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environment where people can be the best they can be.
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Essential tools of the trade
Good resumes should be concise, clean, readable
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer -
A resume might be the most
important piece of paper college
students ever will possess.
“A resume says to an employer,
‘Hire me,’ and gets you the inter
view, which, in turn, gets you the
job,” said Janet Ehlers, an assistant
director of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Career Services
Center.
When done right, a resume is a
marketing tool that sells a student to
potential employers.
But it must be done right, Ehlers
said, and she offered several tips.
First, students must determine
the type of r6sum6 they should cre
ate. Three styles of r6sum6s exist:
chronological, functional and com
bination.
The chronological style is the
most common choice among recent
college graduates, according to die
University of Nebraska 1998-99
Career Handbook.
It provides a description of
where students have worked and
what duties they accomplished on
the job. Work experience should be
listed in reverse chronological
order, with the most recent job first.
On the other hand, a functional
resume emphasizes what type of
work has been done, rather than
when and where it was done.
With this style, specific skills
and experiences obtained from a
variety of different places can be
highlighted and reinforced.
People changing careers or those
re-entering the work force after a
prolonged absence commonly use
this style.
The third type of r6sum6 is the
combination, which combines ele
ments from the two other types.
It provides an overview of the
job candidate’s skills at the begin
ning and then resorts to reverse
chronological style for the remain
der of the document.
Ehlers suggests students meet
with a Career Services Center coun
selor in order to determine which
type of resume best suits them.
“Ten counselors are on-call
every (weekday) from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. to accommodate whatever
career questions students may
have,” she said.
Regardless of which style of
r6sum6 students decide upon, they
should include several important
details.
First, they should use a variety
of past-tense action verbs in
describing their experiences.
Most people who read resumes
scan them quickly from left to right
and top to bottom, she said.
Therefore, the first words they read
should be powerful verbs that make
the candidate sound competent and
motivated.
Next, points of interest and con
versation-starters should be includ
ed in the resume, as these work to
set the tone and provide the employ
er with a memory of who the candi
date is.
A resume also must be clean,
concise and appealing to the eye,
representatives from two Lincoln
based employers said.
Heather Thomas, hiring coordi
nator for Sandhills Publishing, said
a r6sum6’s appearance is a factor in
hiring.
“Some people don’t format it
correctly,” she said. “There should
n’t be sentence breaks between lines
and page to page, and we also want
to see work experience, an objec
tive, an education, computer experi
ence and any activities or affilia
tions they had.”
Thomas added that candidates
should provide both a current and
permanent address, so contact is
possible at all times.
Lisa Knollenberg, a Union Bank
human resources generalist, agreed
that a resumes appearance is impor
tant. It should be clean, brief, short
and to the point, she said.
Sample r6sum6s are available in
the Career Services Center, 230
Nebraska Union.
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