Resumes

Building Your Resume: Step-by-Step

Step 1: List all of your work experiences and leadership activities along with your associated tasks

• Non-Profit Internship: task 1, task 2, task 3, task 4, task 5, task 6
• Organized Women’s Conference: task 1, task 2, task 3, task 4, task 5, task 6

Step 2: Group together related tasks into 1-3 “projects”

• Non-Profit Internship: Tasks 1-3 are about social media, tasks 4-6 are about data analysis
• Organized Women’s Conference: Tasks 1-3 are about coordinating a panel, tasks 4-6 about setting up the venue

Step 3: Develop each project experience into impactful bullets using Accomplishment Statements (details below)

• Non-Profit Internship : Optimized organization’s social media presence by doing tasks 1-3; increased web hits by 25%, from X to Y
• Organized Women’s Conference : Recruited a 5-person panel of female entrepreneurs for inaugural 2-day, 200-person Women’s Leadership Conference; coordinated their travel (task 1), established the topics for discussion (task 2), and welcomed them upon their arrival (task 3)

Step 4: Group together related experiences and leadership activities under 2-3 resume section headings (details below)

Step 5: Using this ‘Master Resume,’ create several one-page resumes for the different roles you are targeting

• Research Assistant Position: Highlight your research projects or technical skills
• Consulting or Banking Internship: Highlight activities that showcase your problem-solving skills, leadership, teamwork, and communication skills

Step 6: Convert your resume to PDF and name it properly for submission (firstname_lastname_resume)

Key Resume Sections

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• Include your name, phone number, and email address. The font size of your name may be slightly larger than the other text.
• Once you build your  LinkedIn Profile , consider listing your personal URL under your name.
• It is not necessary to include your street address, although the city and state may be helpful if searching for a position in that geographic area.

Education

• As a student begin your resume with an education section, listing your Baruch degree first and your high school education second. If you have studied abroad list that in this section beneath your Baruch College experience.
• Include the degree you are pursuing, your major, and anticipated graduation date.
  • Example: Bachelor of Science in Information Management, May 2020‍
• You may include related coursework, senior thesis/project, GPA. Honors and awards can be included in this section or a separate section.

Work Experience & Leadership

• You may include general experience and activity headings, or targeted headings, such as Journalism Experience, Leadership, Research, or Community Involvement. Choose headings that will best group and highlight your experiences.
• Within each section, list your experiences and activities in reverse chronological order with the most recent first.
• With each experience or activity, include your title or role, the organization or employer name, location, and dates affiliated.
  • Example: iSchool Security Club, President Fall 2014-Present
• Provide concise descriptive statements about your experiences, focusing on accomplishments. Begin with action verbs and avoid personal pronouns.

Possible Additional Sections

• Technical Skills (such as Programming Languages, Software, Database, Social Media)
• Honors and Awards
• Performances
• Publications
• Interests

Writing Strong Accomplishment Statements

What are accomplishment statements?

Accomplishment statements are the bullets/sentences under the experience section of your resume that describe and quantify your achievements, results, and successes from your past work, internship, student organization, volunteer, military, or education experiences. When writing these statements, employers want to also know how you will contribute to their team or organization. In other words, don’t just list what your role was; also give specific examples of the impact you made and the value you added during those experiences. ‍

Before you start writing accomplishment statements, consider the following questions:‍

Have I ever: Improved something? Achieved more with fewer resources or money? Reduced costs? Improved productivity? Saved time? Increased recruitment numbers? Designed, developed, or implemented a new process, program or product? Brought diverse constituents together to accomplish something? Improved morale? Solved a pressing problem? Managed or led a team? Presented complex information clearly? Successfully multitasked? Dedicated long hours of work to accomplish something within a short timeframe? Balanced extracurricular/outside commitments with coursework? Took initiative without anyone asking? Received awards or positive performance reviews?

What are you most proud of? What would others you have worked with say about your contribution? How have organizations benefitted from your work? What special projects have you worked on and what was the outcome? What is the tangible evidence of your accomplishments?”

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Guidelines for Creating Impactful Bullets

Action + Project + Result Format

• Project: Group related tasks together into more meaningful projects/activities
• Action: Choose an action verb that describes what YOU did and YOUR contribution (NOT the TEAM!). Highlight the SKILLS you used.
• Result: Show the result and impact of your work, and QUANTIFY in terms of % improvement or % increase when possible. If your work resulted (or will result) in a publication or patent, mention that.
• Write it out: [A] choose an Action verb + [P] name a Project completed or problem solved + [R] describe the Result, quantifying when possible.

Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y] by doing [Z] Format

• Write it out: [X] Lead with the impact you delivered + [Y] Numerically measure what you accomplished + [Z] Detail specifically what you did