Dr. Bonnie Duncan
(53 slides)
Employment Communication
 Determine
the appropriate length, format, and
content of a résumé.
 Compose
an application letter.
 Prepare
for an employment interview.
 Conduct
yourself appropriately during the interview.
 Complete
post-interview communication tasks.
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A resume is a summary of your experiences and skills
relevant to the field of work you are entering. It
highlights your accomplishments to show a potential
employer that you are qualified for the work you
want. It is not a biography of everything you had
done. Its purpose is to get you an interview.
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Overview
A resume is a summary of your experiences and skills relevant
to the field of work you are entering.
It highlights your accomplishments to show a potential
employer that you are qualified for the work you want. It is not
a biography of everything you have done.
Its purpose is to get you an interview.
A resume can (and often should) reflect more than just your
paid work experience. Current students, in particular, should
consider including the details of your more important
extracurricular, volunteer and leadership experiences,
particularly as they are relevant to the position you seek..
Tailor separate resumes to fit each career field in which you are
job searching. Some people create slightly different resumes
tailored to each job opening.
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Creating a good resume
A good resume has five essential parts:
1.
A clearly stated JOB OBJECTIVE.
2.
The HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS.
3.
A presentation of DIRECTLY RELEVANT SKILLS and
EXPERIENCE.
4.
A chronological WORK HISTORY.
5.
A listing of relevant EDUCATION and TRAINING.
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Key Sections
Name and Address
Objective / Keywords / Summary
Education
Experience
Activities / Volunteer Work / Interests
Skills
References
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Name and Address
Put your name in at least 14-point. Recruiters often must look
through stacks of resumes in search of a particular one. Make it easy
for them to see your name.
If you are still in school, be sure to include both your school address
and phone number, as well as the address and phone number where
you can be reached during school vacations or after you graduate.
Include your e-mail address. If you check your e-mail during school
vacations, you may want to center the address on your resume in a
way that implies it is not just associated with your school address. Be
sure to have a professional email address for your job/internship
search. Employers may be turned off by your [email protected]
email address. Also avoid the email hyperlink under your email
address. The line under your email should not be included.
Avoid unnecessary personal information such as marital status,
religion, and date of birth.
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Objective
An objective is optional. If you have worked out a clearly
targeted job objective, then definitely include it.
If you are applying for an internship, you probably should not
include an objective on your resume.
Important: Focus on what you have to offer rather than on
what the job can offer you. This may sound backwards, but
employers are not so much interested in what you hope to get
out of a job with them, so much as they want to know whether
you fit their needs. Ovoid ‘I’ statements.
Example:
OBJECTIVE: Editorial assistant position in publishing industry,
utilizing my academic background in literature and three years
experience writing for campus and local newspapers.
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Education
This section always goes first on your resume, as long as you are in school.
If you have, or soon will, graduate from college, your undergraduate education
section goes first on your resume.
Keep education on the top from one to three years after you graduate, depending on such
factors as whether your education was relevant to your career field and how impressive
your work experience has been in the intervening years. If you have recently received a
graduate or professional degree, your education would usually go at the top of your
resume.
As a junior or senior, your GPA should always be mentioned, as long as it is above 3.0.
Most recruiters will assume that it is below 3.0 if they do not see it on your resume. (The
phrase "3.2/4.0" indicates that you have a 3.2 GPA on a scale that runs up to 4.0. Some
schools use a 5.0 scale.) Your GPA is printed on your most recent Millersville
transcript. Do not round up your GPA. If you have a 3.90, put that down. Do not
round up to a 4.00. Employers want to see accurate information and may compare your
resume GPA with your official transcript.
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Education…continued
This section always goes first on your resume, as long as you are in school.
"Courses studied" or "Relevant Coursework" is an optional section. If you have taken
courses outside your major that are relevant to the job (or if you simply want to
emphasize your academic training relevant to the job or internship), you would definitely
benefit from including this section. For example, if you were a Philosophy major trying to
find work in the computer industry, and you had taken three courses in the Computer
Science department, you would definitely include them in a "Relevant Courses" section."
Significant honors and awards can be included as a sub-category of your Education
section.
High school materials do not belong on your resume. High school or its equivalent
is presumed of all college students. Nobody cares where you went, or the fact that you
were your high school’s track star or band nerd.
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Experience
What should you include in this section?
