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Module 09

Communication for Employment: The Résumé

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the parts, types and features of résumé.

2. Write an effective and appropriate print and scannable résumé.

Overview

A résumé is a persuasive summary of your qualifications for employment. If you are

in the job market, having a résumé makes you look well organized and prepared to your
prospective employers. Together with this text is an application letter or a cover letter that
introduces you to these employers. Writing these two on paper is you! When you send both
to your prospect employers, you are making an argument for why those employers should
want to meet you or even hire you. Moreover, writing a résumé and application letter is
writing an advertisement selling your skills, talents and abilities to the employers who will
likely sift through many applications to decide whom to grant an interview. Thus, resumes
and application letters require a level of care that few other documents do.

Types of Résumé

1. Print résumé are printed on paper for prospective employers to scrutinize. They are
designed to emphasize key information using bold or italic typeface.
2. Scannable résumé are designed to be read by computers; hence, they are to be
formatted using single or without italics or bold.

Print Résumé

Name in boldface Franchesca U. Morales

Objective tailored to
specific job sought
20 Evangelista Street
Leonila Hill, Baguio City 2600
+63917245-2288
chescamorales@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE To obtain a financial associate where I can utilize
my strategic, analytic, and organizational skills and
interpersonal communication skills.

Match between EXPERIENCE

Experience and job
description
April-October MLX Mining Corporation, Bakun Benguet
2015 Inventory Clerk

 Did inventories on equipment and tools

 Verified and computed amounts of
inventories on record
 Reconciled and reported on reasons of
discrepancies of account and computation
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July-September MLX Mining Corporation, Bakun Benguet

2014 Office Clerk Trainee

 Monitored budgeted expenses of every

department
 Computed premium pay of employees
 Organized records on file

2012-2014 GLOLINKS Corporation, Baguio City

Customer
DO Service Representative
& CHECK

 Provide clients their financial status

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EDUCATION Santa Catalina College, La Trinidad, Benguet
2008-2012 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Ba

HONORS Dean’s Lister from 2008-2010

Loyalty Medallist

ACTIVITIES Varsity Player in Volleyball, Organizations Fund-

raiser

SKILLS Microsoft Office; SPSS for Windows; Eudora Pro;

PowerPoint; Fluency in English and Filipino
Format to fill languages; Driving
entire page

REFERENCES Yochabel L. Que, MPsych

Head, CSR Department
GLOLINKS Corporation
25 Jump High Bldg., Harrison Road, Baguio City
(074)442-0000

Engr. Xynai M. Sly

Supervisor
MXL Mining Corporation
Poblacion, Bakun Benguet
(074) 443-0000

Jyra P. Sim, CPA, PhD

Dean, College of Accountancy
Santa Catalina College
Km 5, La Trinidad, Benguet
(074) 444-0000
(074) 443-0000

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Scannable Résumé

All information in Franchesca U. Morales

a single typeface,
aligned on left
margin Key words: public relations; accountant; auditor; bookkeeper; sales;
independent worker; responsible; hardworking; English language fluency

Address
20 Evangelista Street
Leonila Hill, Baguio City 2600
Phone: +63917245-2288
E-mail: chescamorales@gmail.com
No underlining
bold or italics
No underlining
bold or italics Education
B.S. in Accountancy, Santa Catalina College,
La Trinidad, Benguet
200Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

Experience
Inventory Clerk, April-October
Philex Mining Corporation, Benguet
Reconciled and reported on reasons of discrepancies of
Account and computation

Office Clerk Trainee, July-September 2014

MLX Mining Corporation, Benguet
Budgeted expenses of every department are monitored.
Computation of premium pay of employees, Organizer or records on file.

Customer Service Representative, 2012-2014

Sitel Corporation, Baguio City
Provider of financial status to clients.

Honors
Dean’s Lister from 2008-2010
Loyalty Medallist

Skills
Microsoft Office; SPSS for Windows; Eudora Pro;
PowerPoint; Fluency in English and Filipino languages; Driving

Activities
Varsity Player in Volleyball,
Organizations Fund-raiser

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Features of Resume

1. Organization

These are different ways on how you can organize your resume
depending on your goals, experiences and qualifications. You can
organize a resume chronologically, functionally, or targeted.

a) Chronological resume is the general listing of all your academic and

work experience from the most recent to the oldest.
b) Functional resume is organized around various kinds of experience.
If you wish to demonstrate a lot of experience in more than one area
and if you wish to downplay dates, you may write this type or resume.
c) Targeted Resume generally announces the specific goal up to top,
just beneath your name, and offers information selectively. You can
show only the experience and skills relevant to your goal.

2. Succinctness
A resume must be concise. Entries may not written in sentences but
should be parallel. For instance, “Organized inventory records” rather
than “I organized inventory records.” For print resume, use action
verbs (organized, designed, etc….) rather than nouns (organizer,
designer etc…) to emphasize your accomplishments. For scannable
resume, use nouns rather than verbs as key words.

3. Comprehensiveness
A resume present all important details that can gain the nod of the
prospective employer. In giving details, however, carefully choose the
words that you use. You may use the exact words in the
advertisement provided that they really reflect your experiences or
qualifications. Check all the information you provided – from the
contact information down the references. Make sure the references
know that you placed them as sources of information for your
employment before sending the resume.

4. Design

The resume should be reader-friendly and be professionally

packaged. For print resume, use appropriate spacing, section
headings, and uniform typeface for each heading. Scannable resume,
on the other hand, shall only have one standard typeface.

Check (Questions for Discussion)

1. What are the parts of a resume?

2. What are the two types of resume?
3. What are the features of a resume? How does each feature diffrer from one
another?

Do – Activity (To Do)

1. Write a resume
2. Submit a printed resume.

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