Description of the video:
Hello, my name is
Rachel Gerber. I am the Associate
Director of specific populations with the Career
Development Center. And today we are
thrilled to be with the center for
veterans and military students
to present to you, translating your
military experience into a standout resume. And to present today this workshop is
Jan Van Dyke. He was one of our senior
assistant directors with loads of experience to share with you today. So welcome, Jan. Thank you, Rachel. Welcome to the
resume program. This program will give you a quick 30 minute overview of how to write a resume. And at the conclusion
of this video, you'll want to write
a first draft of your resume and then make an appointment
with a career coach. And the career coach will review your
resume with you. First of all, I
want to talk about three different
types of resumes. The first resume
you want to have is the everything you've
ever done resume. And that resume
can go on for many pages and you'll have that on
your hard drive. You'll be the
only person it sees that you want to have this everything
you've ever done resume multiple pages for two obvious reasons why you want to remember
everything you've done. And the other is
cut and paste parts of this resume
that you could use in future resumes. The second resume you
should be aware of is what I call it
template resume. The Kelley School
of Business, the O'Neill
Walther Center for career achievement of the College of Arts
and Sciences. They all have what I
call a template resume, sort of a format and
it's kind of structure. And then the third
resume I'm going to show you is a word. Resume is a
resume. Use Word. And I like to use word
because it helps you match your resume to the job or internship
description. You want to use where, because it gives you
the flexibility to move your headings
around the page. Template resumes, box two, and they don't give
you the flexibility to match your resume to the job or internship
description. So the first model
resume we're going to look at is Jodi Brooks. And this is a resume
that I really like a good model resume
and it was is on word. And you use Word. And that way you can move your headings around. The first, when you
look at this resume, your first reaction is, you're going to
see that it is. You can look at it
really quickly. You want the employer
to look at it. And in five to ten seconds and employer is
going to scan it. You want their first
impression to be, Wow, this is
really readable. I can read, this resume
is easier to read. I'm not a perfectionist, but when it comes to
writing a resume, I am a perfectionist
and you'll want to be a
perfectionist too. And I said I'd talk
about the resume. I'll talk about some
of my resume rules. And I will discuss these rules later in
the video and I'll have some handouts that
you can have as we go over my
resume roles. I want to point out that I'll be giving you
different advice and the different
career coaches will give you from the different career
centers will give you slightly different advice on writing a resume. But as we go
through this video, I'll show you where, where we're all
in agreement and where we might have
some differences. So let's first
of all critique. Kimberly walls resume. And when we do, you'll see at the top, you'll see that you
see the address. And that is this
first of all, her names in bold, and then her address and phone number
and so forth. We see that contact
information I put in 9 font. And it is very small. And I put it in very,
very small font. And and I put it in
cycle reverse pyramid. That's how it
disappears on the page. Then the rest
of the resume, looking at a journey
Brooks resume. We want to go back
to Jodi Brooks resume and you'll see that it has an objective. Now the objective, you may or may not have
that on a resume. Usually don't have
it on a resume. When you have a
cover letter, most times employers
will say send cover letter or letter
of application. In those cases you
don't use an objective. If they just
say send resume only and you're
doing this online, have a resume objective that's very specific
and to the point. So seeking a summer
internship and public relations,
utilizing three skills, that's a good
format to use it short and sweet
to the point. Your education section. Headings. The headings
are in capital I, capital letters and bold. Your name should
be bold as well. Your name, you want
to be a little larger than your headings. Education, you can
use that format. Indiana University common, Bloomington common
Indiana comma, May and the year you're
going to graduate. I like to avoid abbreviations
whenever you can. And so we spell
out Indiana, major colon
telecommunications minor calling, marketing. And now usually
we just have GPA. Your GPA is 3. You put it on most
career coaches will say 3 and all where we put on our cumulative grade
point average. I will let you
put a 27, 28, or 29 grade point
average on your resume. Noticed Jody Brooks, her grade point average
a little higher and our majors so she put
her major GPA and are cumulative GPA
coursework usually you don't have
coursework on a resume. However, if you're
a science major or a computer
science major, you want to put
your job title or your course title's not your course numbers. Course titles put
them in columns. Now dirty Brooks, she was looking she's
looking for an internship and public relations as a junior. So she has some
advanced coursework and so she put it
on her resume. And so it helped matcher to the
job description. And we come
down, we look at work experience and we see Account Executive. Now I put my job title first and I put
it in italics. Then the name of
the employer, the city, the state,
and the years. Now if you can't get
it all on one line, I would move Account
Executive one space up and then bring over