Don't feel that you must limit this section to paid work experiences,
especially if you are still in college or a recent graduate. Employers
understand that the most valuable or most challenging experiences often
occur in internships, volunteer work, or other extracurricular activities.
Nursing Clinical Experience - List placements in reverse chronological
order, including dates. Describe type of setting, responsibilities, and
knowledge gained.
Student Teaching Experience - Include name and location of placements,
dates involved, and grade level of assignment. Major responsibilities in
teaching area should be emphasized.
Content: With the specific job you are applying for in mind, sit down and
write a paragraph about each of your jobs or activities. Choose from one to
eight sentences (depending on the extent of your responsibilities) that
encapsulate the skills you used at this job or activity, your duties, and your
significant accomplishments that are likely to be relevant for the job this
particular resume is targeting.
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Experience…continued
Include both your duties AND your accomplishments.
Duties tell the employer you can do the job. Accomplishments indicate that you will go
above and beyond the call of duty:
Duties alone can sound bland: "Wrote articles, researched topics, filed documents"?
Accomplishments and contributions set you apart from the other applicants -"Researched and wrote weekly Music Notes for local arts newspaper. Created archival
database that saved staff several hours of work per week. Chosen from among seven
interns to represent newspaper at MusicFest 2001 festival; wrote feature story that ran on
front page."
Use action verb sentence fragments: wrote, managed, researched, coached,
planned" etc.
Where possible, use keywords - Resumes that are sent to an employer by e-mail or
that are entered onto a form on the Web may end up on a resume database. When
recruiters seek resumes from these databases, they try to match certain keywords
appropriate to a particular career field.
Particularly for job seekers with experience in that career field, it is important that your
resume contain some of those keywords.
Cite numbers to make a point (e.g. number of people supervised, number of children
in classroom; size of event; budget you oversaw, etc.)
Be concise. Avoid meta-discourse, including use of the pronoun "I".
Include "buzz" words only if you are sure of their meaning and you know your audience
will be too.
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Activities, Volunteer Work,
Interests
If you choose to separate your work experience from your extracurricular
activities or volunteer work, they can go in a separate section. BUT they don't have
to go in a separate section.
REMEMBER, though, that some of these activities may demonstrate your skills just as
well or even better than your paid work experience.
You do not need to demote these activities to the bottom of your resume. Employers
spend an average of 15 -30 seconds looking at each resume. What's left at the bottom
of your resume may not get any attention.
A note about "interests": listing your "interests" or hobbies on a resume is okay, but
generally you should not do so at the expense of leaving out other, more important
information.
When should you list your interests?
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When your interests or hobbies are so unusual that they are bound to attract positive
attention. (One recent alumna, applying for work in the investment industry, listed "sky
diving" as a hobby. Every recruiter that interviewed her started the interview off with a
question about her hobby.)
When your interests or hobbies reflect positively on your job skills. For example, if you
are applying for work as a paralegal and you love chess, the recruiter may equate your
hobby with analytical abilities. That you babysat gerbils: not so much.
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Skills
This is an optional section - if specific skills are necessary to the
job, or if your skills help you stand out from the crowd, then include
a skills section in your resume.
Computer skills:
You may wish to list the systems (Macintosh, IBM, UNIX, etc.) and
unusual applications that apply to the job you seek.
Yes to Filemaker Pro, Pagemaker, Dreamweaver & HTML, etc.
Don’t bother with more mainstream software such as Microsoft
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc
If you know programming languages, list those as well.
You may even want to use italicized sub-categories:
 Systems:
 Applications:
 Programming Languages:
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Languages and Lab Skills
Languages:
 List languages in which you have more than just some basic ability. In other
words, if you are able to carry on a conversation in, and/or read that language,
fluently list it.
 Indicate your level of ability ("basic conversational ability," "proficiency,"
"near-fluency," "fluency") or the number of years of college-level study.
Laboratory skills:
 If you are applying for scientific or laboratory positions, you may want to
create a list of your lab skills. A biology major might break those skills down
into sub-categories such as "histology," "cell culture," and "staining." Of
course, the sub-categories and skills mentioned should be relevant to the
particular job.
 Always check your skills list with a professor or mentor, unless you have
significant professional experience in that career field.
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References
Don't write "References Available On Request" on
your resume. This went out of style over a decade
ago.
