Assignment Overview
Résumé Content
Résumé Exercise
Résumé Format
Application Letter
Application Letter Exercise
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EDUCATION INFORMATION:
- Appears above experience if:
- You are still in school and applying for a Co-op position or internship
- You are just completing your education
- You have a degree that is required or particularly desirable for the job
- Lists most recent degree first (reverse chronological order)
- Always includes degree and major field of study, date of graduation (or "expected graduation date" if you are
still enrolled), school, city and state
- May list professional certifications, study abroad, titles of courses relevant to the job you are seeking,
minor courses of study or "concentrations," academic honors you earned (these may be listed in a separate section if
there are many of them), special skills (i.e. computer skills which may also be listed in a separate section), your
overall GPA and/or GPA in your major if it is higher. (IF you include GPA, always explain the system your GPA is based
on: 3.87/4.0. IF your GPA is below 3.0/4.0, you probably should not include it.)
- Does not list your high school
SAMPLES: RÉSUMÉ EDUCATION INFORMATION
Sample 1
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BS in Mechanical Engineering, May 1997
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Minor: Business Management
RELEVANT COURSES:
Thermodynamics
Engineering Graphics
Solid Mechanics |
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Strength of Mechanical Components
Properties of Engineering Materials
Dynamics of Machines |
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Operating Systems: UNIX, DOS, WINDOWS 95 and NT, Linux
Programs: AutoCAD, Cadence, Microsoft Office |
Sample 2
EDUCATION
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Master of Business Administration (Expected May 1998)
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC
GPA 3.5/4.0
Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude (1996)
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Major: Mechanical Engineering Minor: Business Management
GPA: 3.89 / 4.0; 4.0 in major |
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