I feel more empowered as a job seeker now that I know how to read job listings. It has never occurred to me before that I could use a company job description to tailor my resume. In the future as I search for a job I will take the time to carefully read job descriptions looking for skills, characteristics, and traits that I can highlight in my resume. Additionally I would also look into other aspect of the company that I am interested in. Traditionally I find it difficult to know what to include in my objective. However, I have found that a company mission statement can help to make your statement more focused and direct.
My greatest struggle in writing a resume is deciding what to include. I now know to look for skills, characteristic, and trait that I posses. My worry than becomes that I do not have enough experience to interest the employer. This is a difficult situation trying to land that first job. As we saw this week in class, maintaining integrity is very important. Falling into a non-ethical trap will come back to haunt you. It is my hope that my future employer will accept honesty and a hard work ethic over a lack of experience in the field.
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Ty, I have the same problem with beginning to write a resume. Once I have it all written down, I look at it and think, "is this really all I've got?". This is the first year when I've really started to worry about what I need to accomplish to make my resume more well-rounded especially when I'm about to graduate in 2 years. But just think about how much you can actually accomplish in that amount of time. There is so much else you can do. Start to find internships. I think the book "What Color is Your Parachute?" really provides a tremendous amount of information for job hunting and forming a resume, so I would recommend to keep that in your desk drawer as well! :)
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