Resumes play a vital role in applying for jobs, and building one can be intimidating. Thankfully, there are resources on campus to help students with their resumes, such as the Career Center and the Center for Professional Excellence (CPE).<\/p>\n
Butch Gardner, director of the (CPE), said that a resume is like a marketing tool or a movie trailer. Applicants are trying to quickly market themselves for whatever they are applying for.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tend to want to put everything that we\u2019ve ever done on a resume,\u201d Gardner said. \u201c(But) most professional hiring managers are not interested in what you did in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gardner also suggested students avoid putting pictures or personal information on resumes.<\/p>\n
\u201cContact information is the most personal you want to get,\u201d Gardner said. \u201cWhich is name, phone number, email address, and physical address.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brian Harrington, Director of the Center for Professional Excellence, said that an important tip on tweaking a resume is making sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery tiny little thing that you do wrong in a resume is just one little check mark against you,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n
Harrington said students with extracurricular activities on resumes set them apart. He said numbers also catch employers\u2019 eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncorporate numbers into your bullet points, because it represents a quantifiable result,\u201d Harrington said. \u201cA recruiter is going to stop and read a bullet point more likely if it has a number on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senior Braden Bowman recently took a senior seminar class for communications majors and learned about building resumes and cover letters.<\/p>\n
\u201cResearch your potential employer first and know what the business stands for,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cWhat kind of company you\u2019re hoping to work for depends on what your resume looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Career Center has free resume building software available online called Optimal Resume.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll you do is go and put your information in the space where the current information is and switch it out, and it becomes your document,\u201d Gardner said. \u201cI can tell right away when they\u2019ve used the Optimal, because my time spent on those resumes is going to be cut down.\u201d<\/p>\n
All Harding students and alumni also have free access to Handshake, a website where users can find jobs and schedule appointments with recruiters.<\/p>\n
For more information on resume building, email the Career Center at careercenter@harding.edu or the Center for Professional Excellence at cpe@harding.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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