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Printable Job Application Form
| PERSONAL INFORMATION: First Name _____________________________ Middle Name ___________________________ Last Name _____________________________ Street Address_______________________________________________________ City, State, Zip Code_____________________________________________________ Phone Number(___)___________________________________ Are you eligible to work in the United States? Yes _______ No_______ Have you been convicted of a felony within the last five years? Yes_______ No_______ If yes, please explain: _________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ POSITION/AVAILABILITY: Position Applied For________________________________________ Days/Hours Available Monday ____ Tuesday ____ Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday ____ Saturday ____ Sunday ____ Hours Available: from _______ to ______ What date are you available to start work? ________________________________________ EDUCATION: Name and Address Of School - Degree/Diploma - Graduation Date _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Skills and Qualifications: Licenses, Skills, Training, Awards _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Present Or Last Position: Employer: _____________________________________________________ Address:______________________________________________________ Supervisor: ____________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Email: ________________________________ Position Title: _________________________ From: ______________ To: ______________ Responsibilities: ____________________________________________________ Salary: _______________ Reason for Leaving: ____________________________________________ =========== Previous Position: Employer: _____________________________________________________ Address:______________________________________________________ Supervisor: ____________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Email: ________________________________ Position Title: _________________________ From: ______________ To: ______________ Responsibilities: ___________________________________________________ Salary: _______________ Reason for Leaving: ____________________________________________ May We Contact Your Present Employer? Yes _____ No _____ References: Name/Title Address Phone _________________________________________________________________ Signature______________________________ Date__________________________________ |
Part 2. The Résumé.
A résumé is an individualized, written summary of your personal, educational, and experience qualifications. It is designed to present you as a prospective employee.
A resume is like a written sales presentation. It alone will not get you a job. However, an effective resume creates a favorable impression of you while presenting your abilities and experience. Your resume can be used as a response to an ad (with a good letter of introduction, or cover letter). It can be part of a direct-mail campaign. It can also be used as a letter of introduction for an interview or for friends or acquaintances who may discuss you with their employers. It is a fact sheet that tells a prospective employer that you are a desirable, prospective employee.
Planning your resume.
Remember that your resume is an individualized presentation of your qualifications for a particular job. This means that you might want to prepare a few different resumes, depending on the types of jobs you are applying for. Whether you are preparing one or several resumes, there are several steps to planning a resumes, there are several steps to planning a resume.
The first step is to select the information that you want to use. Ask yourself: “Which parts of my training and experience are related to the kind of job I want?” “Which parts, if any, are unrelated?” Give all necessary details about jobs you have had that relate to the job you want. Do not emphasize unrelated jobs.
Next, you must arrange the information you have selected. To catch an employer's attention, plan to list your best qualifications early in your resume. Ask yourself: “Is my work experience the most important part of my resume? Or, “Will a prospective employer be more interested in my education and training?”
You can organize the resume several ways: by job, by function, or by a combination of both. The job (or chronological) format lists jobs and experiences in the order they occurred. You should present the most recent job first, then the next most recent job and so on. The function (or skills) format is not a chronological listing of your jobs. It is a collection of specific examples of how you have demonstrated certain desirable, marketable skills. This format lets you emphasize your most important job skills.
Your resume should be detailed enough to give a prospective employer the information needed to assess your qualifications. But it should also be concise. A busy employer wants the important facts in as few words as possible. With the exception of a few kinds of jobs (for example, professors), resumes should be kept on one or two pages, if possible.
Identification. The first section should include your name, local address with zip code and telephone number with area code.
Work experience. Use English translations, whenever possible, for the names of schools and companies. It is understood that persons' names cannot be translated. Sometimes a brief description is better than a direct translation. For example:
Oscar Gomez y Compania
Ingenieros Consultores
Oscar Gomez and Associates
Consulting Engineers (better)
Ferretteria Garcia
Garcia Hardware (better)
Universidad de los Andes
University of the Andes (better)
SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje)
SENA (National Vocational Training Center) (better)
You can arrange your work in two ways. Choose the one that presents your work experience better. Organize it:
1. By job or chronologically: List each job separately (even if the jobs were within the same place), starting with the most recent one and working backward. For each job, list dates of employment, name and address (include city and country) of the business, position you held, job duties, and any special accomplishments.
2. By function: List the specific functions (fields of specialization or types of work, such as teaching/training, sales promotion, or personnel management) you performed that are related to the job you want. Then, briefly describe the work you have done in each of these fields, without breaking it down by jobs.
Education: (If this is your strongest point, put it before your work history). List your formal education, including: names and addresses (include city and country) of schools, dates, attends, degrees or certificates received, and your major subjects or areas of specialization. If you are a recent graduate, you may want to add extracurricular activities that related to the job you want.
Personal background and interests: If it is appropriate to the job you want, include information about your knowledge of foreign languages (include your native language and all other languages you know); volunteer or recreational activities; special skills, such as typing, shorthand, or the ability to operate special equipment; membership in professional organizations (translate titles, if necessary); and publications, inventions, or patents.
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| References | | | C. Work in groups. Look at these resumes. Write down your own resume. |