Share the job posting you used for the previous exercise with two classmates. Use the questions in Figure 24 to provide feedback to each other.

Discuss your feedback in trios. When you do, explain choices you made on your resume and be open to hearing other students’ choices. You don’t have to accept all the feedback you receive. Like your classmates’ feedback, employers’ decisions based on resumes are subjective. What will cause one employer to eliminate a candidate may be a selling point for another. You might have good reasons (e.g., your identity or integrity) for including some information—and that is your choice.

Figure 24

Exercise 5

After you incorporate feedback on your generic resume, revise your resume for a particular job. Find a job posting that interests you and tailor your experience and other information to fit that description. Use guidelines throughout this chapter to include what is most relevant and valuable to the employer. Integrate keywords from the job posting where relevant. Also use the questions in Figure 3 to guide you.

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QUESTIONS Is the education section, including coursework, appropriate for the position? How is the work experience section tailored to the position? Compare the generic and custom resume. Does the revised resume emphasize what is most relevant to the job and valuable to the employer? How are keywords incorporated into the resume? Are they used in context and throughout the resume and not overused? Are other activities relevant to the job? What, if anything, from the generic version was changed in the later sections? Are these changes appropriate for the position? Is this version of the resume 100% accurate? NOTES