Resumes

A tailored document highlighting a person’s education, work experience, and skills. It is a summary of qualifications for a job, internship, scholarship, or other opportunity, and should be considered a marketing tool.

• Portfolio

• Resume

• References

• Job Application

Which of these do you NOT include on a resume?

• education background

• work experience

• age

• qualifications

This should be the largest thing on the page

• Name

• Email

• Phone number

• Experience

Students should always include their GPA on their resume.

• False
• True

A really good resume should be 2 pages long.

• True

• False

 When describing work experience, paragraph-style job descriptions are preferred over bulleted lists. 

• True
• False

It’s perfectly acceptable to use personal pronouns (I, me, my) on a resume. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

One or two typos or misspellings on a resume won’t hurt if you’re well qualified for the job

• True
• False

The purpose of a resume is to...

• Establish a candidate's qualifications for a position in order to secure an interview.

• Establish a candidate's qualifications for a position in order to secure employment.

• Establish a candidate's qualifications for a position in order to eliminate the competition.

• Demonstrate your prior work experiences.

The school from which you graduated would appear under the heading__________.

• Extra curricular activities
• Work experience
• Education
• Volunteer activities