Rsums & Job Calls

English 3304 Will Kurlinkus

Analyzing Job Calls

Do

you have the qualifications? What are they looking for? What are their core values? What active verbs do they use? How can you mimic their language (think sprezzatura)? Scan the rest of the website. What to highlight.

Analyzing Job Calls

http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?

jobid=118512301&WT.mc_n=Indeed_US&fr om=indeed http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH04/ats/careers/ requisition.jsp?org=SBCADVERTISING&cws =1&rid=134&source=Indeed http://k12jobspot.com/ohio-teachingjobs/467402?ref=indeed.com

Spin Activity

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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2 009/04/01/10-handy-tips-for-webdesign-cvs-and-resumes/

Smashing is a good place to look around at creative business documents, resumes, and web designs. Poke around it.

Top Rsum Tips

Uniformity

(headings, fonts, colors)

Specificity (Specific duties and Quantificationthe eye is Simplicity

drawn to numbers so think about putting important info next to numbers.)

(Brief, active, interesting sentences) Order (By Relevance, most important section for the job call goes first, internal info ordered chronologically) Perfection (no grammar or spelling mistakes) Simplicity Again (What Can Be Cut?) Grid (Readability) Printing (make sure you test out what it looks like in black and white in case the employer photocopies it)

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ANDREW W. LANE
Campus Address Permanent Address

201 Simpson Ave Apt # 617 Lexington, KY 40504 Cellular: (859) 229-8334 awlane0@uky.edu

951 Jones Rd. Walton, KY 41094 Home: (859) 356-6851

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a position in a computer science and/or mathematical environment in an industry. EDUCATION: Pursuing a BS in Mathematics/Computer Science (Double Major), University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Projected graduation Spring 2004. Completed 129 hours with cumulative GPA of 4.0. Currently enrolled with Engineering Standing in CS 405 Database Systems, CS 422 Numerical Solutions, CS 470 Operating Systems, MA 432 Applied Math, MA 433 Complex Variables. Transferred 12 hours from Northern Kentucky University with 4.00 GPA. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Simon Kenton High School in Independence, Kentucky with a weighted GPA of 4.73, ranked 1 of 256 students. COMPUTER SKILLS: Software Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage, Access), Visual Studio (Visual C++, Basic), HTML, Sybase. C ++, Visual Basic, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Perl programming languages. Database administration and web development experience. ACTIVITIES: As Captain of Academic Team, led high school to 3 consecutive state-tournaments berths. As National Honors Society member, assisted school in 2nd place state finish in quiz bowl. Varsity Letterman in Baseball. 5 th Place UK Student Programming Contest, 2003. HONORS AND AWARDS: Governors Scholar, National Merit Finalist, University of Kentucky National Merit Scholarship, Channel 9 (WCPO, Cincinnati) Student of the Week, National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Student (2003) WORK EXPERIENCE: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), research intern. Summer 2003, Gaithersburg, MD. Responsible for aiding in research and development of prototype quantum computer simulator in C++. Supervisor: Mr. Paul Black, (301) 975-4794. Pyramid Controls, Inc., co-op. Summer 2001 Summer 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio. Responsible for creating and maintaining source code and database administration used in warehouse and sortation management systems. Supervisor: Mr. Steve Kley, (513) 414-2355. University of Kentucky, tutor. Fall 2002 - current. Supplied tutoring in 100-level Mathematics Courses for the UK Math Department. Supervisor: Ms. Mary Liu, (859) 257-1476.

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Michael J. Dattilo
884 Marblehead Dr. - Lexington, KY 40509 - (859) 543-9307 - mjdatt0@uky.edu Career Objective Education Seeking a career as a software designer an d computer programmer with an emphasis on Web Design. Pursuing Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a Business Minor from University of Kentucky, May 2004. GPA: 3.47/4.0

Work Experience Teaching Assistant

o o o Responsible for teaching two sections of lab with freshman programmers. Available many hours a week to help beginning programmers with their problems. Work with other TA to grade exams, homework and programs as well as approving the criteria for each of these.

Employer: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, August 2003 Present Computing Infrastructure Co-op
o o o Developed and presented web-based applications including a management website, vendor support website and server information website based on WMI properties. Created a report format for documented problems, their causes and availability for managerial staff. Provided updates to operations staff on changes and assisted in individuals on using new functions of the change management system. change retrieval systems training

Employer: Ashland Inc, Lexington, KY, January 2002 August 2003 Freelance Developer
o o o Developed infrastructure of jeffmillerhomes.com. This site serves as an informational page for facts about Jeff Miller and the properties he has for sale. Currently the page is being hosted from my house on a server I designed and built. Developed requestsamples.com. This site is designed to take orders for samples from doctors and send those requests to sales representatives. Constructed an intranet and web application for Bluegrass Christian Camp to track campers registration and trained camp administrators on how to use the site. Developed a website for Christview Christian Church.

o Computer Skills

Computer Language Experience: ASP, Basic/Script, C/C++, SQL, Perl, SAS, Java/Script, JSP, PHP, HTML, XML, WMI, ADSI. Software experience: Visual Basic/ C++, SQL 2000, MSDE, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, X P, MS-DOS, Unix/Linux, Maple, AutoCad, Apache, IIS, Internet Explorer, Netscape. Honors and Awards Campbellsville High School Valedictorian; University of Kentucky Deans List Fall 2000, Spring 2003; National Fre shman Honor Society Alpha Lambda Delta; University of Kentucky Freshman Honor Society Phi Eta Sigma; Kentucky Education Excellence Scholarship. Activities Computer Science Representative for ACM, Christian Student Fellowship , Campus Crusade for Christ, Youth Group Le ader for middle and high school students at Christview Christian Church.

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Cover Letters/Letters of Application

Personal:

Specific to how you can work for that job. What can you bring? What have you done in the past that you can do in the future? How can you show you know about the company? Remember you language. Answers: Answer with specific details how you fit the qualifications the employer seeks in the job call. Enacts: How can you enact the info on your resume to benefit this new employer?

Introduction
Mention

call. What the specific title of the job youre applying to is. Any specific connection you have to that job (Do you know anyone working there? Do you have an in?) Your most important qualification for the job.

where you heard about the job

Body
Content:

Specific examples of how you fit their job. What you can give them. Answering how you fit what theyre calling for. Anything youve done in the past that will benefit them in the future. Specificity: Again, give quantifiable numbers, show things you improved. Build an image of you actively doing something. Style: Think about creative sentence structures that use semicolons, colons, dashes, etc., they toss in some quick interest. Also consider using a few interesting words, traveling out of the common a few times. Vary sentence length. Very Sentence openings. This is where you develop a little personality, an ethos.

Conclusion
Re-emphasize

qualifications Asks for interview or phone call Indicates when youre available for said interview Thanks the reader