Resumes

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/565/1/

I found this site to be very informative on what a resume is and how to build a resume. Through this site, I was able to learn that resumes have different sections with specific needs. Some sections that are included in a resume are contact information, education, and work experience. I think that each section is equally important because without the contact information section, the employer would not be able to get in touch with the potential employee. If a employer or the human resources department of an organization wanted to hire you but did not have any way of contacting you or had outdated information, it can leave you in a disadvantage. I think the education section is very simple because you just have to discuss the highest degree of education you received. Lastly, the work experience section is where you discuss your present or previous employment(s). I think my reaction towards this site was appreciation for it's detailed explanations and specific tips that were really helpful. I have written resumes in the past but reading some of the tips surprised because I think I learned new things from them that I did not know before.

 http://www.resumewriting.net/outline.htm

I think this site is interesting because it provides a detailed outline of what a resume is supposed to look like. This site shows that a resume should have seven sections and within these sections there are factors that need to be addressed. For example, in contact information, factors such as name, mailing address, daytime phone, night time phone, cell phone, fax, and email have to be specifically addressed. I liked this website because it wasn't too wordy, it just got to the point. My reaction to the website and the sample resume was that I was familiar with most of the sections in the resume except for the activities section. I've written a few resumes before but never one with an activities section. So i found that to be new and interesting. I think it also made me think that maybe sometime in the future, it would be a good idea to include one.

http://www.professional-resume-example.com/resume-outline.htmlhttp://www.professional-resume-example.com/resume-outline.html

I think this last link was very important in helping to build the structure of a resume because it described each section within a resume and then once you had finished reading you were able to chose from a variety of sample resumes depending where you are in life. They had different resumes for different type of people. For example, they had resumes from freshly graduated high school students, students who are still in college, recently graduated college students, and if you were in the military. I thought that this website was really impressive because not every website involving resumes have mock resumes depending on the different stages of life. I thought it was really interesting to see the difference of experience between that of a high school-er to that of a college student. I think it made me reflect on changes in myself since high school.