Résumé Assignment

• Your task is to use InDesign to create two professional versions of your résumé. The only difference will be the changes your make to the styles you applied to your content.
   
• Put everything you have learned (in school, in extracurricular activities, in volunteer or paid jobs) into a few short paragraphs that would convince a prospective employer to hire you. 
   
• If you don't want to create a résumé for yourself, then create a résumé for a historical, fictional, famous, or literary character.
   
• IF you don't know what to include in a résumé, or what one should look like, do some Internet research or go to the career center for a booklet that will help you with this project.
   
• Areas or sections you probably want to include are: (Note: you might have other sections)
  • Name and contact information (address, phone, fax, email, web page address)
  • Objective or career goal
  • Education
  • Work experience or employment history
  • Volunteer experience
  • Membership or participation in various organizations, committees, clubs, teams, etc.
  • Accomplishments or Awards that you received special recognition for
  • Hobbies and interests
  • Skills related to the employment being seeked
  • References

Planning your content:

• First, decide what kind of “job” you are seeking. It could be a real job that interests you or simply the “job” of reaching the next grade level in school.
   
• Write down everything you can think of about yourself.
  • List every job you’ve ever done (real jobs, household chores, extra jobs at school such as hall monitor, line leader, or crossing guard).
  • List your education—schools, grades, special classes (such as a basket weaving class or a karate class).
  • List your extracurricular school activities (football, band, chess club, debate team).
  • List your activities outside of school (camping, skateboarding, raising chickens).
  • List any awards you’ve won, honors you have received, or special recognition. 

Tips for Success:

• Sketch out some rough ideas of how you want your résumé to look. 
• Write an objective for your résumé. Even if you do not plan to use a Job Objective in your résumé it will help you decide what information is needed and what can be safely omitted based on what you hope to achieve.
• Generally start with work history unless you have none, then start with educational background.
• Start with present or most recent experience (job or education) and work back.
• Include dates.
• Keep personal data to the minimum.
• Do not include your age.
• If hobbies or leisure activities enhance your image, consider using them. If they can be directly tied into your job objective, do use them.
• Do not tell why you left previous jobs (that discussion, if pertinent, is best covered in the job interview).
• Be honest.
• Brief is best. Try to keep your résumé to one page (front only) and not too crowded.
• Leave adequate margins (space around the edges).
• Proofread! Proofread! Proofread!
• Make the résumé pleasing to look at but don’t let it become so elaborate that its appearance overshadows the content. 

Steps or Procedures to Follow for First résumé:

• Enter plain text with little or no formatting. Do not choose fonts, style text (bold, underline, etc), modify size, or control alignment.
• Working with one section, format the document the way you want it. Formatting and style, alignment, tabs, bullets, indentation, rules above or below, etc.
• Try out different formats to fit your text. Edit your text to fit your layout. Experiment. 
• Create specific styles for the various components of your sections: section header, bulleted list, contact info, etc.
• Apply the styles to other sections of the document.

Steps or Procedures to Follow for Second résumé:

• Save a copy of your résumé (i.e yourname_résumé2)
• Change the various styles to create a totally new look.