Components of a Resume
TSU
Nashville Spirit
100

Listed at the top of resumes and identifies who you are and how you can be contacted.

What is name, phone number and email address

100

TSU Mascot

What are Tigers?

100

The only state funded HBCU in TN

What is TSU?

200

It lists academic experience or additional professional training in progress or completed

What is Education or Certification?

200

The number of majors at TSU

What is 77?

200

The most famous street in Nashville

What is Broadway?

300

It helps employers ATS (Applicant Tracking System) easily identify key words that you are potentially a good match.

What are Core Skills, Core Competencies or Highlights?

300

The number of acres that make up the main campus

What is 500 acres?

300

The number of bars found on Broadway in Nashville.

What is 32?

400

It highlights your places of employment, tenure, responsibilities and defines your success.

What is Professional Experience?

400

The year TSU was founded.

What is 1912?

400

RCA’s historic Studio B was adorned with Christmas lights by what well-known artist while recording a Christmas Album? Those lights are still hung today

Who is Elvis Presley

500

It provides a quick and concise overview of your employment history. You can use it to highlight your achievements.

What is an Objective or Summary?

500

Learning everyday

Making excellence a habit

Thinking beyond the obvious

Working relentlessly 

Serving everyone, we encounter

These 5 things reflects...

What are TSU core values?

500

This well-known television show host got her start as the first African American news anchor at Nashville’s WLAC-TV while she was still a student at Tennessee State University

Who is Oprah Winfrey?