Advanced (Level 3): Computer Assisted Language Learning

Supplementary Assignment: Resume

When you think about your future career and lifestyle, you must understand your skills, experience, interests, values, learning styles, etc. Something else that is important is communicating this information to prospective employers in your job search.

Probably the most widely used tool for this is the resume. The resume is often your first contact with a prospective employer, so it is very important to learn how to write one as effectively and professionally as possible. The goal of this assignment is to help you write a resume. To do this we will use the step-by-step procedure of an Internet site called "Resumania Online". It is important that you read the information and instructions on this site carefully. If you do, you will have a great resume at the end!

Please go to the following site:

http://www.umn.edu/ohr/ecep/resume

I recommend that you read the "Welcome to Resumania" and "Frequently Asked Questions" before you start the six steps. This will explain more about the site.

* You will be unable to save your work on-line. Please print the worksheets that you complete and keep these.

There are six steps on Resumania Online. These are meant to help you. Step 3 has six parts.
After completing each exercise, click on Process My Workbook Page.
Choose the format that you like and print each of these workbook pages for future reference.
You can copy and paste it onto a document file* (MS Word, WordPerfect, WordPad, etc), or you can type it later
If you copy and paste into a document file, you will have to adjust some settings (font, size of letters, bold, etc) after pasting.

*Do not forget to save this document frequently.

It is extremely important to edit your resume because it gives your first impression to a potential employer. A resume must have a professional appearance and the writing must be perfect.

Edit your resume. Steps 4, 5 and 6 will help you with this. By the end you should have a professional looking resume! Print it and hand it in to the teacher.