Resume writing is part art and part science. Not too little information, and not too much. But more importantly, it is the most important first step to making a positive impression to hopefully help you land an interview and create a discussion about your background. The presentation was delivered March 21, 2018, at Humber College School of Applied Technology.

1. Resume Writing Mastery
SatoshiTakano, Professor, Humber College
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2. First thing to remember...
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3. The purpose of a resume is
get you an Interview
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4. A resume is a marketing
piece that presents you in
the best possible light.
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5. A resume is NOT an
application.
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6. A well-designed resume does
a number of things...
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7. 1. Paints a positive and
factual picture of you.
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8. 2. Guides the interviewer in
what to ask.
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9. 3. Influences others who
approve the hiring.
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10. 10 Steps to a Great Resume
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11. 1. Choose a JobTarget - A
JobTitle
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12. Focus: Employers don't
want a generic resume.
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13. They're looking for people
who know what they want.
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14. 2. Find out what skills and
experience are needed.
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15. Job descriptions or from Someone
working in the field.
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16. Visit someone who does that
kind of
work and ask them to tell you
about it.
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17. 3. List Your Strongest Skills
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18. Target Job: Customer
Service Representitive
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19. Relevant Skills:Verbal skills,
problem-solving skills,
computer skills and customer
care skills
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20. Target Job:Telecom
Engineer
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21. Relevant Skills: Infrastructure Design
and Architecture, problem-solving skills,
communications and presentation skills,
budgeting and planning skills
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22. 4.Accomplishments
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23. Job Objective:Telecom
engineer
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24. Accomplishment: Designed and
operated a network that was 50%
faster, while reducing costs by 50%
year-over-year
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25. 5.Write action statements
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26. What actions did you take to
solve the problem, and what
were the benefits?
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27. Example: Designed and
presented hour-long weekly
orientation
program; doubled ARPU
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28. Transformed a disorganized
warehouse into a smooth-
running
organization; saved
$250,000 in recovered
stock.
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29. Increased network efficiency by
50% year-over-year.
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30. 6. List past jobs
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31. List your most recent job first,
then your earlier jobs.
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32. Include ALL jobs IF you are
young and have very little
work experience
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33. Include ALL jobs that show
experience related to your job
objective
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34. Include unpaid work if it
helps to prove you have
skills and
experience or it fills in a
gap.
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35. Include unpaid work if it
helps to prove you have
skills and
experience or it fills in a
gap.
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36. Omit jobs that were very
brief UNLESS they are
needed
to show how you developed
your skills.
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37. Round all employment
dates to years.
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38. Eliminate the earliest jobs; go
back only 10-15 years
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39. If you are not working -
volunteer in your line of work
you are seeking.
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40. 7. List training and education
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41. Remove high school if you
have academic
credentials from college.
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42. Accounting Major, Humber
College, 1998-99
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43. If you completed a training
class, list the certificate you
earned.
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44. 8. Choose Resume Format
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45. Chronological - Arrange your
work experience by dates, with
the most recent first.
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46. Functional - work
experience is described by
emphasizing the
SKILLS involved.
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47. 9.Arrange your action statements
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48. Chronological - place
each action statement
under the appropriate
job title where the action
happened.
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49. Functional - place each
action statement under a
skill category.
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50. 10. Summarize your key
points at the top
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51. Include key
points that a new employer
will need to know and those
that will make you look
attractive and qualified for
the
new job.
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52. How much experience in
this line of work.
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53. Training or education in this
line of work.
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54. A special accomplishment or
recognition.
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55. Your key skills, talents,
special knowledge.
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56. Something about your
attitude or work ethics
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57. 11. BONUS
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58. Proofread for grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
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59. Resume Writing Mastery
SatoshiTakano, Professor, Humber College
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