Indiana daily student. It probably should
say Indiana daily student newspaper to make sure it's clear to the employer, is
reading this. The President with
the resume writers of America say
you can have a lowercase p
for president or a capital P
and present. Make sure your
action verbs, you see the action
verbs collaborate, manage, and provide. They're all in the present tense because you're
still doing the job. If you've done the
job in the past, make sure your
action verbs are in the past sense. In a few moments we'll
look at action verbs. You want to lead with
an action verb for your accomplishment
statement or your bullet point. The next heading we see is broadcast
advertising experience. And she worked
on a project. Notice. She did wasn't
paid for this job. So if you use the
heading work experience, everything under
that has to be in has to be paid. Paid work. If you just use the
word experienced, that could be a mixture of both paid and non-paid. We're, so now
what we're going to do is look at
the action verbs. So we're going to
look at page one. Later on we can
send to you, I have four pages
of action verbs. All the career centers on their websites will
have action verbs. Minor a little different
in that they're organized by subject area. So you see management
and leadership skills are
organized there. And then
communication skills. As you look at
the action verbs, you'll see manage,
scheduled, and hopefully
these action verbs will generate ideas for yourself and your
military experience, your military jobs. Oh, I've managed or I've expressed or explain, or these action
verbs will, will trigger skills
that you have already developed and you can put on a resume. So now, let's move on to our next
model resume, which is Kimberly wall
and Kimberly wolf. Now she put two
addresses at the top. Notice the addresses
or 9 font. The body of your,
your bullet points, your accomplishment
statements should be either in 10, 11, or 12 point font. All career coaches are in agreement
with that. I like to put my
addresses and 9 font because that makes
it disappear on the page a little bit. Now, Kimberly
wealth, but her address her
home address in Indianapolis cuz she was looking for a job
in Indianapolis. So it helped matcher
to the to the job. So it's up to you
if you want to put your both addresses
are just one address, whatever works best and helps match you
to the job. Noticed she has a nice
specific objective. Again, if you have
a cover letter, you don't need an
objective on a resume. Seeking a
full-time position and media corporate
environment with focus and Public Relations communication
or marketing. If you made a mistake there, there's a period. You don't have
any periods in resumes because these are soundbites are not
complete sentences. Education, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana. Bachelor of Arts major call an English minor,
colon marketing. I usually don't put the Bachelor of Arts degree on my resume until you actually graduate
or maybe your last semester at IU, you can put the degree, the Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts. You technically
have an earn that degree until
graduation day. So if it's on
there too soon, it's confusing
to the employer. When I look at that,
I would think, oh, you already
have the degree. So little little
confusing. Notice you use experience. So under experience,
she could mixin were paid and
non-paid jobs. She can have her
dates out there. I tend to like to
put mine dates after New York, New York. On this example, she put media relations intern
and she put that in bold because it help you wanted to the employer to see that it stands out. Usually I just
put my name and headings and bold
and that's all. You'll see. She skipped a space after her job title and
name a player. We just did that because
we had extra space. You usually would put your bullet
point rate under media relations in turn. Notice the first
accomplishment statement is what we call
a wraparound. Accomplish a statement
using a semicolon. So she has coordinated
entire weekly pass, press clips,
packet process, semicolon, handle
production or press kits for
trade shows, press and special events. Notice that wraps around, usually you would
go, we'll have ones. That one sentence will be your accomplishment
statement, starting with
an action verb. But you can have
a wrap around accomplishment statement and take up two sentences. And you see the
bullet points there. We come down
the internship opportunities
program in turn. And then we see consumer customer consumer relations
department. Now notice there's
just one bullet point under consumer
relations department. Some career
coaches say, well, you have to have two
bullets under each job. And I don't
agree with that. I always say one
out whatever helps match you to
the job description. So she put a lot of bullet points for her
work in the newspaper. That's great. She has seven
bullet points there because she's
matching herself to a job and
public relations and only one bullet under consumer relations department and
that's fine. Activities. It should be writer comma Indiana daily
student newspaper. Technically, there
should be a comma and then the years maybe 2019 to present the years that she did
those activities. The activities section can morph into
another heading, which might be
leadership experience. If you were president,
vice president, secretary treasure of a
student organization, then computer skills, we would put that
near the bottom. However, if you're a
computer science major that would go
after education, you can have two lines, proficient with colon and familiar with colon. Proficient with means. The first day on the
internship or job, you could do that and
handle that software. Familiar with,
maybe you're just familiar
with Photoshop. You would need
