Friday & Monday, April 7 & 10, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1. Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 
2. Know how to structure an effective resume.
3. Be able to describe skills and abilities in business language.

​Business Language — formal writing that objective, succinct and specific

Business Language resume writing — describes abilities and accomplishments as specific, measurable and concrete experiences, starts with an action verb, avoids slang and personal wording ( No "I" statements.)

     Activities:
​     Students, you will complete the following today:

1.  DONE!    RESUME BUILDING: Writing One-liners for your skills. See Resume tutorial
2.        Choose 3 skills from your CIS Skills Summary then complete the handout.
3. Swap with another student; have them look at it!
4. Bring it up to me to look at and make suggestions.

2.  Job Objective:  Write it according to the Resume Tutorial  Please include the Career Learning Area and the job position you chose in the "CAREER" document.  Create a doc called "Job Objective" and put it there.  You may have to "dumb it down" if your career to too excelled.  Example:  Registered Nurse would be a Nurses Assistant.

3.  Final Resume Building:  An example is on the Resume Tutorial.  You will be handed back your "My Education", "My Work History", and "One-Liners".  Please go to the link below "Resume Template" and download the Resume.  You will put in the information you have on the above sheets in.  At the end of the class, please save to desktop and then upload to your drive.  Delete the version on the desktop.

• Job Objective — Slides 18-19
• Education —Slides 20-21
• Work History — Slides 22-23
• Skills and One-Liners— Slides 24-28

4.  Continue with the Final Project "Who am I":  When working on the final project, refer to the slide tutorial in the link. LINK: FINAL PROJECT 2016-17
Create slides.. Finish photoshopped picture and insert in first slide.

     Misc:  Work on final project- fix headings, font layout, graphics
     Update Education Plan from last year in Digital Literacy

 Resume Packet: My Work History Worksheet &
                              My Education Worksheet
                              Resume Template   
                              CIS Skills Worksheet Revised
                              My Skills and One-liners/Resume 

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