WBL Workshop 2

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Brandon Wilson
WBL Workshop 2

In this workshop, we went over how to write our resumes. We went over resume tips, sample resumes for high school students, sample resume templates, cover letter template and verb list for for cover letters. We also had a guest speaker from Grant Associates, her name was Estefany Carmona. From the beginning of class we were asked to list our skills, both our IT skills and soft skills, on a piece of loose-leaf. After that some of us presented our level of skill in what we had written whether it was basic to advanced. We were then permitted to go on the computers to pull up our resumes if we had worked on it, or to start working on one. I had one from the start that I have been working slowly on so I thought it would be great to get some feedback on it to see what I would need to include or exclude. I got some feedback on the style of my resume and how it shouldn't be too long or take up too much space. For someone who doesn't have a job yet or any job experience, it would only make sense to have less then a page on a resume. For the rest of the periods I worked on making my resume better and enhancing it to make it job material. Finding extracurricular activities to put on my resume was a little tricky since I couldn't remember most of the things I have done over the 2 years I have been in the school so far. However listing down my skills was a little easier because the web academy helps you work on get them. For example, adobe photo shop, illustrator, indesign and dreamweaver are things I can put on there only because I have learned them in the CTE web design academy. Knowing how to write a resume is an important thing for a web designer. This is because web designers would need to prove to people the skills that they have are worthy of the job, and not being able to document it down on paper, or a resume would make it hard to find a job within the IT field.

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