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Chapter 9 ➤ Step Four: You’re an Achiever!

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College career centers are happy to help alumni with their job searches. Call or visit yours
to get help in defining the skills required for the type of work you seek.

Leadership Recruiting

Major Donor Giving Service Delivery
Media Relations Solicitations
Needs Assessment Staff Management

Program Coordination Volunteer Career Casualty
Management
Program Development All caps are hard to read when
Volunteer used in skill headings that have
Project Coordination
Recruitment long words. If a heading contains
Public Relations two words, and one of those
Writing
words has more than eight let-
Public Speaking
ters, use upper- and lowercase
letters so that it’s easy to grasp
Getting Down to Business at a glance.

Are you ready to declare the two or three skill headings for your
functional resume? Great! Here’s a worksheet to help you out.

Functional Skill Headings Worksheet
1. My Job Objective (see Chapter 6, “Step One: Heading Your Way”):
_________________________________________________
2. The two (maybe three) skills required to perform my Job Objective:

➤ _________________________________________________________
➤ _________________________________________________________
➤ _________________________________________________________

Having stated your skill headings, you’re ready to move on to creating dynamite
achievement statements for each heading.

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