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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

4-11 Survey and Resumes

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Resumes! Due Friday, tomorrow is peer editing both for content and for formatting. I will print copies of what you have shared with me tonight - the more you have done, the helpful tomorrow will be for you.

MAKE SURE you share your resume with cynthiaeduncan@gmail.com (just copy and paste it so you for sure get it right).

Today we're going to focus on making our descriptions stronger.

You start descriptions with verbs (no 'I' in the whole document!) and you want them to be strong verbs.

Grocery Bagger
  • Worked at a grocery store.
The formatting is right, but how can we expand and improve that? You want at least two bullet points for each job title.

accomplish  
achieve 
analyze 
adapt
balance 
collaborate 
coordinate 
communicate
compile
conduct
contribute
complete
create
direct
establish
improve 
implement
increase
initiate
instruct
lead
organize
participate
perform
present
reorganize
support
train
travel

Millions more: Action Verbs

Focus on descriptions while you work on getting your resume formatted correctly. It may help to open my example to mimic the formatting - the top has some steps spelled out.

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