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Part 2 ➤ Six Steps to a Perfect Resume

8. Do you have any technical, linguistic, or artistic talents that would be useful on the
job? ____________________________________________________________________________
Example: Someone applying to be a teacher in a multilingual school might write, “I
can speak Spanish, Italian, and Russian.”
Summary statement: Fluent in Spanish, Italian, and Russian.
Example: An artist seeking a commission from the city’s museum could write, “I have
worked in just about every kind of medium.”
Summary statement: Adept at working in a range of mediums, including paint, pen
and ink, clay, metal, collage, and wood.

Not all the questions on the Summary of Qualifications Worksheet will work for your situa-
tion. Just answer the ones that do, and you’re bound to come up with three or four good
statements for your resume.

Your Mini-Resume

Put your best foot forward! After you’ve listed your Summary of
Qualifications statements, prioritize them so that the most relevant
and most impressive one comes first.
Now that you’ve written your Heading, Job Objective (see Chapter 6,
“Step One: Heading Your Way”), and Summary of Qualifications sec-
Career Casualty
tions, notice how the top of your resume is sort of a mini-resume. It
Be careful not to list tasks you tells the employer
don’t like to perform. Mention-
➤ Who you are
ing them is a sure way of finding
them in your next job ➤ What you want
description.
➤ Why you should have it

If you’ve done a good job, it should be enough to convince the
employer to consider you for the position.

Bonus Check
Your Heading, Job Objective, and Summary of Qualifications sections might be all you
need to create a networking card (mentioned in Chapter 2, “A Resume for All Reasons”)
for your job search.

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