What to put on a resume

[ASTalumna06]

Have you just recently graduated? Or are you a senior graduating this year? If so, I would suggest you worry less about putting down every job you’ve had in the past few years, and worry more about playing up your educational experience. Employers understand that when you’re coming out of college, there’s a good chance that your work experience is not going to be one of your strong suits when selling yourself to them. When I was attempting to get a job with my original resume, it was extremely difficult. I was barely receiving any interviews, and I struggled to figure out what I was doing wrong. As an alumna, I went to the Career Development Center on campus and asked for help. They completely re-vamped my resume and showed me what to focus on. If your work experience is doing VERY little for you, don’t make it the focus of your resume. For myself, my education, special skills, extra-curriculars and awards became the main headings. At the bottom was “Other Experience” and under it was my work experience. And I simply wrote the last two jobs I had (summer jobs in between college classes), where they were located (city, state) and my position at each company. I didn’t give any details, because if they were going to ask me to show up for an interview, it wasn’t going to be because I worked at an amusement park for a few summers. If they asked about it in the interview, I played it up for all it was worth, but I knew that it wouldn’t help me at all to spotlight it on my resume.

If you’re a little more removed from your college experience, still use education as one of your main selling points, but include a little more with your work experience, also. When discussing your jobs, don’t focus on what you did there, but instead, create a bulleted list of all the skills you gained so that employers will be paying more attention to the positives that will potentially help you in your new position. It might seem ridiculous to put down interpersonal skills if you were, say.. a cashier. But it’s better to put that down than, “I checked people out and scanned their items.” It’s a challenge because you need to fill your resume, but not put down the most ridiculous skills that will do nothing except look like you’re trying to take up blank space.

[LowLite]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Have you just recently graduated? Or are you a senior graduating this year? .

No, I graduated 7 years ago. I'm almost 30, that's why this is so frustrating. My fiance is going on 29 and is already in her field.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by LowLite

I start working at Wendy's Monday.

Uhmm, you sound like a whiney, complaining loser.

Originally Posted by LowLite

I'm almost 30, .

And you flip burgers and deliver pizza?

ETA: I hope it's not too much to ask, but can I have a slice of pizza and a frosty?

[ta kala]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Uhmm, you sound like a whiney, complaining loser.


And you flip burgers and deliver pizza?

ETA: I hope it's not too much to ask, but can I have a slice of pizza and a frosty?

I hope you are being sarcastic, because what I have gotten from LowLite is frustration, not whining.

Sometimes good people have employment problems. I don't know LowLite's full story, but maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt before calling him a loser and mocking his job.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by ta kala

I hope you are being sarcastic, because what I have gotten from LowLite is frustration, not whining.

Sometimes good people have employment problems. I don't know LowLite's full story, but maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt before calling him a loser and mocking his job.

Some people are great at being "snarky."

Others are cheerfulgreek.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

Some people are great at being "snarky."

Others are cheerfulgreek.

LOL, no kidding, where did that come from?

To the OP, google "no experience resume" and read, read, read. There are a LOT of resources out there. Keep an eye on your local public library and community colleges, they may offer resume-building and/or interviewing technique classes. Do you or your girlfriend know anyone who works in HR or is she close with anyone in HR at her job? That would be a good person to run your resume by and do some practice interviewing.

And first things first, you need to lift your head up, stop being embarrassed and KNOW that you have something to offer a company. If you don't believe you're worth hiring, no employer will think so either. Good luck!

[LowLite]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

LOL, no kidding, where did that come from?

To the OP, google "no experience resume" and read, read, read. There are a LOT of resources out there. Keep an eye on your local public library and community colleges, they may offer resume-building and/or interviewing technique classes. Do you or your girlfriend know anyone who works in HR or is she close with anyone in HR at her job? That would be a good person to run your resume by and do some practice interviewing.

And first things first, you need to lift your head up, stop being embarrassed and KNOW that you have something to offer a company. If you don't believe you're worth hiring, no employer will think so either. Good luck!

nittanyalum, I haven't asked my fiance about her HR department, but I will. I didn't think about that. Thanks. But yeah, I'm just very frustrated right now, because it's just one dead end job after the other.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I hope it's not too much to ask, but can I have a slice of pizza and a frosty?

Damn. Seriously?

[LowLite]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Uhmm, you sound like a whiney, complaining loser.


And you flip burgers and deliver pizza?

ETA: I hope it's not too much to ask, but can I have a slice of pizza and a frosty?

Huh? You're the whiniest (if that is a word) most stuck up bitch on this whole message board. Yeah, I work for Wendy's and I deliver pizza. So what! Why do you have a problem with it?

And yeah, you can have a frosty, after I spit in it.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by ta kala

I hope you are being sarcastic, because what I have gotten from LowLite is frustration, not whining.

Sometimes good people have employment problems. I don't know LowLite's full story, but maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt before calling him a loser and mocking his job.

No, I meant what I said to him. I tried to offer him advice in another thread and his response to me was extremely rude, and for no reason whatsoever. I understand that some people are less fortunate than others, and I wasn't mocking his jobs for that reason. He said something to me in another thread that I thought was uncalled for before this one was started.

Originally Posted by Senusret I

Some people are great at being "snarky."


Others are cheerfulgreek.

I wasn't being snarky to him.

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Damn. Seriously?

Yes. He was rude to me, so I gave it back to him.

Originally Posted by LowLite

Huh? You're the whiniest (if that is a word) most stuck up bitch on this whole message board. Yeah, I work for Wendy's and I deliver pizza. So what! Why do you have a problem with it?

And yeah, you can have a frosty, after I spit in it.

First of all, I'm not a bitch!!! Secondly, I'm not stuck up!!! And third, I tried offering you advice about moving up into a management position with your pizza company. Instead of ignoring my post, you decided to make a rude remark to me for no reason at all, so what do you expect in return?!! LowLite, I don't have a problem with your jobs. It's YOUR life, not mine. But you didn't have to be rude to me, especially after I tried to help you. I already said if I was in your fiance's shoes, I wouldn't care where you worked, as long as it was an honest job.

Ya know, I'm not going to chat with you anymore, nor will I give you anymore advice in regards to your job search and I'm sorry for calling you a loser.

I hope you find something that makes you happy.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Ya know, I'm not going to chat with you anymore...

Congratulations, LowLite!

Originally Posted by LowLite

Yeah, I work for Wendy's and I deliver pizza. So what! Why do you have a problem with it?

Because her zoo-pals are tired of hearing her verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long ponderings on monkey genes and potential resources on Mars, and they've all started ignoring her. She's just jealous, so she's taking it out on intarweb folks to whom, in her mind, she's superior.

I would suggest putting her on ignore, but I haven't been able to make myself do it. Her faulty logic and naivety, although completely frustrating, are entertaining.

[preciousjeni]

cheerfulgreek is not very cheerful.

[LowLite]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Congratulations, LowLite!



Because her zoo-pals are tired of hearing her verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long ponderings on monkey genes and potential resources on Mars, and they've all started ignoring her. She's just jealous, so she's taking it out on intarweb folks to whom, in her mind, she's superior.

I would suggest putting her on ignore, but I haven't been able to make myself do it. Her faulty logic and naivety, although completely frustrating, are entertaining.

Haha!

I actually find some of her threads interesting, but what I don't like is how she insults other people based on their place of employment. I've seen it before. I went to school with a bunch of these. The ritzy, stuck up bitches who felt they were too good to talk to people who were less fortunate than they were. She comes off as one of those to me.