Resume guidelines for college juniors and recent college graduates.

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Remix, Match and Tweak
Tailoring your Resume by Hosana Tekie

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The Easy Part
 Resume writing is skill that you will continue to grow
throughout your career. Taking time take now to establish
best practices will more than pay off down the road.
 Resumes are fluid document that will constantly change as
you apply for internships, graduate school, jobs, committees
and boards.
 You’ve learned the nuts and bolts through this program and
your advisors at the university.

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What Every Resume Should Have
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Well Organized Contact Information
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Sell Your Strongest Qualifications in a powerful Skills
Summary
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How to capture your relevant education credentials
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Work Experience with Focus on Skills and Achievements
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Core Job Qualifications

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Fits like a Glove

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 Internship Resume
 Here is a sample of a Communications Internship at Nationwide:
 http://www.columbusinternships.com/search/detail/2755-
marketing-communications-internship

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Tailoring 101
 Do a little research on the company
 Business first, company research, LinkedIn, networks.
Our vision is to be the trusted advocate for U.S. consumers and businesses by protecting what matters most and
building a secure financial future.
Our core values are at the heart of who we are as a company because, above all else, we focus first on people. Our
values are grounded in our mutual heritage and we live them every day.
We value people – Our biggest resource and our greatest asset in providing excellent service to our customers
are our people and the diversity of skill, talent and experience they offer.
We are customer-focused – We exist to serve our customers, and we strive to provide the very best personalized
experience to each one.
We act with honesty and integrity – We adhere to the highest ethical standards as we strive to do what is right
and fair for our customers and for each other.
We trust and respect each other – Valuing our differences and allowing each associate to express themselves in
order to work together toward our common goals make us stronger as a company.
Our performance values
We also have a set of values that influence how we work.
We have a bias for action and a passion for results
We act accountably
We value coaching and feedback
We work as one team
We have fun
We sell Nationwide in everything we do
Taken from: http://www.nationwide.com/careers/culture.jsp

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Who We Are
 Using wordle.net create a word cloud that generates a word
picture of each word based on how often the word appears in
their vision statement.

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Here is the Job Description
 You can do the same for the job description as well. This will
help you see if you’re the right fit for the company and the
job.

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Remix and Match
 You have a basic resume that will be your work horse
 Now as you have identified the following for this internship,
here are some of the word clouds help to uncover:
Key Values of the Company Key Descriptors for the Job
• Values • Communications
• Customers • Excel and Power Point
• Vision • New Developing
• Strive • Marketing
• Accountability • Task
• Performance • Research

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Edit, Edit and Edit some more…
 With these tools in hand its now time to remix and match
your skills, achievements and experiences to show the HR
personnel you’re the right candidate for this position.
 Round1, Round 2 and Round 3

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Version 1.0

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Version 2.0

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Tweaking
 Make sure your branding statement is clear, you have 5
seconds to catch their attention. Your passion should be
transparent here.
 What you did is more important than where you did it, so as
you arrange your experience keep that in mind
 If you have several seasonal internships you don’t need to
put the months, just put Fall Internship or whatever is
applicable for you.
 Now lets tweak it a bit more…

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Version 3.0

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Remixed
 Clear Branding statement. Check
 Endorsement of quality of work. Check
 If you have had a review or a compliment on your resume that
speaks to type of work you do, make sure it included.
 Skills and/or strengths
 Don’t leave the Human Resource person guessing, let them know.
Assesing the tools, computers and soft skills that you have gained
through your course work.
 Accomplishments
 Think about all those certificates that you have received. Been
invited to present or attend something prestigious because of
how amazing you are. Put it on there if it is pertinent to the job
your applying for.

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Tweak, Remix and Match
 Resume Writing is a skill, if you don’t use that muscle it will
eventual fail and keep you from opportunities
 Keep tweaking, remixing and matching