Here is my Resume and my Job Letter.
I really enjoyed this assignment (even though I did not do very well). I fell that this was a very relevant assignment. I will definitely use the notes I took and feedback I got from this assignment in the future when I am preparing my real resume. I think that the most helpful part of this assignment was the Job Letter. I liked this part of the assignment because I have never learned anything about writing a job letter. In high school, we had to write resumes, but job letters were never mentioned. Honestly, I do not think that I would have thought to send a letter with or before my resume when applying for a job. It was also helpful to learn how to write the letter. For example, I would not have thought to give them a specific time that I would call them about an interview. All in all, I think that this assignment was a good learning experience.
Some problems that I had with the resume part of this assignment were poor organization and vague wording. In my opinion, the resume was easy to follow, so I am not sure what I would do differently about that. As far as the wording goes, I should have edited this assignment another time against the checklist. When I look at the assignment now, I can see that there are vague sentences and references. I think that part of this is because this was a hypothetical resume. I had to make it hypothetical because this is my first semester as an Interior Design student. Therefore, when I wrote that I had “4 years of CAD experience,” I did not realize that there were several manufacturers of CAD programs. Also, I did not realize that I was being vague at times. Now that I have been in this course for several months, I can see that I should have been more specific in my resume, job letter, and thank you letter. I think I was especially vague in my thank you letter. I see now that this is ineffective. Also, I did not have a consistent format in my resume. When I made it, I did each section one at a time. I thought that it would make sense to format each section according to its specific purpose. For example, my “skills” section is just a list of my specific, job related skills. I felt that it was best to do this in bullet format because no one wants to read a list in paragraph form. I thought that a bulleted list would be easy for the interviewer to reference when looking at the resume. If I were to re-write this resume, I think that I would keep the bulleted list but I would move it to the center of the resume. This would give the resume visual balance, which is important as an Interior Designer.
