Can you take a look at my resume and direct my to some jobs that will pay me ~45k/yr?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>OBJECTIVE </p>

<p>Bachelor of Science in Management degree candidate seeking a challenging position in the business development field where proven sales and interpersonal skills can be used to help the company grow.</p>

<p>EDUCATION</p>

<p>GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, College of Management<br>
Atlanta, Georgia<br>
Bachelor of Science in Management<br>
Expected Grad. Date: May 2012
Certificates: Entrepreneurship<br>
Major GPA: 3.0</p>

<p>EXPERIENCE </p>

<p>JEWELRY RETAIL CHAIN<br>
Inventory Manager & Sales Associate<br>
December 2009-January 2010, May 2010-August 2010, May 2011-August 2011
• Supervised/Updated Inventory of $60M of merchandise in 5 locations
• Priced $20M of merchandise
• Sold $250K of Jewelry—mainly precious stones (Diamonds, Alexandrite, Tanzanite, Ammolite) </p>

<p>STAFFING COMPANY<br>
Technical Recruiting Intern<br>
January 2011-May 2011
• Headhunted software engineers, computer programmers, systems engineers, project managers, financial analysts & other senior level positions for Fortune 500 clients.
• Developed staffing strategies with IT department in order to streamline sourcing, reviewing and interviewing processes
• Reviewed resumes, conducted interviews and screened all potential candidates</p>

<p>NON-PROFIT<br>
Volunteer Facilitator<br>
September 2010-December 2010<br>
• Taught 30 5th Grade students about Human Rights
• Taught 15 3rd-4th grade students in Criminal Justice/Debate
• Mentored students in various interactive after-school programs</p>

<p>CHARITY FUNDRAISING CLUB<br>
Vice President<br>
November 2009-Present
• Helped raise over $10000 for Kenyan Refugees post 2008 election violence
• Increased awareness and club enrollment by 75%
• Organized 4 fundraising events & food sales</p>

<p>NON-PROFIT<br>
Resettlement Services Intern & Teacher<br>
September 2009-December 2009
• Taught 25 adult students in Advanced and Intermediate English
• Taught 25 adult students Microsoft Office & General Computing Skills
• Assisted in Case Management, Cash Assistance & Employment Assistance for Refugees</p>

<p>SHOE RETAIL CHAIN<br>
Sales Associate<br>
May 2008-September 2009
• Sold $100K of shoes & accessories
• Handled $200K of monetary transactions
• Dealt with customers complaints and questions on a day-to-day basis</p>

<p>TUTORING ORG. (Volunteer Tutoring Organization)<br>
Founder<br>
January 2006-May 2007
• Tutored 40+ students from K-12th Grade
• Tutored students Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus & Calculus
• Tutored students Spanish, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Reading, Arithmetic, & K-8 Math & Science</p>

<p>SKILLS/INTERESTS </p>

<p>Languages: Spanish – Conversational<br>
Skills: Microsoft Office (Excel, PPT, Word), Jewels 2000</p>

<p>I'm graduating soon and I'm worried that I won't be able to land a decent job. Can you tell me which jobs I would be qualified for and what types of salaries I could expect?</p>

<p>I'm assuming that I would be qualified for a broad range of jobs specifically related to sales/business development hence the objective.. But any suggestions for specific jobs/career tracks with salaries ~45K+/yr would be great! I'm pretty much open to any path.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Check out F500 companies in your area.</p>

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<p>Thanks GoIllini, </p>

<p>However, can I get something more specific than that… lol</p>

<p>specific career tracks with salaries…</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>Maybe some kind of analyst position like inventory management or allocation?</p>

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<p>Look at McMaster-Carr. They offer a good salary and amazing benefits. There’s an office in ATL if you want to stay put.</p>

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<p>what sort of position am i qualified for at mcmaster carr that would pay me at least 45k?</p>

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<p>They have a development program where you would get to manage employees within the first year or so. Other possibilities include sales, marketing, and finance. Even their warehouse workers earn well over 45k due to profit sharing.</p>

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<p>Sweet!</p>

<p>Thanks for the tip.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Also - please don’t include an objective section on your resume. I know some websites will tell you that you need one, but anyone with corporate experience knows that is wrong. There are many recruiters who will discard all resumes with objectives. </p>

<p>By submitting an application/resume for a position, you already told them what your objective is. An obj wastes space that you could use to convey relevant information like experience.</p>

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<p>i feel like you are set to become a long term human resources representative.</p>

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<p>I think you’re right.</p>

<p>Thanks for reminding me!</p>

<p>They actually offer a concentration in ‘Leading and Serving Human Capital’ in my college. I’ll go ahead and try to complete that or just stick with Entrepreneurship and snag some related classes…</p>

<p>Cool, at least now I have an industry to shoot for with relatively decent pay and work I feel comfortable doing.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Your resume is impressive. Good job! </p>

<p>With that said, I feel like entry level positions that offer ~45K & growth opportunities will be few and far between in this economy (in my state anyways). & many of these positions have probably already been filled and are super competitive. </p>

<p>My advice, apply to all jobs that your semi-interested in that appear to have growth opportunities - irrespective of salary. You may find something you really like. </p>

<p>& better you end up with a job that pays ~25-35K with lots of growth opportunities than with nothing at all. You can work yourself up. </p>

<p>Objective is fine, but is not necessary. I think the only real weakspot in your resume is your GPA - and it looks like you already self-selected to show your (higher?) major GPA instead of your (lower?) cumulative. You can’t really be picky about salary in this economy even if your utterly amazing. 45K is probably unrealistic IMO & you’re definitely not alone in being flexible to find different jobs (especially for that salary).</p>

