What are you thankful for?

Agenda for TodayGet your notebook & organize your papersWhat was the College of the Day on Tuesday?Subiendo: The Academy for Rising Leaders– http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/HLI/Subiendo.aspx

Practice ACT test Tuesday and Thursday after Thanksgiving from 4:30-8pm! Sign Up

Family Volunteer Day- This Saturday 9am-12pm– East Metro Park clean up: 18701 Blake Manor Rd. Manor, Texas

CollegeGreenLight.com- Create account & look up scholarships– On the 3rd page, under ORGANIZATION type in “College

Forward” and select me as your coach.

Do’s & Don’t of Resume writing DO Use sentence fragments in the past tense

Instead of “I assisted my teacher with organization”, write “Assisted teacher with organization.”

Proof read and have others review your resume

Put information in reverse chronological order with most current job or activity first: Target, cashier, June 2012 – present McDonald’s, cashier, November 2011 –

April 2012 Turn accomplishments into numbers

Instead of “Managed the front desk of a gym by checking in patrons at the front desk,” try “Managed a 230,000 square foot gym by checking in patrons at the front desk”

DON’T Use the word “I” Share too much info like birthday, religion,

weight, social security number, links to social media sites, ect.

Make grammar mistakes and typos Make resume too long- limit to one page,

front-only Skimp on information

List everything that you have been involved in during high school

Be modest Show off what you have accomplished

especially if it’s unique and interesting! Worry!

You will continually be updating your resume, use this as a motivation for getting involved

Action words!DirectedManagedLedDesignedReorganizedAccomplishedPerformedCompletedAchievedStartedEstablishedOrganized

Examined

Investigated

Revised

Simplified

Improved

Implemented

Negotiated

Demonstrated

ConductedEvaluatedIntroducedGuided

Example Resume!

•AP and Honors classes should be included under the high school section

•Be sure to include everything you have been involved in or accomplished since Freshman year of high school

•College Forward counts too!

•Include how often you were involved per week as well as hours per week and the duration of your involvement

•This will always be a work in progress as you should continually be updating your resume

•First copy due by the end of this month!

Resume Examples

• Diana’s CoFo Senior • Mine!• Use resume primer & hand write resume• Have at least one person review it• Pocket mobile resume app for iPads