No Resume? No Work Experience? No Problem.
According to Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letter's blog: College students with minimal work experience to list on resumes and cover letters can brainstorm using a college experience worksheet.The worksheet includes many aspects of "typical" college life that may be worthy of inclusion on your resume. The goal is to identify each college experience that may be relevant to your future career and to identify the transferable skills and accomplishments from that experience. Start by asking yourself questions, such as:
1) Did you participate in sports, involving teamwork, competitive drive and leadership? What skills did you demonstrate and what did you accomplish?
2) What type of community service projects did you undertake? What skills did you demonstrate?
3)Did you have any creative accomplishments? Were any of your poetry, essays, creative performances or stories published or performed? What skills did you demonstrate and what did you accomplish?
Labels: college experience, resume writing tips, transferable skills
Posted by Melissa on 10/27/2008 08:50:00 AM
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Thanks for sharing this site Melissa!
As someone with very little work experience, I can personally understand the challenge of not knowing whether or not to include my extracurricular and educational involvement and achievements.
Knowing that it is OK to include this information, I think that this will help build my resume.
I think that extracurriculars are just as good as work experience! I consider my leadership roles on campus as being more important to a company/firm than my part-time job as a cashier. For instance, at USF, I have been an RA, an attorney on the mock trial team, and a judge on the student government supreme court. I would think these roles would impress an employers more than the fact that I was a cashier. I think all college students are different. Some focus on school and being involved on campus, while others attend classes but focus on their job. I think each employers should look at the resume and realize that students who are active on campus, but do not have a lot of meaningful work experience are just as good.
Thanks for this article. It is really so useful for those who are looking for a decent career. I have been trying my luck in the private job sector but I am unable to get success so anything of this nature is really helpful.
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