Give Me a Hand(Shake)
Scan-tastic Resumes
Resourceful Thinking
Autumn of Opportunities
Campus Facts
100

True or False: Employers can use Handshake to recruit students.

What isTrue?

100

Job Scan can help students compare their resume against a job description for this purpose.

What is an ATS/job-match analysis?

100

One outfit per student per semester, no charge, and you can keep what you find. Where are you shopping?”

What is Career Closet?

100

This venue is where the Career Fair Expo is located due to CFSB construction.

What is the Curris Center?

100

True or False, there used to be a bowling alley in the Curris Center?

What is True.

200

This is where students can search for upcoming career fairs and events.

What is the events section?

200

These words from a job posting should be incorporated into your resume when they accurately describe your qualifications.

What are keywords?

200

I’m not a GPS, but I can help you figure out where your major and career might be headed. Murray State gives me an access code that sounds very Racer-like. What am I?”

What is FOCUS 2?

200

 An internship that excites CS so much that we offer info meetings every semester.

What is DCP?

200

This historical building has the gargoyles on the corners of the building.

What is Wilson Hall?

300

If a job posting repeatedly mentions “project management,” “Excel,” and “data analysis,” these are examples of what you should look for in your résumé.


What are relevant keywords/skills?

300

If a job posting repeatedly mentions “project management,” “Excel,” and “data analysis,” these are examples of what you should look for in your resume.

What are relevant keywords/skills?

300

This type of software can scan a résumé for keywords, formatting and information that match a job description before the résumé reaches a human recruiter.

What is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?

300

According to traditional dining etiquette, even if a fellow guest asks for just one, these two items must always be passed together.

What are the salt and pepper shakers?

300

What is the name of the first permanent building on campus?

What is Wrather Hall?

400

If you're interested in working for a particular company, what could you do on Handshake to keep up with them?

What is follow the employer?

400

True or False: The goal of Job Scan is to add every keyword from a job description to your resume, even if you don't actually have the skill.

What is False?

400

A faculty member fills this out for Career Service presentation.

What is a Presentation Request Form?  

400

These 3 "Race to Success Week" events outfit students in interview attire, guide their advanced degree applications, and polish their resumes.

What are Pop-up Closet, Grad School 101, and Resumania?

400

What is the name of the name of the first Racer One Horse?

Who is Violet Cactus

500

This is one reason students should keep their Handshake profile updated.

What is increasing their visibility to employers and finding more relevant opportunities?

500

The best reason to use Job Scan is not simply to get a high score, but to make sure your resume does this.

What is to clearly determine if your resume aligns with the job for which you are applying?

500

When taking FOCUS 2 through Murray State Career Services, students need this access code to get started

What is racers?

500

What were Murray State University’s athletic teams originally known as?

What is Thoroughbreds?

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