Job Fair's Next Week! Got Your Resume Ready?

Next Thursday, April 29, 2010, we'll be going for our first job fair of the year at Scarborough Civic Centre. So this week, we'll be focusing on interviews and resumes. If you've never done an interview or a resume in English, now's your chance!

First, the resume. How do you create one? Where do you put your qualifications, experience, skills, contact information, etc.? Is it helpful to include your photo, personal hobbies, family information, and references? What kind of sentence structures do you use? Do you write, "I designed this, programmed that, managed the other ..."? How many pages should I write?

Fortunately, there are samples and templates that we can use. Monday afternoon, our assignment is to create a professional resume (if possible; otherwise, a generic one will do) using Microsoft's job-specific resume templates. Be sure you watch this and two other youtube videos before typing out a resume:



Next:

1. Create a resume for yourself,
2. proofread and edit it,
3. print out one copy for your classmates to help proofread and edit, and 
4. email a copy to yourself for your records.
5. Then check the resume again and make any necessary corrections.
6. Upload the resume to your blog, Monster Board, and Workopolis.
7. You may print one copy of the corrected resume.

All the best on your job search!