Word Processing Lesson - My Resume

 

Goal
To develop job search skills

Objective
Learners will create their own resume.

Skills
Tabs, tables, changing font, font size, and alignment.

Prerequisite skills
Basic word processing, tables and tabs helpful

Time
About 1 hour

Related Activities
Sample Cover Letter, Research a Job You’d Love to Have, What I Love to Do, Make Your Own Letterhead: Headers and Footers

Instructor’s Note
Many of the students come to class because they are in the process of looking for work, so a current resume is an essential tool for them. You may want to ask learners to prepare by bringing a previous resume, if they have one available. Or they may want to write out notes about their work, volunteer, and educational experience.

Activity
The two options we generally use for helping participants with their resumes are:

using one of the Microsoft Word templates for resumes or

making a simple table with two columns and several rows, then plugging biographical information into it

Follow-up Activity
Make sure that learners have saved their resume onto their disk so they will have it for the future.