail. So if a recruiter calls and they leave a voicemail, they want to know that. They want to make sure it's it's, it's, they can understand it. And that's something that oftentimes student forgets, students forget to think about. And then we talked about address, right? Permanent or local, whatever is more relevant for you. And then we highly recommend this is one of the newer, newer recommendation, but it is recommended to have your LinkedIn profile URL on there. And if you are not aware, you can create, you can shorten your LinkedIn URL. So if you have a really long URL and it has like a bunch of numbers and letters. And it's really lengthy and it takes up a lot of space. You can shorten that. You can customize your LinkedIn URL to be like your first initial and your last name if it's not already taken. So that might be something you need to do for your resume and in education. So what does that look like, right? So we'd like to see the university, the location on the right side. We'd like to see the dates when he graduated. And then your major right underneath of that, and then a minor or concentration if if possible. And then your GPA if it's above a 30. So you'll see the example here, this little cut out. You'll see education annulus, a University of Delaware, Bachelors of Arts, Art Conservation in art history. And then this student had a GPA of 3.87. And then on the right side, may they left the dates out because it wasn't this is just an example, but let's say May 2020. Okay? And then experience, right? So you want a header, then underneath of that, you want the company or the company first in a location, and then underneath of that, you want to position title, then you want the dates. Okay. Underneath of that, you want the description, okay? And I'm gonna show you an example of this. Okay? And then optional sections, right? Activities. You want to provide examples of activities that you've been part of, maybe your leadership roles. And then under that, your honors awards, and then under that skills, right? And that could be computer technical language that we already talked about. And do not include soft skills. So soft skills are those that are like less tangible things. So things like, I'm a really good listener, or I'm really good at communication, or I'm a really good team player or I, I worked well independently. Those are things that do not need to be on your resume. But they're found kind of in-between. Like, if I were to read your resume and I looked at some of the job descriptions that you did for somebody or positions, I should be able to come away with those things, right? So if I see that you are the leader of a, of a team in this position, then I can see, okay, that person has leadership qualities. If they were selected to be a leader, you don't necessarily need to put it explicitly under Resume. Okay. Let's take a 1 second. I'm going to pause this and I'm going to pull up an example of what we'd like to see on a resume. That way you have an example of what it, what it will look like. Okay, so here's a, here's a quick template that I like to use, especially students in that, in a technical field. But here is, you can see name at the top right as we talked about, e-mail address, phone number, and LinkedIn profile. Okay, then underneath of that you'll see University of Delaware as we talked about the dates over around location in graduation dates over here. Name of college. Maybe you were at the College of Engineering or learner business. And in your degree, your major, GPA. This is optional as well, relevant coursework. And so that's something that you can, you can opt into doing it. Then you'll see technical skills. This, unless you're applying for a job in the technical field in computer engineering or computer programming, this could be at the very bottom of your resume and we want to see experience second rather than this. But if you're applying for those technical fields and you can put that higher up on your resume. That's fine. Okay. Under experience, I'll see the company the company name, the location, the dates that you work those positions, the position title, then this these bullet points will be your duties are your experiences in that fee in that job. Okay. We're going to talk a little bit more about that. These are all will be in chronological order. So most recent at the top. And then two for this out, right? So the oldest. And then you'll see activities down here. So this is basically what a standard resume will look like, especially for all of our undergraduate students and most of our masters students as well. If you're a PhD student, you'll always see a section that says publications or awards or course, courses taught, things like that. So that is a that would be more of a PhD level. Okay, so let's go back to the presentation. Okay. Okay, so I apologize for the noise in the background there. There's a playground right next to our house, and so there's a bunch of kids playing there. Okay. So when you going back a slide real quick, when you talk about your, your experiences, you're going to be listing your the description of that role in bullet points. Okay? And so when you do that, you'll see right here we use strong action verbs to lead that. Examples off. So if you look here, okay, so if you see, sorry about that. Okay, So when you, when you talk about your role, you want to lead off those, those bullet points with a strong action verb. Okay, so you'll see like examples here, like initiated or achieved, or coordinated, advised, educated. So these are just some examples of action verbs, but these are what you want to lead off with in describing that role that you worked in. And so you can, you can obviously do your own, use your own vocabulary. But if you're struggling, there are resources out there on the Career Center page that has a list in alphabetical order of different different words in synonyms for different words that you can use. Okay, so now let's talk about some resume do's and some resume don'ts. So you want to make sure it's in chronological order. The reason that we give you these tips is because when a recruiter review, so recruiter for a big company, on average, use is about three to five seconds to look over a resume, right? The