Objective 15.

1: List eight key steps to ending the ideal opportunity in todays job
market.
1. How does writing the story of you help you plan your job search and cra
your resume?
1. It helps you focus your resume on your needs, rather than on the
employers.
2. It helps you think about where you want to go and how to present
yourself to target employers.
3. It allows you to avoid writing a traditional structured resume.
4. It helps you plan the speech you should make at the beginning of
every job interview.
2. ______________ _______________ ______________ is a measure of
how closely new employees meet a companys needs.
3. What is the rest step that employers usually take when they need to and
candidates to interview for a job opening?
1. They search online for personal websites and e-portfolios that
might contain information about potential candidates.
2. They look inside the company for likely candidates.
3. They post job openings on job boards such as Monster.com and
CareerBuilder.com.
4. They run ads in the local newspaper.
4. Which of these most accurately characterizes the respective approaches
that employers use to and new employees and employees use to and new
opportunities?
1. Employers and employees look in the same places, in the same
general sequence.
2. The respective approaches of employers and employees is
essentially opposite, with employers starting inside the rim and
gradually moving toward help wanted ads as a last resort and
employees starting with help wanted ads and moving in the other
direction.

c. Because websites are the only places that employers

now communicate news of job openings, the web is the only place
employees should look.
d. The approaches of employees and employers have nothing in
common.
5. Which of the following best describes the process of networking as it
applies to your career?
1. Making sure you are plugged into the online scene so that you
dont miss out on any new Internet developments
2. Making connections with a broad sphere of mutually bene cial
business contacts
3. Asking as many people as possible to alert you to interesting job
opportunities
4. Making sure you get to know everyone in your company
Shortly a era accepting a new position
6. If you dont yet have significant work experience but still
Want to become a valued network member, which of the following tactics
should you consider?
1. Limit your networking to people whose work experi- ence is similar
to yours so that you can share similar information.
2. Create a convenient, foldable, business-card-size ver- sion of your
resume that you can give to everyone you meet so they dont have
to carry a full-size copy of your resume.
3. Avoid networking until you have enough work experience to be
able to insider tips on the job market in your industry.
4. Research recent trends in the business world in order to have
interesting and useful information at younger tips whenever you
encounter people in your network.
Objective 15.2: Explain the process of planning your resume, including how to
choose the best resume organization.
7. A/an ______________ resume highlights employment experience, listing jobs in
reverse order from most recent to earliest.

8. A/an ______________ resume focuses on a persons particular skills and

competencies, without itemizing his or her job history.
9. A/an ______________ resume uses elements of both the chronological
and functional formats.
10.

Which of the following is an advantage of the chronological resume?

1. It helps employers easily locate necessary information.
2. It highlights your professional growth and career progress.
3. It emphasizes continuity and stability in your employment
background.
4. It performs all of these communication functions.

11.

Why are many employers suspicious of the functional resume?

1. It allows applicants to hide or downplay lengthy periods of
unemployment or a lack of career progress.
2. It doesnt scan into computer databases as effectively as other
resume formats.
3. It doesnt provide any information about education.
4. It encourages applicants to include accomplishments that were the
result of teamwork rather than individual e orts.

12.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the combination resume?

1. It is impossible to convert to scan able format.
2. It tends to be longer than other formats and can be repetitious.
3. It doesnt work for people who have extensive job experience.
4. The combination resume has no disadvantages.

Objective 15.3: Describe the tasks involved in writing your resume, and list the
major sections of a traditional resume.
13.

Which of the following sections should be included in any resume,

regardless of the format youve chosen?
1. Contact information, education, and work experience

2. Contact information, education, and personal references

3. Personal data, contact information, and education
4. Education, personal references, and career objectives
14.

Why do some experts recommend against using a career objective as

the introductory statement on your resume?
1. It can limit your possibilities as a candidate, particularly if you want
to be considered for a variety of positions.
2. It shows that youre selfish and thinking only about your own
success.
3. It shows that youre unrealistic, since no one can plan a career that
might last for 40 or 50 years.
4. It helps focus you as a candidate in the minds of potential
employers.

15.

How does a qualifications summary differ from a career summary?

1. They are identical.
2. Equalizations summary overs a brief view of your most important
skills and attributes, whereas a career summary is a recap of your
career progress.
3. No one uses a equalizations summary anymore, whereas career
summary is still popular.
4. The career summary is best for recent graduates, where the
equalizations summary is best for people with a decade or two of
experience.
16.
17. Which should come first on your resume, your education or
your work experience?
1. Education should come first.
2. Work experience should come first.
3. It depends on which is more meaningful to an employer,
given where you are in your career at this moment.

4. The best resumes today use a two-column format in which

education and work experience are listed side by side.
How much personal data should you put on a resume aimed at
U.S. employers?
5. You should list your age, marital status, and physical
handicaps that might require special accommodation.
6. You should list your age, marital status, a general
assessment of your health (without mentioning any special
problems), and religious affiliation.
7. You should not list any personal data on your resume.
8. You should not list anything related to health or nationality,
but you should list age, gender, and salary history
(Assuming youve had at least one full-time job).
Objective 15.4: Characterize the completing step for resumes,
including the six most common formats in which you can produce a
resume.
18. Which of the following best describes the level of quality you
should achieve when producing your resume?
a. With the advent of email and social networking, most companies
are much more relaxed about grammar, spelling, and other oldschool concerns, so dont sweat the details.
b. e typical recruiter in a major corporation sees so many resumes
on any given day that most errors pass by unnoticed.
c. Your resume needs to be perfect.
d. Your resume should reject your work habits, so if youre more of
a strategic thinker and dont worry about insignificant details,
make sure your resume rejects that.
19. Most resumes are now subjected to ______________
______________ in an applicant tracking system or other
database, in which a recruiter looks for resumes most likely to
match the requirements of a particular job
20. A/an ______________ ______________ version of your
resume has the same content as a traditional resume but has had

all the formatting removed so that it can be easily emailed or

copied into online forms.
21. Which of these is a significant advantage of online, multimedia, or social media resumes?
9. You can expand on the information contained in your basic
resume with links to projects, publications, screencasts,
online videos, course lists, social networking pro les, and
other elements.
10.

11.
12.

You can build up your resume over time and dont have to
worry about having every little detail in place when you
launch your job search.
You can use lots of color.
You can use the edibility of the web to provide
extensive details on your life history.

Answers
1-B
2 - quality of hire
3-B
4-B
5-B
6-D
7 - chronological
8 - functional
9 - combination
10 - D
11 - A
12 - B
13 - A
14 - A
15 - B
16 - C
17 - C
18 - C
19 - Keyword searches
20 - plain text
21 - a