New college grad looking for adviceI'm a new college grad looking for critiques on my resume, anything and everything will help. Thank you. ******************************************************************************************************************** XXXObjectives Honors graduate of XXX, seeking a position in marketing. Skills Language Spanish/Portuguese/English fluently Personal Ambitious, productive, honest, organized, reliable, committed, helpful, versatile, able to multitask and work under pressure. Clerical Greetings, answered phone calls, ran errands, made office reservationsand arrangements, filing, shipped orders, made copies, and took notesduring meetings. Technical Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus 1-2-3, Windows 98/2000/XP, Mozilla Firefox, Advertising Red Books, Bacons, PR Newswire, Listlogics, MediaAtlas, Act, Hoovers, and Dun & Bradstreet. Education Bachelor of Science in International Business, May 2007 Marketing Minor XXX, New York Graduated Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.33 on a 4.0 scale Received a yearly XXX Scholarship Phi Delta Sigma Honors Club Accomplishments Lead the Marketing Team of the XXX 2007 Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is an event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where students from 20 University and College teams from around the world design, build, market, and operate a fully-functional home powered entirely by the sun. Nominated to be 1 of 6 students to represent XXX for the 9th International INTOP Management Workshop held in Germany. While traveling, site seeing, and networking, participants managed virtual companies. Chosen to participate in XXX’s annual SOURCE Event that provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present academic research, engineering, architecture projects, visual art, and other forms of creative expression to faculty and other presenters. Professional Experience 2005- 2007 XXX Junior Account Executive * Clerical work * Ordered, stocked and kept inventory of office supplies * Recruited, interviewed, hired, trained and managed all interns * Scheduled appointments, booked traveling plans and created itineraries * Checked and wrote e-mails and memos to clients and personnel * Gathered research information from the internet, journals and SIBL * Brainstormed, copywrote, and produced presentations for clients and prospective clients * Met with clients * Reported daily briefings to the CEO and communicated client and project progress 2004- 2005 XXX, LLC Intern * Clerical work * Involved in brainstorming and research * Produced presentations for clients and prospective clients * Created Excel spreadsheets * Met with clients
Hi Sparkle56755, I have never seen a resume formatted like yours in terms of personal, clerical, etc. Usually for college students and recent grads education goes first, then work experience, then computer and language skills. Since you don't have much experience in marketing you might want to put a relevant coursework section before work experience to show you do have some training and/or knowledge in marketing. As far as your actual work experience, I think you should be more descriptive. Examples: 1. Managed interns. How many? 2. Involved in research. For what? Who? Does it relate to marketing research in any way? What did you discover or prove? How was the research utilized? 3. Produced presentations. Of what? What was the end result? How did the presentation help the clients, management? 4. Who are your clients? Other businesses? How successful were you at converting potential customers to actual customers? 5. Created excel sheets. Of what? This may be an opportunity to showcase analytical skills. Were you measuring anything quantitative? I think you should keep in mind that you are seeking a career in marketing. Try to highlight the skills a marketing professional uses such as research, analytical skills, creativity, project management, relationship management, etc. It seems that you have all lot of those skills but your resume doesn't necessarily show that. Also, in my opinion resumes should be results oriented rather than skills oriented whenever possible. If you tell what you accomplished the skills are implied. This is just my advice as someone who is also interested in marketing. I am still in school myself but I have been offered several marketing internship positions. Good Luck. | |
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