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The Résumé and Curriculum Vitae Résumé (with two accent marks) and Curriculum Vitae (underscored or italicized to indicate it is a Latin phrase) Followup discussion and critique guidelines: February 23
Peter Hadorn's Instructions offers business and technical writing students long-standing sound advice about writing effective print résumés. Dr. Hadorn, formerly at VCU, is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Guide to Résumé Writing, a site about résumé writing and job searching in general, contains a sample of a web-based résumé you may want to take a look at. Another sample.
Curriculum Vitae from Student Employment Services at the University of Manitoba is part of a whole site on writing the c.v. and résumé. Example.
"Preparing Ideal Scannable Résumés" from Wheaton College Career Development Center includes tips for maximizing scannability and tips for maximizing hits, plus a list of employers using scannable resume technology. Electronic Résumés from Advanced Résumé Concepts Here is an example of a scannable résumé (sometimes called an ASCII résumé) and an example its traditional counterpart. "Guidelines for Creating a Scannable Résumé" from AT&T contains the standard advice. Career Magic This site is not really up to date (and it's also not very professional looking) but you can see how these job placement services on the Internet work. There is some useful information about cover letters, interviews, and scannable and other kinds of résumés. --ejc 1/19/99
Rebecca Smith's eRésumé and Resources A how-to resource for job seekers wanting to learn more about electronic résumés and job marketing. This site has been a dynamic, thorough, and reliable source over the last several years that I have checked on it. It contains step-by-step tutorial sections on ASCII, HTML, Web, Keyword, and Scannable Résumés, including instructions on how to post your résumé. It also has a list of online résumé and recruitment services. Be sure to read "Byte-able Résumés: Résumés that Computers Can Sink Their Teeth Into." This site also contains an extensive list of sites for viewing others' résumés. --ejc 1/19/99 "Trite but True: Seven Slogans to Live By" by Patricia Ericsson of Dakota State University: These slogans are meant to apply to Web design in general, but they apply to Web-based résumés as well: less is more, none is better, balance is the goal, the first impression is a lasting impression, every site needs a theme, take it easy on my eyes, and grammar, punctuation, and that kind of stuff always matter! Learn these slogans. --ejc 1/19/99
Research Career Profiles on the Web Andersen Consulting is a global management and technology consulting firm. This corporate site has an extensive interactive "career profiler" that you should work your way through. Andersen is expanding rapidly and is interested in taking applicants from VCU. --ejc 1/19/99 Lucent Technologies has a
college recruitment site from which you can apply
for a job by submitting your résumé online. Ditto for AT&T. Visit both sites; evaluate
these sites while you're there. --ejc 1/19/99 Interviewing CareerCity offers an extensive list of links having to do with all aspects of interviewing.
Resources for Job Hunters Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet. This Riley Guide is up to date. --ejc 1/19/99 Career and Employment Information (Ohio State). A comprehensive site. Peter Hadorn's Resources for Job Hunters (last updated 12/97 but worth checking out) Career Development on the World Wide Web. This site has not been updated since early 1997, but you should take a look at the first/second generation Web design, just so you'll know what earlier sites were like. --ejc 1/19/99 Resources for Employment Opportunities and Professional Schools. A regularly updated extensive list of resources, especially for academic and research kinds of careers. --ejc 1/19/9 Training.net, a site for training and development issues, has a link that allows you to look at recent résumés that have been submitted electronically. --ejc 2/2/99 JobSmart, a California site, has a section on Salary Surveys and a section on résumés with samples of various kinds. --2/2/99 Pubsnet Incorporated, a technical and business communications company. Posted here are job descriptions that may give you an idea of how contract writing works. --ejc 2/1/99
Graduate School from Wheaton College gives good advice about making decisions and the application process.
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