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Resume Preparation

Resume Preparation . Sanford School of Public Policy. Timeline – On Track. Have registered for Career Link (for problems contact Nicole.Kubinsky@duke.edu and she will help you) Social networking sites are professional/neutral Duke email forwards to preferred email

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Resume Preparation

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  1. Resume Preparation Sanford School of Public Policy

  2. Timeline – On Track • Have registered for Career Link (for problems contact Nicole.Kubinsky@duke.edu and she will help you) • Social networking sites are professional/neutral • Duke email forwards to preferred email • Voicemail neutral and professional • Have met or have arranged a meeting with Sanford Career Services

  3. Why a one page resume? • Employer s do not read more than one page • Career Services uses in response to employer inquiries

  4. The purpose of your resume • To get an interview, which means you may have different formats for different policy areas • To feature your most relevant skills and experiences, which means you may have different formats for different policy areas In other words, your resume can be conceptual!

  5. NOT the purpose of your resume • Describing in detail every single thing you have ever done in your entire life

  6. What not to include in a resume • Work experiences and skills that you would rather not relive or use in an internship • Intangible /Unquantifiable skills with phrases like leadership and public speaking: save them for your cover letter • Lines with one word on them • Everything you have ever done • A long list of high school accomplishments • Publications unless you have space • These verbs: impacted, interfaced and liased • The word various; Excessive adverbs

  7. Resume Sections-Headings • Heading – Name and contact information If you are applying to a Senator or a Representative include your home address, otherwise Use a Header with three lines Your Name on the first line Duke e-mail address and then telephone # And use this same Header on your cover letter • Not too big or arty • Same font throughout your document

  8. Resume Sections—Education • Make it easy for the reader to determine what you have done in school • Put all your education stuff together (honors, study abroad, research, etc) • You will add proposed thesis and selected coursework in this section • If you are on financial aid, consider putting the following phrase at the end of your education section. Financing college expenses through grants, loans, fellowships and employment.

  9. Resume Sections—Experience • Reverse chronological order unless you have more than 7 years of work experience. If older positions are more relevant, make recent job descriptions shorter • Bullets, not paragraphs • Do you need more than one heading, such as Relevant Experience or International Experience? • How to show more than one position in the same organization • Make it clear exactly what you did

  10. Resume Sections—Leadership, Relevant Experience, Campus Involvement • Choose subject headings that highlight your strengths • If you work on campus your job should be with your campus involvement section rather than with work experience • Relevant experience can combine paid and unpaid experience that is pertinent to the organizations you are targeting • Can combine headings--- such as Leadership and Campus Involvement or Campus-Community Involvement

  11. Action VerbsHere are some action verbs to help you prepare your resume. Make sure your verbs are meaningful and tell the employer what you actually did or learned. Use past tense for previous positions, present tense for current ones. Simpler is better. Don’t use a complex word when a simple one will do.

  12. How to format your skills section Skills : Put at bottom and Use this format Computer: list your computer skills with the most impressive first Languages: use the State Department descriptors--- Basic, intermediate, proficient, fluent

  13. Common Resume Errors • Past tense verbs to describe on-going projects • Lumping all of your paid positions together because you got paid (see below) • Putting menial jobs that you got paid for in a section above meaningful involvement just because you got paid ------ • Not having someone else proof read • Formatting so that it’s hard for an employer to read • Using abbreviations that no one else knows • Using inconsistent formatting and punctuation • Putting one word on a single line

  14. What to Write When You Email Your Documents Dear Internship Coordinator: • I am applying for xyz position. • My ABC materials are attached. • Please do not hesitate to contact me if I need to provide additional information for my application. • Thank you for considering me for this internship. Sincerely, First name Last name

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