The Fearless Resume

How to write a resume that communicates
exactly who you are and finds you the job you are destined to land!

Course Outline for The Fearless Resume

Course Description:

This course will inform and educate the students about writing a resume that communicates exactly who they are, thus helping them to find the job they are destined to land! Through a series of written exercises, and video and audio presentations, the students will become prepared to communicate their qualifiable and quantifiable accomplishments and value to a hiring manager. They will produce a resume highlighting their accomplishments and skills, and depict a multidimensional view of who they really are.

Prerequisite skills:

None.

Expected Student Outcomes:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. Write a resume that gets results and interviews.
2. Communicate their value to a hiring manager.
3. Define their qualifiable and quantifiable accomplishments.
4. Highlight and describe their core competencies/transferable skills.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. List the critical parts of a resume.
2. Discuss in their own words how each critical part of the resume applies to them.
3. Define their work experience and accomplishments in reverse chronological order under the “professional experience” part of the resume.
4. Design the layout and format of their resume to include the critical parts and the content from each part of the resume using a resume template.
5. Utilize correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization and grammar in their cover letters.
6. Document the facts of their professional history and write a 1 to 3 page resume depending on the length of their job history.
7. List their quantifiable and qualifiable accomplishments.
8. Describe in their own words, their core competencies and transferable skills.
9. Communicate their values and interests and provide that information in the resume under the professional heading of professional associations or community service.
10. Learn how to attract people that value their history.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the Fearless Resume course, the student should be able to:

1. Write a resume that secures them interviews and lands them their ideal job.
2. Communicate their value and transferable skills to a hiring manager.

Methods of Presentation:

Writing assignments

Audio Presentations

Video Presentations

Typical Assignments:

Written and Lecture with visual examples of the components of resumes, resume writing process i.e. “day in the life document”, sample resumes and a document outlining what hiring managers are looking for.

Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:

Homework assignments relating to the course materials.

Final project-

1. Write a Resume
2. Write a list of 6-8 core competencies and define each one and how they apply in a work situation.
3. Provide a list of transferable skills.

Textbook(s):

none

Special Student Materials.

Course handouts. (will need a binder to assemble)

Internet access