For this week's activity, you will need to create and submit your resume.

Please be sure you review the following units before you begin writing your resume and cover letter: Resume Basics

Use this Form.

First Last Name

Street Address

City, State Zip

Phone (Cell/Home)

Email Address

Note: Blue text should be deleted before final submission. Be sure to remove extra spaces as well.

Objective Instructions: What do you want to do? If you include this section it should be a sentence or two about your employment goals. A customized objective that describes why you are the perfect candidate for the job can help your resume stand out from the competition. Please format in the following way:

Objective

To obtain a position in the (insert industry) using my (insert skill) and the (insert skill).

Experience Instructions: This section of your resume includes your work history. List the companies you worked for, dates of employment, the positions you held and a bulleted list of responsibilities and achievements. You should have at least 3 (three) work experience items for each position. REVIEW THE WORK EXPERIENCE EXAMPLES AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT. Please feel free to use any of the skills if they apply to you. Note: It might be easier to retype them instead of copying and pasting. Make sure you delete them from your final document.

Experience

Company #1

City, State

Dates Worked

Job Title

• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements

Company #2

City, State

Dates Worked

Job Title

• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements

Company #3

City, State

Dates Worked

Job Title

• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements
• Responsibilities / Achievements

Education Instructions: In the education section of your resume, list the schools you attended, the degrees you attained, and any special awards and honors you earned. I would suggest leaving out dates, as they can be used to judge your age. Also, if you are still working on a degree/diploma it is good to note that you are Currently Enrolled

Education

College, Degree

Awards, Honors

Skills Instructions: Include skills related to the position / career field that you are applying for i.e. computer skills, language skills. Please only include technical skills, not soft skills such as communication and customer service. These can be highlighted in your cover letter.

Skills

References available upon request

Sample Work Experience

Listed are some sample skills from some of the most common jobs. Feel free to use them on your resume ONLY if it is a skill you have done in a job listed on your resume. They are categorized by job. Customer Service

• Provide excellent customer service in order to assist customers with benefit information.
• Demonstrate accurate follow up regarding referral, eligibility, or payment issues.
• Apply trouble shooting and problem solving techniques.
• Assist with the training of new employees regarding policies, procedures, and various work flow.

Store Clerk

• Receive payment from customers by cash and credit cards
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change outstanding to customers
• Resolve customer complaints if required
• Calculate money in cash drawers at the beginning and the ending of shifts to make sure that amounts is accurate and that there is sufficient change
• Welcome customers entering in store
• Maintain spotless and arranged work station

Dietary Aid

• Prepares food items and assembles ready foods for patient trays
• Serves foods in the rooms and cafeteria
• Delivers food trays to patients units and dining area
• Provide services in dining room and dish room
• Cleans cafeteria tables, and service counter area after meals
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals and snacks to patients, staff and visitors
• Assist cooks and operate required tools to accomplish service
• Clean work area, utensils, dishes, and pots and pans
• Check inventory of items and fill orders
• Run and fill various food service machines
• Follow diagrams and lists to prepare patient trays to specifications
• Interact with clientele in a pleasant manner and handle customer complaints

Server

• Welcomes customers into the restaurant and seat them according to their needs
• Interact with the customers directly and quickly in a manner which promotes the highest level of customer service
• Responsible to receive and deliver food orders in a fast and friendly manner
• Ensure accurate cash handling and balancing of nightly cash outs
• Demonstrate teamwork by keeping an eye on my fellow servers tables and help out when possible
• Responsible for delivering excellent customer service
• Bussing and resetting tables and ensuring dining area is clean and tidy
• Display knowledge of the food menu, wine & liquor menu, ingredients in specialty drinks, and liquor laws
• Moves along the dining experience along without rushing the guest, ensuring all the plates are cleared, coffee, desert or possible an after dinner drink is offered
• Thanks all customers by stating the last name on the card when returning their card with receipt

Childcare

• Interact easily with people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and professions.
• Get along well with children of all ages from newborns to preschool.
• Work well in team environment as well as individually.
• Possess effective speaking and listening skills, and with knowledge of children are able to communicate effectively with all ages.
• Work easily with others and able to complete tasks with little or no supervision.
• Interacted with children and adults to provide information and instruction, as assigned.
• Assisted teachers in meeting physical, psychological, nutritional, and spiritual needs.
• Prepared and served nutritious meals to children and served two snacks a day.
• Supervised structured play during break times.
• Supervised activities of children
• Prepared and served meals utilizing provided menus
• Attended staff meetings and training
• Gave children positive reinforcement
• Provided first aid treatment as necessary
• Maintained order, security and sanitation of the facility
• Performed housekeeping and laundry
• Supervised children in everyday jobs
• Maintained complete and accurate daily records
• Implemented behavior modification techniques as instructed

Certified Nursing Assistant

• Display strong clinical skills in assessing vital signs, performing lab draws and glucose checks, and providing pre- and post-operative care.
• Adhere to safety guidelines; completed hospitals three-hour Patient Safety Training Program.
• Ensure the accurate, timely flow of information by maintaining thorough patient records and updating healthcare team on patients status.
• Comply with HIPAA standards in all patient documentation and interaction
• Provide high-quality patient care as an in-demand per-diem CNA within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation, home-healthcare and nursing-home settings.
• Preserve patient dignity and minimize discomfort while carrying out duties such as bedpan changes, diapering, emptying drainage bags and bathing.
• Commended for chart accuracy, effective team collaboration, patient relations and consistent delivery of empathetic care. Construction

• Perform general construction labor tasks including job site clean-up and moving of materials by hand.
• Operate air powered and motorized equipment including nail guns and drills
• Operate motorized equipment including power tools, saws, hammers, nails and bolts
• Assist in pour of concrete
• Install various items per instructors
• Maintained a clean, organized and save work area.
• Assisted other personnel as needed to maintain safety on the job site.
• Lubricate, clean, and repair machinery, equipment, and tools.
• Load and unload trucks and hauls and hoists materials.
• Erect and disassemble scaffolding, shoring, braces, and other temporary structures.
• Build and position forms for pouring concrete and dismantles forms after use, using saws, hammers, nails, or bolts.
• Measure, mark, and record openings and distances to lay out area to be graded or to erect building structures.
• Smooth and finish freshly poured cement or concrete, using float, trowel, screed, or powered cement finishing tool.
• Apply caulking compounds by hand or with caulking gun to seal crevices.
• Position, join, align, and seal structural components, such as concrete wall sections and pipes.

Farm Laborer

• Clean plows, combines, and tractors, using scraper and broom.
• Shoveled earth to clear irrigation ditches and opens sluice gates to irrigate crops.
• Clean barns, stables, pens, and kennels.
• Performed variety of manual, animal-and-crop-raising tasks.
• Performed crop production duties such as planning, tilling.
• Planned crop activities based on factors such as crop maturity and weather conditions.
• Apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer to crops and livestock
• Planting, maintaining, and harvesting food crops
• Tending livestock and poultry
• Repairing farm buildings and fences
• Operating milking machines and other dairy processing equipment
• Loaded agricultural products into trucks, and drove trucks to market or storage facilities
• Operated tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops.
• Participated in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops