Creating a Résumé in Family Connection 10 th Grade: Resumes

Review You should now have a completed résumé worksheet which has all the information you need to create your résumé. What are the major parts of your résumé? What are parts on the résumé worksheet that were easy to complete? – Which parts were more challenging?

Objectives Learn how to create a résumé in Family Connection Complete a résumé! Learn how to write your objective. Learn how to tailor your résumé to a specific job, college, or scholarship

Click on the “About Me” tab Résumés in Family Connection

Click on “Resume” Résumés in Family Connection

Click on “Add a New Entry” Résumés in Family Connection

Choose the part of the resume you’d like to start with Let’s start with education. Résumés in Family Connection

Add your school, location, current grade level, and other information Résumés in Family Connection When you’ve filled in this information, click “add to resume” and then choose a new heading from the drop-down menu. Let’s go to “Work Experience”

Résumés in Family Connection

Volunteer Service

Activities

Skills

Awards/Honors

References

Work Time Spend some time working in Family Connection to get information form your resume worksheet to the online resume.

Your Objective Objective = what you are trying to accomplish – Examples: To get a job as an office assistant To get an academic scholarship To be accepted into the University of Minnesota Discover your objective – What is a job or a scholarship you may be applying for soon? – Write an objective for that job or scholarship.

Your Objective Add your objective to the résumé If you include more than one, you can pick and choose which you want to be printed on your resume at a later time.

Tailoring Your Resume You have pages of information about yourself, but you have to cut it down to 1-2 pages The information you choose to include on your résumé should match the objective you’ve set for the résumé. – Example: I’m applying for a job as an office assistant. It’s important that I include my education,

Tailoring Your Résumé in FC In Family Connection, you can click on the information you want to be included on your resume. Click on “Customize Your Printable Resumes”

Tailoring Your Résumé in FC Click on “create a new print format”

Tailoring Your Résumé in FC Choose the format you like best. Click on the boxes next to headings and information you want to include on the resume. Name the resume to remind you which position this resume is for.

Tailor Your Résumé Create a custom printable résumé that fits with the objective of your choosing and save that résumé. – When needed, you can print the resume to submit to a prospective employer, donor, or admissions representative.

Assignment Complete your online résumé in Family Connection by the next class. Print a copy of the résumé with your objective at the top.

Looking Ahead Next class you will have the opportunity to review your peer’s résumés and get feedback on your own. We’ll also spend some time discussing how to build your résumé.

References Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from us/images/ us/images/ Eduers.com. (2009). Resume Template. Retrieved from mplate.htm mplate.htm