This document provides a seven-step career planning process and advice for resume building. It discusses exploring yourself and opportunities, setting goals, gaining experience, and knowing how to survive economic changes. Six steps for career success are identified: goals, networking, skills, requirements, entry points, and timing. Effective resumes are targeted marketing tools that highlight an applicant's skills, qualities, experiences and competence within 30 seconds. Common resume myths are addressed and steps for building an effective resume are outlined, including assessing qualifications, formatting, using action verbs, and ensuring brevity, readability and truthfulness.

1. Career Planning and Resume Building

2. Believe Belong Become

4. Explore the work

5. Make decisions and set goals

6. Plan Education

7. Obtain career experience

8. Conduct jobsearch or Plan for further study

10. Who--- network with people

11. How--- Learn the skills necessary

12. What--- Understand requirements

13. Where--- Find out points of entry

15. Where does the time go?

16. Choosing a career

18. Qualities

19. Experience

20. Process and outcomes

24. “I can use one standard resume for the rest of my life.”

25. “I’m too young, there’s nothing to put on a resume.”

28. Building the resume.

30. What are your Objectives?

31. Kind of job you are looking for and when you are available

32. What have you accomplished?

34. Ability to work with people

35. Responsibility

36. Judgment

37. Motivation to succeed

38. Work ethic

39. Intelligence

40. Creativity/enthusiasm

41. Communications skills

43. Building the Resume Personal Data Section Objective (Optional) Education Section Work Experience Activities and Honors Do Not List References

45. Name, address and phone number

46. Email

47. accessible after graduation.

48. Professional addressNOT: beerbongking@hotmail.com NOT: Slacker_35@sbcglobal.com NOT: needz_da_muney@zetzero.com

49. Personal Data Section Examples Example #1 Ima T. Aggie 1234 High St. 4321 West Way College Station, TX 77840 Houston, TX 77444 Home: (979) xxx-xxxx (281) xxx-xxxx Cell : (979) xxx-xxxx ita@tamu.edu Example #2 Ima T. Aggie 1234 High St. College Station, TX 77840 Home: (979) xxx-xxxx Cell : (979) xxx-xxxx ita@tamu.edu

50. Heading Examples DO DON’T

52. Apply to a specific position if possible

53. Stay off the soap box

54. Be conciseEg: CO-OP, Intern, Full-time? Operations, Business, Sales, Design, R&D, Consulting? CO-OPs and Interns – start date

58. List all work experience…within reason

59. Include accomplishments not just responsibilities

60. Have you been in the working world?

62. Student/Professional organizations

64. Scholarships,Dean’s List, etc.

65. Athletic groups

67. One personal, scholastic and professional

68. Be sure they’re still there and reachable

70. Avoid Personal Pronouns

71. Use action words

72. Show results

73. Reader Friendly

74. Avoiding common mistakes

75. Spelling and grammatical errors.

76. Formatting, fonts, length, paper quality.

77. Translate “Aggie speak” to business English

78. LIES

79. Too long

80. Be ready to back up anything on the resume

82. Use 8 ½ x11-inch paper

83. Use a font size of 10 to 14 points

84. Black ink only

85. Use non-decorative typefaces

86. Choose one typeface and stick to it

87. Avoid italics, script, and underlined words

88. No horizontal or vertical lines, graphics, or shading

89. Do not fold or staple your resume

92. A resume is a window

93. It’s a brochure about you

94. The 8 second test

95. Brevity and readabilityCongratulations! You Did It!

96. Activities and Honors Student/Professional organizations Leadership positions Scholarships,Dean’s List, etc. Foreign languages, international experiences References Do not list on resume Bring separate page when you are interviewed Present most marketable information first Use brief, descriptive phrases No personal pronouns Use action verbs to describe experiences and accomplishments Be Positive Be Truthful You Have the Right to Remain Silent