first time they see it. So they have a stack of resumes, right, that they're reviewing. They usually spend on average about three to five seconds. It may have even gone down or maybe up a little bit, but bless them. I checked it was about three to five seconds. So the reason the reason it's so important to follow this protocol is because they don't have time to figure out your resume. So if it's not in chronological order and it's scattered and it's missing things. They don't really have time to look at it and say, okay, I can't figure out this resume. They want something that is very succinct, something that is very organized in his in his uniform, right? Like the rest of the resumes they're reviewing. So that's why we're that's why reverse chronological order is so important and great. So most recent at the top for your education, most recent at the top for your experience, and so on. Okay? Using action verbs, quantifying your achievements is really important. Especially like let's say you're, you're, you are going into a job that is finance or accounting. And maybe in your experience you've managed a budget of, I don't know, $500 thousand or a million dollars. Maybe you manage a big company's budget. You want to quantify that rather than just saying manage a budget or manage a large budget, put some numbers in there because those are things that grab a recruiter's attention when they see numbers like a 100150 thousand or $500 thousand budget, those are things that catch their eye and they say, wow, that's, that's, that's awesome. They have a, they had a high level of responsibility. And it makes you, making sure all of your font is the same. You don't want to have different fonts. You can have bold in larger fonts, but making sure it's the same style, that's really important. We have students are, oftentimes will copy and paste. And when they do that, sometimes it's one part of it's Calibri, some, some part of it. Sometimes. Part of it is Times New Roman. And so it's just, it's not standard and it's not uniform. So making sure you check those things. Okay, resume, don'ts. So don't use personal pronouns like I did this or we did this. Just talk about it in the third person or a company, or we accomplish or accomplished these things. So you don't need to put personal pronouns and their personal information does not need to be on your resume. You are protected in the United States. You're protected by laws against any, any employment discrimination. So under those laws, you're protected from having to put these things on your resume, like your picture. You might come from a country that requires you to put a picture. Maybe your marital status, maybe your immigration status, but not here in this country. In this country, you do not need to provide a picture. You do not need to talk about your date, birth. You do not need to, especially do not need to put social security number because these resumes are going they're going out there on the Internet and you don't wire. So Chicago, we're just hanging out there on the, on the eve of the wide internet. You don't need to put your Facebook profile. We encourage you not to marital status. You do not need to put that. And so these are things that you would just want you to make you aware of it because it's very different in different cultures. There is no right or wrong. I'm just saying in this, in this country, these are things that we do not include. Don't mix fonts. We already talked about that. You're an undergraduate student. You do not need to exceed one page. If you feel like you have a lot of experience than maybe a page and a half, but we encourage you to keep it at one page. If you're a PhD student, then it is very common for you to have a two or 2.5 pager. So don't feel bad about that. A two page for pH, you would be ideal on your resume. And if you're applying for academia than a CV, and that's going to be a much lengthier, but we'll talk about CVI in a second. You do not need to put your references on your resume. This is something that they're going to ask for either in the future or separately. So don't put your references on your resume. Okay. Don't include color. So unless you're applying for a, a creative position, like a, like a marketing or graphic designer position in they're asking for a creative resume with eye color and your pictures and stuff. Don't put color on your standard resume. And I'll tell you why. So as our occur, in my time working as a recruiter before this position, we would download resumes in bulk, right? Mass resumes and we would print them. Are printer didn't have color ink. So if we received and resume that was like in blue font, we didn't we didn't see who was it was we couldn't read anything on the paper, so it was thrown away. That person who applied, they might have been a really good candidate, but because they put color on the resume, we didn't see any of the information, any of the content on the resume. So keep it simple. I know it might look boring, but it's not about how good your resume looks as far as aesthetics go. Outside of like looking uniform. It's about your experiences and stuff. So making sure you keep it simple is good, is good unless you're, like I said, the caveat is, you're not applying for alloca creative artsy position. And then make sure you're not repeating. You don't have to restate the job title in in the description. They already know what position it is. Ok, and then a couple of differences for international students. So content you'll see on a US resume, we already talked about it. Personal information like your name, phone number, email, your LinkedIn profile, relevant coursework, education, job relevant work experience are not included on a US resume. We've talked about a lot of these things are ready right? At your age, at the risk of someone being a just, we don't we don't put our age or gender, marital status, religious belief, race, ethnicity, or home country. You do not need to put your immigration status. You do not need to put a photo. You do not need to put your international address unless that's something that would benefit you in the job application. And your TOEFL scores do not need to be included under your if you completed a degree at University of Delaware, we