Hello and welcome to crafting your Beth's resume with the University of Delaware careers. Along. This presentation will cover an overview of the career center with tips for exploring your future career. The purpose of a resume, formatting considerations, effectively communicating your experience and action statements, best practices for tailoring your resume. And the difference between a resume and a curriculum vitae. On campus, the Career Center is located on four I want Academy Street next to the Perkins student-centered and attach the Perkins garage. Due to the curve at 19 pandemic. Our offices transition services to a completely virtual format for your safety and convenience, as well as connect you with employers, alumni, and experiential opportunities. So you're ready to embark on your next chapter after graduation. The Career Center is loaded with ways to get you started in achieving your goals. One of the things we're best known for our one-on-one career appointments you can schedule with a career counselor to address any of your individual needs are questions. We also offer a ton of career events so you can connect with employers and learn about opportunities. Finally, we have resources for you to access for a variety of different purposes. These are halves on both our website as well as a site called handshake. And you can find all of our virtual services at UDL.edu slash CC. He's includes resume samples and templates, interview tips, networking guides, job searching resources and resources by population. Were also on YouTube. Access the videos featuring tips and tricks, as well as our career co video series at our University of Delaware career center channel handshake. If there are other treasure trove of resources, we'd like to think of it as your one-stop career shot. Great news is as a yell dot join handshake.com today to search for jobs and internships. Find events that will connect you to employers or schedule an appointment with a career counselor. Now that you know a little bit about our office, what now? We're all about helping you find work that you find meaningful. College graduate that found fulfilling positions after graduation. Often report that during their college experience, they made sure to research their industry, find an applied internship, seek out a mentor, and participate in some sort of class or program that supported their career development. So what can that look like for you to researcher industry? You can check out a resource like vault that contains many job profiles that industry guides to give you more information. If you're not sure what career options are available in your major. You can also experience lock on to handshake, to view internships or even JOB shadowing opportunities. The UD Career Acceleration Network is a great site to simplify the process of connecting with a mentor. There are many UD alumni waiting to support their fellow Blue patents. Your major or college may also have their own mentoring program you can apply to join. Can also join a research program related to the field you're interested in. A resume is essentially a summary of your professional history, highlighting your skills and accomplishments. Its purpose is to prove you are a good fit for a position so that you can move on to an interview with an employer. You can think of a resume as a document that represents you when you're not in the room to do it yourselves. Many people want to know what the best resume looks like. The best version of your resume will effectively showcase what you bring to the table. In terms of experience, strings, and achievements. It should relate to the specific position you're applying to by highlighting your relevant experiences. In regard to format, it should demonstrate the three C's displayed correctly, conservatively and consistently. This means that the best resume for you should differ from someone else's because you are unique and bringing very in many ways, some general guidelines you want to consider are as follows. Keep your font choice to basic font, such as Times New Roman or Arial. Your document should be limited to black and white and color. This however, varies for those and creative fields, such as graphic design, where the primary function of these positions is to create visual products. You should utilize the space on the document in a balanced manner. A gesture spacing where appropriate between sections so that you don't have a large empty areas. Also be mindful of how you use stylistics, such as bolding and underlining. Stylistics are an effective way of organizing your resume. However, avoid overuse. Within each section, items should be listed in reverse chronological order, meaning your most recent or current experience listed first, and then proceeding to go further and further into your past. Do not include any unnecessary personal information, such as pictures, birth date, or social security number. Maintain consistent formatting choices throughout the entirety of your document. For example, if you have your dates aligned to the right of your page and one section, it should look like that throughout the entire page, across sections. Resume length should be restricted to one page for undergraduates and two pages for graduate students. Finally, eliminate any personal pronouns, such as I, me, we, she, he, or et cetera. Your resume, education, some form of experience section. There are many other sections you may choose to include to show off your experience. Some examples of these optional sections include activities, awards are skills. Let's take a closer look at each of these sections. Your resume should begin with your contact information. Right at the top of the page. Your name should be listed as the biggest and boldest thing on the page, as it's one of the most visible parts of your professional brand, should also include a phone number and email, just that you can be