Types of Resumes
Food for Thought
Graduate School
Interviewing
Inside a Resume
100
A document used by an individual to present their backgrounds and skills. This document can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment and contains a "summary" of relevant job experience and education.
What is a Resume?
100
A social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The goal of the site is to allow registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally.
What is LinkedIn?
100
This should convince readers which are often faculty on a selection committee that you have solid achievements behind you that show promise for your success in graduate study program. Tip: Students are often encouraged to share about their passion, goals, and how the program's mission, values, and goals align with their interest of study.
What is a Statement of Purpose?
100
An employer evaluates a candidate’s past experiences and behaviors as a way to determine their potential for success. Employers are more interested in how you can handle a situation as well as how you act and react towards certain circumstances.
What is a behavioral question?
100
A sentence or two that describes the kind of job (and industry, if you want to be more specific) you’d prefer to be hired for.
What is a career objective?
200
A resume that focuses on work experience, providing a reverse-chronological employment history and ample detail about job duties and accomplishments.
What is a Chronological Resume?
200
A person who is willing to talk to potential employers about your job skills, abilities, background, and general character—hopefully in a positive light. Potential employers usually contact these individuals by phone or email.
What is a Reference?
200
A statement of support for a candidate. Preferably, the person has been in an academic or working relationship with the applicant detailing documented evaluation and provide sufficient evidence and information to help a selection committee in making its decision.
What is Letter of Recommendation?
200
A convenient form of interview that employers like to use as a way to narrow down a large stack of applicants to just a few for an in-person interview. This is a quick and efficient way to interview candidates who live in distant locations.
What is a Phone Interview?
200
You can present your work experience in a variety of ways. The most straightforward way is the chronological format. List your current or most recent job, and work backwards in time. Include your job title, your employer's name, the city and state in which it is located. Also list the start and end dates (month and year) of your employment. For each position, add a summary of your responsibilities and accomplishments.
What is an Employment History/Experience?
300
A resume that highlights key skills and downplays work experience. This resume format is a good choice for career changers making a radical career shift and job seekers with sketchy work histories, including excessive job-hopping and employment gaps.
What is a Functional Resume?
300
An introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Constructed by Katharine and her daughter Isabel.
What is the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator?
300
A copy of a student's permanent academic record, which usually means all courses taken, all grades received, all honors received and degrees conferred to a student.
What is a Transcript?
300
A specific interview for graduates and postdocs who are interested in becoming a professor, teacher, or instructor at university level. Questions typically focus on information about the applicant’s conducted research or their teaching styles and previous work experiences.
What is an Academic Interview?
300
You can take these with you from one situation to another, from one job to another.
What are transferable skills?
400
This resume leads with a description of functional skills and related qualifications, followed by a reverse-chronological employment history. This format allows you to state your most relevant qualifications up front, while providing the employment timeline that many hiring managers like to see.
What is a combination resume?
400
A Web-based assessment of normal personality from the perspective of Positive Psychology. It is the first instrument of this type developed expressly for the Internet. Each item consists of a pair of potential self-descriptors, such as "I read instructions carefully" versus "I like to jump right into things." The descriptors are placed as if anchoring polar ends of a continuum. You are then asked to choose the descriptor that best describes you, and to identify the extent to which that chosen option is descriptive of you. You are given 20 seconds to respond to a given pair of descriptors before the assessment automatically presents the next pair.
What is Strength Finder?
400
A standardized test that is an admissions requirement for most graduate schools in the United States. Created and administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 1949, the exam aims to measure verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, analytical writing, and critical thinking skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study.
What is the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)?
400
This kind of interview assesses candidates who are exploring positions such as IT, Engineering, and Science. Questions are mostly composed of specific knowledge about the company’s work, activities, and problems.
What is a technical question?
400
Most resume bullet points start with these words to help articulate your accomplishment and responsibility to potential employers.
What is an Action Verb?
500
Latin for 'course of life'. It is a summary of your experience, skills and education including teaching experience, degrees, research, awards, publications, presentations, and other achievements. These are much longer than resumes, and include more information, particularly related to academic background.
What is a Curriculum Vitae?
500
One of the most challenging documents you may ever write: you must write about yourself without sounding selfish and self-centered. The solution to this is to explain how your values and goals align with the prospective organizations and to discuss how your experience will fulfill the job requirements.
What is a Cover Letter?
500
Many students often forget about this form as many graduate schools may or may not provide this as an option when applying for graduate school. This form will help students in financial hardship when they apply for graduate school.
What is an Application Fee Waiver?
500
This interview is designed to examine the skills that are particularly important and critical to the position being applied for. It is often presented as a hypothetical problems where the applicant will be evaluated more for how well they can deal with the problem and less on a specific answer. This form of interview is most commonly used for consulting firms and investment-banking companies.
What is a Case Study question?
500
A brief, focused overview of your work history. It tells the employer what your specialty is as an employee, and serves as an introduction to the rest of your resume.
What is a career summary?
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