<p>I’m working on my standard resume/CV for SIPA (MIA degree).</p>
<p>I’m working on the foreign travel section, and I have a couple questions. I have a main “Foreign Travel” heading, and subheadings for each country including dates, with travel experience listed in order starting with the most recent.</p>
<p>From there, under each country subheading, I mention what cities/places I traveled, and then proceed to highlight some of the main/interesting places/things I saw.</p>
<p>Is this appropriate, and what they are looking for? Most/all of my travel has been for sightseeing purposes, so a lot of it is just listing various famous attractions. </p>
<p>I’ve been to the border with North Korea, so my Korea section feels very solid describing the Joint Security Area and the DMZ, but at the same time the five weeks I spent traveling across Japan alone in 2007 and the resultant attraction sightseeing in thirteen cities is making for a drawn-out section that’s not nearly as interesting as the Korea section, and since there is so much (even just for highlights) I am just listing famous temples and stuff, without going into any detail about their significance. Is this ok?</p>
<p>What exactly are they looking for in terms of foreign travel?</p>
<p>Do they want to see what I’m doing, that being a listing of all countries/cities traveled to with some highlights in list format, or would they rather see much fewer highlights with a little more detail?</p>
<p>Come on guys, I’ve helped out several people via PM and made several posts in engineering threads to help other people (as that’s my background), but I’ve yet to receive any help in return, and I know there are a lot of people here who’ve applied to MA IR programs, Columbia and UCSD specifically, of which I’ve received no help.</p>
<p>First off, I’m not sure how much help you can realistically expect to receive in 24 hours. I just looked at the SIPA application and the standard resume portion made no mention of temples/what have you under the foreign travel section. They ask specifically for “purpose and length of stay”, which is what you should probably stick to, as I doubt listing temples/etc would add anything substantive to your application. You can certainly highlight visiting the DMZ, for instance, but an exhaustive list of attractions visited seems like overkill to me. Highlights would probably be more appropriate if you’d worked somewhere abroad.</p>
<p>That’s kind of what I’m thinking (highlights and the like), but I’m not sure since while it can work for extensive travel in Japan and seeing the DMZ type of stuff, it kind of makes it difficult to list traveling to Malaysia for example where my friend and I predominantly did the standard touristy stuff like seeing the Petronas Twin Towers (aka there aren’t really any highlights)…but at the same time I feel I should include all international travel. Working on it right now, but still not sure.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also on the note of working abroad, I’m doing that right now; up through now I have not been planning on putting that under the foreign travel section since I think it’s exhausted elsewhere in the resume, but should I knock it down a bit elsewhere in the resume and make the main entry for it under foreign travel?</p>
<p>list the country, date of travel, and purpose. if it’s working, list a little more. if it’s sight-seeing, list “sight-seeing” and nothing more.</p>
<p>your resume will be compared with people who have volunteered overseas, joined the peace corps, taught english somewhere, or something like that. think of what their resume would look like, and then put it next to one that lists all the tourist-y things you did while you were in malaysia. that wouldn’t fly.</p>