some help on the first day on the job. So now what we're
going to do is look at a template resume. So we've looked at
to the word resumes, this is the model
resumes, I lie. But you might
be required in your school to have a more of a template resume. But this is
what a template resume might look like. On the right side you
see a line that's just because for copying
from the cognition, a general Edwards, it has a line of strings
across the bottom. I don't like that, like my reverse pyramid
because it's blocking my eye from going down to the first heading, which is education. I don't like
the line under education that tends to make the I go
left to right. You want the employers? I dropping down the page. Notice on Jody Brooks and resume notice
how lined up it is. I like everything lined
up on the left side. Your iris left to
right and see that and Jody brooks could
have brought her resume over further
to the left side. Your margin should be a half an inch to an
inch on the left side. But she brought it
in, that's fine. But notice the margins
are all lined up. So going back to
Janelle Edwards, we'll see that she has Indiana
University and bold. I wouldn't put
that in bold. I would spell out Indiana, you'll say on all the
template resumes, you'll see the
month and year all the way on
the right side. I'm not a fan of that because it breaks
the employers. I all the way over
to the right. I want to keep that
further. All right. I would put the
month and date rate after Indiana
under education. The other thing
I don't like, my major is
good and minor, but GPAs all the way
at the end, see, I can't see that the first time I read
it, I've lost that. So put the GPA rate under the word nature
in that resume. Then internship experience
as a good heading. Oh, she's got good with
bullet points. Now. See they do they're
experienced differently
than than I do. I like to lead with
the job titles. But in turn, first, then Indiana
University Center for the Study
of Middle East. I would not bold
the employer. I think that's
distracting. I want the employer. I want this employer
thinking about what did I do and
then where I did it. What's great about
this resume are the accomplishment
statements and the bullet
points they lead with the action verbs. You design communicated. Again, I would leave with Founder president
Model United Nations and not bold Model
United Nations. We come down and again lead with
their leadership, president and Latin
honor society. Volunteer experience
is a fine heading. Again, I would just
put volunteer first Monroe County
Humane Association than volunteer builder, Habitat for Humanity, then additional work
experience. Technically,
that should just be work experience. And it would that mean she had a paid
job and so she buried her job
as a barista at Starbucks and
that's good. Put language skills. You could have a
separate heading that says language skills
if you wanted. And then computer
software at the bottom, just list those
so I assume she's proficient in those. So now what we want to do is switch to
accomplishment statements. This is the hardest
part of a resume and a right are
these bullet points. And the accomplishment
statements are, are somewhat
challenging in my years working
with veterans, you want to translate
your sort of military language into sort of civilian
English language. And this is where
you want to work with a career coach
and work on this. Now, your job titles not be kernel or
chief petty officer, but you're going to
have other job titles, but you get the idea, job title, name
of the employer, city-state, and
years you did it. And then notice, supervise
40 personnel while managing annual
expenditures in excess of 28 million, requiring the
interface of users, contractors, and
industry management. So you want to turn your military experience into civilian angulation. And this is hard
for everybody to write accomplishment
statements. But I know some of the terminology
you would use in the military may
not be familiar with their civilian
employers. So we want to sort
of work on that. See on your chief petty officer plan
and implemented a complex
communications plan involving naval
combatants. So you want to work on
your accomplishment. Statements are
bullet points. We scroll down and you
say here's some of the resume
headings you might use and the order
you might use them. Education will usually lead your first heading. I know a lot of
veterans will have various certifications
that you've earned in the military. So you can have
a section of certifications on
your education. If you have some
awards and honors, you can either call
it honors or awards that might come
third place. And then fourth
place would be your work experience. Some of the job
titles you have, you might need to
slightly change or tweak those resumes
like a billboard. When an employer
looks at it, they gotta
immediately know what it is you're
talking about. So now we're going
to switch to another handout looking
at resume headings. I call this my
resume worksheet. It just gives you
different headings that you could
use on a resume. And this will this will change depending
on your situation, your experience, and what the job or internship
looks like. So you may or may not have an objective
education. Study abroad. Study abroad can be in and in your education section. I like to have a separate section so it stands out. Awards that you've won,
coursework, again, science and computer
science majors will want to use
that lab skills for science majors. Related, experienced, professional experience
related skills, work experience,
campus activities. These are all possible headings you might use. Leadership experience, a volunteer activities,
volunteer experience, community service
certifications, special skills, computer skills,
professional memberships. If you're a member of a professional
