Revisit Resume

Not sure about anyone else, but I do not like resume writing. It is a task that seems to haunt me and I never seem to think the resume is good enough to land that job I really want. In fact, since I am switching gears in my field of work, from business to education, rewriting my resume has been a huge challenge.  I’m pretty much combining my business career experience with the only education experience I’ve had which comes in the form of volunteering at my kid’s school and the practicum hours I’ve completed in graduate school. Did I mention that I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for the past 9 years? All of this worries me when it comes down to applying for teaching jobs next year.

With all that said, this resume revision experience has given me some confidence in my resume writing. I fully expected the REZSCORE website www.rezscore.com to score my resume low, but to my surprise the score was great!

 

As I have rewritten my resume many times over the past 20 years, I have never used a tool like REZSCORE to evaluate my resume. It was amazing to see how quickly the website was able to review my resume and look for similarities in my job industries. Since it did not suggest any improvements, I uploaded my husband’s resume as a test. His came back with a B- and a few improvements needed.  Because it is his resume, I didn’t make changes to resubmit it, but I will suggest some changes to him later.  I did submit my resume to another company online, but have not received a response yet.

What I’ve learned from this experience is that tools like REZSCORE can be used to make suggestions for improvements on resumes and gives direction in which way to start rewriting. Any additional help will cost money. These tools can also be used to help secondary students build a beginner resume before graduating.  This activity ties into the ISTE.NETS.T standard three, Model Digital Work and Learning.