COMM 421 -- Senior Colloquium

Dr. Lee McGaan  

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Senior Resume Assignment
last updated 8/15/2011


The Senior Resume Assignment for Senior Colloquium requires you to do the following:

  1. Review and Edit your current (Junior) resume as it appears on your portfolio site and in pdf form.
     

    • Review and revise the skills and abilities you list on your resume in light of what you have accomplished since last year, what you learned in internships or independent studies, etc.

    • Consider developing various "packages" consisting of goals and skills arranged to maximize your attractiveness to different types of potential employers or schools so you can readily print a resume tailored to specific kinds of applications.  [You need multiple copies!]

    • Review how you display work history.  Be sure it does not inadvertently make you look like a candidate for a minimum wage job.
       

  2. Visit the Wackerle Center for Senior Resume assistance (optional), if desired.
     

  3. Post the "general" version of your Senior Resume to your portfolio "Resume" page by the due date: 9/19.
     

  4. Include a link on your resume to a 'printer friendly' version of your resume.  The correct way to do this is with a .pdf (Adobe) format file.  [ You can make a pdf file in a matter of a couple of minutes in the COMM Media/Computer lab using the Adobe Acrobat program -- or use the "pdf creator" option on the printer selection box in Microsoft Office program on campus]  You can then link to that pdf file on your Resume portfolio page.  You could even have two pdf files linked on your portfolio page, one regular, printer-friendly version and one "scannable" version of your resume.
     

  5. Meet with your COMM mentor/advisor to get advice on your resume (s) as convenient.  (Have your advisor email McGaan that you had a resume meeting and you'll get a small bonus on this assignment.)  [This meeting should occur in the early fall but does not have to occur before the due date for editing your on-line resume.]

Senior Resume Assignment Evaluation Form