Resume Assignment

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Resume Assignment

A resume provides employers with an overview of the qualifications, skillsets, and experiences an individual possess for a job and/or internship opportunity. It allows the candidate to highlight their educational background, interests, strengths, transferable skills, and qualifications that are unique to the position.

Creating a well-written resume allows the candidate to market themselves and to create a great first impression as employers review their application. It’s important to create a professional resume that represents the type of work an individual can produce for a company in the future by highlighting their expertise, experiences, and skillsets onto their resume.

For this assignment, students will be required to update their resume, which includes assessing their education, summary of qualification, experiences, honors/extracurricular activities, and additional sections if applicable (i.e. academic projects, volunteer/community service, coursework, conferences, etc.).

NOTE: Recommend for students to review the “Additional Student Resources” section below for additional resume materials to help you update your resume.

Additional Student Resources: • Review the Identifying Accomplishments PDF document to enhance your experience section. Students can access the PDF document by visiting the Career Services Website.

• View the Resume Guide for bullet point examples, resume tips, sample resumes, and referencing the action verb list to utilize when writing your bullet points.

• Visit the Career Services Website under the section “Resources, Guides, and Handouts” to view the Transferable Skills PDF document and the Resume Template.

• Recommend meeting with a Career Advisor to review your resume by visiting vanguard.joinhandshake.com to schedule an appointment

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Resume Rubric (20 pts)

Education Section

Excellent

Average

Unacceptable

-Emphasizes current Vanguard University Degree -Degree is spelled out with no abbreviations -Includes expected Graduation Date (i.e. Month and Year)

-Expected graduation date (i.e Month and/or Year) is omitted OR includes a range for their graduation date -Includes some information highlighting their education but uses some abbreviations (i.e. does not include the entire name of their degree (i.e. Bachelor of Arts/Science, city & state, name of institution)

-Does not include current Vanguard University Degree -Includes High School Degree -Does not include expected graduation date (i.e. Month and/or Year)

-Additional sections are relevant, wellorganized, and easy for the reader to understand -Additional sections include key information as applicable (i.e. position name, location, dates, bullet points, highlighting skillsets and strengths, etc.,)

-Some additional sections to some degree are somewhat well-organized and formatted appropriately -Some additional sections are relevant but is missing key information as applicable (i.e. position name, location, dates, bullet points, highlighting skillsets and strengths, etc.,)

-Additional sections are not concise, thorough, formatted appropriately and/or wellorganized -Information is written in paragraphs -Additional sections do not include key information as applicable (i.e. position name, location, dates, bullet points, highlighting skillsets and strengths, etc.,)

SCORE: 5 4 3 Additional Sections (i.e. academic projects, community service, Honors & Awards, etc.,)

SCORE: 5

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Experience Section

SCORE: 5

Average

Unacceptable

-Entries are in reverse chronological order -Organization name, position title, location, and dates are included -Uses a bullet point format -Uses the appropriate verb tense -Bullet point statements begin with a strong action verb -Avoids including personal pronouns (i.e. no “I” statements) -Bullet point statements are concise, direct, & indicate one’s impact/accomplishmen ts-Results are quantified

-Some entries are in reverse chronological order - Have a pattern of one type of error. Some information from entries are omitted (i.e. organization name, dates, position titles, and/or location -Some bullet point statements do not being with a strong action verb and/or have repeated action verbs -Some entries do not use the appropriate verb tense

-Entries are not in reverse chronological order -Entries do not include organization name, dates, position titles and/or location -Bullet point statements do not begin with a strong action verb -Uses personal pronouns (i.e. includes “I” statements) -Does not use the appropriate verb tense -Written in paragraph rather than bullet point format -Bullet point statements are not concise and/ or vaguely reflect one’s impact/ accomplishmentsResults are not quantified -Exceeds one page -Margins are less than ½ inch or more than 1 inch -Font style is hard to read -Text size is not between 10-12 pt. font -Uses paragraph formatting rather than bullet point formatting -Multiple spelling, grammar, and/or punctuation errors

4 3 Formatting & -Fills one page without Grammar overcrowding -Font style and size are readable -Formatting and spacing is consistent -Error-free spelling -Error free punctuation -Grammar is appropriate SCORE:

5

Excellent

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-Page appears crowded, but does not exceed one page -Formatting is inconsistent -Spacing is inconsistent -Contains 1-2 minor errors (grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling) -Has a pattern of a single error (i.e. some bullet points have periods & some do not)