Stephen Kuntz

AIA Conference 2018

Resume vs. CV

AIA template

The Who Audience

The Why Purpose

The What Content

The How Communication

Who are you talking to?

Who is reading it?

What do they want?

Who isn’t reading it?

What do you want?

What do you want them to know or feel

about you?

Including and Excluding

Sections and Headings

the irrelevant to . . .

the prejudicial against . . .

Effect : more is less

necessary vs. unnecessary

The required to . . .

The necessary to . . .

Contact Information

Highlights/Summary

Education

Experience

Certifications Technical Skills Volunteer Affiliations and

Memberships Awards and Scholarships Publications Extracurricular Activities Instrumentation or

Machinery Experience Hobbies

INTRODUCTION I bring qualities often desired but not teachable such as maturity, professionalism and sensibility. I am energetic, decisive, confident, and teachable with a sincere desire to learn. I am an excellent self starter, committed to Albertans, and invasive weed management. I enjoy being known as someone who has answers to questions and solves problems. I look forward to contributing to Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, my experience in weed identification and management, regulatory investigation and compliance, policy writing and interpreting, project planning and managing, public service and teaching. My passion is empowering others through appreciative inquiry with knowledge and tools to aid them in their weed control programs.

Computer/Technological Literacy

Windows

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio)

Adobe Acrobat Professional

GOA Remote Desktop, Citrix

GOA ERKS, ESAR, EMS

No periods

Don’t need to be complete sentences

◦ Verbs: validate and show your skills and accomplishments

◦ Keywords: connect to employer’s wants, needs, and vision

◦ Qualifiers/Modifiers: enhance clarity and intensify descriptions of knowledge/skills

◦ Quantifiers: measure accomplishments

Validates what you do/have done

Shows rather than tells

Choose verbs with an eye to the correct tense and voice

Consistent Accurate Be careful with the present progressive (is ___ing) tense; normally refers to an event that is in process

Usually the first word(s) in bulleted lists

◦ Conducted soil compaction study …

◦ Coded plant species . . .

◦ Responded to . . .

Performed data analysis . . .

Performed laboratory research . . .

Followed workplace guidelines …

Be careful with passive constructions like “Duties included” or “Responsibilities included”

developed new programming

revenue generation increased

…including determining clients needs, correctly completing orders, and timely service delivery

developed new programming

increased revenue generation

…including efficiently determining clients needs, correctly completing orders, and timely service delivery

or …including determining

clients needs, completing orders, and service delivery

Where: Job postingEmployer websitesOccupational profilesNetworking

What: SynonymsClick right on wordThesaurasu.com

Add potency to descriptions◦ Effectively organized … ◦ Demonstrated strong research capacity…◦ Implemented innovative strategy…

Be careful of overuse- less is more

A modifier is a “word or group of words that limits the meaning of or makes more specific another word or group of words” (O’Hare & Kline, 1993, p. 628).

They are useful in enhancing clarity

or

produce confusion and possibly humour.

I almost went to Banff this week.

I nearly coded two hundred plant species.

vs

I went almost to Banff this week.

I coded nearly two hundred plant species.

Place a modifying word or phrase as close as possible to the word it modifies.

Quantify the value of your contributions◦ Coordinated 3 community

outreach programs◦ Trained 5 support staff ◦ Raised $4800 for mental health

awareness week◦ Presented research findings to 30

students

Be careful of overuse

Punctuation

Consistent

Correct

(not) Creative

Communicative

Spelling

Read it aloud

Give it to a colleague to read

Read it backwards

Use the FIND Function to find problems

Look at particular aspects– verbs or parallel

Put some time between you and it

Next Steps