Listed most recent All 3 Only 1-2 (0-2 points) items first elements elements Good form listed in the listed in No paragraphs column to the first the left are column are OK OK (7-9 points) (3-6 points) Student’s Grade Electronic Resumes When searching for a job, you will probably log in to an Internet job bank and type in the appropriate keywords. Within seconds, your computer screen displays a list of job leads, selected to meet your specific requirements. With another couple of keystrokes, your electronic resume is sent to potential employers. But in order for it to be in good form when received by those potential employers, you may need to make some changes to your existing resume. Email resumes are basically plain text documents without formatting. Appearance is not as important as the employer’s ability to read the resume, no matter what kind of computer system or word processing software they have. For example, if you attached your Word resume keyed in Word 2010, for example, and the company uses another version of Word or different word processing program such as WordPerfect, they may not be able to open and/or read your file. And some companies have policies where they cannot open email attachments from an unknown source. Remember your job objective? Well, an electronic resume should be full of keywords. Your job objective may already contain appropriate keywords. Keywords are also called buzzwords, and they are specific words or phrases that job seekers use to search for jobs and employers use to find the right candidates. Think of them as search criteria the same way you do keyword searches on the Internet. The
Listed most recent items first Good form No paragraphs All 3 elements listed in the column to the left are OK (7-9 points) Only 1-2 elements listed in the first column are OK (3-6 points) (0-2 points) Student’s Grade Electronic Resumes When searching for a job, you will probably log in to an Internet job bank and type in the appropriate keywords. Within seconds, your computer screen displays a list of job leads, selected to meet your specific requirements. With another couple of keystrokes, your electronic resume is sent to potential employers. But in order for it to be in good form when received by those potential employers, you may need to make some changes to your existing resume. Email resumes are basically plain text documents without formatting. Appearance is not as important as the employer’s ability to read the resume, no matter what kind of computer system or word processing software they have. For example, if you attached your Word resume keyed in Word 2010, for example, and the company uses another version of Word or different word processing program such as WordPerfect, they may not be able to open and/or read your file. And some companies have policies where they cannot open email attachments from an unknown source. Remember your job objective? Well, an electronic resume should be full of keywords. Your job objective may already contain appropriate keywords. Keywords are also called buzzwords, and they are specific words or phrases that job seekers use to search for jobs and employers use to find the right candidates. Think of them as search criteria the same way you do keyword searches on the Internet. The
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