Don’t plan to use relatives, your pastor, or other
personal references.
Do create a references list as soon as you can and
have it available, in case an employer asks for
references.
Do plan to use professors, advisors, and employers
you are certain can speak positively and
knowledgeably about to your abilities.
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Select your format
Selecting your resume format is a major strategic decision. Real and
compelling differences characterize the two most common formats, which
have impact on the receptivity employers have to your initiatives. No
universally "right" format is appropriate for all people. Your review of
your own objective and background will be your most effective guide to
selecting the best format for you.
1. Chronological
 Your employment record is
the primary organizing
principle for this format.
 A job-by-job historical
narrative or your work
effectiveness.
 The pure chronological
resume can be too mundane,
a bland work autobiography.
It is descriptive, but tends not
to be persuasive about
personal qualifications.
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2. Functional
 Your key skills, knowledge and
related accomplishments are
the primary organizing
principles of this format, citing
relevant examples of
effectiveness as proof and
prediction of your ability to
contribute.
 The pure functional resume is
too free-floating and reads like
a set of assertions about
abilities, unlinked to verifiable
sources of confirmation.
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Select your format
Combination format
Whether you prefer the chronological or functional format,
the most effective resume blends the best elements of each.
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3. Chronological combination
 This format retains the structure
of a job-by-job delineation of
experience and emphasizes
accomplishments, the hallmark
of the functional resume.
4. Functional combination
 This format retains the structure of
key skills, knowledge and
accomplishments, incorporating a
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distilled EXPERIENCE section,
which denotes career-related
time/space anchors, the hallmark of
the chronological resume.
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Can you tell a bad resume from a good one?
Lets examine some.
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Good or bad?
Name
Permanent Address
129 Midland Drive
Salisbury, MD 21804
(410) 000-0000
[email protected]
_____________________________________________________________________________
This is a good resume
(if a bit small on this slide)
because:
Education:
Bachelor of Science Candidate May 2005 Major: Information Systems Management
The Perdue School of Business
Overall GPA: 3.4/4.0 Major GPA: 3.7/4.0
Salisbury University, Perdue School of Business, Salisbury, Maryland
Related Experience:
Information Technology, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland May 2004-Present
Senior Lab Manager
● Perform liaison duties between student employees and full-time IT staff.
● Oversee the management of all computer labs.
● Prepare and conduct new student employee training.
● Evaluate student manager performance for end of semester evaluations.
● Assist student lab managers with duties.
Fulton Hall Lab Manager
● Performed hardware and software maintenance and repairs in four student computer labs.
● Coordinated schedules for student employees.
● Maintained inventory of supplies for all computer labs.
● Evaluated student monitor performance.
Printing and Scanning Services Manager
● Performed maintenance and repairs on all PC's, printers, and scanner in the lab.
● Coordinated schedules for student employees.
● Evaluated student monitor performance.
Student Monitor
● Assisted users of the computer labs with hardware/software problems.
● Maintained printers, lab maintenance, and security.
►It is very readable
►The most relevant information is
listed first and easy to find
►Bullets have been used with action
verbs to make the information quite
accessible
►This resume is on one page
Other Experience:
Bag Assembly, W. L. Gore & Associates, Elkton, Maryland
Checkout Supervisor, K-Mart, Elkton, Maryland
Checkout Associate, K-Mart, Elkton, Maryland
►The job titles are easily found
Activities:
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Treasurer
Computer Skills:
Desktop Software: Corel 7 Suite, Microsoft Office 95 Professional Suites
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1/95
Network Operating Systems: Novell NetWare 4.x
Internet: GroupWise 5 Mail, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Editor, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Programming Languages: COBOL, C++
Database Applications: Microsoft Access 7, SQL
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►This is a recent graduate and the
Education section is listed first
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Good or bad?
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Sam Pull
360 Degree Circle
Anywhere, Maryland 21360
Phone: X-XXX-XXX-XXXX
Email: [email protected]
This is a bad resume because:
EDUCATION:
Current:
Salisbury University
Previous:
Graduated from Centennial High School May, 2001
GPA: 3.0 (unweighted) 3.2 (weighted)
SAT: 1100
ACT: 26
HONORS:
► There is high school information
listed throughout the entire resume
Honor Roll multiple times
Certificate of Merit
Selected by Baltimore Sun for First Team All-county-Soccer – (Howard County) – Fall of
2000
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Mr. Jack Pugh – Spring of 2000 to Spring of 2001 – Assistance in care and maintenance
of Show Rabbits
Carraba’s Restaurant – Fall 1999 to February of 2000 – Bussed tables and worked in
kitchen
Mrs. Ann Russ – Fall 1997 to Fall of 1999 – Numerous house chores and yardwork
Mrs. Caine – Summer of 1999 – Extensive landscaping and yardwork.
