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starmanbrand
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So, there she is. The ol' resume. I just wanted to toss this up here and see if anyone could provide some feedback on it because I'm going to start dipping my toes into the internship application process and don't want to get tossed out of the running because of a terrible resume.
Didn't include an objective because they seem to be out of favor and the cover letter does it anyhow.
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Also, re-write some of the skills listed, make it more personal, and why that is important.
"Strong written communication skills and experience delivering information to audiences."
"Comfortable presenting to large groups of diverse participants"
Edited to add: Apologize if I'm coming off short, it's early here, and caffeine isn't working.
Provide Accounting and Administrative Assistance for a privately own CPA Firm.
Task Includes:
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Also indent your bullet point 1 tab back inward.
That depends on how long you're been out of school. If you haven't been out long and have a strong GPA it's worth leaving at the top.
He's still in school.
For your extracuriculars either drop the descriptions or punch them up with things you did. If you were the logistics chair for a community service project put that. If you were the treasurer of Phi Kappa Phi even better. 'Access to professional online benefits' doesn't tell me anything about you. The focus should be on you and your accomplishments. No one is reading your resume to find out what the purpose of Scholars without Borders is.
You may have been given a task, but did you do it well?
I'll edit the descriptions to try to include more things about me and less wordy in the skills section.
As far as "education below experience," is this the norm even if there is a pretty big relevant employment gap? Last office job ended in dec08, worked somewhere not relevant until fall of 09 where I started school and haven't worked until present. I figured having the first thing on my resume be from two years ago would be a no no?
Extracurriculars is where I was having trouble. SWB and PKP are both honors societies where they invite you based on GPA, and after that all you really do is get emails that they send you, apply for special scholarships that are available to members, and that sort of thing. Should I just take out any excess information and just have it be club/join date since I don't think I would come up with anything that I did with them?
Thanks for the help so far. Still not positive if experience should go first when it was a couple years ago with no relevant work in between.
What are you going for? Cooking? CPA? Data entry? I cannot tell as it's a jumble and you have a bunch here and there. It seems to indicate a bit more towards accounting, but I'm not certain.
I think your skills section is entirely useless. I don't think it really adds anything about you at all. I can understand you don't want a short resume and all, but I think it's a waste of text.
The data entry and Experience with parts of your working Experience section say nothing. Woo! You've done data entry. List something notable you've done. I don't believe knowing QuickBooks or Excel is a rare skill any more, and it's just assumed you know it. You've spent nearly three years at JWW, surely you've done something.
Furthermore, the tense in that part is wrong. One line is past-tense, the next is present-tense. So, which is it? Did you do these things, or ARE you doing them now? It's confusing.
Is the Phi Kappa Phi just for online benefits? This part is confusing and seems worthless. I don't know what it does, not being familiar with it, other than give you 'benefits.' What EXACTLY do they do that's relevant to cooking or accounting? Why are you a member?
I guess overall you have a lot of stuff on your resume, but it doesn't actually say much.
And now, some links that may help you:
http://lifehacker.com/tag/resume/
http://lifehacker.com/5322493/avoid-these-phrases-to-keep-your-resume-relevant
http://lifehacker.com/5137212/six-words-you-should-drop-from-your-resume
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108853/10-resume-red-flags
Edit:
Of course, you post while I'm composing mine.
I like the first version of your extra-curricular activities better. I think a bit of explanation as to what each one does and why you'd be a member would help, because people aren't going to be familiar with them. I also think you need the dates. Of course, if I were you, I'd kinda extend the date I joined by a bit, because I would have joined in the earlier part of the year, naturally.....
I'm still leaving the rest there though, as I think the rest is entirely relevant.
Education can go above experience for recent grads.