Handout 7.1: Resume Sections and the Three-Part Bullet, Life Skills Arcade

Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______

Unit 7, Lesson 7.1. Keep this. You will use it tomorrow to write the real thing.

Part 1: Who reads a resume, and for how long

The person reading your resume spends about six to eight seconds on it the first time. Not six minutes. Six seconds. Sometimes a computer reads it before a person does. The computer is looking for key words.

Write the number here: A person reads my resume for about ______ seconds before deciding whether to keep reading.

Two ways people lose a job offer with a resume:

______________________________________________
______________________________________________

Part 2: The seven sections

Write the name of each section on the line. Then write one thing you could put in it.

#	Section	What goes in it
1	__________________	Your name, phone or email, and your town. Not your street address.
2	__________________	One line: who you are and what kind of work you want.
3	__________________	Things you can actually do. Not things you like.
4	__________________	School work, volunteering, and family responsibilities all count.
5	__________________	Teams, clubs, music, sports, church or community groups.
6	__________________	Anything you were recognized for, including in this class.
7	__________________	Every language you speak, read, or write. This one matters more than you think.

The rule, written twice so you remember it:

Everything on a resume must be ______________ and ______________.

Part 3: The three-part bullet

Every bullet on a resume has three parts.

Part	What it is	Question it answers
The work	What you did	What?
The explanation	How, with what, for whom, how many	How? For whom? How many?
The output	What came out of it	So what happened?

Weak and strong, side by side

Read these. In each strong version, mark the three parts. Put a W over the work. Put an E over the explanation. Put an O over the output.

Weak	Strong
Helped in the kitchen.	Cooked a pasta dish for 30 people as Station Manager, running a written eight-block time plan, and served every plate inside the 40-minute period.
Did a sewing project.	Hand-sewed a lined drawstring pouch from scrap fabric using a backstitch and a running stitch, and it held 5 pounds when tested.
Good with money.	Managed a $10,000 practice investment portfolio for six weeks in a class simulation, rebalanced it after a market drop, and finished up 7 percent.
Worked on a group project.	Led a team of four as Station Manager on a class meal for 30 people, assigned every job on a written plan, and passed the clean check on the first walk.
Helped my family.	Prepared dinner for a family of five three nights a week, planning meals around a weekly grocery budget.
Planned a meal.	Planned and priced a full meal for a family of four for under $40.00 using a real supermarket circular, hitting all five MyPlate groups.
Designed a room.	Drew a scale floor plan of a 10 by 12 foot bedroom on graph paper, placed six pieces of furniture with 36-inch walkways, and stayed inside a $500 budget.
Took a safety test.	Passed a 30-item kitchen safety and sanitation exam and worked seven labs with no safety stop.

Now you fix two of these four

Pick two of these four. Rewrite each one so it has all three parts. Use something that actually happened to you. It has to be true.

1. Weak: "I am a hard worker."

Strong: ______________________________________________________________

Line 2: ____________________________________________________________________

2. Weak: "Helped cook food in class."

Strong: ______________________________________________________________

Line 2: ____________________________________________________________________

3. Weak: "Good at working with other people."

Strong: ______________________________________________________________

Line 2: ____________________________________________________________________

4. Weak: "Did a project about a business."

Strong: ______________________________________________________________

Line 2: ____________________________________________________________________

Part 4: Mine your FACS folder

To mine your folder means to dig through it for anything you can use. Open your folder. Highlight every rubric, self-check, card, and project sheet. Then fill in the table. You may only write something you can point to.

Find five things. For each one, write what you did. Then write why an employer (the person who hires you) would care.

#	Where it came from (unit, lesson, or project)	What I actually did	Why an employer would care
1
2
3
4
5

The year, as a memory aid

Check the box for every one you did. Each checked box is a possible bullet.

[ ] Passed the kitchen safety exam (Unit 1)
[ ] Measured dry, liquid, and small amounts in the Silent Measurement Challenge (Unit 1)
[ ] Cooked in a lab and passed the station check (Units 1 and 6, how many labs? ______)
[ ] Read a Nutrition Facts label and compared two products (Unit 1)
[ ] Planned and priced a meal for a family of four on $40.00 (Unit 1)
[ ] Compared unit prices in a store circular (Units 1 and 6)
[ ] Built a personal budget (Unit 2)
[ ] Ran a portfolio through the Gilded Age Market, 1870 to 1936, and wrote the Investor Report (Unit 2)
[ ] Wrote a SMART goal and a plan to reach it (Unit 2)
[ ] Completed a career research card and named my top three career clusters (Unit 2)
[ ] Built an activity kit or plan for a young child (Unit 3)
[ ] Wrote a stress plan and tested it (Unit 3)
[ ] Used I-messages to work through a conflict in a role play (Unit 3)
[ ] Drew a scale floor plan of a room (Unit 4)
[ ] Designed a space to a budget (Unit 4)
[ ] Hand-sewed or machine-sewed an item (Unit 5)
[ ] Mended or repaired something (Unit 5)
[ ] Finished the Upcycle Challenge (Unit 5)
[ ] Read care labels and compared the cost of two garments (Unit 5)
[ ] Scaled a recipe from 4 servings to 28 and rounded to real packages (Unit 6)
[ ] Costed a meal from a real circular and logged a store-brand swap (Unit 6)
[ ] Built a flowchart and a station card another team could follow (Unit 6)
[ ] Cooked and served a course for 30 people and cleaned to a signed checklist (Unit 6)
[ ] Computed what a meal actually cost per person from a real receipt (Unit 6)
[ ] Speak, read, or write a language other than English: ____________________
[ ] Take care of a family member or cook at home: ____________________
[ ] A paid job, a side job, or work for a neighbor: ____________________

Word bank (English and Spanish)

English	What it means	Spanish
resume	A one-page paper that shows an employer what you have already done and what you can do.	currículum (hoja de vida)
bullet	One short line on a resume that starts with a verb and names one thing you did.	viñeta (punto de la lista)
summary	The one line at the top of a resume that says who you are and what kind of work you want.	resumen
skill	Something you can actually do, not something you like.	habilidad (destreza)
experience	The things you have done that taught you something: school work, volunteering, and taking care of people at home all count.	experiencia
reference	A person who agrees to tell an employer that you are worth hiring.	referencia
employer	The person or business that does the hiring and the paying.	empleador (jefe)

Bullet frame, to think it through: "I ___ (what I did) ___ (how, or with what) for ___ (who), and ___ (what came out of it)." When you write the bullet on the resume, drop the "I" and start with the verb.

Exit card

Tear this off or fold it over. Hand it in.

Name: ____________________

1. My strongest bullet, written in all three parts:

Line 1: ____________________________________________________________________

Line 2: ____________________________________________________________________

2. One section of the resume I have nothing for yet: ____________________

3. One question I still have: ______________________________________

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