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Creating a Career and
Designing Résumés
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Creating a Career
1950: Person spent career at one job
Now: Person changes career, job often
Process involves several steps
Determining right field
Deciding type of job you want
Identifying your skills and abilities
Researching companies
Designing an effective résumé
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Examine Your Goals & Interests
To choose right job, answer these
questions
Where do you want to live?
What courses interested you?
What career fields are growing?
What jobs or projects did you like?
What salary will you want or need?
What industries reflect your values?
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 Learn what courses, qualifications you will need
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Skills & Abilities Inventory (1 of 3)
List all your skills that employers
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People skills (interpersonal interaction)
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Visual illustration
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Skills & Abilities Inventory (2 of 3)
Compare your skills, abilities with
requirements of job you seek
Businesses look for solid fit between
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Job seekers and employers look for
long-term relationships
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Skills & Abilities Inventory (3 of 3)
If skills don’t match job you want—
Pursue different, more realistic position
Develop needed abilities through
courses, seminars, volunteer work
Identify 4 or 5 skills that match job
Write active description of results
achieved with each skill
May include in résumé or cover letter
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Designing Your Résumé
Main purpose: get you an interview
Highlight match between your background, specific job requirements
Emphasize your achievements
Use key words employers look for
How employers use résumés:
To screen out unqualified applicants
To see applicant’s attention to detail
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Résumé Styles (1 of 2)
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Résumé Styles (2 of 2)
Targeted – contains only information
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Résumé Content
Identification – top of page
Education
Accomplishments
Capabilities
Professional experience
References – separate page
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Résumé: Identification
Centered at top of page
Full name (bold, one font size larger)
Permanent address
Telephone number, e-mail address
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EDUCATION
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B.A. in Communication, May 2003
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Penn State at Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
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GPA: 3.2/4.0
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ProComm Team Award, Fall 2001
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Résumé: Education
Academic degrees earned
Major field of study
Date degree completed, expected
Grade point average (GPA)
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Résumé: Accomplishments
Beneficial results you achieved or
produced using your talent and skills
Frame message clearly, concisely,
and positively
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Résumé: Capabilities
Your strengths; areas of competence
Tells recruiters what you can do for
them
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Résumé:
Professional Experience (1 of 2)
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Includes all experiences relevant to job
Full-time and part-time work
Volunteer work and internships
Self-employment
Section contains this information
Name, address of employers
Dates of employment
Official or effective titles held
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Résumé: References
People familiar with your strengths,
abilities, and potential
List three to six on separate sheet
Ask their permission
Show them your résumé
Discuss points you want them to make
Name, title, and organization
Address and telephone number
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Common Résumé Problems
Accomplishments NOT identified
Overstated or fabricated qualifications
Too long and wordy; excessive details
Disorganized information
Errors in grammar, spelling, and typing
Too much I, me, and my
Obvious employment gaps
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Cover Letters
Brief, persuasive letter that goes with
résumé
Gives first impression of you as job
candidate
Can cause
résumé to be read—
or not
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What Cover Letters Do (1 of 2)
Describes what YOU can do
Responds to specific needs of job and
company
Explains-How your skills can benefit company
How your experience enables you to
fill job requirements
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What Cover Letters Do (2 of 2)
Sets you apart from other applicants
Shows your knowledge of and interest
in company
Displays your business communication
skills
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 Trade journals
• Get hiring manager’s
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Types of Cover Letters (1 of 4)
Solicited applications – sent in reply
to requests for résumé
Internal job posting (your company)
External job posting
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Types of Cover Letters (2 of 4)
In opening paragraph:
Use language in job posting to describe
your skills and strengths
In closing paragraph, ask for an
interview
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Types of Cover Letters (3 of 4)
Exploratory letter – request for an
informational meeting
Indicate interest in company and desire
to learn more
Note that résumé is enclosed for review
and discussion
Call soon to schedule informational
meeting
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Something More (1 of 5)
1. Browse these Internet job listings
Hot Jobs
JobTrak
Monster
2. Find job in your field; print the posting
3. Circle words to use in applying for job
4. Draft cover letter; include those words
Assume: You have a résumé and will
mail documents instead of posting online
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Something More (2 of 5)
1. Link to home page; then, to this page
Career Tools at Hot Jobs
Career Guide at JobTrak
Career Advice at Monster
2. List 3 to 5 tips for designing résumés
3. Combine 3 students’ lists: 10 to 12 tips
4. Transmit list to instructor with memo
5. Offer to give 5’ presentation in class
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Something More (3 of 5)
Visit a company’s Website (next slide)
Gather information about the company
Note name and title of hiring manager
or telephone number so you can ask
Draft a cover letter seeking an
exploratory meeting
Assume you designed a résumé
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Something More (5 of 5)
Using Dogpile portal, search this
keyword: networking
Narrow the search: You’re interested
in networking as a job seeker
As you visit several of the sites, make
two lists
5 networking suggestions
5 unanswered questions about it