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today’s topic is improving your English

resume so today I have a lot of points I

want to talk about we’re going to talk

about three categories as usual in this

lesson we’re going to talk about resume

format so how to organize all of your

content that’s one second of course

we’ll talk about grammar and vocabulary

and then third we’re going to talk a bit

about some kind of general tips - so

there’s actually a lot I want to discuss

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but for now I have a couple points I

want to review with you excuse me

first if you joined us in last week’s

lesson

you remember maybe that we talked about

making breaking and changing your plans

so I want to share just a quick example

like I of course did something over the

weekend and so here’s my example this is

something I did I went and saw a play I

went and saw a play however I invited my

friends to attend with me and I used the

expression we talked about last week I

said are you free on Sunday are you free

on Sunday I’m going to see a play do you

want to come so this is the play I

thought I saw a Shakespeare play a

friend of mine was assistant director

for the show it was awesome this was

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let’s get into it

oh I have one more point last week we

had a really good question Dolce asked

about the expression can’t make it I

explained the expression I can’t make it

to something I can’t make it means I

can’t come I can’t come to the thing but

Dolce asked is the expression can’t make

it always followed by on like I can’t

make it on Sunday or I can’t make it on

Saturday no we can use on for days I

can’t make it on a specific day of the

week is ok but you can use two before an

activity I can’t make it to your party I

can’t make it to the seminar so thanks

for your question Dolce all right let’s

go though to this week’s topic as I said

this week we’re talking about ways to

improve your English resume so as I said

we’re talking about formatting hey there

we go

this week we’re talking about resume

format and we’ll talk about grammar and

vocabulary and also we’ll talk about

some general tips you okay we’re

four minutes in so welcome I see lots of

you in the chat hi so let’s get started

let’s get started so I want to begin

today with the formatting category so I

have a couple of points I want to

mention about resume formats English

resume formats also I want to mention

too that I’m going to talk about this

topic from the point of view of a of an

American so meaning this is the way that

resumes in the USA are commonly created

and commonly formatted so that’s my

perspective it could be different in

your country but this is kind of my my

approach and maybe the typical approach

to resume preparation in the USA so if

you don’t know if you don’t know someone

asked Husain asked in YouTube what is a

resume a resume is your work and

education history so you submit a resume

when you apply for a job so I know a lot

of you are job searching and a lot of

you are things like studying right now

and thinking about how to apply for jobs

so you need to submit a resume when you

do this so that’s what we’re going to

talk about today okay so let’s begin

with a few formatting points a few

formatting points for today we’re going

to start with ya three points I want to

mention

okay first one first one here is on your

resume Farrukh can why not with

subtitles because this is a live

broadcast like we can’t we can’t add

subtitles to a live broadcast at this

point in time so okay so formatting we

use bullet points so bullet points means

this for example so a small like mark on

your on your paper so in this case I’m

using this this little - as a bullet

point but you might also see like this

is this is the most basic

form of bullet points like this

you’ve also maybe seen something like

this like a diamond shape so generally a

simple a simple one is best like this

like this this is probably best so use

bullet points to introduce each item on

your resume so please use bullet points

that’s one two is use numbers where

possible so I have where possible you

could say when possible use numbers so

this point by this I mean if you are

talking about your work achievements and

you want to explain like an improvement

you made at your job don’t only say

don’t say I improved like sales or like

I improved number of page views or

whatever so give like a specific number

like for example 15% increase or 50%

increase in something or like give a

specific number where possible so don’t

only say I improved something or like I

decrease like this bad thing this

negative thing try to use an actual

number where you can so please consider

this use actual numbers to talk about

your achievements

third then is to include a career

summary statement so I got this actually

I know many people include a career

objective statement and in doing some

research for this for this lesson

actually I found that English speaking

resume advisors recommend not using a

career objective statement but instead

using now a career summary statement so

what’s a summary statement so career it

means your education or your work

history until now which is one but

summary means like a short kind of a

short general overview so what did you

do how

can you explain quickly in like maybe

two to three sentences yourself how can

you explain your career like an

introduction to your career at the

beginning of your resume so if I’m a

person and I get your resume how can I

quickly understand who you are so that’s

the purpose of a career summary

statement so this is one that now resume

writers recommend okay so this I want to

I want to ask you then to practice this

and we can so please think of how you

would summarize how would you make a

career summary statement for yourself so

I know many of you are still students

which is fine but imagine you are

applying to a job so how would you how

can you summarize your work history or

and/or your education history so let’s

try please send it into the chat and

then we can take a look at it and maybe

fix a few things if we see it so let’s

begin today with this question so what

is your career or your education if your

student summary statement so this should

be meant like let’s try for two

sentences two sentences alright so for

example mine my career summary statement

would be like editor and translator with

extensive experience in presenting for

mass audiences secondary focuses in

video production and online marketing so

those are my interests and those are the

things I have experience with so those

are the things I would include in my

education or my career summary statement

okay so please send along I know this is

