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  1. Hi, guys.
  2. I'm Emma.
  3. I'm a career peer advisor at the Doll House.
  4. You visit Student Success Center, and in this video, I'm
  5. going to give you some tips for matching your resume
  6. to the job you're applying for.
  7. This is super important, and it's one of the pieces
  8. of career advice that we give out the most.
  9. Rather than just having one version of a resume and
  10. giving an exact copy toe every job you apply for,
  11. you really want to add it.
  12. Your roads made a best match, each particular position.
  13. Not only does it make you seem like the best
  14. possible fit for the position, it also demonstrates to the
  15. employer that you paid close attention to their jaw bad
  16. and that you put a lot of work and effort
  17. into your application.
  18. First things first.
  19. You want to break down the job, posting into the
  20. individual skills, experiences and knowledge that the employer is looking
  21. for. I recommend you print or download a copy of
  22. the job posting to do this.
  23. The job requirements in the job description sections are gonna
  24. be really helpful throughout this process, so make sure you
  25. bid both of these a really thorough read through.
  26. Then you're gonna want to go through and use a
  27. highlighter to highlight the skills and experiences that the employer
  28. is looking for you to have.
  29. Sometimes this is really obvious, like in this example, when
  30. they say they want you to have a knowledge of
  31. resources on campus.
  32. Obviously, the skill is just knowledge of campus resources.
  33. But sometimes you might have to do a little more
  34. thinking about what skill they want you to come into
  35. the job with.
  36. Like in the section where they list promotional support for
  37. the co curricular record to students.
  38. As a requirement of this position, the employer obviously isn't
  39. expecting. You have experience promoting the co curricular record, but
  40. maybe a skill that would show that you would be
  41. a good fit for this.
  42. Part of the job would be having previous experience or
  43. skills promoting service's or products to students.
  44. You're gonna want to do the same thing with the
  45. job requirements section.
  46. Obviously, I haven't highlighted every single skill in this job
  47. posting, likely when you finished doing this, gonna have a
  48. lot longer of a list of all of the skills
  49. that they're looking for then you're gonna take these skills
  50. and make a table listing all of the skills that
  51. you just pulled out of the drop posting.
  52. So here's an example of a table like this.
  53. There's one column for the skills that you identified one
  54. column to check yes or no as to whether you
  55. have that skill and one call him to describe how
  56. you gained that skill or some evidence that you have
  57. that skill.
  58. Don't panic if you can't say yes, toe having every
  59. single skill As a general rule, you wanna have around
  60. 80% of the skills that they're looking for.
  61. It means that you're a good fit for the rule,
  62. but you still have room to learn and grow in
  63. the position.
  64. When you're reflecting on how you gained a given skill,
  65. you're gonna off course.
  66. Want to think about previous work experience but also skills
  67. that you may have gained in a class throughout your
  68. degree through online courses or certifications, volunteer activities, extracurriculars in
  69. sports. When you're all done filling out your table, you're
  70. gonna you want to use it as a tool toe
  71. adul of these skills to your resumes.
  72. Basically the table conserve as a checklist when you're adding
  73. to your resume so that you ensure that all of
  74. the skills that you just took the time to pull
  75. out of the job posting are reflected on your resume,
  76. which is going to embrace your own players and make
  77. you seem like a great fit for that job.
  78. One place where you might list some of these skills
  79. is the skills or the qualification section.
  80. Here you can basically use bullet points to list sentences
  81. describing the skills that you have.
  82. Sometimes it's really effective to stay where you developed a
  83. certain skill in the skill suction.
  84. So, for example, instead of dish saying experienced in providing
  85. first rate customer service, this person says, experience providing first
  86. rate customer service through three years.
  87. As a restaurant server, it can help to give a
  88. little bit of context and essentially provide evidence to the
  89. reader that you do have the skill you're saying you
  90. dio. You may also list some of the skills as
  91. bullet points under the section for your previous experiences.
  92. This is where that table really comes in handy because
  93. you already broke down where you developed each skill so
  94. all you need to dio is finally appropriate section and
  95. put a little blurb about that skill there.
  96. One tip that I really want to point out here
  97. is that it's super important when we're customizing, are resume
  98. to the job that we're listing things in order of
  99. relevancy so you don't have to list your previous experience
  100. in chronological order.
  101. That's actually more effective toe list, Um, in order of
  102. relevancy. So for this example, even though the teaching assistant
  103. job is from 2019 while the serving job is present,
  104. the T A job is listed first because it's the
  105. most similar or the most relevant to the Career advisor
  106. job that the person is applying for.
  107. When you're all finished, your resume don't get rid of
  108. that table that you just made.
  109. It will also be really helpful when you're thinking about
  110. what examples you want to discuss in your cover letter,
  111. and it could be a great tool for prepping for
  112. an interview.
  113. If you need help with any part of this process
  114. or if you want a document reviewed, you can email
  115. us a copy of your resume and cover letter as
  116. well as the job posting, and we're happy to review
  117. it. Also feel free to email if you want to
  118. book an appointment for a mock interview or to talk
  119. with a career advisor and follow us on social media
  120. for more career tips and job postings.