UPDATE: 24 JAN 2014

We will continue to workshop the student example of an "Experience" entry at the beginning of Monday's class session. Once we conclude the class-wide critique, I want you to conduct another peer-review of a peer's resume, focusing, specifically, on their "Experience" sections. Employ the same critical techniques on your peer's resume.

To this end, you'll need a complete rough draft of your resume. When doing so, it's a best practice not to separate paid positions (i.e. "Employment") from unpaid positions (i.e. "Volunteer" or "Service"). Grouping all your work-related activities under the general category of "Experience" will provide you, rhetorically, with a stronger document.

UPDATE: 22 JAN 2014

For tomorrow's class session, please bring a draft of one "Experience" entry (i.e. a job, internship, or volunteer position) for your resume.

When drafting the entry, make sure you to include the company, organization, or institution's name, it's location, the dates of your employment/service, and your position title.

When describing you duties and responsibilities, make sure you lead each bullet-pointed item with an strong "action word," followed by a specific duty that resulted in a particular outcome. As you compose these items, try to incorporate language from the job description and focus on the duties you performed that relate to the employer's job posting.

We will workshop and peer-review these entries during our class session.

UPDATE: 17 JAN 2014

For this coming week, I want you to read the following websites that deal with resume writing:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/719/1/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/631/01/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/719/06 

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumes/qt/profresume.htm

(Click through all the relevant links on this main page) 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Resume

After you read through these pages/sites, begin thinking about how you can create the best resume for your field, as well as a particular position. While you may be able to consider your field requirements generically, I want you to find a specific job posting to tailor your resume toward. To this end, find an opening for an internship or entry-level position that you could feasibly apply to in the near future. Jot down some notes and ideas (with the reading we've done and the job you've selected in mind) that would aid in the drafting of your resume. Bring a hard-copy of this job opening to class on Wednesday; likewise, make sure to download, copy-and-paste, or take a screen shot of the opening. Most of these ads will disappear once the position is filled, and you'll need to have recourse to it over the course of the next few weeks.