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Page 1: Your initial written contact with an employer. * Your initial written contact with your employer

Your initial written contact with an employer

*Resume

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*What is it?

*Your initial written contact with your employer

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*Required Information

*Education

*Work or Volunteer Experience

*Achievements

*Activities

*Skills

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*Error Free Resume

*Cotton Paper?

*Action Words – past tense verbs, usually ending in ed

*Managed, organized, sold, created, wrote

*Key Words – use the employer’s words

*Uniform Spaces

*Peer Editing

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmS0iD08Y4

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*Sample

*Education

* Crawford Invention Design Educational Academy– San Diego, CA

* Sept. 2010 to Present

*Work or Volunteer Experience

* Chollas Park Clean Up, Saturday September 24, 2010

* Volunteer, cleared trash from creek

* Habitat for Humanity, 2010-Present

* Volunteer, build houses for families who need them

*Achievements

* Earned a place on the principal’s honor roll, honored with fastest and most accurate keyboarding award for 2010

*Activities

* Blank club, September 2010 to Present

* Managed activities for the blank club

*Skills

* Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash

* Design and marketing for print, mobile and web technologies

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*High School Resume Template

*S:\IDEA\Cascia\GraphicDesign

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*Grading

*You will either earn 100 points on your resume or 0

*However, you can turn it in until it is completely correct = 100 pts

*A resume that has mistakes will NOT get you the job

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*Learning Reflection

*Your resume will count as your learning reflection for this class

*However, you must include all the skills you have learned in your list of skills

*Further, I want to hear your opinion regarding ways to improve the class, so email me any suggestions that you have including suggestions for new projects