Assignment 5: Resume Revisions

To stand out from other applicants and be chosen for an interview, it is critical to have a professional, well-written resume. Creating a Career Ready resume can take several revisions – so to save time formatting and ensure consistency, utilize the Resume Builder which is a part of the Herzing University Career Center in Canvas. Below is feedback regarding the submitted resume for review. Please feel free to reach out for additional resume or career readiness support at any time.

Spelling and Grammar

|_| Correct spelling, punctuation and grammar

|_| Appropriate tense for current and past roles

|_| Familiar acronyms and abbreviations only

|_| Uses active verbs and no pronouns

· Make sure that anything with current education and experience uses present verb forms, and any past education or work experience is put in the past form

· When describing duties, responsibilities, or accomplishments, include action verbs such as implemented, directed, improved, etc.

Style and Format

|_| Experience is in reverse chronological order

|_| Professional email address

· Make sure to have month and year for every work or education highlight

· Herzing address is fine, make sure you keep active with it after graduation

Content

|_| Describes what was accomplished quantitatively vs. duties performed

|_| Includes university and expected degree

|_| Summary or Profile has 2-3 relevant sentences or 5-8 bullets

|_| Lists certifications, honors, awards, badges

· Include more of your accomplishments, accolades, and specific goals that you met or exceeded – what was unique that you did in addition to the standard duties and responsibilities

· At the beginning include a summary/objective with a brief statement that describes your professional background, skills, and why you are the best person for the position

· Make sure all dates including education points have the starting month and year as well as the anticipated graduation month and year

Other

· Work experience isn’t the same as professional experience! Professional experience is more in-line with what you want to do for your career

· The resume builder is a great tool for getting started, but we need to add a lot more to make your resume proficient. Formatting is ok, but needs to be more uniform and cleaned up. More details can be added for your experiences. Let’s connect in the next few weeks to make your resume move up a few quality notches!

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.