Course Overview
Resume
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Class 1 outline
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Course Overview
Resume
Work on resume
Class wrapup
Group info sheet
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The syllabus and Group Info sheet
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Review syllabus
Detail Group Info sheet – (more at end of lecture)
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Intent is to balance the composition of the group
you are in. The group assignments are for the
project you choose for your effort in this class.
You will be writing a R&D proposal
Elements that are essential to a productive group
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Technical writing skills
Core EE and Core CpE knowledge
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Resume
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Ref: A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, Ch
9, pp. 205-214
Ref: Pocket Book of Technical Wringing,
pp.340-349
A resume is summary of your professional
experience, education, and other relevant
background for the position you are seeking.
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Resumes
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A resume encapsulates your professional
career.
The information is presented in a format that
can be scanned in 20 to 30 seconds.
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Put yourself in reviewers shoes – not much time
to do the review
A resume must be continually updated to
reflect all accomplishments and milestones in
your career.
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Today’s era
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With electronic processing you should keep your
resume current.
Companies often electronically scan resumes
they receive and then search for keywords
relating to experience, qualification, and skills.
As your resume will most likely be scanned,
don’t be fancy.
Companies also scan the social websites once
they start to look at a prospective candidate
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Points that should be in resume
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Name and contact information
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Name, address, phone
Email and web information available
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If you don’t regularly check email don’t include it!
Objective
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Objective should clearly relate to the position for
which you are applying
“Seeking a tough, challenging engineering position in
radio-frequency communication systems where I can
help achieve corporate goals in a team environment.”
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More on objective
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The objective tells the prospective employer that
you know the type and focus of the position you
want.
Presented in a way that tells employer that you
are a team player and hard worker.
Presented such that shows you know
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The company
The company’s products
Management
General focus.
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Resume Points (cont-3)
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Strengths
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Education
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List what qualities that set you above your peers
When are where you went to school and degrees
Presented with degree first and then where you
earned it.
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering (June 2009)
 The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
The strongest points are purely factual.
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On a early career resume
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Early in you career you should also list relevant
course areas
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Computer Architecture
Digital Systems
Embedded processors
Pulse and Digital Circuits
Digital VLSI
Signal Processing
Control Systems
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Resume Points – Computer Skills
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Computer literacy is a very central part of being
an engineer today.
Engineers use computers for
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Engineering and scientific calculations
Engineering drawing (drafting)
More – class input
List languages, OSs, hardware, applications
As computers are central make sure you resume
is spell checked logically formatted.
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Resume Points - Experience
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List any prior employment
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Dates, Company, Position
June 1973 – September 1974, Eastman Kodak
Company, Rochester, New York, Research and
Development Engineer. Responsible for the
design of commercial photographic printers and
the subsystems of those printers.
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Resume Points _ Personal
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Personal
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As a final section you can include job-related
information that is neither educational nor job
experience related.
EX: If your name may imply that you might
not be a citizen of the US and your are, state so
clearly. - AND PUT IT NEAR TOP
Your availability to start work.
Willing to relocate.
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Resume Presentation Styles
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Chronological Design
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Divide background into education, work
experience, and possibly military
Strength of this style – shows work history in a
glance
Weakness – does not give a capsule picture of
your key qualifications
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Resume presentation styles
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Functional approach
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Divides background into areas or groups of
related education and experience.
Ex: Groups: technical expertise and business
experience
Early in a career, the chronological style is
best
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Resume assignment
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Create your resume or polish one you already
have
Due to drop box – date posted on class web
page accessed through personal web page.
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Forming into groups
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In this class you will from into groups.
Two possibilities:
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I use a skills sheet to form you into to groups
attempting to balance skills – no consideration for
personalities.
I will allow you to form your own groups.
Usually has some teams with less than optimal
skills balance and usually a student or two who
feel left out.
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What skills do you want in a group.
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Group manager
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Documentation organizer
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A student who can be the leader and manage the work, dividing
the task to the individuals and making sure each person comes
through on their tasks.
A student who will organize the submission be each member of
the team into the reports required.
Workers
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Responsible for the accomplishment of the tasks
This may have these member partitioned into subgroups of
hardware and software.
It is essential to have expertise in the skill set required to
investigate the technology needed for the problem/project.
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Group Information Sheet
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Could be used to form groups
Students will form groups
Each group will submit a group information
sheet after formation.
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Group members (incl. contact info)
For each member
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Group role – technical area of responsibility
Member skill set and basis for skill set.
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Wrapup
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Provided information to form you into groups
Highlighted some points to consider on a
resume
Started work on you resume
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Work time
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Start work on your resume and forming into
groups
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