<p>By what time in your college career did you have a resume prepared for potential employers?</p>
<p>what did you put on it?, I assume BEFORE you got your first internship or relevant work experience.</p>
<p>reason i ask is because i need to write one because i am going on a visit to a big company and there will be a session where we can speak with someone and hand a resume in if we like but really, i just tried to prepare one and i see that I have nothing to write.</p>
<p>I do have an excellent gpa, so i guess takes my worries off the education portion, but after that its like 3/5 of a page blank.</p>
<p>what to write?!?, i am not part of any clubs..and even if i was, what type of club would they even really care about.</p>
<p>and i dont think writing about some dumb irrelevant drycleaning job is work experience, and even then it was in high school..and i am >2years out of high school now.</p>
<p>I had one as of sophomore year at least, but its purpose wasn’t for like… finding careers after college. I will probably use career services here to help me draft a better one sometime this year.</p>
<p>People make writing resumes much more difficult and constricted than it actually is.</p>
<p>Any job you’ve held is absolutely work experience. Especially if you’re going for an internship or something, most of their applicants aren’t going to have any relevant experience, so the fact that you were able to show up and hold down a job counts. I’m sure at some point during the job some sort of problem came up that you had to solve, and that’s going to be something they want to hear about. Also, they’re going to care about whatever clubs you do join, it’s just a bonus if it’s relevant. I had an interview recently for a full time job with a company which is one of the largest in it’s industry, and not in any way shape or form related to my degree. I spent over half my interview talking about coaching flag football because that’s what they seemed interested in. They liked me well enough to invite me back for a second interview in a couple weeks so I suppose I did something right.</p>
<p>Make sure you list your classes that you think are relevant along with any skills you have (excel, word, any programs you’re reasonably competent in) and if you’ve done any projects, even if they’re small, list them because it’ll look better than a blank page. Especially any sort of team projects you did (everybody loves teamwork) and anything that relates to the company you’re talking to. As time goes by and you get work experience you can start knocking off the less relevant things, like the dry cleaning job, but for now ANYTHING is better than a blank page.</p>
<p>If you need help you can PM me your resume (feel free to change the contact info/name/GPA etc. if it makes you feel more comfortable) or any other questions.</p>
<p>I prepared a resume last fall in order to apply for a few internships. This fall I completely redid it-- not make minor changes and additions-- I nearly started over. My new one does not have any courses listed on it, but then my “relevant experience” section takes up around half a page if not more.</p>
<p>I started having a prepared resume last summer after a couple of jobs I wanted to apply for asked for one. I just have my job experience listed and what position I held, job contact, etc. Of course I also have my school history, and recently I added about my experience working student radio. I also have a description of the position I held at each job. I also have my own contact information at the top.</p>
<p>Some tips: make sure you save your resume correctly and in some kind of universally common form so that anyone should be able to download it onto their computer. Make sure you list everything the company asks for. It’s also good to have a list of references, their contact info., and how you know them/how long on hand as well. </p>
<p>Honestly I didn’t have a resume before I got my first job. I just applied. The company did not ask for a resume so I was okay, and actually the second company I worked for did not either. If I were in your situation I would just list my school information and information about my major. List any kind of activity you’ve done at college that could be related to work- volunteering, things like student radio, student government, work-study, maybe any kind of leadership experience. You should do more research though- there are probably tons of books and info. about college students who need to start writing resumes.</p>