► Candidate’s name is no larger than his
address.
►The format and spacing is not
readable
►Do not list the person you worked for
on your resume-the employer will
contact you for the references or list it on
a separate reference page-click here to
view a reference page.
►The dates should be right-centered
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ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS:
Member of Principal’s Council – Varsity Soccer – Fall of 2000
Assisted High School Soccer coach with Soccer Camp for young adults – Summer 2000
High School French Club – 1999 to Present
High School Latin Club – 1999 to June of 2000
Varsity Soccer Team – 1998 to Fall of 2000 (Starting player 1998 to Fall of 2000)
Junior Varsity Soccer Team – Fall of 1997
Junior Varsity Indoor Track Team – Winter of 1997 to Spring of 1998
Earlham College, IN – Summer of 2000 – Took Aquatic Ecology for two weeks and received
2 college credits
►There are capitalization problems
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Good or bad?
John Doe
This is a bad resume because:
987 Around Way
Everywhere, Maryland 21842
_________________________________________________________________
Objective:
To secure a position as a teacher in the feild of education in the Worcester County area.
Education:
Salisbury University
Major: Elementary Education
GPA 3.25
2003 – present
Wor-Wic Community College
2001-2003
General Studies
Essex Community College General Studies
2000-2001
Maryland Beauty Academy
Jr. Cosmetology Instructor
Gordon Phillips Beauty Academy
Senior Cosmetology Instructor
Maryland certified cosmetology instructor
Eastern Vocational Technical High School
Maryland certified cosmetologist
Experience:
Creative hairdresser
94th Street – Ocean Plaza Mall
Position: Hair Stylist
Various part-time jobs
Affiliations:
Registered voter in Worcester County
Member of the Easter Shore reading Council
Member of the Ocean City friends of the Library
Member of the Human Society of the United States
1997
► There is high school information listed
►You should not list a community college
educational experience unless that
experience is directly related to the job you
want. For example if you had a 2-year
degree in nursing and this is the career you
were pursing you would obviously list that
degree.
►This resume does not describe any work
experience or any experience for that
matter.
1996
►There is a spelling error in the objective
statement. Did you catch it? (feild)
April 2002 – Present
►There are capitalization problems
►It is irrelevant that this person is a
registered voter in Wicomico County.
References: available upon request
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Good or bad?
Sally Smith
Specific Place
(xxx) xxx-xxxx
[email protected]
________________________________________________________________________________
This is a good resume because:
EDUCATION
• Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Chemistry/ Biochemistry Track
•Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
• Member of the Thomas E. Bellavance Honors Program • GPA: 3.0/4.0
RELEVANT COURSE WORK
Cell Biology- Laboratory experience performing the following process:
• Isolation and restriction mapping of plasmid DNA
• Purification of human protein by Ion-exchange Chromatography
• Estimation of protein molecular weight by SDS-PAGE and Western Blot
• Mitochondria isolation and activity analysis
►It is easy to read from left to
right
May 2005
Analytical Chemistry- laboratory experience exploring the following analytical procedures:
• Lodometric, acid-base and complexometric titrations
• Component analysis using Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Liquid Chromatography
• Trace metal determination through Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
• Qualitative and Quantitative analysis by Gas Chromatography
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Intermediate Chemistry Research, Salisbury University
Spring 2004
• Collaborated with faculty member, Dr. Miguel Mitchell, to create a Cyanoindole reaction
• Performed independent experimentation, testing products by Thin Layer Chromatography,
Infrared spectra, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Wrote paper and presented findings to Chemistry Faculty members
EMPLOYMENT
SAFERIDE Team Leader, Salisbury University Fall 2003 to Present
• Promoted from associate after 4 months to manage team of 25 associates
(students who volunteer as drivers or dispatch personnel)
• Collaborate with 6 other team leaders to present program goals to local businesses and
gain community support.
