your initial written contact with an employer. * your initial written contact with your employer
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Your initial written contact with an employer
*Resume
*What is it?
*Your initial written contact with your employer
*Required Information
*Education
*Work or Volunteer Experience
*Achievements
*Activities
*Skills
*How to Write a Resume
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-NQAu_qRU
*Error Free Resume
*Cotton Paper?
*Action Words – past tense verbs, usually ending in ed
*Managed, organized, sold, created, wrote
*Key Words – use the employer’s words
*Uniform Spaces
*Peer Editing
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmS0iD08Y4
*Sample
*Education
* Crawford Invention Design Educational Academy– San Diego, CA
* Sept. 2010 to Present
*Work or Volunteer Experience
* Chollas Park Clean Up, Saturday September 24, 2010
* Volunteer, cleared trash from creek
* Habitat for Humanity, 2010-Present
* Volunteer, build houses for families who need them
*Achievements
* Earned a place on the principal’s honor roll, honored with fastest and most accurate keyboarding award for 2010
*Activities
* Blank club, September 2010 to Present
* Managed activities for the blank club
*Skills
* Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
* Design and marketing for print, mobile and web technologies
*High School Resume Template
*S:\IDEA\Cascia\GraphicDesign
*Grading
*You will either earn 100 points on your resume or 0
*However, you can turn it in until it is completely correct = 100 pts
*A resume that has mistakes will NOT get you the job
*Learning Reflection
*Your resume will count as your learning reflection for this class
*However, you must include all the skills you have learned in your list of skills
*Further, I want to hear your opinion regarding ways to improve the class, so email me any suggestions that you have including suggestions for new projects