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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:59 pmIn this web (http://www.jobweb.com/resources/library ... _37_01.htm) I found advices like:
Matt Longino has read student resumes on college and university campuses throughout the nation. He has pored over pages of bond, vellum, and plain printer paper in hotel rooms, airports, and airplanes. He has seen faxed resumes, e-mailed resumes, and resumes posted on the Internet. Very little surprises him.
It’s much the same for Stephanie Calhoun and Seth Feit. Like Longino, they’re familiar with the ways students describe their skills and themselves. They know how to quickly scan paper and electronic documents, to pull out the ones they’d like to examine more closely, and to toss the others aside.
Longino, a college recruiter for GTE Corp. in Irving, Texas, says he looks at the education portion of a resume first.
“I look for the degree, the major, and the graduation date,” he says. “And, of course, the GPA. It’s kind of a lump sum of things that I look for.”
Calhoun, college relations manager at JC Penney Co. Inc. in Dallas, Texas, says she looks at the experience section first.
“I look to see if the student has retail experience,” she says, adding that she then checks out the graduation date and the GPA.
Feit, corporate staffing manager at America Online in Fairfax, Virginia, says he looks first for skills and experience.
All three recruiters agree that aside from containing the education, skills, and experience they seek, a resume needs to communicate those elements clearly and be free of glaring grammatical and spelling errors.
Matt Longino has read student resumes on college and university campuses throughout the nation. He has pored over pages of bond, vellum, and plain printer paper in hotel rooms, airports, and airplanes. He has seen faxed resumes, e-mailed resumes, and resumes posted on the Internet. Very little surprises him.
It’s much the same for Stephanie Calhoun and Seth Feit. Like Longino, they’re familiar with the ways students describe their skills and themselves. They know how to quickly scan paper and electronic documents, to pull out the ones they’d like to examine more closely, and to toss the others aside.
Longino, a college recruiter for GTE Corp. in Irving, Texas, says he looks at the education portion of a resume first.
“I look for the degree, the major, and the graduation date,” he says. “And, of course, the GPA. It’s kind of a lump sum of things that I look for.”
Calhoun, college relations manager at JC Penney Co. Inc. in Dallas, Texas, says she looks at the experience section first.
“I look to see if the student has retail experience,” she says, adding that she then checks out the graduation date and the GPA.
Feit, corporate staffing manager at America Online in Fairfax, Virginia, says he looks first for skills and experience.
All three recruiters agree that aside from containing the education, skills, and experience they seek, a resume needs to communicate those elements clearly and be free of glaring grammatical and spelling errors.