most employers assume that you have because you've completed a degree in University, Deloria requires high TOEFL scores that you're proficient in English, and that's all you need to put on your resume as proficient in English. Okay? Oh, so if so, a couple of other things about being an international student. So if you plan to include some of your experience from abroad, which I highly encourage you to, to do is you have experiences that will help you land a job. And it's, it's, it's experience that you obtained working in your country or another country. It is important to put on your resume, but you might need to translate it a bit or you might need to explain it a little bit more, right? So my example is the second paragraph. So if, if, if you weren't for like a big marketing firm in your country of $10 million marketing for, or you went to the MIT of Turkey or Harvard or Turkey. Or you went to one of the top five universities in China. Put that in your description. That way, if a US employer doesn't know that accompany or doesn't know the university. And and they're they're not aware of it and it's a top university or a top company. Explain that to them in the description. Explain that they're eight, leading their leading in the industry or or they're, you know, they're a top 10 $1 million marketing firm. So explain that to them so they can help understand how important, how prestigious that job was. Okay, and then some resume resources that are available to you. So if you go to the Career Center page and you look at the resume and cover letter tab on the left side, you can look at all the templates, the template that I showed you today that's available on there. So if you feel like you want to use that template. Then just input data and populate it yourself. Go ahead, use that template. It's nothing secret. It's nothing that we own. So feel free to use it. It's for you. So feel free to use that if you want to start there. And then there's a bunch of other resources available to you on there. And then quickly, we're not gonna spend too much time with the CV. But a CV is, it might be different. It might be referred to as like a resume in your country, but a CV in our country is for students that are mostly applying for academia, right? So a job as a professor or assistant professor or a TA. And the difference between a CV and a resume. This TV is going to be multiple pages long and it's going to have all of your publications, your course relevancy. So maybe some courses that you took. It's going to have any experience that you had teaching or assist in teaching or being an assistant professor at assists in lecture. So it's going to have all that experience that you've had on that document. And so it's going to look a little bit different. It's going to talk a little bit more about your dissertation or your thesis. And it's going to be probably like four to five pages long. And so that's basically what a CV is. And so if you're applying for a job in the industry and not academia, but in the industry field, then you're going to be using a resume and a CV. But if you are, if your goal is to work in academia, work at a university or college, then you're going to probably want to apply with the CV. It'll probably ask for a CV. And so there are examples on our website, on the Career Center website of what a CV will look like. And we even have templates that you can use. And then we're going to shift over to cover letter, right? Okay. And I promise you, at the end of the session, I'm going to answer all the questions that are coming in and we can open it up for Q and a. So cover letter. So a cover letter is basically the narrative of your resume, right? So your resume is basically a list of things. The cover letter is a narrative of of that document. Okay. So this is basically what the layout of a cover letter looks like. It's going to be about It's about three to four paragraphs. The first paragraph is what is the position you're applying for? Wow, why are you interested in the job? Right? You want to grab the employer's attention. And then if you were referred to the job by anyone you orlistat in the first paragraph. This is the second, third paragraph. If you have one, is what experiences you have better on your resume, connect you to this job. Why are you a good fit for this job, right? So that's, that's, this is when you tell a story. Describe your qualifications, connect your accomplishments, focus on your background, okay, connect them with the job. And then the final paragraph is basically a summary of why you feel like you are a good fit for the job. Make a final statement. I feel like I'm a strong candidate because of these reasons, I would really be an asset or valuable to your company. And then Thank you. Thank the employer for their time in their in their consideration. Okay, this cover letter, the biggest mistake that happens with this cover letter, two things. One, a student uses a template and they don't change anything. They use a generic cover letter and they use that for every job they apply for. Recruiters can smell that. They see right through that. They can look at it and say, okay, I can tell this cover letter is the same when they use for every job they apply for. Okay, The second thing that happens is students tailor the resume or cover letter to every job they apply for it, which is the right thing to do. But when they do that, they forget to like, change the name of the employer that they're applying for or like they forget this jobs a little bit different, so they put something in there that isn't relevant. And so the recruiter will read through that and they will see there's some mistakes there. So just make sure you're taking your time. You individualize every cover letter that you apply for, every position you apply for it. And just make sure you read through it for any grammatical or any relevant errors. Okay, Here's an example of what a cover letter will look like. You'll see at the top, your name will be addressed the same thing you used for your, for your resume. You can just copy and paste that on the top of a cover letter document. Okay. You'll see location. You'll see the company right at the top, who you're addressing. Ok, and you'll see who you are, who you're addressing this too. You're a deer internship coordinator. And then you'll see that the bulk of the cover letter we talked about, the first paragraph is what job is it? Why do you feel like or why do you want the job? And then here, right, the two middle paragraphs is you're connecting your experiences with this job. Okay. How is your experience fit in line with this child? Okay. And in the last sentence is Jizya, you're connecting your thinking, the employer, you'll see and to hear from you and discuss how I can contribute. