Hi I'm Theodore I work at the

University Career Center as an outreach

PCA going across campus and making sure

you guys know what resources that we

offer today we're going to be talking

about some common mistakes that students

put on resumes one that I want to mention is

putting personal information on a resume

putting age putting height weight maybe

marital status number of kids that might

seem weird but some students do put that

I must say that students that are study

abroad here in America usually put that

information in fact that information is

usually crucial on a European resume

like the ages and the height etc and we don't we

don't look for information like that on

our resume so no personal information

like height age weight hey everybody my

name is Shannon Lindsey I work for the

University Career Center as an outreach

PCA so my job is to go around campus and

to make sure students know about the

Career Center's resources so the first

Personal Interest

one I'm going to talk about is personal

interest / hobbies so a lot of times

students will add an interest section

where they add things like they like

skiing skydiving taking care of

their dog things like that a lot

of times students do that when they feel

like there's not enough on their resume so

they do that to just take up room

essentially so I wouldn't have a section

like that definitely stay away from

things that aren't related to your

career per se so perhaps like if you're

a theater major or like a graphic design

major maybe you want to say designing

maybe you want to say acting so you just want

think about tailoring that to your

career some students also put in skill

section where they say stuff like

leadership leadership skills management

organization time management different

things like that we also suggest that

you just incorporate those skills into

your experience section so into your

bullet points but if you are a freshman

and you don't have a lot on your resume

it is okay to have that skill section

just don't overwhelm your resume with

that and take it off as you go along for

Experience

me the crux of any resume is the

experience the information you put in

the experience to let employers know

what you did in the past so you can help

them in the future we have a lot of

students coming in and in the experience

they start putting sentences of course

we have data that shows some employers

take about eight seconds to look at a

resume and if you put information in

sentence format that might hinder

them looking at your resume at all so

you want to make sure that you put that

information in bullet point form we have

a handy formula that we use to write

bullet points in the Career Center you

start with a power verb or an action verb like

consolidated initiated lead managed than

we talk about what you did so include

detail about the activity that you did

if you have any data to back up your

claims for example if you were a sales

associate and because of these sales

rose twenty percent please include that

as part of the what and then you ask why

you did something so what was your end

goal for doing something if you started

a recycling program here at UNCC did you

do it to help the environment did you do

to clean up the campus and then if

applicable ask how so go into the

process of how you did certain things I

find that in jobs that students had that

were very hands-on whether it was an

entry level fast-food job or a project

if you an engineering student or a grad

student how is very applicable at

question to ask so the process of how

you did certain things so summarize

power verb what why and how so remember

try not to put sentences on your resume

and use bullet points using the formula

now it is worth mentioning to say that

I'm a PR major and how I was taught is

that we actually don't put bullet points

in our experience section we put

sentences so while the PR department may

require sentences the University Career

Center says for you to put bullet points

please double check with your department

with your departmental standards to see

if there can be sort of a conflict of

interest between the career center and

that department of yours whether it's

business or engineering so our next

One Page

major mistake is that undergrad students

make their resume more than one page so

this is okay it is ok to have a 2-page

resume when you are graduate or above so

when you graduate you can have a 2-page

resume or if you are in graduate school

but in undergrad we do suggest a

one-page resume just because employers

typically look at your resume from eight

to ten seconds so you don't want to

overwhelm them with the amount of

information because that could deter

them from reading more in-depth into

your resume you know they are going

through so many so they're going to you

know discard ones that don't look very

good

and they're also going to discard the

really long ones because they don't have

time to read over those so definitely

condensing your resumes to one page and

there's a lot of ways you can do that so

you can like make your margins point 5

you can go down to 10 font and just kind

of look at different spacings may be

condensing your bullet points a lot of

times bullet points are repeated or skills

are repeated so you don't want all of

that information also taking out

redundant information or like high

school things from high school if you

are above a sophomore the next major

Personal Pronouns

mistake is people add personal pronouns

to their resume so these are things like I my

us we things like that so you don't

really want them on your resume

especially in your bullet point section

so under your experiences and then like

your objective or your summaries of your

top of your page you want to start those

things off with action verbs so things

like facilitating communicating managing

leading things like that you're also

going to tailor those bullet points to like past

present positions