How Your Resume will be Graded:
Many things on a resume are objective (cut and dried, right or wrong). Because leaving these mistakes on a resume will result in an employer throwing away your resume 99.9% of the time (or greatly reduce the chances of your resume being read in detail), we will take off points for these items. These items are based on the textbook and PowerPoint presentation in the classroom folder.
Other areas of a resume are subjective – people have different opinions about what is right or wrong. For the subjective side of your resume, we’ll give you our opinions on what we think will help you to better “sell” yourself to an employer, and no points will be taken off.
In addition to your grade, you will receive an “Overall Effectiveness Score”. This score (1-5) reflects how effectively we believe your resume will market you to employers.
OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS SCORE
5 – Highly Competitive Resume: Your resume has an impressive amount of career-related/transferable experience; your experience is effectively marketed through your resume document.
4 – Competitive Resume: Your resume is strong, but one of the following areas needs to be addressed:
- Career-related/transferable experience is not fully exemplified through bullet statements
- Resume lacks consistency/readability in small areas
3 – Average Resume: Your resume is adequately or well written, but lacks the competitive edge needed to obtain interviews; you must gain career-related (internship, externship, volunteering, part-time job, etc.) experience and exemplify your marketability on your resume in order to be competitive in your career field.
2 – Resume Requires Revision: Your resume has some significant room for improvement related to format, content, and amount of experience. It is recommended that you schedule an appointment with your instructor.
1 – Unacceptable Document: Your resume lacks basic elements and is not ready to be circulated to employers. Please contact your instructor to set up an appointment to work on your document.
Content – 60 points
Overall Marketability – 20 points
20 points | Up to 15 points | 5 points |
Resume effectively conveys candidate’s unique value, top accomplishments, and most marketable skills | Resume attempts to market candidate, but overall focuses too narrowly on job duties/functions | Resume is generic and does not showcase value, accomplishments, or skills |
Job Objective and/or Skills Summary - 20 points
20 points | Up to 15 points | 5 points |
Job objective/skills summary match the employer needs specified in the job description | Job objective/skills summary provide resume highlights, but are too general | Job objective/skills summary are largely generic and/or focus on candidate’s needs/desires |
Descriptions of Experience -20 points
20 points | Up to 15 points | 5 points |
Education and experience sections highlight top accomplishments and unique contributing factors, and are customized to the job description | Education and experience sections are adequately written, but do not differentiate candidate from competition | Education and experience sections are vague and generic |
Format of Required Elements – 22 points
Contact Information -
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
All required elements are present and professional with name largest item on page | One required piece of information is missing/inaccurate | Two or more pieces of information are missing/inaccurate or email address is unprofessional |
Education -
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Includes the following information and is listed correctly: § Name of institution § City and state § Graduation date
High school information is not included | One or two of the required elements are missing or listed incorrectly | Three or more of the required elements are missing or listed incorrrectly |
Experience
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Includes the following information and is listed correctly: § Name of Experience § City and state § Dates of experience
| One or two of the required elements are missing or listed incorrectly | Three or more of the required elements are missing |
Bullet Statements – 5 points
5 points | 3 points | 1 point |
Descriptors of each experience use a bulleted format | One experience is described using a paragraph format | Two or more experiences use paragraph/numbered format |
Action Words – 5 points
5 points | 3 points | 1 point |
Any bullet statements begin with an action words | One or two statements begin with non-action words | Three or more experiences do not begin with action words |
Consistency
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
All information is consistent in appearance (e.g. Indiana v. IN; 05/2008 v. May 2008) | Small areas are inconsistent in appearance | The resume is largely inconsistent in appearance |
Layout/Writing Style – 12 points
Page Layout –
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Resume is one full page and is well-balanced | Resume is either too short or too long or is unbalanced on the page | Resume is both the wrong length and does not utilize the page(s) well |
Reverse Chronological Order –
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
Items are in reverse chronological order for each section | Two items are not in reverse chronological order | More than two items are not in reverse chronological order |
Grammar/Spelling –
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
No grammar or spelling errors | 1-3 grammar/spelling errors | Four or more errors |
Personal Pronouns –
3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
No personal pronouns | One-two personal pronouns | Three or more personal pronouns |
References Page – 6 points
Points determined as listed below | 0 points |
References included | References not included |
Separate Sheet – 2 points
2 points | 1 point | 0 points |
References are on separate sheet from resume | References are on same sheet as resume | References are not included |
Your Contact Information – 2 points
2 points | 1 point | 0 points |
Your contact information is present and appears as it does on your resume | Your contact information is included but is formatted differently than your resume | Your contact information is missing from your resume |
Reference Information – 2 points
2 points | 1 point | 0 points |
Contact information for three references includes: Name, Title, Organization Address (city, state, zip code), Phone and/or email | You are missing one or two pieces of required information for three references | Less than three references are listed or required information is missing for all three references |
You need to write a resume and a separate reference page. Please be sure to start with the rubric provided in the 5.3 area of the Canvas module. It tells you very specifically what is required and how points will be distributed for this important submission. Next review the Resume Tips link in the beginning of Module 5. It has actual examples of resumes. The reference page should contain a variety of contacts that can indicate the type of worker and person you are to prospective firms interested in you. Use the same header on the resume and on the reference page. I would provide 3-4 names of past managers, co-workers and/or anyone from your network that can speak to your character, work ethic and skill level.
Discussion
Tell me about an accomplishment that you are proud of. Walk me through the steps of how you achieved this goal.
10 years ago
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