Resume Extravaganza
I found it to be very hard to only spend about 30 seconds per resume since there is so much different information in a resume. I do understand now why the recruiting people can only spend that much time looking at each one. If you read every word for every resume that showed up on your desk you wouldn't have time to do any other work. This was a good activity because it gives you a good chance to see how other people are writing their resumes and how you can make yours better.
I chose resumes 5, 17, 18, 20 and 21. I picked these 5 because they were all very well organized and they had a lot of useful information. Sometime resumes are seemingly packed full of useless information that has nothing to do with the job you are applying for. I felt these 5 had the right amount of information in each section and really took the time to make sure their resumes looked professional.
The thing I really like about this activity is you get to see what other people thought of your resume and you can go back and change yours. Once you've picked the 5 that you would call you call look over their strong points and see what they impressed you on. Then you can look over your own resume and see what makes it different and see what areas you can improve on. I think this activity will help everyone in the class be able to revise their resumes now and make some helpful changes.