In this video, we will be discussing resume templates and developing your content. Resume templates. The career team has developed resume templates that students are expected to use. Why? You are now a part of the SC Johnson College of Business. And our templates represent the colleges coveted brand. Our templates are also designed to achieve maximum results when put through applicant tracking systems. And finally, the average recruiter only takes about 7.4 seconds to review a resume. Recruiters can easily identify your skills and abilities. On our clean and concise templates. Developing content. Resumes can include more than just professional or internship experiences. Strong resumes will also demonstrate valuable and transferable skills from academic projects, organized sports, part-time jobs, and volunteer positions. The first step in starting a resume is to brainstorm. Think of all the opportunities you have had to gain experience and skills regardless of the length of time or whether it was paid or unpaid. What did you achieve in each of these experiences, your professional experiences, academic experiences on campus, personal experiences, and any awards and recognitions you've received. Bullets. There are four golden rules for resume bullets and action verbs. First, all resume bullets must start with strong action verbs. To vary your verbs. Overusing the same verb will likely cause the reader to lose interest or to skip content. Three, never start a bullet with responsible for or worked. And finally, pay attention to your action verb tenses. Only current experiences should be in the present tense. All previous experiences should be in the past tense. Additional pointers. You get one page for every ten years of work experience on business resumes. You're never going to use pronouns in your resume. No, I, we, she, he or they also do not list tasks, instead, demonstrate skills. Students often list a task on their resume, such as answered clients calls. However, when we explore what they actually did, it's often more than just picking up the phone. For example, after working with this particular student, we created a bullet. The better described their actions and transferable skills. The improved bullet is answered. Clients fund questions and communicated the benefits of each bank product. Regardless of the industry that you're going into. There are some universally sought after skills. Can you highlight some or all of these transferable skills on your resume? For example, if you wanted to demonstrate communication on your resume, you might use verbs such as coached, consulted, interpreted, negotiated, presented are proposed. For teamwork. You might use verbs like assisted, collaborated, contributed, encouraged, motivated, or supported. These are just a few examples of how you might use strong action verbs to just to demonstrate transferable skills on your resume. Additional pointers, strive for result-driven bullets. What did your hard work accomplished? Did you save money, improve efficiency, increased sales. I recommend using the par method for developing accomplished oriented bullet points. The power method, which stands for Problem, action and results, encourages you to identify responsibility or issue at work. Discuss how you address the problem and what was the outcome of your actions. While it might sound like a lot to fit into one bullet, you'll be surprised how easily par can be implemented into your bullet points. For example, action developed new filing an organizational practices results, saving the company 3 thousand per year. Problem in contracted labor expenses. Now I understand that not all of your bullets will be able to demonstrate concrete results. However, it is important that you try to implement the PAR methods as much as possible on your resume. Thank you. And if you have any questions about this video's content, please contact us.