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Can you put everything about yourself — your life story — on a single sheet of paper? You probably will have to do that at some point in your life.
A resume is a piece of paper that tells a prospective employer who you are, what you've done, and why they should hire you. If you want to get a job, you'll probably need a resume.
But an employer doesn't need to know absolutely all there is to know about you. They need to know that you have the skills, knowledge, and personality traits needed for a particular job. Can you pick out which of your many skills are most important for different positions? Can you present them in such a way that the prospective employer can quickly and easily evaluate your qualifications?
Task
Write your own resume. Put everything you have learned (in school, in extracurricular activities, in volunteer or paid jobs) into a few short paragraphs that would convince a prospective employer to hire you (or convince your teacher to promote you to the next higher grade).
Steps
First, decide what kind of job you seek. It could be a real job that interests you or simply the job of reaching the next grade level in school.
Write down everything you can think of about yourself. List every job you've ever done (real jobs, household chores, extra jobs at school such as hall monitor, line leader, or crossing guard). List your education — schools, grades, special classes (such as a basket weaving class or a karate class). List your extracurricular school activites (football, band, chess club, debate team). List your activities outside of school (camping, skateboarding, raising chickens). List any awards you've won, honors you have received, or special recognition.
Research resume writing... different types of resumes.
Using the Resume Checklist, list the major components of your resume. Mark out any components you wish to omit from your resume.
Write an objective for your resume.
Sketch out some rough ideas of how you want your resume to look.
Using MS Word, transfer your rough sketches to the computer.
Email your final design. (mrgolden.technology@yahoo.com)
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