Lesson 4 Урок 4
Work experience Опыт работы
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Exercise 76
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Exercise 77
Read and translate the text.
Resume.
A resume is a short summary of candidate’s background and qualification. In Britain a resume is often referred to as a curriculum vitae. An excellent resume may help you get the job of your dream and a poor resume may mean a lost opportunity.
To begin planning your resume, decide which type of resume you need. This decision is in part based on requirements that prospective employers may have, and in part based on what your background and employment needs are. There are two basic, commonly used plans or designs you can consider using.
Functional design starts with a heading; then presents either education or work experience, whichever is stronger or more relevant; then presents the other of these two sections; then ends with a section on skills and certifications and one on personal information. Students who have not yet begun their careers often find this design the best for their purposes.
Thematic design – another approach to resumes. It divides your experience and education into categories such as project management, budgetary planning, financial tracking, personnel management, customer sales, technical support, publications — whichever areas describe your experience. Often, these categories are based directly on employment advertisements. If the job advertisement says that Company ABC wants a person with experience in training, customer service, and sales, then it might be a smart move to design thematic headings around those three requirements. If you want to use the thematic approach in your resume, take a look at your employment and educational experience — what are the common threads? Project management, program development, troubleshooting, supervision, maintenance, inventory control? Take a look at the job announcement you're responding to — what are the three, four, or five key requirements it mentions? Use these themes to design the body section of your resume. These themes become the headings in the body of the resume. Under these headings you list the employment or educational experience that applies.
Sections in Resumes. Resumes can be divided into three sections: the heading, the body, and the conclusion. Each of these sections has fairly common contents.
Heading. The top third of the resume is the heading. It contains your name, phone numbers, address, and other details such as your occupation, titles, and so on. Headings can also contain a goals and objectives subsection and a highlights subsection.
Highlights (summary section) occurs just below the heading and just above the main experience and education sections. This is an increasingly popular section in resumes. Resume specialists believe that the eye makes first contact with a page somewhere one-fourth to one-third of the way down the page — not at the very top. If you believe that, then it makes sense to put your very "best stuff" at that point. Therefore, some people list their most important qualifications, their key skills, their key work experience in that space on the page. Actually, this section is useful more for people who have been in their careers for a while. It's a good way to create one common spot on the resume to list those key qualifications about yourself that may be spread throughout the resume. Otherwise, these key details about yourself are scattered across your various employment and educational experience — in fact, buried in them.
Objectives, goals – also found on some resumes is a section just under the heading in which you describe what your key goals or objectives are.
Body. In a one-page resume, the body is the middle portion, taking up a half or more of the total space of the resume. In this section, you present the details of your work, education, and military experience. This information is arranged in reverse chronological order. In the body section, you also include your accomplishments, for example, publications, certifications, equipment you are familiar with, and so on.
Working EXPERIENCE is an integral part of any resume. List your experience starting with your most recent place of employment and work backwards. Write the exact days of employment, your position, and the name of the company you worked for. Provide information about your responsibilities, emphasizing important activities. List your responsibilities in short statements that do not include the words “my” or “I”.
Amplifications page. Some people have a lot of detail that they want to convey about their qualifications but that does not fit well in any of the typical resume designs. To keep the main part of the resume from becoming unbalanced and less readable, they shift all of this detail to an amplifications page. On the first page of this resume, the writer divides the presentation into experience and education sections and takes a chronological approach to each. On the first page, he only provides company names, job titles, dates, and discussion of duties.
Following experience, you should list your special SKILLS. These include your language skills, computer abilities, and any other talent that are relevant to your statement of intent. When describing your language abilities you should be honest about the level of your knowledge: “fluent English”, “native Russian”, “intermediate German” and “beginning French” are the ways to describe your language abilities.
Conclusion. In the final third or quarter of the resume, you can present other related information on your background. For example, you can list activities, professional associations, memberships, hobbies, and interests. At the bottom of the resume, people often put "REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST" and the date of preparation of the resume.
Place the words in the right order to form the questions. Answer the questions.
a is what resume?
for write you do a what resume?
may what mean a poor resume ?
for you the can designs name resume?
design which for is students better?
what on your decision design is based?
the sections of what a resume are?
should each what written be in section?
the resume put where in should you “best stuff” your?
working experience you should list your how ?
does information working experience include what ?
you should list what working experience after ?
the name you a lot of detail what is of the page can write on?
skills what you mention should?
you describe can your language abilities how ?
Exercise 78
Consider the following sample of resume.
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NAME: Mark Lloyd ADDRESS: 1100 Zenith Dr. Austin, TX. 78700 PHONE: (512) 000-0000 QUALIFICATIONS SUMMURY: Over fifteen years experience providing total customer service through selling, servicing, and training of electronic office equipment and computer software and hardware.
EDUCATION: Austin Community College, Austin, TX Major: A.S. Physical Science Estimated completion date: Fall 1997 61 hours completed, 3.9 out of 4.0 grade point average.
Southwest School of Electronics, Austin, TX Electronic Technician Certificate Del Valle H.S., Del Valle, TX WORK EXPERIENCE: Crawford Business Machines, Austin, TX (1982-Present) Service and Sales Representative. Responsibilities: • Build and test complete computer systems • Service customer equipment on site and in house • Provide training on equipment and software • Inside sales of supplies and equipment • Maintain supply and parts inventory • Manage daily office operations. (1981-1982) Precision Methods, Inc. Austin, TX Field Service Representative. Responsibilities: • Inspected and evaluated computer storage media at customers' facilities • Responsible for seven state area. (1979-1981) Home Craftsman Company, Austin, TX Installation Technician. Responsibilities: • Measured and installed custom windows and doors. (1977-1979) Part Time Jobs • Bergstrom Air Force Base Commissary, Austin, TX • Tom Thumb Grocery Store, Austin Grocery clerk OTHER SKILLS, HOBBIES & ACTIVITIES: Computers, basketball, running, movies REFERENCES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST. |
Exercise 79