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Hi, my name is

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Lauren Reed and I'm the learning support
coordinator.

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And I'm here today with Kimberly Cooper.

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Hi Kimberly!

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Hey!

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so today we're going to be talking

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about, career prep.

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And the first thing we want to talk about
when we're

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discussing career prep is the resume.

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It's the first document you want to have
ready when you're looking for a job.

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And we know that it can be kind
of mystifying and confusing

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for people
who've never had to create one before.

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So we have some handouts for you,
and we're going to go through them today

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and just try to go over the basics
of what a good resume has

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and how you can make one.

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on your own.

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So the first hand out, in this packet

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for building
your resume is about strong verbs.

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And you, you know, when we're

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speaking with one another, we end up using
the same words over and over again.

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We have our basic vocabulary,
but when you're writing a document

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for other people
to read, it's really nice to use synonyms.

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here is a list

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of some strong words that you can use

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after you've made a list of things
that you've accomplished, maybe go back

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and see if you're using the same words
over and over and over again.

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So maybe you really like
the word developed

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because you created a lot of things
at a job or an internship,

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but you realize, wow,
I'm using the word develop five times.

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You can go through and find some words
that mean similar things.

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You can say you designed materials,
you can say

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you, created materials,
and you can say you've contributed

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to the development of different kinds of
materials in that position.

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the next thing is just helping you,
the next work.

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The next worksheet is to just help

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you think of activities
that you have done before.

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so, Kimberly,
when you first applied for a job,

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you probably hadn't had a job before.

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what kinds of things
did you put on your first resume?

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Well, I hadn't really had a real job,

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before I got my first job
right after high school.

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But I had done things for other people,
I had volunteered.

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So I had, you know, helped out
at, food banks.

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I had helped, run check in for events
and things like that.

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So helping and being part of clubs
and organizations

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at my school, earning awards at school

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for good grades and things like that,
I listed all of those accomplishments

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because they showed skills and abilities
that I had that would be useful

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in a workplace, that I thought would be,

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appealing to potential employers.

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Yeah, that's so true.

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A lot of students don't
think about being a student as a job,

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but if you can prove that you can balance
schoolwork with your extracurricular

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activities, maybe an internship
or some kind of special project

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that you work
on, you can show that you would be really,

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a nice asset to a work environment
because you can juggle

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lots of different things.
You've got a lot of different experience.

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Experience doesn't have to be a job.

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So this worksheet is just to help students
think of the things that they did

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while they were a student
and and how they can translate that into,

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work experience things that demonstrate

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that you've got a skill,

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Going to the next page.

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This is the outline of a resume.

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Now, you might hear the term CV a lot.

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And a CV stands for curriculum vitae,

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which is Latin,
but it just means like a list

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of all the things
you've done in your life.

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So a CV is longer than a resume.

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Resume is about 1 or 2 pages,

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and it's really just the, the main things,

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that you've done.

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the main categories
like you can see here, education skills

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that you might have and experience,
job experience or volunteer

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experience or clubs that you've been
a part of, things like that.

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You're listing your skills

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and you're showing them
why you're best for the job in a CV.

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You really just get to list everything
you've done in chronological order,

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reverse chronological order.

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You put the most recent thing first,
just like on a resume.

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Your most recent job goes first.

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what kind of advice do you have?

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Kimberley.

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For somebody creating a resume,
what are the key things they need

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to think about?

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Well, first of all,
I think they should realize that

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this is not a document that you do once
and you're forever done.

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This is going to constantly be changing
as you gain more experience,

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as you get more specialized
in a specific field.

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as you go through,

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different levels of education,
get more job experience.

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So just making sure that it's kept up

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to date as you, accomplish more things
throughout your life.

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and sometimes, like, you know,
when you get out of,

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when you get your first job,
you'll have some, like,

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things that,
you did, like in high school.

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But as you

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gain experience, there are some things
that you might want to take off as you

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replace it with more relevant,
items that are specific towards that job.

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So you want to customize it,
towards what your goals are

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and what your, potential employers
are looking for more specifically.

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that's that's so true.

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I waited tables when I was in college,
which was really great to show people

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that I could balance being a student
and working at the same time.

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But later, waiting tables wasn't
part of my career path, so I could start

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keeping that off when I had more work
experience in my field.

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Yeah, that's very true.

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all right, so

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when you're creating this as a student,
what are some skills

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that you think students often forget
to put on their resume?

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Things that they can do that
they forget to list for employers?

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Does anything come to mental things?

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like word processing and computer
skills are very useful.

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And if, you don't have them,
then they can,

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be detrimental
to your potential employer.

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if they don't realize
that you don't have those skills.

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So, things like that.

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and public speaking, and presentation
skills

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are actually very important in many jobs,
whether you realize it or not.

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And so there's a communication skills and,

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you know, using Excel or spreadsheets,
any coding experience,

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especially if you're going into,
an engineering or computer science field,

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that can often come in handy,
even if you're not specific,

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wanting to be a specific coder.

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it can still come in handy.

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So, just a variety of skills

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that you may have, languages as well.

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because,

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you know,

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there's this world is becoming
more, globalized

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and there's a lot of interaction
with people

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from all over the world
in many industries.

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So if you have multiple,

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language skills,
then that can also be useful.

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and just might be a little bonus

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things to really.

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That was a lot of really great advice.

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So students at home take a look
at these handouts in these materials.

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And then of course

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if you have any questions
while you're trying to develop a resume

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or a CV at home,
feel free to come to the Learning

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Support Center
or the SCC on campus and get some help.

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We are always here to help you
create documents like this.

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We want our students to go forth
and be really successful.

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So, thanks for joining me today, Kimberly.

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And take care.