a long question but please try to send

how would you summarize your career how

would you summarize your education so

give an introduction to yourself on a

resume to begin so who are you in

their words quickly how can you explain

I think everyone is typing it’s going

very everyone is thinking the chat has

slowed down it’s tough it’s tough so so

good things to do are to include some

job titles and like the focuses of your

work yeah so I think everyone is

thinking chat has slowed down okay

uh yeah okay great Gabby your first on

Facebook says I studied international

relations

I’m currently osya currently working as

an auditor on ISO 9001 Oh what is that

iso 9001 mmm good so great so Gabby

included her studies international

relations and her current job currently

working as an auditor nice nice okay

Cheung nian what does summary mean

summary means overview so an

introduction how can you explain your

career in a short phrase in a short

expression a very brief introduction

thanks sighs okay nice okay the answers

are coming in um Hamed on YouTube says

detail-oriented careful oriented is Ori

EMT oriented certified management

accountant with five plus years of on

hand experienced on does on hand mean

like on the job I would say five plus

years of maybe on-the-job experience is

that perhaps it nice though thank you

that was great leo says I have a degree

in software development I’m a soft I’ve

been a software developer for six years

nice I’ve been I’ve been oh okay it’s

going fast now okay

Giulio says I am an electronic engineer

I have been working for a big company as

a maintenance engineer perfect Israel

says I’ve been a Salesman in a company I

sell material for construction and

decoration etc so I’m going to talk

about grammar points in part two today

but please be careful just to give an

introduction if you’re explaining your

job now your responsibilities now use

the present tense if you’re talking

about your previous positions use past

tense or

perhaps present perfect or maybe past

perfect tense I’ll talk about that

Philip says I completed my I I have

completed nah time I have completed my

graduation or sorry I graduated in

mechanical engineering with aggregate

percent 75 so maybe I completed a degree

in mechanical engineering with what is

aggregate percent I’m not familiar with

the expression aggregate percent is that

something you know us mm-hmm

not sure yeah that’s aggregate percent

is not something we measure in US

universities so I’m not sure aggregate

percent Messiah on Facebook my final act

my academic background is a professional

school for dental technician let’s see

so my okay so maybe final academic

background would be my highest level of

education is professional school for

dental technician so if you’re talking

about like a semi uncle that would be

like a vocational school so if you’re

talking about a specific school to learn

a specific skill we have an expression

for that which is vocational school Dada

nice keywords so if you want to mention

you went to a specific school like to

learn one specific type of skill it’s

vocational school you can say I went to

a vocational school I don’t know if

that’s your case Messiah but I went to a

vocational school to become a dental

technician I’m not sure nice okay so

these are a few examples of how to give

an overview of your career or your

education so please if you are preparing

an English resume please start thinking

about your career summary statement how

can you give an introduction to your

career alright good so let’s take a

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how to improve your resume so if you

don’t know some keywords resume means

your work and education history

paperwork so you use a resume when you

search for or when you apply for a job

so this is a very important piece of

paper a very important document for many

of you okay so yes thanks for joining us

we’re going to go to the second topic

for today so topic one was are yeah

point one I guess was about formatting

really so second I want to talk I

started to talk a little bit about this

vocabulary and grammar word choice and

vocabulary oh did I really write that

word choice in vocabulary oh that was

mistake sorry I should have written I

should have written sorry that’s my bad

word choice vocabulary and

grammar I want to talk about here sorry

guys that’s my fault that’s my phone

anyway this is our second point all

right uh oh yeah someone on facebook

says resume is called curricula CV

curriculum vitae yeah CV and resume are

very similar for today we’ll consider

them the same we don’t have time to

explain the difference oh thanks

okay so yeah word choice vocabulary and

grammar points let’s go now to these so

I mentioned in response some of you sent

your career summary statements on

YouTube I mentioned these two points

quickly already so first one using

present tense for current position so

current your current position means your

job now or your studies now what do you

do now current means now so use present

tense to explain your current positions

so someone says someone said like I sell

machinery or like I do

I don’t know dental work for example or

I teach English on the internet so use

present tense present tense so I teach

also please remember the difference

between present like simple present

tense and the present progressive tense

we use present progressive tense for

temporary actions so don’t say I am

selling machinery for example if you’re

talking about a regular action say I

sell machinery you don’t need to use the

progressive tense to talk about your

regular responsibilities use the simple

present tense there then as I mentioned

if you are explaining your previous job

so I have X job here this is kind of a

casual way so if you want to talk about

your previous positions please use past

tense or perhaps past perfect it depends

please use past tense

to talk about your previous jobs so to

give similar examples

I sold machinery or I taught a language

or I worked on houses I built houses

whatever so use past tense for your ex

jobs or past perfect so please consider

current position and previous positions

we’ll use different grammar when you

explain things so these are a couple of

grammar points also this common it’s

common on resumes to drop articles

so remember articles are like a and and

the uh an enough so when you prepare

your resume and if you check resumes if

you google just do a google search for a

sample English resume you will find that

oftentimes these articles are removed in

the resume so you don’t need to say like

I work at a blah blah blah or I I I am a

member of a bah-bah-bah we commonly drop

articles in resumes so this is another

point y1 it saves space and - I think it

just helps us kind of focus a little