internship

Task 2: Resume Template & Resume Building

Hala Bugrais

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Internship II

Dr. Zeina Nehma & Ms. Rupali Bhagat

May 10, 2020

Resume Template, Resume tips & Interview tips

What is a Resume?

A Resume is like your life’s portfolio. Its a document that can range from 2-10pages long created by person to show their background, skills & accomplishments throughout their lives. A resume is used in various reasons but the most used for is securing a Job or even an internship. Companies will always ask for your resume before employing you to see if your fit for the job. It’s important that you show them that you can stand our from the rest who are applying for the same job.

Important Resume tips

The first step, is to write your resume with the right structure & the right font which is mostly used with Georgia or Times New Roman with a font size of 12.

Have your name in a larger text in the title and your person contact information (Name, phone number, home address & email).

At the beginning of your resume you want to have a brief description about yourself. You don’t want to write your whole life story but you’d want to have useful information that make you even more fit to the job like important working personality traits (Hard worker, leader, etc.).

Next, you’d want to have a list of your professional experience whether you did past jobs or worked in internships and volunteering. An important tip is to have your job title first, company name, start & date. Then you’d want to put a really brief description about the job and what you did maximum of 2-3 sentences.

Next, you want to put a list of your skills at least six and really important ones you’d think would give you a boost to be chosen. You can add for example language skills, presentation skills or even computer skills.

Lastly, you need to ad a reference list or just add “Provided upon request” and whatever they want a reference for they’ll contact you.

Below I have added a great example of a resume:

Interview tips

The first tip, Is to make sure you know all the important information about the company before hand. This helps you to achieve a better interview since you have a better input just in case they ask any questions regarding the company.

Clarify your points on why you want this job and what you could do it improve or keep the company going and not slow it down. Also, include to what makes you the best candidate to be chosen to work there.

Anticipate concerns and reservations. Show your interviewer that whatever their concern is you could set up a defense to show them that even though their are some things your not fit for but your willing to work for it.

Always prepare your answers before you get asked the questions. Anticipate what questions your interviewer would ask you and be ready for the answer instead of taking a while to think of one.

Always practice how you will present yourself and how you could show a confident front. Also, speak up and don’t mumble and make sure to never go off topic.

Get on the same side of the interviewer. Show them how much your willing to put effort into the company the same why your interviewer feels about the company.

Be assertive and take responsibility. You should polite but at the same time show your interviewer that you knows your selling points. Don’t just answer to each question like a robot, but put your personality to it.

Lastly, close on a positive note. Make sure you end with a big impression so your interviewer will remember your name when picking who the best candidate is.