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Resume Advice

Gail Houston 2/08/2011

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In the ideal world

We wouldn’t need a resume

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Most of us, however, live in the real world

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The Disclaimer

100 recruiters 100 opinions

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Headings

Do not use short-term phone #’s or email address

School address?OK

But list perm first and use perm in resume database

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What your email says about you

Do’s • Keep it Professional

john.smith@yahoo.com• School address with lifetime

forwarding john.smith@university.edu• Skill related

johnsmithPMP@yahoo.com• Free email

john.smithPMP@yahoo.com• Buy your own domain

john.smith@johnsmith.com

Don’ts• Work email

john.smith@work.com• Service provider email

john.smith@verizon.net• Inappropriate address

dorksanddragons@yahoo.com hotmamma@yahoo.com• Shared emails

johnandjane@yahoo.com• Unmonitored emails

Ikeepforgetting@yahoo.com

Professional is key

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Your address please?

Recruiters do mile radius searches

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Focus / Summary

Don’t make me have to guess what you do

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EducationTexas A&M – B.A. in Marketing (do not include date) ExperiencedStanford – B.S. Computer Science, GPA 4.0 Expected 06/2012 Entry level& under special circumstancesMarcus High School, Flower Mound, Texas 2008 Entry levelAwarded Bank of America Distinguished Scholar of Liberal Arts National Merit Scholar, Distinguished Scholar Award

Expected graduation date or hours completed if recent grad

GPA listed if above a 3.0

Recent Grad – top, Experienced - bottom

List high school info only if significant awards & recent grad

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The meat of the resume situation-action-result

Results, not responsibilities

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How do I get a job without experience?Ask yourself• Do I have any career-related work experience – coop or internships?• Do I have non career-related work experience? What skills did I gain

from that job that are valuable to an employer?• Have I won any awards?• Do I have any leadership experience?• Do I have any volunteer experience?• What technical knowledge do I have?• Do I have foreign language skills?• Is there a hobby that might be relevant to my search?

Campus Recruiters want more than just high GPA’s

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Then createAwards• President’s Award for Academic Excellence – 2009• First Place, Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing - 2010Leadership

Alpha Kappa Psi - Vice President of Campus Relations 2009-2011– Expanded Essential Card (original entrepreneurial venture by AKPsi Pi Tau)Stanford Marketing Group, Lead Project Director 2008 – 2010– Directed marketing projects with Google and T-Mobile which were implemented in their 2010

marketing campaignsYouth Action Council of Denton County, President 2005 – 2008– Awarded Presidential Volunteer Service Award (annual national community service award) 6 times

Technical/Skills• Java, Python, C, PHP, HTML and CSS• Familiar with C++, MySQL, CSS, HTML, XML, JavaScriptSkills and Interest• Languages – Fluent in English and Spanish, learning Japanese and Swahili• Created three video documentaries highlighting poverty in America

Work experience is handled same as professional resume

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Above the fold

Easy to read

Key points listed early

Easy to see

success

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DO NOT INCLUDE• Personal information like marital status, children, height,

weight, religious or political affiliations• References available upon request• Unprofessional email addresses• Short-term emails, phone numbers • Abbreviations – don’t use “text” language• List “generic objectives” • Write in first person – No I or My• Use “responsible for” or “responsibilities included”• Graduation date – except Early Careers• Functional formats – use reverse chronological or hybrid

Highlight what is critical to the job you are applying to

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DO NOT LIE ON YOUR RESUME

No–Little white lies–Tall tales–Lies by omission

You will get caught. If not today, then

tomorrow - but you will be caught!

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Saving your resume

1” margins

Arial-Times Roman-Courier

10-12pt font

Layout Mode

100%

Use older version of Word

Remove “tracked changes”

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Posting your resume onlinePosting Text Resumes• No special characters• Left justify• Indent with spaces, not tabs• Hard break at end of each

line – no wrapping• Save file - plain text, RTF, or

ASCII text• Spell check, proof read

Posting HTML Resumes• Use simple text editor like

Notepad• Put tag at beginning and end

of your document• If you include hyperlink –

include the whole name – called the absolute http://www.intuitcareers.com

Keywords are critical no matter what format you use

Upload Word version if it is an option

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Understanding how resume search works

Contextualized search technology - software weighs keywords in the context of the whole resume. Contextualization goes deeper and examines factors such as how dated is a given set of skills and where in the applicant’s career path did they acquire experience in a subject area.

Semantic search technology – software that essentially counts keywords. Using a targeted keyword multiple times could be interpreted by the ATS as a positive resume for a certain position.

Overly formatted resumes embedded with pictures, graphics, bullets, tables and logos can be incompatible with most ATS software.

Keywords are king, no matter what technology is used

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Understanding job board search results

Give me a reason to click & load Word version if you can

What type of engineer?

Java Engineer!

What type of engineer?

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Understanding how recruiters search

In almost every resume searchKeywords, resume date, mileage search

Boolean

Date Searches

Mileage

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Tips for Sending Your Resume

Please attach your resume!Name, Position # in subject line

Spell Check, Proof Read, T-Cover Letter

Professional Voicemail

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Create your signature line

Renaming a HyperlinkCopy the URL you want to

rename – www.intuitcareers.com

Right click on the URLClick Edit HyperlinkText to Display (at the top) – this

is what you are naming your Hyperlink – in my case Intuit Careers

Address (at the bottom) – this should contain your URL address

Gail Houston∙ Senior Recruitergail_houston@intuit.comIntuit Careers ∙ 214.387.2000  Find Me on: LinkedIn ∙ Facebook∙ Twitter

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