PROOFREADING AND REPRODUCING YOUR RESUME

Once your resume is produced, proofread it: slowly, carefully, and repeatedly. Check for errors in spelling, punctuation, and spacing, and for missing words and sentences. Use your rough draft as a guide. It may seem like a waste of time to proofread a one-page resume four times. Do it. A fourth pass can turn up a typo, a missing comma, an extra space between words that you overlooked the first three times around.

If you decide to reproduce your resume, use a machine that turns out high quality copies. Again, use 20 pound stock with a 25% rag content. Whether you make copies on a self-

HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A RESUME

service copier or use a service representative, run one copy and look it over carefully. Every letter, every number, every punctuation mark should be sharply defined and dark enough to be read at a glance, but not overly dark. Check for dots and other unwanted marks. Sometimes the glass screen through which your resume is photocopied needs to be cleaned. If there's anything you're not happy with, make sure it's fixed before you make additional copies.

SAMPLE RESUMES

The resumes that follow will give you a sense of some of the many ways in which resumes can be written and designed.

Career Power!

DONALD SLOAN

Gates Hall University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 913-243-1682

After May 1998:

46 Clayton Drive

St. Louis, MO 63130

314-726-8840

Objective To work with the client population in a social service position.

Education B.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1998 Major: Social Services Minor: Psychology

Experience Assistant Activities Supervisor, Fairview Nursing Home, Lawrence, KS, November 1995-present. Help organize and implement recreational activities for nursing home residents. Activities include crafts, dances, day trips, sing-alongs, and visiting performers.

Hotline Volunteer. Teen Crisis Center, Lawrence, KS, September 1995-May 1996. Handled crisis calls from teenagers in the community. Dealt with drug use, unwanted pregnancies, failing grades, and the breakdown of parent-teen relationships.

Nurse's Aide, Danyers General Hospital, St. Louis, MO, Summer, 1995. Assisted nurses in patient care. Took histories, updated charts, and helped prepare patients for surgery.

Activities University Concert Board. Work with other board members to plan and

implement on-campus concerts.

Senior Gift Campaign. Help manage the campaign to raise funds for the senior class gift to the university.

Residence Hall Programming Board. Planned social events for Eggar Residence Hall.

Skills Fluent in French. Water safety instructor. Skilled at working with people.

Interests Skiing, softball, classical music, and guitar.

HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A RESUME SUSAN J.DUFFY

School address: Permanent address:

79 Hillcrest Hall 177 Cartbridge Road

University of Pennsylvania Atlanta, GA 30342

Philadelphia, PA 191CL6 404-257-0378
215-627-1896

OBJECTIVE

An entry-level position in the creative department of an advertising agency. EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Annenberg School of Communications B.A. in Visual Communications, 1998 GPA: 3.3 overall, 3.8 in major

EXPERIENCE

Intern, Grabel-Warren Advertising, Philadelphia, PA, September 1997-January 1998. Performed rotating assignments in creative, account management, and media. Worked on the development of advertising for women's shoes and men's dress shirts.

Technical Production Assistant, Cablevision News 16, Atlanta, GA, Summer 1996, 1997. Responsibilities included getting the news set ready, correcting and collating news scripts, and operating the teleprompter during each show.

ACTIVITIES

Association of Visual Communications, Faculty Relations Committee. Worked with faculty members to design programs for association members.

American Advertising Federation, Campbell Johnson Roberts Collegiate Competition. Created and submitted an advertising campaign for a fictitious soft drink.

Delta Phi Sorority. Chairperson, Philanthropy Committee. Arts and Entertainment Committee.

Hope Church, Philadelphia, PA. Sunday School Teacher. INTERESTS

Theater, American art, sailing, golf.

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STEVEN MARCH

38 Darby Road

Rye, New York 10580

914-967-1858

Fall 1997

June, 1995-August, 1997

September, 1996-present

EXPERIENCE

Intern, The Weymouth Group, New York, NY. Worked with a team of marketing consultants to position an airline, create a customer incentive program for a credit card company, and provide strategic direction to the business products group of a leading software manufacturer.

President, Student House Painters, Rye, NY. Founded and built a nine-person house painting company. Developed a market for the company's services, recruited student workers, negotiated contracts, scheduled jobs, and supervised work crews.

ACTIVITIES

Vice-President, Marketing Club.

Coordinate membership drives, help set the agenda for club

meetings, and organize special projects.

EDUCATION

B.B.A., Iona College, New Rochelle, NY Major: Marketing GPA: 3.4

A.A., Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY Major: Marketing GPA: 3.6

Financed 50% of college costs by working.

INTERESTS Tennis, bicycling, motorcycles.

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1709 LINDHURST DRIVE EUGENE, OR 97401 503-742-8186

PAUL DWYER

9/97-present

9/94-5/97

Summer 1994

OBJECTIVE

To use skills in administration, negotiation, and research in an industrial and labor relations position.

EDUCATION

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations GPA: 3.75 Magna cum laude

Williams High School, Dayton, OH

Honors graduate, top 1% of class, senior class president

HONORS

David Winslow Tuition Scholarship, 1996,1997

National Honor Society

American Legion Award for outstanding academic achievement, 1994

EXPERIENCE

Intern, Oregon Department of Labor.

Developed job descriptions, prepared a report that examined the rights of

employees of the state government to strike, and helped coordinate a

program designed to teach job interviewing skills to marginally educated

applicants.

Tutor, Higher Education Opportunity Program, University of Oregon. Tutored undergraduate students in English and History.

Sales Assistant, Just Jeans, Dayton, OH.

Sold youth-oriented casual clothes. Regularly led store in sales.

Career Power! JUDITH WILSON

17 Beechmont Street Moscow, ID 83844 208-885-7403

EDUCATION

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID B.A. in English Literature, 1998

ACTIVITIES

EXPERIENCE

Editor-in-chief, University of Idaho Yearbook, September 1997-present. Direct a staff of 20 people. Supervise copy, artwork, layout, and publication.

Intercollegiate Volleyball Team, 1996-present.

Literary Club. Read and discussed major twentieth-century novels.

Herald Society. Hosted prospective students and led tours of the campus. Described the school's academic climate, the activities in which students participate, social life at the university, and the kinds of jobs that are usually available to students.

Teacher's Assistant, COPE Program, Moscow, Idaho, September 1997-present. Work with underprivileged middle school students. Explain and correct assignments, help plan the agenda for each class, and work with individual students to improve their math and reading skills.

Night Manager, John's Food Store, Moscow, Idaho, September 1996-May 1997. Responsible for weekly inventory and control of stock, purchasing selected food and nonfood items, and tallying daily receipts.

Sales Representative, Books 'n Things, Moscow, ID, September 1995-May 1996. Helped customers find the books they wanted, conducted searches, and placed special orders.

INTERESTS Travel, water sports, volleyball, English literature.

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