Resume Extravaganza
The resumes that I chose were 5, 18, 22, 26, and 33. While scanning through these resumes I looked at a number of things. I mostly scanned the headings for information, the format, job location, the type of job experience, and if the jobs related to each other and the objective. I immediately dismissed any resume that stretched the margins almost to the edge of the page or was cluttered with too much information. I found these to be overwhelming and I didn’t want to waste my time reading everything on the page, and it was difficult to find the important information. Furthermore, the resumes that appeared to look well put together caught my attention and I spent more time reading these that the others. From this activity I was able to learn the perspective of a human resource employee that has to sort resumes. I never realized how you display items on your resume is important, if you do it wrong it can cause your resume to be passed right on. When scanning resumes if I couldn’t find things easily I moved on. Also, I learned a few other ways to format my resume to make it stand out of the crowd. I found this activity to be extremely helpful and it has allowed me to evaluate myself against my peers and learn some things I could improve on.