Last Thursday I attended a seminar on how to create a resume. Like most, if not all, of the students attending this seminar, I was  (and still am) currently applying to summer internships, and I was looking for pointers that I hadn’t hear from anywhere else. I had known some of the items gone over in the seminar before, such as putting contact information at the top of the page, being conservative in use of fonts, and not listing soft skills. However, other things, such as using active verbs, and not including anything from high school, were new to me.

I do wish that GRF Seema had told us what we were going to do with the paper copies of our resumes that we were to bring to the seminar beforehand. I had come in with the assumption that we would be editing said resumes during the seminar, but instead we ended up switching resumes with one another. To be honest, I was embarrassed of my measly one page resume when I saw that most people around me had a lot more with them, and having to share it with someone else was nerve-wracking. In retrospect, I wish I had brought a sample resume from the internet instead.