Build Your Career | Session Outline 1. How to write a professional resume 2. How to search for a vacancy 3. How to impress your interviewees 1. How to write a professional resume | How to write a resume 1. Your full name 1. The middle, on the top of the page 2. Initials are CAPITAL 3. BIG FONT 2. Contact information 1. The middle, on the top of the page 2. Phone number 3. PROFESSIONAL e-mail
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Build Your Career
| Session Outline
1. How to write a professional resume
2. How to search for a vacancy
3. How to impress your interviewees
1. How to write a professional resume
| How to write a resume
1. Your full name
1. The middle, on the top of the page
2. Initials are CAPITAL
3. BIG FONT
2. Contact information
1. The middle, on the top of the page
2. Phone number
3. PROFESSIONAL e-mail
3. Photo
1. Personal
2. Professional
4. Objectives
1. Short & precise (one sentence)
2. Avoid plagiarized paragraphs
Ex: seeking an engineer position
5. Education
1. Most recent certificates first
2. Most important certificates first
3. Graduation year
4. No complete sentences
(Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 2015 graduate)
5. Ranks/ GPA/ Grades (Good and above)
6. School (latest and highest score if not a graduate
6. Skills
Personal skills:
Patient, persistent or working under stress.
Computer skills (be precise):
Excellent in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Photoshop or other software/hardware technical skills
Soft skills:
A team player, interpersonal skills, presentation skills, communication skills ...etc
Language skills:
Fluent in English
(no fair in French)
Be honest about what you can do.
They will disregard you if you are a liar.
7. Courses & Certificates
Courses and certificates RELATED to the position you are applying for
The most recent and the date
Which organization you got the certificate from
Name of trainer
Add courses audited from MOOC such as Harvardx, Coursera, Udemy (Autonomous learning)
8. Conferences & Events
Attendee or a speaker (especially if you did both)
Learn and gain experience from different sources.
Add a date, start with the most recent
Write a short description
Relate to the position
9. Experience
Add the jobs that lasted for more than 6 month
Write only the jobs related to the position.
Write most recent first, (start and end date), short description of the tasks you did
If you are a fresh grad. , add any volunteering work you did
10. Awards
If you have them, add this point.
If you don’t, then don’t add it.
If you have them: add date, reason for the award and from where you got it.
You can add any awards you got from volunteering work.
11. Interests
Add what you like to do in your free time
Write useful interests like reading, sports (doing sports not watching them on TV), learning
musical instruments or languages
NO WATCHING TV or any lazy activities
Do not lie…Do not embarrass yourself
THINGS NOT TO INCLUDE
1. Age
2. Marital status
3. Height, weight, etc
4. Race
5. Religion
6. Reasons for termination
7. Casual Photos
Don’t forget to
1. Choose a professional font in a size 11 or 12
2. Don’t use more than 2 fonts
3. Use Georgia, Arial
4. Header and the introduction to a section may be a size 14 or 16