<p>I know that the general rule is to keep your GPA listed if it is a 3.0 or above. But I feel like you may be better served by omitting it & letting your experience & eventually your interview skills do the talking. But I’m not sure, what do you guys think?</p>

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<p>Doesn’t Georgia Tech have career fairs for its business students?</p>

<p>When I was in college, I had a job lined up by October of my senior year because of contacts I made at a career fair.</p>

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<p>^ So I guess every student who goes to a career fair gets a job. </p>

<p>Then it really is their fault for not getting jobs!! Darn students! so lazy! They’re the ones ruining the economy!</p>

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<p>While I’m always sensitive about people labeling a social problem (e.g., lack of jobs) as a personal issue, I don’t think that was the intent of Bill73’s post. Rather, I think he was trying to extol the benefits of college career fairs/networking and expressing concern that the OP may not have taken advantage of that.</p>

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<p>^Sorry, but his post does not read like that at all. </p>

<p>Especially, given the context of the OP’s question. Just responding by, “I went to a career fair and got a job lined up way before I graduated, why didn’t you?” is not helpful at all IMO. A bit condensending at this point, actually. </p>

<p>And assuming that not going to career fairs is this student’s issue is also a ridiculous assumption given the OP’s post - where he never even mentions not attending career fairs (!). </p>

<p>Secondly, automatically assuming that every student who is struggling finding a job out there did not “take advantage” of college career fairs, in his case, and/or networking opportunities, in your case, is outrageous - especially in this economy. </p>

<p>Sorry aigiqinf, but I think you either read his post all wrong or are insincere in your claim of “sensitivity” & find it odd that you’d come to Bill’s defense.</p>

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<p>While the economy does still suck, especially for young people, it’s been bothersome to me that people go to extremes when explaining the high rate of unemployment and underemployment among recent college grads. Some say that the economy is terrible and anyone who has a job either got lucky or should be lauded for catching a break. Others say that students don’t know what they’re doing, haven’t tried hard enough or are lazy.</p>

<p>The reality is in the middle. The economy DOES suck and students DON’T know what they’re doing. We can all sit back and talk about how sad it is that students just can’t find jobs, no matter what they do… that is but an excuse, though. It doesn’t help anybody at all. So why can’t we focus on the thing that we can affect? Many of my friends got little to no guidance about how to pursue a career, and as a result they didn’t even know that companies recruited in the fall until after recruiting was over. That is equal parts the students’ faults for not being aware of the hiring practices AND the universities’ faults for not giving them enough information to learn about hiring practices.</p>

<p>With all that said, a major, major problem among recent college graduates is that, similar to the OP, they have unrealistic expectations regarding their starting salaries. The OP says he wants to earn $45,000 right out of college. If he gets $45,000 in Atlanta, that is the equivalent of $54,800 in Philadelphia and $79,900 in New York City. My point is that the $45k number is not a good way to look for opportunities… if you get a $45k job in NYC, you’d have the same standard of living as if you landed a $26k job in Atlanta. While it’s more likely that you could get an offer for $45k in NYC, you would clearly have more disposable income if you got an offer for $38k in ATL.</p>

<p>In other words, if I were the OP, I wouldn’t use $45k as my number.</p>

<p>Oh, and one other thing… I would have someone review and critique your resume. There are a lot of little things I noticed that could really hurt your applications (eg. “Expected Graduation Date: May 2012” … either you already graduated or your expected graduation date isn’t May, 2012… can’t be both since we’re in July)</p>

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<p>"While the economy does still suck, especially for young people, it’s been bothersome to me that people go to extremes when explaining the high rate of unemployment and underemployment among recent college grads. "</p>

<p>Exactly, taking the position that the unemployment rate is so high because students aren’t going to career fairs is extreeme. </p>

<p>“So why can’t we focus on the thing that we can affect?”</p>

<p>Exactly, why a previous poster’s unhelpful post criticizing imaginary defficiencies in this student’s past that even if true, unlikely in this case, can no longer be corrected irritated me. That is bothersome to me. </p>

<p>“With all that said, a major, major problem among recent college graduates is that, similar to the OP, they have unrealistic expectations regarding their starting salaries.”</p>

<p>This. Exactly what I advised the OP a few posts ago. $45K isn’t a good benchmark to use when applying for jobs.</p>

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<p>Well, in this case, that is true… the poster appears to be a middle-aged adult who was going through the process of recruitment in the mid 1990s, when jobs for new college graduates were far more plentiful (not like the late 90s, but certainly better than today), and he didn’t offer any advice in his post. </p>

<p>With that said, people read this forum to get insight from others. That means that if someone made a mistake, it is certainly appropriate for others to point it out so that twelve may learn from the mistake of one.</p>

<p>It is obviously just factually inaccurate to suggest that college students don’t have jobs because they didn’t attend career fairs – neither job offer I received senior year came from a company that even attended a career fair. I went to three career fairs in the fall of 2010, and while they helped me to understand what I wanted, they didn’t really do very much in the actual job department. However, plenty of people did make valuable contacts at career fairs (and I do still have every business card I got from every career fair I attended), so IF the original poster did not attend any career fairs during his senior year, it is a great note for rising seniors that attending career fairs can absolutely help you find a job. Similarly, seniors should know that recruiting for many positions happens during the fall semester, so they should prepare their resumes start their research NOW.</p>