contacted through. You may also include a link to a professional website, such as a LinkedIn profile, e-portfolio, or other online location showcasing your work. The next section listed is typically your education section. For each educational entry, you should include information about the school name, location, and city-state format, and your graduation or expected graduation date, month, year format. Next, list your degree title. This should be spelled out and not abbreviated. In this example, you'll see the student wrote Bachelor of Science instead of its common abbreviation of BS. Then you can list your major title along with any minors and concentrations as applicable. If your GPA is a 3 or above, feel free to include this as well. While you can include honors and awards in a separate section, many students choose to list academic ones within the education section as well. Study abroad experiences can be expressed here as well with information about the program name. Nature, of course is location and time spent. Another option of inclusion of relevant coursework. Just be sure to only include coursework that is relevant to the position you're applying for. The experience section is likely the part of the resume that will be the most work for you. This is your opportunity to really shine. You'll start off each experiential entry with basic heading information including company name, location, your position, title, and the date range worked. Then you'll describe your work in action statements, discussing your tasks and accomplishments. Each statement is usually listed in bulleted format and should begin with a strong action verb. Here, experience sections can be expressed in different ways, ranging from related experience to more industry-related labels. Let's examine the key components of an effective action statement. Each action statement should give the reader an idea of what you did, how you did it on purpose or outcome of the task. And so the nice strong action verb give specific examples of how they perform their task and included achievement measures to provide evidence of their success. Here's an example of one experienced entry. Notice the strong action verbs used. You can see in the last bullet that this individual gave specific examples of what exactly they meant by administrative support so that the readers have a better understanding of the scope of their experience. These are some examples of optional sections. And activity section can include student organizations he may be involved in or around campus or volunteering roles. You can format these very similarly to the experience section. However, you can choose to exclude bullets if your role was more passive. Once again. And it weren't section can be express in a separate section or combined it with your education section. A common optional section is the Skills section. This should be limited to measurable skills, certifications, or licenses. Transferable skills like communication should be left off. Here you can see examples of both the activities and skills sections. Notice how this person chose to include bullets highlighting their achievements within their leadership role. You can also see that this skill section includes machine operations as well as law procedure abilities, which are also encouraged. Here's her resume and its entirety. You can see that in this example, there is a large amount of white space at the bottom that could be balanced out with spacing changes. The font size for the name at the top could be increased to stand out more. And many of the action verbs could be stronger. You'll want to check for improvements and revisions. When finished with your first draft. You'll also want to consider the questions listed on the left to ensure your resume is the best it can be. You can find resume samples and templates on the UD Career Center website. You can also get personalized virtual feedback from V mock at your convenience. After writing your resume, the most important thing that you should do as you apply is tailor your resume to each position. This allows employers to see that you could make explicit connections between your experience and their position, as well as the industry. Applicant tracking systems will also scan a candidate's resume for keywords from the job description. These systems will decline you before it even gets to a hiring manager. If these keywords are not present in your document. Can tailor your resume by inserting keywords and language from the job description into your resume. Resume. Where did as a platform that will streamline this process for you by allowing you to upload your resume and job description system. It will then provide feedback on how tailored your resume is. This decision should also be sure to include broader industry terms. Use LinkedIn for examples of how similar professionals describe their experience. You career information resources such as Vault for finding more industry specific keywords as well. You may come across job postings that ask her CV instead of a resume. Cv stands for curriculum be tie, which means a journey of my life in Latin, respectively. This document represents a full account of your professional history. This document doesn't have a page limit and may go on for several pages. They also don't typically need tailoring, mainly changing only as you add new entries. You can see a sample of the C V on the left with our original resume sample on the right. You'll typically use a CV when applying to academic setting, such as a professor role or postdocs. This concludes the resume presentation. There are many resources available to assist you in creating your Beth's resume. Be sure to connect with us so we can support you and all of your career needs.
Virtual Career Center Intro & Resume Writing Presentation
From Amber Ridgeway September 11, 2020
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