Resident Assistant, Housing and Residence Life, Salisbury University August 2003- Present
• Acted as a source of information about campus events
• Enforce University policies
• Organize educational, informative, and social programs for freshman, female residents
• Develop community within immediate residents and residents in the building
• Establish efficiency and communication by handling work orders, roommate conflicts, and personal
counseling for residents and members of Residence Life Staff
►The dates are in the correct
location
►There are very good Relevant
Courses and Related Experience
sections
►There is a consistency
throughout the resume
►There are no spelling or
grammatical problems.
COMPUTER PROFICIENCIES
• Internet, E-mail, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ChemDraw
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Teaching Resume
Here’s what a two page elementary
teaching resume should contain
►It has good balance and is easy to
read.
►There are very good teaching
experience sections. Each is
treated separately and fully.
►There is a consistency
throughout the resume
►There are no spelling or
grammatical problems.
…Go on to next page
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Teaching Resume
Here’s what a good two page
elementary teaching resume
should contain
►It has good balance and is easy
to read.
►There are very good teaching
experience sections. Each is
treated separately and fully.
►There is a consistency
throughout the resume
►There are no spelling or
grammatical problems.
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Teaching Resume
This is a good high school
teaching resume because:
►It is easy to read from left to
right
►The dates are in the correct
location
►There are very good teaching
experience sections
►There is a consistency
throughout the resume
►There are no spelling or
grammatical problems.
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Bad Resume:
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Resumes
 There are three surefire
ways to write a bad
resume:
 Make it too long.
 Obscure your
background with your
interpretation of your
strengths and skills.
 Give a vague
chronology.
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DO include on your résumé
 Name, address, phone number,
and e-mail address
 Job objective
 College major, degree, name of college, and
graduation date, QPA (if 3.0 or better)
 Jobs held, employers, dates, and duties
 Special aptitudes and skills
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Do NOT include on your résumé
 Bases for discrimination
 Religion
 Ethnicity
 Age
 Gender
 Photograph
 Marital status
 High school activities
 Pointless activities for the position.
(Nobody cares that you babysat if you are applying to
become a CPA at an accounting firm.)
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Job objective
 Too general:
 An office position within a progressive
company that offers excellent growth
opportunities
 An accounting position in an
organization that values loyalty and
rewards hard work
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 Too specific:
 A secretary to the sales manager in
the Loop area of downtown Chicago
 An assistant internal auditor for a
federally chartered bank in San
Francisco
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 Helpful:
 A secretarial position in sales management in the
metropolitan Chicago area
 An internal auditing position in the
financial industry on the West Coast
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Describe Your Education
Virtually all new college grads should lead off with
education.
Do not include high school materials. That’s a given
for a college grad.
Do include all your colleges, starting with the most
recent.
Include information on major and minor, QPA (3.0 or
above) Include information on specific courses if they
particularly pertain to the job at issue.
Include other courses and certifications as pertinent.
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Describing your work experience
Not: Worked as a night manager at Arby’s
restaurant.
But: Supervised a six-person night crew;
handled all customer and worker complaints; closed the store each evening
and made nightly deposits.
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Not: Worked as a student assistant for a
business professor.
But: Typed exams for a business professor,
graded assignments, and formatted
manuscripts using desktop publishing
software.
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Not: Worked as a packager on an assembly
line.
But: Learned the value of precision and teamwork while working as a packager on a
fast-paced assembly line; received
Employee-of-the-Month award during my
first year.
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Pay attention to details
 Layout and design must be crisp and clean
 There must be NO technical, grammar, or spelling
mistakes
 Make sure the document is machine readable. Don’t
use odd fonts, pictures, etc.
 Unless you are a teacher/professor, your resume
should fit on one page. My mother was a senior vice
president for Coca Cola. Her resume fit on one page:
so can yours.
 Teacher’s resumes can be multiple pages. Include
the details of all student teaching opportunities.
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Application Letters
 The letter ‘reads’ the resume to the perspective
employer.
 Never send a job application ‘To Whom It May
Concern’. Take the time to call the company and ask
who will be receiving it. Write specifically to that
person. After all, if you don’t take the time or care,
why should the company?
 Make it very plain in the first line just what job you are
applying for.
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Application Letter: Continued
 Remember to use the ‘you’ attitude. In what ways will
you be a good fit for them? Show that you have done
your homework, and have thought about just why
you’ll be a good fit.
