Title: Prepare a résumé.
Course: Advertising Design I (05163-I) > Section: Developing Employability Skills

Preparation of a résumé should include

- objective
- educational background
- work history
- honors and awards
- membership in club and/or community activities, leadership positions held, and community service performed
- references or a notation that references are available upon request.

Students should demonstrate how to convert a résumé that was created in a word processing application into ASCII or plain-text format with line breaks so it can be posted on the Internet, placed into an employer’s résumé bank on a company Web site, or scanned by an OCR scanner. Students should be encouraged to keep a résumé current and updated to reflect experience and education, even if they are not currently involved in a job search.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What information needs to be included on a résumé?
- What are some characteristics of effective résumés?
- How might a student prepare an effective résumé despite little work experience?
- Why is it important to maintain a résumé even when not looking for a job?
- When is it important to include references on a résumé? Why?