Thursday February 11th

Journal Entry -- Vacation

Next week is vacation! Will you be spending it relaxing? Working on school projects? Visiting relatives?
Do week long vacations help you focus in school? Or does it distract and lead to forgetfulness?
What does a vacation week mean to you?

Classwork

Today we are going to take the information we compiled about our activities and make a resume that we could send to a college.

Resumes are something you will want to tailor to suit the particulars for each application. For example, you would want to showcase your skills in the kitchen or working for restaurants and your people skills if you apply to be a waiter/waitress, but you will want to emphasize your typing and computer skills to be an office worker.

Keeping that in mind, a resume for college is a great start because you want to show a variety of skill sets.

Open the word program and select a new document. Before clicking on "blank document", look to the left. There should be a list of templates. Find and select a resume template, there will likely be several to choose from. You may select any one you like. Fill in the information and save your document.

I will be coming around to help and check in with you all. If you are done with your resume, you may print and turn it in.

REMEMBER: Tomorrow is Friday and so it is free journal day, but I want you to KEEP your journal over vacation. So bring the journal to class, but keep it with you.


USEFUL LINKS

resume template for students:
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumetemplates/a/templatehs.htm

Sample resume:
http://jobsearch.about.com/library/samples/blresumecomb.htm

sample resume:
http://jobsearch.about.com/library/samples/blretailresume.htm