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for your consideration, right. So pretty pretty simple there. Okay. Let's move on. Okay. Same thing. Okay. So I knew that was a lot of information. Please keep in mind that everything that is all the templates in all the examples I showed you are all in the Career Center webpage. So if you have any questions about that, absolutely. Check out the Career Center page. It can definitely help you. And then one more thing before I open it up for questions, I'm just going to go ahead and throw in 1 second. I'm going to throw in, I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, how can I get one-on-one root resume review with me or cover letter review. If you want me to sit down with you and look over it. If you click on this link right here. And I just put in the chat, you can make an appointment with me anytime. I have a bunch of openings next week. And I can sit down with you for 30 minutes or an hour. If you want an hour, you can book two back-to-back appointments. And I would be happy to sit down and look at every part of your resume together in your cover letter. If that's something you want to do. So feel free to do that. And then now I'm going to go ahead and answer some questions. So if you have any questions, throw them in the chatbox. And I'm going to start from the top. Okay. So I'm on says what is the oldest eight can we mentioned in the resume? So that's a really good question. There is no answer, there is no single answer to that question. It all depends on your experience and where you are in your peer professional path. So if you work the job 10 years ago, even though it may seem far away, if you weren't that job 10 years ago. And it was a job that is relevant to the job that you want to obtain for the job that you want to find, then keep it on there. Okay. Just because it was 10 years ago does not mean it's irrelevant. It means that it may have been awhile ago. But especially if you're someone who work the job and then pursue a PhD, a master's or PhD. And they were in school for another six or eight years. That's okay to have that gap that makes sense. But you're still building off that skills, the skills you learn in that job 10 years ago. So that might be relevant to keep on your resume. Okay. I see Katerina is here. It has a couple questions, so let's go ahead and answer some of those. So first one was, is it okay to put in the summary on the top that we're international citizens authorized to work in the US. That is a really good question. I have never had that question before, but here's how I would answer that. I would not put that on there for a couple of reasons. Because one, there's no reason for them to suspect that you're an international student until they interview you. And when they interview, that's your chance to say in the interview that you are authorized to work in the US. Okay. They might ask you. Okay. Are you authorized to work in the US? That's legal for them to ask. So your aunt your response to that would be yes, I'm on an F1 visa and after I graduate, I'll be eligible for OPT for a year or three years if I'm stem. So I'll be able to work just like a domestic student or a domestic citizen for three years. And then after that, then I would be I would I would be eligible for an H1B. Accompanies are oftentimes going to ask you, do you require a sponsorship? That's probably the number one question that employers ask for, you know, for regarding immigration. Your response to that is, don't always say just yes, I require sponsorship and ended there. You need to be able to say, I may require sponsorship after three years, but I am eligible and I am legally allowed to work in the US for three years if I'm stem or a year. And then in that time, that's your chance to prove to them that you're valuable and that you could be important for their company. Then after that, after you're able to prove that to them, the H1B process is not that difficult. And so if they really like you as a candidate, they're going to be willing to sponsor you, especially company that has sponsored atrium Bs in the past. So I hope I answered the question. So that's just my suggestion. You could you could put it on there, but I just don't I don't recommend it because you're not allowing any dialogue. You're not, you're not. You don't have a chance to explain yourself there. And then the second question, I know it's ideal, but at times it's really hard to find the name of hiring managers to address the cover letter to them in Egypt's absolutely in Great question. So if you do not know the hiring manager, that's very common. You can simply leave it generic and say, dear the company or Dear Search Committee or to whom it may concern. Or you can just leave it as just the company and then comma or Dear Hiring Manager. That is fine. It's not it's not seen as as a slight or it's not seen as disrespectful in any way. They don't expect you to know who they are because you have an interview get it just looks good if you did the research and you can find who it is. But oftentimes like you said, Katerina, it's not easy to find who you're interviewing with or who, who was looking over your resume. Especially if it's a big company and they have tons of recruiters looking over resumes. There's no way you can know. So yeah, leading that generic is totally fine. Okay. Couple of the questions. What if leaving some experience leads to gap in your CV? Okay, great question. So if you are, if you have experienced that leads the gaps, you can simply there are ways to explain in that resume. Our arms are in your CV if that's what you're talking about or resume. You can explain in that description that changed, changed industries