I’m really glad that I attended this workshop hosted by our GRF Seema, who is super helpful and patient in telling us how to write a professional CV and resume. As most of the students attending this workshops are sophomores joniors and seniors, we all really need to learn about CV and resume for applying for internships, and building up the skills for applying to jobs after graduation, or applying for graduate school. So this is a very important skill that we should all learn. However, as an arts and sciences students, we don’t feel as prepared in terms of how to write this kind of self-presenting forms in a professional way. I’m so glad that I came to this workshops, which made me realized so many misconceptions that I had and how should I change my resume.

I especially like when she told us in the perspective of how the other side of the table think about reading a resume. Since as job recruiters, they may only spend a few seconds to scan a piece of resume, so to stand out in numerous applicants, we need to know what will the recruiter looking for and what we should put on one piece of paper. We went through the basic components of resume from name , education, experiences, relevant courses, and additional skills, and how should we form and organize the font and avoid too colorful background, and also avoiding confusion to the reader is also important.

I learnt a lot from this workshops and I edited my own resume after this workshop and I really feel it becomes more professional thanks to the help of our GRF Seema!