Project: Other Resume Styles
Introduction:
Now that you have developed a resume in the one-page classic style preferred by employers, there are several other styles of resumes that you may wish to create to use either now in your job search or in your future career.
You may wish to develop an extended resume for networking purposes that gives much more detail about your studies, work experiences, and activities than you would list on an employer resume.
Or you may choose to create a functional style or combination of functional and chronological if you have many skill sets that your work or activity experiences do not reflect.
You may wish to create a very lengthy curriculum vita type resume for others to use when introducing you as a guest speaker or when selling yourself to a bank loan officer or for some other professional need.
Of course, once you have been in the world of work for a period of time, your resume will look quite different from this initial job search resume in that you will list your work experience first and education later. Remember that resumes should be constructed to list your most valuable career asset first. They are a tool to accomplish a desired effect.
Instructions:
Decide what type resume style you wish to create and then do research to learn how to create that style. Only one resume style will be accepted for credit.
Option A: Complete your Extended Networking Style Resume. Read your textbook, Career Planning Strategies: Hire Me! (5th Edition), Chapters 10 & 11, particularly pages 259-60, and look at the longer resume samples in Chapter 12 to gain ideas about creating this resume.
1.  Write your resume. Although the employer resume that you created for project 1 may be a good place to begin your networking recommender resume, do not just turn in your Project 1 resume. This new resume must be substantially longer and much more complete and thorough.
2.  Consider beginning your networking resume with a skills summary statement. Think about what skills you have to offer and how you want to describe yourself. Be specific. Rather than “good communicator” for example, think about what kind of communication you excel at: public speaking? persuasive communication? relationship building?
3.  Be thorough and descriptive when writing all other sections. Use class lecture and the textbook to help you. It is vital that your resume be well organized, articulate, and completely free of typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors.
4.  On a separate page describe when and how you intend to use this resume.
Option B: Complete your functional or combination style resume. Read your textbook, Career Planning Strategies: Hire Me! (5th Edition), Chapters 10 & 11, particularly pages 262-64, and look at the resume samples in Chapter 12 to gain ideas about creating this resume.
1.  Write your resume. This style resume will look completely different from your project 1 resume.
2.  Your resume must be well organized, articulate, and completely free of typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors.
3.  On a separate page describe when and how you intend to use this resume.
Turn In:
A.  Resume in option A, or B
B.  Descriptive statement