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Hey guys.
Graduated last year. Having a hard time finding a job. Worked at a restaurant for a few months in the meantime and later quit to try finding a job. I've had two callbacks since i left. Here's my resume.
Please if you could critique it. Tell my anything thats wrong. What to change. Font. Lining. Wording. Anything helps.
I'm leaning towards working in broadcasting and journalism. I dont know if the restaurant job is worthy of putting there, since its a nice title to have as manager but not relevant in the field.
Personally I think the layout is unappealing. Find a different template online. Remove the top paragraph, put Spanish in the skills section.
Also raise your GPA by .2, saying 3.0 sounds fake unless that's what you actually got, in which case keep adding digits like 3.0XX
>>17307482
way too much fucking text
>>17307495
Will do. I've been looking for a better template.
>>17307504
I literally just added that restaurant bit to see what it would look like. On paper this was about 1 1/3 pages. Will cut down.
>>17307504
this
You need a lot more white space, nobody will bother reading all of that.
In the 'Manager' section, you need better parallelism ..
* Maintained employee schedules
* Managed employee hiring and training
Keep it as short and sweet as possible and as parallel as possible..
In your lists, condense them all to single lines, not large sentences like you have. Your resume should be something that is easily read in less than a minute or two.
Contact info
Education
Professional Experience (experience that directly correlates to the job being applied for)
Related Experience (any extra stuff that has some transferable skills like customer service, team building)
Achievements (preferably in your field)
Skills (programs, language)
Professional Development (might not need this, but it looks good if you attend conferences and workshops to improve yourself)
I wouldn't even bother putting my GPA if it's less than 3.5.
> I wouldn't even bother putting my GPA if it's less than 3.5
this
>>17307482
OP here.
I made a new format for my resume. Took out the GPA. Cut down about half of the text. Added references. Added scholarships. Moved the Spanish to skills.
Any other thoughts on this?
>>17308032
I'm not one for an objective. They know why you're applying and what you're applying for. No one want to entertain your 2 sentence masterbation. But it does take up space.
>>17308069
Most places ask for a cover letter now so I have a general 'custom' format for each. I could take out the objective, and add another job, but it would be a completely irrelevant job.
>>17308032
Break the paragraphs into bullet points.
>>17308079
Put education first then follow with experience then related experience. Use bullet points.
References aren't usually given at this point because most references won't give out information if they hear you haven't been given an interview yet (some legal backlash). You can just state References available upon request.
