Experience

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.

Part 2

v Active vocabulary

o Study the following vocabulary items and collocations:

Reverse chronological order

Work-related skills

To create and adhere to a budget

To sell oneself short

Hard-charger

Go-getter

A new hire

To brand somebody as unoriginal

To use action verbs

An accomplishment statement

To bias somebody against someone

To shrink from the challenge

A powerful advantage

o Read the text. Do the comprehension check below:

Next, create an experience section that itemizes your work history in reverse chronological order. Don't worry if your only professional experience has been an unpaid internship and part-time or summer jobs. Include these positions, plus any volunteer or extracurricular activities that required work-related skills. For example, editing a campus newspaper will have given you experience managing a staff, meeting deadlines, creating and adhering to a budget - skills a prospective employer might appreciate.

For each listing, include the employer's name, your job title and employment dates. Also write a brief but detailed description of your duties and assignments. Since this is the heart of your resume, don't sell yourself short. Omit unconvincing laundry lists of your responsibilities and clichéd self-descriptions, such as "hard-charger" or "go-getter." Employers seek new hires with fresh ideas, and a poorly written, dull resume will brand you as unoriginal or lazy.

Describe not only what you did, but also what you accomplished, using such action verbs as "directed," "taught," "created," "entered" and "completed." These "accomplishment" statements differentiate you from the competition and supply evidence that you're qualified for an available job. To create emphasis, list them as a series of bullets, as shown in the accompanying resume.