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| The Resume is the most important thing you will write to get to an interview. It is where you have to sell yourself. There are a lot of resume writing help places on the web. I suggest you go to these pages and look at the sample resumes. I do not recommend using the MS Word resume wizard to write your resume this is used by 99% of college students. Most employers see the same "style" and think you did not care enough to do this resume yourself. The resume I have posted to this page is the actual resume I have used to post to multiple web pages. I have spaced it out here for easier reading online, but this is my normal one page resume. I have a four page resume that I take with me to job interviews that lists all the navy positions I have held all the way down to Publications Petty officer for the division and includes every navy school I have attended. This is a good practice and in the Portfolio section I will discuss a technique of how to get all your navy information in the hands of a would be employer. The hardest part of writing a resume for most of us is the conversion of navy experience to civilian experience. This is sometimes very hard to accomplish. I recommend a few things. One start writing a resume early I began mine when I graduated 'A' school back in 1991. This makes it easier because all I had to do was update it every time I wanted to add something. It also helps because you read your resume and rewrite it so much that you get a chance over the years to improve it instead of over a few weeks before you are ready to get out. I also recommend taking your resume to the Family Service Center at your base. The FSC has people that will give you ideas on how to improve it. Finally get copies of as many resumes of people that are getting out. This is so valuable in writing your own because they may have thought of ways to word things that you did not. I will hopefully begin to post resumes to this page for just this purpose. The last thing I want to talk about is the cover letter. This is the page that the employer will read before he ever looks at your resume. This is the place to brag on yourself. Do not be conceited, but tell the employer why he would be better off if he hired you. Make sure you never use a patent cover letter. They should all be written individually for the job you want. The following is a list links to web sites that have good information on cover letters and resumes: http://www.poweronline.com/content/homepage/default.asp http://www.resumestoreny.com/military.htm http://www.damngood.com/jobseekers/military-trans.html http://www.careermag.com/index.html http://www.fortune.com/fortune/careers/ These are just a few to get you started. |