Chapter 5: Write Your Resume

CAREER ACTION WORKSHEET

5-2 Revise Your Qualifications List

1. Copy into a new file the Career Action Worksheet 4-3 table with your qualifications.
Finalize your Qualifications list for use in your resume by using the following
checklist:
 Have you selected the most important, eye-catching strengths and
capabilities? yes
 Have you been purposeful and only included the top 8 to 10 strengths? Yes
 Have you described your top strengths in no more than three to five
words? Yes
 Have you ordered your Qualifications list from most important and relevant
to least important and relevant? Yes
 Have you used industry-relevant keywords? yes
2. Considering the two different job targets that you selected in Career Action
Worksheet 5-1, customize your Qualifications as needed for these different Job
Objectives.

5-3 Strengthen Your Work Experiences

3. Copy into a new file your Career Action Worksheet 4-4, Work Experiences. Finalize your
Work Experiences for use in your resume by using the following checklist:
a. Order your Work Experiences chronologically, starting with the most recent
experience first.
b. Follow the correct format: Job Title, Dates of Employment, Company Title, two-
sentence job description, bullet points of achievements.
c. Strengthen your WHI-formatted achievements with quantifiable results.
d. Eliminate unnecessary words and acronyms.
e. Use industry-relevant keywords as appropriate.
f. Choose action verbs that are relevant to your Work Experience, using the reference
list in Figure 5-1 on page 114 as a starting point. Also, refer to Appendix B, Phase 2:
Create Your Resume on pages 388-390 at the end of the book.
g. If your work experience is limited, have you included relevant paid and nonpaid
internships and volunteer or other pertinent activities?
h. Include any significant school projects, organization work, or other related
experiences in this section. Significant projects would include ones where you had
significant results, spent a large amount of time, and/or can demonstrate multiple
skills using more than one bullet point. If you need only a single bullet point to
describe the work, it is probably better to include in an Optional section such as
Related Experiences or Organizations.
i. Use your notes from the sample resumes you reviewed to ensure your resume
makes the best possible impression.

Ensure that these updates are in the “About Jobs” section of your Career Builder Files.
All is updated.