association, like the American
Marketing Association on special projects
and languages. So these are all possible
headings who may or may not use and
include in a resume. I just wanted you to be familiar with your
different options there. Now we're going to look
at my resume rules, which are going to
be different from some other career coaches. And this one, the first, first page we looked at is formatting appropriate,
consistent fonts. And all employers are pretty all career coaches were all sort of an
agreement with this. Calibri is a
really clean look that a lot of career
coach his life. Your resume needs to
be one page and should match the job internship
or job description. They're all in agreement. It's one page. There are some rare exceptions and I will talk to you
one-on-one about that. But 99% of the time it's
one page Font Size. We're all in agreement
10 to 12 points for the body
of the resume, your accomplishment
statements, your margin should be aligned on the left side. How I like my
headings on the left, no lines on the resumes, no abbreviations
except if you're in a technical field or computer science
or the sciences. No periods, these are
not complete sentences. You know, grammar or
spelling mistakes. That's very,
very important. We're trying to have a
perfect document here, which makes writing
resumes part. Why do you want to
keep writing and rewriting and do
different drafts of it? Spacing is very important in your
accomplishment. Statements should
be single-spaced. Make sure it's 1 not 1.25. You should
double-space between each job and we're all in agreement with
that double-space between each section
of the resume. Your margin should be a half an inch to an inch, plenty of white space. When you go to
the career fairs, you can have more of
a general resume, but you also could do your research before you go to the career fair. And if you see a job, you're especially
interested in Eli Lilly, you can have an objective. And it could be two. Obtain an internship at Eli Lilly and
communications. And so it can be
very, very specific. But you also can have a general resume. I
wouldn't have those. You can buy ivory and
cream colored paper. You don't necessarily have to have it on white. That helps you stand
out a little bit. Regular paper is
20 pound weight. Resume quality papers,
24 pound weight. You can buy it at the
bookstore or FedEx. Again, I'm not a big
fan of templates and there's lots of them all over the internet. Use bold for all your
name and your headings. In the heading at the
top will be your name, middle name is optional, and then your phone
number, address. And we've talked about that professional
email address. Permanent address
is optional. And then we come
down education. We've discussed that we're pretty much in agreement 30 and over we put
it on the resume. Coursework is optional and include honors or awards. That can be a
separate section or it could be part of the education
section if you just set one
or two awards. And now we want to look
at the second page. Here we look at
experience and the positions are listed in reverse
chronological order, most recent to pass in all per coaches and
an agreement on that. Make sure under each
section of your resume, most recent past
job titles. I like my job titles
and italics, not bold. I like my job
titles first. And then include
the name of the organization,
city and state. Include dates
of employment. If you have to
abbreviate your minds, you can, but I try
to avoid that. Any abbreviations
slows the employer up, it slows out instantly. Take a millisecond
to translate that. Bullet point should
include examples of accomplishments and impacts of duties
performed, not just reiterating
the job requirements. Make sure your verb
tenses are consistent. Present tense
and past tense. We're definitely
an agreement, no personal pronouns, you never can use AI my, Are they in a when you write your
LinkedIn profile, you can use high
and in that format, but not in a resume. On do not say references available upon
request that the entity
resume everybody knows that you will have a separate or separate
reference list, a list of references in your career coach
and talk to you about the
format you want to use for your
reference list. And you would bring that
to a job interview. Sometimes they want
to in advanced when you're applying for an
internship or a job, start your sentences with strong action verbs and do not use responsible for. So I'm an exception. If you were responsible
for so much money, Let's say you
were a server at a restaurant
and you are responsible for
$1000 on each shift. You could put that
in your resume. That's fine. The
skill section, you'll want to have a
computer skill section which we've talked about. And you might have a
leadership it's section. If a leadership
experience section, if you're activities,
if you took a leadership role
in your activities. And again, there's
an example you could have a
heading that says professional memberships and you would just list the name of the
professional association. But they're National Career Development
Association, MCDA as an example of a professional
association. And you can join professional associations
at a student rate. And, and we can talk more with your career
coach about that. So this is a very
quick overview of how to write
your resume. Giving you some very
good models are writing a resume and some
good guidelines. So now you can
go ahead and write a first draft
of your resume and then come make an appointment with
your career coach. And we would be happy to review your resume with you and look it
over and help you, especially with the accomplishment
statements, to help you communicate
clearly and help you match your resume to the job or internship
description. Thank you very much for participating in our
resume program today.
