Resume Writing

A few weeks ago a person from the Student Center came in during our FIG class to teach us how to write a  good resume. She first went through all the things people thought they needed to put into a resume and things that people put it that was really unnecessary. She told us what to put on the top and what type of information was appropriate to put onto our resume that we would distribute to places we wanted to apply for a job at. I took down a lot of notes because not only was this due in our class but this also helped me understand what I need to incorporate in my resume when I want to apply for a real job later on in my life. However, after this was done, we had to make our own resumes and have it revised by people in the Student Center before we handed it in and we also had to get it printed out on real resume paper to make it seem like it was a legitimate resume.
Although at first I thought this was going to be useless and boring I learned many new things in order to make a good resume. For example I learned that after freshman / sophomore year of college, information about what I did in high school and the activities I participated in high school is unnecessary and I should remove it before handing it into an employer. I also learned that it is important to make the resume eye popping and make it interesting because the employer first takes a glance at it and only reads it later on if he or she found in interesting from that single glance. Overall this class was helpful and interesting and I really appreciated this person coming in and teaching us how to write a good resume.