Parents-resume question

SmithieandProud
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:49:48 +0000

With my resume I had two sections: “Experience” and then after that a section titled “Additional Background”. Experience was where I put the paying jobs I had had as well as any full time internships that were relevant. In Additional Background I chose two-three extracurricular activities that I did at college that were relevant to the job. In Experience, I put three or four short bullets listing my responsibilities for each job in as specific detail as possible. For additional background i just put one additional sentence explaining what I did. For example “Newspaper editor: supervised X number of reporters for campus weekly paper”. No more than that (by additional background i was running out of space anyway.

One note about extracurriculars, try to pick relevant ones only. Like if you’re applying for a job in politics, it’s great to note you were President of the Campus Reuplicans/Democrats/Independents/Greens. But don’t put down that you knit. Or that you were on the Quidditch team. I have read resumes where people listed that they enjoyed barbequeing and travel to new places. Don’t, don’t, don’t do that.