Communication for Employment: The Resume

Let’s Achieve These!

 Use personal SWOT analysis or self-assessment exercise in planning what to write in a
resume.
 Write an effective and appropriate print and scannable resume

Initializing
In writing a resume, you start by doing an inward assessment of yourself and by asking
the questions, “How can I encourage the employer to pay attention to my resume? and what kind
of resume should I use? ” These questions may be your starting point in fitting your
qualifications, skills, and experiences in creating your effective advertisement.
Concept Grounding
A resume is a persuasive summary of your qualifications for employment. If you are in
the job market, having a resume 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 texts may also serve as an ego-building experience: the
person who looks so good 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 resume 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 Resume
1. Print resumes are printed on paper for prospective employers to scrutinize. They are
designed to emphasize key information using bold or italic typeface.

2. Scannable resumes are designed to be read by computers; hence, they are to be formatted
using single typeface or without italics or bold.
Print Resume
Franchesca U. Morales
Name in
20 Evangelista Street boldface
Leonila Hill, Baguio City 2600
+63917-245-2288
chescamorales@gmail.com Objective
tailored to
OBJECTIVE To obtain a financial associate position where I can utilize my specific job
strategic, analytic, and organizational skills and interpersonal sought
communication skills

EXPERIENCE
Work
experience in
April-October MLX Mining Corporation, Bakun, Benguet
reverse
2015 Inventory Clerk chronological
order
 Did inventories on equipment and tools
 Verified and computed amounts of inventories on record
 Reconciled and reported on reasons of discrepancies of
count and computations

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 Service Representative

 Provided clients their financial status

EDUCATION Santa Catalina College, LA Trinidad, Benguet

2008-2012 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

HONORS Dean’s Lister from 2008-2010

Loyalty Medalist

ACTIVITIES Varsity Player in Volleyball, Organizations Fund-raiser

SKILLS Microsoft Office; SPSS for Windows; Eudora Pro; PowerPoint;

Fluency in English and Filipino
Franchesca U. Morales

languages; Driving Format to fill

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
MLX Mining Corporation
Poblacion, Bakun, Benguet
(074) 443-0000
 Scannable Resume

All information
Franchesca U. Morales in 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: +63917-245-2288
E-mail: chescamorales@gmail.com

No
underlining,
Education
bold, or italics
B.S. in Accountancy, Santa Catalina College, La
No Trinidad, Benguet
underlining,
bold, or
italics

Experience
Inventory clerk, April-October 2015
Philex Mining Corporation, Benguet
Reconciliation and report on reasons of discrepancies of count and computations.

Office Clerk Trainee, July-September 2014

Philex Mining Corporation, Benguet
Budgeted expense of every department is monitored.
Computation of premium pay of employees. Organizer of 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 Medalist

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

Activities
Varsity player in Volleyball
Organization Fund raiser
A. Features of a Resume

1. Organization
There 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 of resume.
c. Targeted resume generally announces the specific goal up to top, just beneath your
name, and others information selectively. You can show only the experience and
skills relevant to your goal.
2. Succinctness
A resume must be concise. Entries may not be 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 must 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 that all
information are reflected correctly and that those whom you placed in 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
headings. Scannable resume, on the other hand, shall only have one standard
typeface.