RESUME WRITING - USING EXAMPLES

It's important to be able to illustrate your accomplishments so employers can visualize you as one of their employees, making a valuable contribution to their company or organization. A well-written resume should have plenty of examples of you in action. Once you have chosen the type of resume you will use—chronological, functional, or combination—the next exercise will help you effectively fill your resume with vivid examples of your skills and abilities.
Begin by picking a verb from the action verb list that follows. Starting with this verb, describe an action you took and the result that followed. Some examples might be:

• Organized student tutorial workshops at campus computer center
• Edited monthly newsletter for community windsurfing club
• Represented local citizen's group at land use and development meeting
• Directed marketing activities for a United Way fund drive, resulting in a 15 percent increase in pledges
• Implemented successful recycling plan at my sorority
• Performed accounting duties at student-run cafe
• Reduced ice cream inventories to minimize spoilage and high storage costs
• Awarded top sales representative for six consecutive months
• Wrote the company's first customer satisfaction survey resulting in a 33 percent increase in customer responses

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