Building Your R é sum é

1. Building Your Résumé 10th Grade: Resumes Microsoft, 2011

2. Review • Discuss: • What is an objective on a résumé? • What is your objective? • What are some things you can do to tailor your résumé to your objective?

3. Pre-Test • What are 3 ways you can build your résumé and make yourself more marketable for jobs, scholarships, and colleges?

4. Objectives • Review peers résumés and offer feedback • Use feedback and peer review process to help you improve your own résumé • Learn why you should build up your résumé • Learn ways to build your résumé

5. Peer Review • Exchange résumés with a peer. • Complete the peer review form

6. After Peer Review • Pass back the author’s résumé with your feedback. • Read over the feedback • Use the feedback to improve your résumé in Family Connection

7. Discuss • What’s the purpose of the résumé? • What does it mean to “build” or enhance your résumé? • Why is it important to “build” your résumé?

8. Why Build Your Résumé? • It helps separate you from other potential candidates – makes you stand out • Colleges care • Employers care • It feels good to contribute meaningfully through work, volunteering, and participating in extra-curricular activities • It helps you continue to develop new skills and strengths

9. Ways to Build Your Résumé • Extracurricular activities • Volunteer experience • Work experience Microsoft, 2011

10. Think-Pair-Share • What are some opportunities available at this school to help enhance your résumé? • What volunteer opportunities may be available in your community? • What work opportunities may be available in your community? • What are some ways that you personally could enhance your résumé?

11. Post-Test • What are 3 ways you can build your résumé and make yourself more marketable for jobs, scholarships, and colleges?

12. Review • What are some ways you can build your résumé?

13. References • Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/