For This Assignment You Will Do Three Things

Résumé Assignment

Overview

For this assignment you will do three things:

1. Go to the career center and see what sort of jobs or internships they have in a field you are interested in—write down at least five of those jobs. 2. Write a resume that will help you land a job that you researched. 3. Draft your resume so that it is letter perfect.

The résumé is, essentially, your calling card for any job you want to land. Our goal here is to make your writing on work in the 21st century count for something. To that end, you want to make sure that your résumé is absolutely perfect grammatically, well thought out, and beautiful to look at. Your résumé should be tailored to a particular type of job or internship in a particular field.

Process

Step One: Visit the Career Center (Located on campus in Bldg. 599)

Your first task is to visit the career center and search for five different internships or jobs. Print out or digitally save the descriptions of the internships or jobs, highlighting the requirements. Next, print out the company/school mission statements. Bring the highlighted internship descriptions and mission statements to class.

You MUST visit the career center.

The Internship Program at Career Services maintains two binders of employer internship information for local and out-of-the-area employers in addition to employer directories. Drop-in hours: Monday through Friday 8:30am-11:45am and 1pm-4:30pm.

Also see Gaucholink (https://ucsb-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php? au=&ck=) for an online list of jobs for UCSB students.

Step Two: Drafting

We will do two drafts of this piece, and you will have two very organized peer review sessions—as well as comments form me. Be sure to make good use of your peer review and my comments.

Step Three: Take the Résumé for a Drive

On this optional step, you can send out your resume (along with a cover letter) and see what sort of response you get. There is extra credit involved here, but the real reason to do this is to land a job or internship. Requirements

This is the one time that your grammar must be perfect—because if it is not, then your résumé is destined for the round file next to the reviewer’s desk. To that end, here are your requirements:

 Perfect spelling and grammar (although you can use incomplete sentences in a resume)  Inclusion of the following areas (you can include others): o Contact information o Objective o Education o Previous Experience o Honors and Awards  Length: one to two pages—not more or less  Drafts: You will create two drafts at least, and the final draft will be turned in on résumé paper

Resources

For this assignment, you really need to look at résumés and do the reading that I assigned. With a résumé it is vital to actually look at samples and write the résumé that best works for you. To that end, below are some online resources for you to look at. Also the career center has samples to look at, and I also have many sample résumés to view in my office.

Resume Reading:

 The Purdue OWL Readings: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/564/01

Resume Resources Online

 Sample Resumes: http://www.susanireland.com/resumeindex.htm  Monster.com Resumes: http://resume.monster.com/resume%5Fsamples/  Online Technical Writing: http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/resume.html

Due Dates

 Draft One: WEDNESDAY: 10-11-06  Final Draft: WEDNESDAY: 10-17-06