CollegeCandy – Life, Love & Style For The College Girl: Alright soon-to-be seniors, it’s that time! You’ve put in a good solid four years of studying, drinking, hangovers and hookups. Now it’s time to get serious and be an adult. Well maybe not entirely, but getting a job is definitely the first thing you will need to do to pay off your college loans or the debt you’ve incurred from all those late nights of drinking. The key to getting a job? Having a killer resume. The truth is you’re going to be competing with every graduate out there, the unemployed, and the experienced and your resume is what represents you. So you better make it good! Here’s a list of “to dos” that will make you stand out in the pile.
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I agree with a number of these points, but I also find a number of them slightly useless for theatrical resumes. While the suggestions to keep things concise, and to list your professional experience before your educational experience are good ones, things like listing fun facts aren't necessarily a good thing. Things like that need to be applicable to your field or to the job your applying for. Formatting is also a biggie when creating a resume. Your resume should be able to subtly show your personality, but also be clean and professional. And you should make sure everything you publish has no typos in it! Nothing makes you look sloppier or more unprofessional than paperwork with typos in it.
This is a pretty vague article. What profession is this for? The first tip this article gives seems a little cheesy. It is true that no one will read a resume that is more than a page, but I don't think anyone would spend more than fifteen seconds on a resume when they have a whole stack to go through, either. So why waste space with a line like “Resourceful forward-thinker and music lover, who is a team player and loves a challenge.” when you could be more concise and specific in a first line, such as stating a goal? Overall, this article doesn't have the best advice for creating resumes: it lacks specificity and information about the process of reading resumes, which affects how to write one.
Everyone has a different approach and opinion on resume making, every professor and every employer will tell you something different. Recently I was in a resume workshop with a production manager and human resources supervisor from a theatre, and each had wildly different comments on my paperwork as they each look for different things, the same was true when I later reviewed my resume again with the TD. This experience made me think, you never know who is going to see your resume first and in this situation you hope that an HR person will pass it along to the PM or TD and not ignore it because it doesn't fit the "office standard".
The only tip that struck me as odd/new/different in this article is the first. I've never seen anyone have a line of that sort about themselves on a resumé. It just seems awkward. Part of the awkwardness is that there are certain things that you shouldn't really say about yourself but should let other people compliment you on. One benefit I can see to using a sentence like this, though, is that maybe something in it will catch an employer's eye and cause them to call you or to have a more personal conversation with you. (i.e. If your sentence says you're resourceful, an employer might ask you to back that up with a story- which would give you the great opportunity to charm them and/or brag about yourself as long as you don't go overboard.) As far as the rest of the tips go, I think they are all great to keep in mind. I have already made a note for myself to make my resumé more specific.
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