 Talk like the professional you want to be perceived as.
Unless you’re looking for a job as a nanny, for example,
it seriously doesn’t matter that you were a good
babysitter in high school. It does matter that you did
an internship with a firm in the field.
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Application-letter bloopers
 I am a rabid typist.
 I’m very thorough. I cross every I and dot every T.
 Here are my qualifications for you to overlook.
 I believe you would be very lucky to get me to work
for you.
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 My true ability is deceiving.
 As you can see, Dr. Tilton recommended me with
no qualifications whatsoever.
 Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to
hearig from you shorty.
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Stressful interview questions
 Describe a time when you were faced with a stressful
situation that demonstrated your coping skills.
 Give me an example of when you had to conform to a
policy with which you did not agree.
 Give me an example of when you
had to make a split-second decision.
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 Tell me about a time when you were able to successfully
deal with another person even when that individual
may not have personally liked you (or vice versa).
 Give me an example of a time when something you
tried to accomplish failed.
 Tell me about a time when you were forced to make an
unpopular decision.
 Describe a time when you set your sights
too high (or too low).
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Job-interview bloopers
 A job applicant challenged the interviewer to arm wrestle.
 A job candidate said he had never finished high school
because he was kidnapped and kept in a closet in Mexico.
 A balding candidate excused himself and then returned
wearing a full hairpiece.
 A clumsy candidate fell and broke an arm during the
interview.
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 A candidate said he didn’t have time for lunch and then
started to eat a hamburger and fries in the interviewer’s
office.
 An applicant interrupted the questioning to phone her
therapist for advice.
 A candidate dozed during the interview.
 A candidate muttered, “Would it be a problem if I’m angry
most of the time?”
 An applicant wore headphones to the interview and, when
asked to remove them, explained that she could listen to the
interviewer and the music at the same time.
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Key terms
 application letter
 electronic résumé
 reference
 résumé
 solicited application letter
 unsolicited application letter
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What do you know about Diana?
 She is single, willing to relocate, likes a large-city
atmosphere, and prefers to work in a large
organization.
 She has highly marketable skills and a master’s degree
in MIS from Stanford.
 She is self-confident and very interested in the welfare
of her subordinates.
 She is a feminist and is politically active.
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LAB 15 test
affect (WORD)
1.
room, (INTRO)
Of all the elements that effect the ambiance of a room;
Is (AGR-PRO)
than (WORD)
its
mood-enhancing (ADJ)
2. none are more important then lighting. Beyond it’s mood enhancing
qualities, (INTRO)
good lighting (NO HYPHEN)
safety, reading, (SER)
3. qualities good-lighting is essential for safety reading and
interest (NO COMMA)
4. spotlighting points of interest, and for such basics as cleaning.
chandeliers (SP)
5.
Many people associate chandeleirs with elegant hotels or
old (NO COMMA)
dining (SP)
6. old, movie palaces. But many dinning rooms need a fixture over
table; (NO CONJ)
glass (NO COMMA)
7. the table, it may be brass and glass, or metal.
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8.
pendants (SP)
lights
In contrast to chandeliers, pendant’s are hanging lites.
today’s (SING)
That (FRAG)
9. That represent one of todays’ hottest lighting styles. Because
they’re (WORD) they (AGR-GEN)
objects (WORD)
10. their small, it can be placed over object’s without overpowering
them. (AGR-GEN)
entries (NO COMMA)
above kitchen (NO HYPHEN)
11. it. In small spaces such as entries, or above-kitchen islands or
Their (AGR-GEN)
interesting. (SP)
12. counters, glass shades add punch. Its shapes are intresting.
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your (WORD)
13.
If classical designs are you’re favorite, there are many
timeless (SP)
14. time-less designs. Classic designs can be used like contemporary
perform (SP)
15. fixtures. They add elegance as they preform task lighting. In
another (SP)
room (NO COMMA)
six (NO. WORD)
may be
16. an other part of the room, maybe a carved fixture with 6 candle
scalloped (NO COMMA)
17. lights covered with silk shades with a scalloped, trim.
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Shades, (TRAN) incidentally (SP)
18.
Shades incidently, also play a key role in the story. With
lights
highs and lows
giving
19. their high’s and low’s, pendant lights, and shades are given us
a lot
to.
20. alot to look up too.
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