or changed fields. And you can also, that's a chance for you. We had talked about, right when I said that it's a cover letter is a narrative of your resume. So that's your chance also on your cover letter to explain that. Okay. Maybe you shifted your career plans and that's why there's a little bit of a gap. So you have an opportunity to kind of explain yourself in your cover letter as well. Someone said, Can the same cover letter Pi generic pattern be followed for applying postdoctoral positions or faculty positions. Yeah, so absolutely, with with a cover letter for a postdoc or faculty positions there, they're usually I've seen that they don't often ask for just a generic cover letter. They might ask a couple prompt questions for you to answer about your like your, your understanding of the field or your approach to the field. So but if they do ask for a cover letter and absolutely, it's going up, you're still going to follow the same guidelines. What what faculty position you're applying for or what? My college, why you want the position and how your experience on your on your resume or CV, you know, strengthens, strengthens your ability to to work in this position. Someone said Why references should not be written. Okay. So that's a really good question. The reason that references should not be put on your resume initially is because for a couple of reasons. One, you want them to focus on what's on the resume and not on your references right away. If they like your resume and they want to pursue you, they're going to interview you. And then calling your references is a final stage thing, right? It's a final it's like it's, it's it's basically the last one, the last things they do in HR, they call your references. But here's the reason we don't put it on right away. You want to be able to inform your references around the time that it's going to happen. So let's say I apply for a job and it happens all the time, right? We apply for a job. And then two months later we get a call from them and we're like, Oh my gosh, I forgot about this company or I forgot about this job. And so they want to interview you. Maybe you maybe you told your references, references two months ago. And so if you just leave them on your resume in the company to his calls them on a whim and they just call them out of nowhere that maybe your references don't even remember what job it was. And they might, if you didn't remember how are the reference is going to remember, right? And so maybe you weren't able to give them a heads up. So it's better to leave them off and say, even put a sentence on your resume, says references available upon request. That's always acceptable to put there or you can put nothing. And if they really want to hire you and they want to review and they want to call your references. They're going to reach back out to you and say, We'd like for you to provide three references. And that's your opportunity to tell your references, right? So let's say Katerina is one of my references. I now can call Katerina, say, Hey, I'm applying for this job. Here's the job description that that I applied for. I asked for you to be my reference. They might call you within a week or so. And here's some information about the job. So now if they call Katerina and say, Hey, Karina, Can you tell us more about Travis? She has she has the job description in front of her so that she can reference and it's fresh in her mind. So she's able to talk about the position a little bit more and talk about maybe her relative, my relevant skills and how that would benefit the company. So that's kind of why we that's kind of the context of why we leave references off. Okay. And then someone said, Do I need a cover letter for applying for an internship? It's up to the position it's I've seen I've seen full-time jobs, not ask for a cover letter. I've seen internships, not ask for a cover letter. I would say this. If it asked for a cover letter, obviously, you want to put your cover letter there. If it doesn't ask for a cover letter, it never hurts to provide a cover letter in addition to your resume. It's never going to hurt you. Though. It might be a waste of time. Maybe the companies like, Oh, we're not even going to look at your cover letter. We just want to look at your resume then. Okay. But maybe accompany says, okay, we're going to look at your resume and look. This this person took initiative and they even gave us a cover letter. So it can only benefit you, can never, it's never a negative outcome. So to answer your question, an internship might require it might ask for a cover letter, so be prepared for that. But if they don't, it would never hurt to say, Hey, I have my cover letter for you as well for this internship. Okay. Okay. And it looks like okay. So you're missing my my answer about the oldest date. So I said, basically, there is no right or wrong answer to this. There's no single answer to this as well. It depends on your experience. I had I had a more long-winded response, but basically, if you feel like your experience is relevant to the job that you're looking for? That Absolutely. It doesn't matter if it was ten years ago, five years ago. If it's going to if that experience and that job would apply to the job at your I'm sorry. But that experience in the job that you worked for 10 years ago, has any relevant C to the position that you're applying for? They put it on your resume. Okay. I think that is all for my questions. One more note. Just Thanks. You're welcome. Yeah. So one more time. I'm just gonna put the link here to make an appointment with me. I'm available Monday through Friday. If for some reason your schedule doesn't work in my schedule, just send me an email and we can coordinate something. But I'm available to your disposal. So anytime you want to meet to talk about your resume on one-on-one. Absolutely free to do that. And yeah, this is the end of the session. Thank you so much everyone for being here and I appreciate your your, your attentiveness and your patients. Thank you. Bye. Hi. And catalyst. You're very welcome. Thank you for work. However, of course, right.
An Evening Discussion: Writing a Resume
From Travis Pocta March 10, 2021
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