5.20 - Resume, Skills & Links

Warm-Up (15 min)
POTD
QOTD:
Answer the following questions in paragraph form (answering these one by one will NOT look good):

1. What skills do you have?
2. Provide the amount of experience and level of each skill you identify.
3. Identify how you have used each skill you identify.
4. Think critically about how your hobbies and extracurricular activities have enhanced your skills (step/basketball/soccer = productive collaboration / work well with others)

For Example:


Over the course of the last decade I have enjoyed various opportunities to develop skills in diverse arenas. During my three years of studying and working in Beijing I developed a advanced level of Mandarin Chinese Language. In my work with Boston University, I was able to hone my skills in web development and online class production. Similarly, in working in Boston and Oakland high-schools, I was able to further develop my audio and video production technique, as well as my own pedagogy. Concurrent to these experiences I served as the junior varsity basketball coach, working with a small group of students developing a highly specific skill-set.

Resume and Proof

Making your resume will connect to two pages in your portfolio

1. The Resume page (duh!)
2. The links page

Everything listed on your resume page should be proved on the links page. Provide links to examples of everything listed under hobbies, skills, and interests.

Making the Resume (30 min)
While in high school you may not have a great deal of work experience, we all have a number of skills that we have picked up through working at home (child care, cooking, 2nd & 3rd languages) or participated in in you electives and art classes (public speaking, photoshop, video editing).

1. Open pages.
2. Choose the “resume “ category
3. Choose your preferred style of resume
4. Fill out resume with your profile (your goals paragraph will do), job experience, school and skills (the paragraph we wrote for warm-up)
5. The short paragraph under the job title, date and location is generally used for describing the job and its responsibilities.
6. Do NOT fill out full name, address and phone information!
7. Do include email address and URL of your website.

Links Page
Create a links page to accompany and provide proof for everything you claim on your resume. This applies to each of your jobs listed as well as your school and skills (if you claim that you have some experience editing video, provide a link to a video that you have edited).

Be sure to get the full URL for your link! You may abbreviate how the viewer will see your link, but if you don’t get the full http//www...they may never see your work!

Uploading Portfolio Work
Give people access to your best work.
Use:

1. Youtube (video)
2. Picassa (images)
3. google docs (writing)
4. soundcloud.com (audio)