Reading and Writing Skill Resume' Ppt.ppt

Resume'

1. FEBRUARY 15, 2023

2. RESUME
WRITING
for Grade 12
Students

3. OBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE
To provide the skills and tools for creating
and preparing your own resume

4. RESUME’RESUME’
1.) 1.) Warm- UpWarm- Up: What is a Resume?: What is a Resume?
Word Splash, your thoughtsWord Splash, your thoughts
2.) Self- reflection2.) Self- reflection
Step 1: List your academic honors and Step 1: List your academic honors and
achievementsachievements
Step 2: List your extracurricular activities.Step 2: List your extracurricular activities.
3.) What should you include on a resume?3.) What should you include on a resume?
What are your skills and attributes?What are your skills and attributes?

5. Word Splash: What is a Resume?
Word Splash: What is a Resume?

6. Advertisement
selling a
product….YOU!
Specifically your
skills, experiences,
and attributes.
First meeting
between you and
the employer

7. Why do you need a resume?
A marketing tool
Requirement of many organizations
To obtain an interview

8. Your TICKET to an INTERVIEW.

9. Overall it’s your FIRST STEP
towards employment.

10. A short account (1-2 pages) of
your Education, Experience,
Qualifications and Achievements.
A RESUME IS

11. Its goal is to capture the reader’s interest.
Most resumes only get 20-30 seconds scan
by the reader. This is the time they decide
to either KEEP IT or TOSS IT.
It must have enough IMPACT to GRAB the
ATTENTION of the prospective employer.

13. DOES YOUR RESUME PASS THE TEST?

14. Resume- hidden messagesResume- hidden messages
Resume You
Neat
Well-organized
Error free
Professional appearance
Neat
Well-organized
Attention to detail
Careful & Competent

46. The Header
What should be included?
Name
Permanent and present address
E-mail address
Telephone number
Where should contact information go?
Top of the page

48. Objective Statement
Purpose
Communicate the type of position you are
interested in
Examples
Management trainee position with a specialty
retailer.
To obtain a position as field service
representative with XYZ Software Corporation.

50. Education
Name of School
School Address
Date or expected date of graduation
Graduation Date: June 2023
Expected Graduation Date: June 2023
High School Diploma
GPA (Optional)

52. Achievements & Awards
Don’t limit yourself here.
This can be a laundry list or a detailed
description.
Order by date
Reverse chronological
Rank order by importance to the career
objective

54. Work Experience
It is the experience an applicant gains while
working in a job.
For example, students may include
internships or part-time positions, which
qualify as “work” experience

56. Membership and OrganizationsMembership and Organizations
Everything you’re involved in -- clubs,
sports, programs, activities like band,
art, drama, journalism in school and out
of school. You can put them in order of
significance or most recent.
Then, state your assigned task or
position the said club or organization.

58. Professional skills are
 
career competencies and abilities used in
the workplace that are beneficial for nearly any job.
Professional skills are a combination of both hard skills (job-specific
duties that can be trained) and soft skills (transferable traits like work
ethic, communication, and leadership).
Key Skills

60. References are
 
people who can talk about your work
experience, work habits, character and skills. You
should choose your references carefully.
References

63. Resume Dos
Use action verbs
Use short, concise sentences
Use #, %, $ amounts
Keep resume easy to read
Keep resume about one-two page/s

64. Resume Don’ts
Do not use the pronouns such as I, me, my, etc.
Do not clutter your resume with nonessential
information
Do not make any misrepresentations
Do not include personal information

age, sex, height, weight, marital status, etc.

65. Any Questions???Any Questions???
Content Objective:Content Objective: To demonstrate their To demonstrate their
understanding of writing a resume. understanding of writing a resume.
Closing StatementClosing Statement : Write a resume that is : Write a resume that is
free of spelling and grammatical errors.free of spelling and grammatical errors.

85. ExperienceExperience
Use the term "experience"
What is considered experience?
Full and part-time jobs
Self-employment
Volunteer work
Practicum, field, and cooperative education, field, and cooperative education
Information to include
Job Title
Dates of employment
Company name
City & State
Work Experience: Don't forget non-traditional work,
such as babysitting or helping out with the family
business. For each item, include the job title, name
of organization, location, dates, and description of
responsibilities.

88. Use Strong Action VerbsUse Strong Action Verbs
Accomplished, achieved, acquired, adapted, addressed, administered, advised, allocated, analyzed, applied, appointed, appraised,
approved, arbitrated, assembled, assessed, assigned, assumed, assured, audited, authored, awarded
Briefed, broadened, budgeted, built
Calculated, chaired, changed ,charted, coached, combined, communicated, compiled, completed, composed, computed, conceived,
conceptualized, concluded, conducted, consolidated, constructed, consulted, contracted, controlled, converted, convinced,
coordinated, corrected, counseled, created, cultivated, cut
Debugged, decreased, defined, delegated, delivered, demonstrated, designated, designed, detected, determined, developed, devised,
diagnosed, directed, discovered, dispatched, distributed, doubled, drafted
Earned, edited, effected, elicited, eliminated, empowered, endorsed, engineered, enhanced, enlarged, enlisted, ensured, entered,
established, estimated, evaluated, examined, exceeded, executed, expanded, expedited, explained, explored, expressed, extended
Filed, filled, financed, flagged, focused, forecast, formulated, found, founded
Gathered, generated, granted, guided
Halved, handled, headed, helped, hired
Identified, ignited, implemented, improved, incorporated, increased, indexed, influenced, initiated, innovated, inspected, installed,
instituted, instructed, insured, interpreted, interviewed, introduced, invented, inventoried, invested, investigated, issued
Joined, justified
Kept
Launched, learned, leased, lectured, led, licensed, lobbied
Maintained, managed, manufactured, matched, measured, mediated, met, modified, monitored, motivated, moved
Named, navigated, negotiated
Obtained, opened, operated, ordered, organized, overhauled, oversaw
Participated, patented, perceived, performed, persuaded, placed, planned, posted, prepared, presented, presided, processed, procured,
produced, proficient, programmed, prohibited, projected, promoted, proposed, provided, published, purchased, pursued
Qualified, quantified, questioned
Raised, ranked, rated, received, recognized, recommended, reconciled, recorded, recruited, redesigned, reduced, referred, regulated,
rehabilitated, reorganized, repaired, replaced, replied, reported, represented, rescued, researched, resolved, responded, restored,
revamped, reviewed, revised
Saved, scheduled, screened, selected, served, serviced, shaped, shared, showed, simplified, sold, solved, sorted, sought, sparked,
spoke, staffed, started, steered, streamlined, strengthened, stressed, stretched, structured, studied, submitted,
substituted ,succeeded, suggested, summarized, superseded, supervised, supplied, surveyed, systematized
Tackled, targeted, taught, terminated, tested, toured, traced, tracked, traded, trained, transcribed, transferred, transformed, translated,
transported, traveled, treated, trimmed, tripled, turned, tutored
Uncovered, understood, understudied, unified, unraveled, updated, upgraded, utilized
Vended, verbalized, verified, visited
Waged, weighed, widened, won, worked, wrote

89. Personal contact information
Objective
Education
Experience
Awards/Achievements/ Honors and
Distinctions
Activities/ Membership and
Organizations
Skills
References
Most Résumés Contain