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FOREWORD

Where I left you last time I was rolling around ina gony because I was writing my resume and me being the person I am, I spent initially 4+ hours on it. And that was before I edited it and had my brother and step-dad take a look at it. Let me put it this way. My brother has never written a reume in his life and he basically has never had good grammatical skills, yet he believed he couldtell me every single thing he didn’t think sounded right when reading through my resume. My stepdad Paul, he however is a manager and went through it rather well and with Luke(brother) confused the hell out of me and made me lose my mind. And there you have my prior blog of mindlessness. Unless I did that just before.

So long story short. I finshed and handed in my resume, and I was told it was excellent,(by Paul not Luke.) So here we are, me telling you about my resume. Well Its really hard and well if anyone is writing their first resume …oh did I not mention it was for a Kmart job. Which I suppose would be a WalMart if your American or something. I don’t know what you people have. So writing your First Resume. A Guide by Smiley. Note: you can change these around a bit mostly.

PART I – Personal details

Okay, so in writing a resume you are going to need your basic details, your First Name, Your Date of Birth, Your Adress, Phone and mobile Number, Email and if you really want, Your Website url. On mine I alligned it all down cente on the page and did my headings in bold.

Part II- Education

For me right after My details I put Education, This meant firstly what I am currently Studying, then My High School. Most people in doing their first would have only their High school, only do the last two years of high school you have completed anything more is unnecesary, ad if you can put in what your grades are. Do it especially if you have good grades, if they are not so good filled with D’s try and keep them out if you can.

With those doing specialised titled courses, make sure you put the Title of the course before the  name of the institution you are attending. Here is an example of one.

Diploma of Smexitude,                                                                                                                                                                              Institute of Smextacious Studies.

Thus its easier to understand that your aiming for the Diploma of Smexitude at the Institute of Smextacious Studies.

Part III – Vonlunteer Work

This section was my time to shine, I ahve done a lot of volunteer work and if you were good people you would have done a lot too, I am not saying that if you haven’t done it, your bad people. Just mediocre or people busy making money. Well here you do it chronologically. Starting from the most recent work you have done to the oldest you are prepared to go. I went back as Far as 2004 where I did the 40-hour famine for World Vision. The 40-Hour famine officially begins on Ausgust 17-19th. Loojks like I am going to miss it this year.  Well My family gave me idea of all the volunteer things I have done for the world free of charge.Like ressing up as Kermit the frog at the Christmas Parade in 2005. So yes, just groups you volunteered for even.

PART IV – Groups and Committees.

This is where you put all the fun groups you are part of, make sure thye are committees and groups you are part of in rel life. Not on myspace or facebook.com, this shows your employer a bit about you and what you have doen in thepast and you know. I had three groups over five years. Police Rangers, Discover Yourself and Finally The Tidy Towns Committee. With how my things overlapped so up until Mayish this year I was involved in some kind of activity, showing I like to get out there and be active. In fact if I hadn’t moved out to woop woop, I’d probably still be doing something.

Part V – Skills and Abilities

For me. This may have been the most difficult part to finsih although other then the actual work experience It was probably the shortest section I wrote. I only had four skills and abilities with descriptions written in the end of it. I can’t even remember what all of those were. This is the section you really need to think about, this one and the next. In this section I remember specifically poinitng out my strengths but admitting that in the areas I lacked I would be willing to improve on. This was good I was told by showing I am a willing trainee and will do my best to do the best I can to the best of my ability. A resume is about selling yourself, so do that, show the employer who you are, tell them your excellent but your not perfect, but you are willing to try and become as perfect as you can.

Well basically here you need to Put maybe four things you are good at, hopefully things you think might be good for the job. -catering resumes for the employer- Organisation, Good Listening Ability, Spelling and Grammar and I cant quite remember the last thing were my skills. Genralisation is good. Also it is helpful to provide an explanation of your skills.

With my Good listening ability I tied it to my Counselling course so it shows I ahve had some training to obtain this, it isn’t just something everyone has, in fact I was never a good listener, but I have learnt to become a good one.

Part VI – Interests And Hobbies

This one could prove difficult for you in writing if you are catering for the employer, it basically is just jazzing up words so that it appears to your employer that you are quite more intersting and intellegent then youin fact are. Me I am an extremly intellectual who likes psychology, Art and Culture, Filmmaking and media and once again I have forgotten the fourth thing.

With my Art and Culture part, I basically put in a jazzed up way, I like movies and a lot of different types of music and theatre. The word I used was eclectic. Oh and if you have and other arts in it, keep a few in the back of your mind in case you were asked. They probably wont but if you were talking to someone who wnated to throw you off balance they might, employers are evil that way right?

Part VII- Awards and Honours

I am not going to lie to you. I am not the most award winning person of all time, it is my siblings wo win the medals for excellence in sports, maths, and fashion. (My sister is to become a fashion designer she is the one who won all the businesswomans awards and the top maths student awards.)

Well, I have in my life gained a certificate or two. I mean my committee did win for our town two Australia wide awards. the Community Action Award and Australia’s Tidiest town for 2006.If your committes or teams win awards, jump in and take credit, screw modesty. YOU WANT THAT JOB GODDAMNIT. So I threw in the Australia day award for committe group of the year in our town as well. The firs award I won for just me in my recent memory last year second place in a  writing contest, I put that in. Anythig you get a cerificate for put it in. Unless its novelty. Kind of like my Worl award I was given for my Birthday last year for World Biggest Bullshit Artist. Also do this in chronological order.

Part VIII- Referees

The referees you choose in High school generally should be your teachers or community group leaders. Bt once you graduate, it would be more acceptable t put in others you ahve known for some time, maybe past employers or supervisors or your volunteer work. I am presentl trying to get in contact with the chairman of a comitte I was in before.

Part IX – Conclusion

This concludes my smiley guide to Writing Resumes I hope you enjoyed reading it and learnt a thing or two about me, and my LOVE for writing resumes. Honnestly I think I have reumes out of my system now. Well for now at least, I will let you know how it all goes.

Thanks for reading…any comments or concerns send me a message baout it.

-Smiley.