Chris Webner
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Resume for Local Scholarships or Pursuing a Job
Guidance goal is for seniors to create a basic resume that can be updated and used in the future, along with use in the school year spring as part of local scholarship application submissions (deadlines begin in last February and early March; local scholarship webpage).
A resume should motivate the reader to want to meet with the applicant, offer the applicant an interview, help the applicant, and/or personalize the applicant for the reader through common experiences.
Resume writers should be honest and look genuine with their content and format (so try not to copy particular phrases or resume styles of classmates - be original).
The purpose of this senior year resume is to assist students in obtaining letters of recommendation from current and past supervisors.
Resumes and recommendation letters are attached to most local scholarships.
PHS seniors have also used their senior resume in pursuit of job opportunities.
Enter prompted information of Xello's Resume Builder, save the resume file, upload it as prompted in Xello, and then print the resume (your resume is ready now for sharing with people as you approach them and ask for letters of recommendation)
When saving your resume on XELLO you have ability to save as:
".rtf" (Rich Text Format - allows file transfer between different application and operating systems, easy updating, or pasting into Google Doc or Word file)
".pdf" (Portable Document Format - requires a pdf editor application to make changes but is easy to share as file with others)
Information most valued by local scholarship resume readers, as shared to counselor, Chris Webner:
seasonal or part-time work experience; showing you want to take financial responsibility for yourself
free college courses completed during HS; showing you value saving money and a college education
Resume basics
"Good White Space" - refers to a resume on a white piece of paper that offers easy to read, headings and detail are separated per section visually by space on the page.
DO NOT write in an essay style with full sentences in paragraph form that demands content to be studied in order to search and find information.
Bold or Large Font Headings for Resume's Sections
Resume Sections - generally a resume reads, top of page to bottom, in this order, with most recent experiences listed first in descending order:
Your Full Name (Enlarged Font are in the first/top line), location (street address with apartment number, town, state, zip code are in the second line), and contact information (personal email and/or cell phone number are the third and/or fourth lines)
Objective statement: state the goal of the resume, or provide a summary of qualifications if directly relative to the type of job being pursued
It is the writer's choice to include the word "Objective" followed by a colon: or not.
Educational Institution(s), location, degree, certificate, or license stated, with date of completion, including notable accomplishments (such as a GPA, standardized test score, or completion of college courses during high school)
Only a college bound student would list their Education section of the resume before the Work Experience section of the resume. Whereas a regular resume written to obtain a job lists the Education section after, or lower on the page, than the Work Experience section.
Work experience section contains the name of position(s), past employer's names, location, dates of employment, each job contains a brief description of your duties using bulleted action verbs in an action statement, including notable successes or achievements of each job
Other relevant sections you can choose to include, or combine, as you believe describe you best:
Volunteer experiences
Awards, honors, achievements, titled positions such a student class treasurer
Memberships and/or Extracurricular Activities (stated by title and years participated)
