Resumes
Resumes are a tool
Used to communicate your personal brand and value to employers through a summary of your past experiences, education, and accomplishments. Resumes don’t get you a job, your value to the employer gets you the job.
Resumes are not about you
They are about your audience and what will be relevant to them. You can find out the qualities that are relevant to the employer by reading through job descriptions, conducting company research, and talking with people who are familiar with the job function, industry, or company.
Resumes are subjective
Individuals, industries, and countries will have unique preferences on resume writing. Do your research, get feedback from multiple people, assess the feedback, and take the course of action you think is best for you and your audience.
1. Build Your Resume
Mohr Career Services offers a variety of resources, including the following written resources as well as the video resources embedded at the bottom of this page.
Check out these resources:
2. Refine Your Resume
3. Get Feedback
You can get feedback on your resume in the following ways:
- Schedule an appointment with a career advisor
- Visit drop in advising (schedule at the bottom of the page)
- Use the Big Resume Scoring Guide for resume feedback
Need to tailor resumes that tell your story and match job requirements? Big Resume can help!
*ProTip: Log in and toggle between Big Resume and Big Interview using the grid icon in the upper left corner. Lundquist’s VMock subscription has already ended. Please reach out to lcbcareer@uoregon.edu if you have any questions.
What Big Resume Does:
- Offers Lundquist-standard resume templates.
- Evaluates the organization, language, and formatting of your resume to ensure it is clear, professional, and easy to read.
- Provides targeted feedback to enhance the overall impact and effectiveness of your resume.
- Analyzes how well your resume aligns with a specific job description and offers suggestions to optimize it for applicant tracking systems (ATS).
Pro Tip: Use Big Resume as a starting point, then ask for input from your network for human insights and feedback.
What Big Resume Does NOT Do:
- Engage in a conversation and brainstorm with you to uncover relevant experiences you may not have considered before. Pro Tip: book a career appointment with our pro advisors from Handshake!
- Accurately read resumes with columns, text boxes, or other more visually creative formats. Pro Tip: use one of the system templates to refine your content. Then you can copy and paste the content into a more creative format, if that’s appropriate for your audience.
- Applying abroad? View the Country Career Guides on GoingGlobal to view preferred resume formats by country.
- Military experience? Take a look at our Veteran Resume Samples in “Career Resources” and use Military.com’s ‘Military Skills Translator‘ as a starting point to convert your military experience into civilian language.