The blank resume...

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>I am wondering if anyone had any success finding your very first internship with what you considered a very WEAK resume?</p>

<p>I am trying to create mine but I find that i just cannot fill much, I am not part of any clubs or any real awards.</p>

<p>I don't know if its appropriate to write in irrelevant jobs such as working in a drycleaners..</p>

<p>Do you acknowledge generic awards such as deans list? (IE. "awards" you dont apply for)</p>

<p>help?</p>

<p>(btw, internship field is in software / computer science)</p>

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<p>Why don’t you volunteer to help a non profit, church, school, small business, whatever update their computer system, inputting data, anything they need. Maybe several short term projects. The directors, bosses can write nice LORs and you have something for your resume. Be aggressive and creative. Internships are competitive.</p>

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<p>I need to hand in this resume in 1 week</p>

<p>at least to my advantage i have a higher gpa than the crowd…</p>

<p>BTW should i print my resume on special paper? !!!</p>

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<p>Large font.</p>

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<p>lol… :P</p>

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<p>List courses you’ve taken relevant to the job you’re applying for. </p>

<p>Yes, list drycleaning. Work experience is work experience. It shows you can actually hold down a job.</p>

<p>Talk to someone at the career center at your school.</p>

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<p>yep, i was planning on taking it to resume critique, but even then i feel silly asking for help with a blank piece of paper.</p>

<p>Actually, its coming along now…but I don’t know if i can compete with the other guys</p>

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;[ In this very case that won’t work for me…the group I am visiting the company with are a year or two ahead of me and will have 4x as many computer science courses completed…i wouldn’t want them to see the list and compare my list with a previous student</p>

<p>I will try to elaborate on my drycleaning job, at least i had it for a few years so it doesnt look like a summer job.</p>

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<p>At the top you should be able to write one to three sentences on what you’ve done and what you are looking for.</p>

<p>Have a section for technical skills: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, C, C++, Java, Visual Studio, GCC, any IDEs, etc.</p>

<p>In the education section, it’s fine to list Dean’s List.</p>

<p>Put in any related experience - this can include volunteer stuff.</p>

<p>Put in unrelated experience. Holding down a job for a long period of time (over a year) looks good.</p>

<p>Activities and interests: do you like sports, hobbies, movies, anything?</p>

<p>Awards: any math awards? Any scholarships? Any high-school awards?</p>

<p>Get a book on writing resumes. There should be several in your library. Also use your career center for help on resumes and interviewing.</p>

<p>Make sure that you are hooked up with your departments email. My son gets frequent job postings through his CS department listserver.</p>

<p>For the future, you might consider volunteer coding or triaging for an open source project. There are loads of them around and they’re usually desperate for volunteer help.</p>