English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

You did well in this resume drawing attention to your name without overdoing it. One thing I learned in the recent readings is that you want to lean more towards telling the company of interest how you can be an asset to them. Your objective is geared more towards improving your own needs. You may want to re-think your objective to make it more likeable for the company you are applying to. In your education section you appeared to accidentally leave out a 0 in 2010. I’m not sure which reading it was but one of them said that you may not want to tell your gpa if it is less than a 3.5 but you can make that decision on your own because a 3.3 is still a respectable gpa in my eyes. As far as the way your resume looks you may want to get rid of the grey highlighted parts because it draws the reader’s eyes away from the text. These highlights kind of stick out in your peripherals and make you lose a bit of your focus while reading. The handout on resume design that the instructor has posted on the calendar for the week also mentioned things about trying to have the same amount of white space throughout your resume. This can some times be hard to accomplish if you don’t have much to put on your resume. If that is the case don’t feel bad, I as well do not have a whole lot on my resume because my experience department is a little weak and I also do not have any particular skills or activities to write about.

I hope these comments can be useful to you because I know how frustrating resume writing can be.

Visual your resume is quite good. There is very clear cut lines separating specific data. Also your name and the categories which you chose to present are relevant and easy to find. I agree with the first comment you received in regards to the grey outline. It is a good idea to use it and scores well in the squint test; however, I think that it could be used to highlight information that is more appealing to you employer. such as graduation dates, etc. I think that the way you described your skills and experience was affective. I can clearly see the responsibilities that your job title encompassed.

In the layout of your resume the right side is heavily favored. I would suggest once you develop your experience and skills, basically gather more "resume material", that you lengthen your information across the page. This will eliminate blank space as well as even out your layout load.