Résumé Writing

Resources

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/resume.html)

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Supporting & Related Pages and Sites:

University of Washington, Center For Career Services Web Résumé and Registration System
Krumme's Jobs Page

Internet Sites:

The Resume Place
Welcome to The Resume Place, Resume Writing Headquarters for federal, state and private industry jobs. You'll find tools and services for writing an outstanding resume that gets your interviews, jobs and more money. Your resume is your Number One Ticket to your future earnings, career satisfaction and personal happiness.

http://www.questcareer.com/tips.htm

The Riley Guide The Online Job Application: Preparing Your Résumé for the Internet.

From Purdue University's Excellent and Exhaustive Online Writing Lab:

How to Organize Your Résumé [Purdue University]
The Resume: Making it work for you [Purdue University]
Resume: Examples for Content [Purdue University]

Some advice on HTML, scannable, and formula résumés.

A Defective Résumé [The Resume Doctor]

Proven Résumés Career Center Sign Up To Win Free Résumé Critique Book or Booklet receive free monthly e-mail newsletter & chance to win free resume critique, book or booklet

WELCOME TO RESUMANIA! "So, You Want Some Resume Help... While Resumania won't actually write a resume for you, it will teach a lot about how to write a resume. However, before you catch a full-blown case of Resumania!, we recommend you click on some of these "Frequently Asked Questions". They are a good introduction to this web site. When you're ready to begin Resumania, scroll to the bottom of this screen and click on one of the six steps! You'll be on your way!"

Résumé Banks: On-line repositories of resumes to which you can submit your resume for prospective employers to search through.]

Career Change Resumes

Action Verbes Action verbs add life, punch and a sense of accomplishment and are especially important in resumes of career changing individuals.

Clippings:
Online resumes are taxing employers Seattle Times, Sept. 29, 2002, by T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune
When you shoot out e-mail risumis like spam, answering every online ad that sounds vaguely interesting, are you a job applicant or just an irritation? To many companies, it turns out, you're an expense.

Literature:
Gonyea, Wayne M., "KEYWORD RESUMES - YOUR NEW HI-TECH WAY TO GET A JOB!">
Kasser, Barbara. Using the Internet: Simple Solutions. Essential Skills. 4th ed., 1998. pp.286ff.
Kennedy, Joyce Laine, Electronic Résumé Revolution: HOW TO WRITE AN ELECTRONIC RESUME
Kennedy, Joyce Laine, Resumes for Dummies
Roth, Richard. Internship and Job-Hunting Guide For Geography Majors, Fifth edition, February, 1995. Published by the Department of Geography, 353550 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. [see Section Three: Geographers' Resumes: Résumé Writing Strategies and Sample Résumés]
Rebecca Smith, Tutorial: eRésumés 101

Past Activities:
May 22, 1997 Workshop

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2002 [econgeog@u.washington.edu]

Résumé Writing

Resources

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/resume.html)

May 22, 1997 Workshop

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2002 [econgeog@u.washington.edu]