WEX Student Handbook

Resumé Writing

Welcome

Grading Criteria

Writing Learning Objectives

Sample Learning Objectives

Self Evaluation

Resumé Writing

Summary - Schedule of Due Dates

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Form 1 (pdf)
Application

Form 2 (pdf)
Student
Agreement

Form 3 (pdf)
Learning
Objectives
Worksheet

Form 4 (pdf)
Performance
Agreement

Form 5 (pdf)
Time Card

Form 6 (pdf)
Program
Evaluation

Letter to
Employer
(pdf)

Education Agreement (pdf)
if you are unpaid

A resumé is a brief summary of your abilities, education, experience and skills. Its main task is to convince prospective employers to contact you. A resumé has one purpose: to get your foot in the door.

Resumés must do their work quickly. Employers or personnel officers may look through hundreds of applications and may spend only a few seconds reviewing your resumé. To get someone to look at it longer, your resumé must quickly convey that you are capable and competent enough to be worth interviewing. The more thoroughly you prepare your resumé now, the more likely it will be that someone will read it later.

Your resumé should:

highlight education (e.g., major, minor, relevant course work, work experience, honors)
summarize experience (e.g., paid, volunteer, internships)
emphasize skills and abilities
convince potential employers that you have the qualifications to do the job
be typed/printed and error free
be short and concise (preferably one page).

For more information on resumé writing, including a resumé writing guide, please go to Counseling Services, located on the third floor of Building Seven, Fremont campus.

Your resumé, including your work experience for this semester, is due to your instructor the on or before the last day of instruction for the semester.

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