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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
more on the keywords as well this you
see this in headlines newspapers as well
dropping articles - so there are a
couple reasons there but yeah it just it
saves space as well it sounds it just
sounds more professional it sounds
cleaner it sounds more formal so that’s
one tip if I can’t I can’t talk a lot
about this today because we don’t have
much time
but um if you want to take a look at
this a quick Google search will help you
so check out like English resumes just
google that okay then the last two
points are about vocabulary choice
actually so one is use formal language
use formal language so a problem that
has appeared among some young people
I’ve learned is they use a very casual
or even like internet or texting
language
in formal documents so please don’t do
that please don’t do that use formal
language when you’re preparing your
resume use formal language be polite
second choose strong verbs so a verb
like I do sales is using the verb do is
not a very strong verb instead think
about ways to show how like maybe you’re
a really good salesperson so did you
improve sales like you could say
improved sales by 50% for example or
like increased revenue by 3,000 percent
I don’t know so choose strong verbs so
I’m going to talk more about it later
but think about how to highlight what
you’re good at doing don’t just describe
the stuff that you do so your vocabulary
choice matters here so choose strong
verbs this you can really you can think
about this not just for a resume but
also just when you prepare like any kind
of like profile or like a bio or
whatever think about how to use strong
verbs to really showcase what you’re
good at doing okay so with this then
with this second group of points please
our second question for you today I I
asked you first to just to do like a
career summary statement now we’re going
to focus on this grammar point the first
one here present tense for current
positions so please describe your
current job or current studies think
sighs your current job or current
studies tell us what do you do now but
try to use formal language try to think
of a strong verb to explain your work
and try to use formal language for an
extra challenge try to drop the articles
- this is tough I know I have lots of
tough tough things for you guys to do
today lay says how do you write your
first resume if you don’t have job
experience
yeah a good question if you don’t have
job experience you can include your
education experience what did you study
also include your extracurricular
activities extracurricular I’ll write it
down
extracurricular means the things you did
outside of school that are like sports
or club activities or maybe like events
you organize extra curricular activities
so if you are a student and you don’t
have job experience you can talk about
your extra curricular activities
extracurricular activities so this word
extra means outside and curricular the
rec the base there someone mentioned
curriculum relates to like school and
learning and study so outside your study
activities essentially so if you don’t
have job experience you can do that so
please describe oh great
alright as I was explaining
extracurricular activities we have some
excellent examples Wendy says I’m
studying project management and actually
I’m working in sponsorship area what
does that mean a sponsorship area so I
would say getting sponsorships for
events kind of maybe yeah okay so I
would use again I study so like studies
in maybe project management working in
sponsorship I’m not quite sure what
specifically that one is but nice rindra
says hi Ranger I teach lower elementary
classes in a Montessori School nice okay
good I’m studying computer science and
I’m looking for a job but I’m out of my
maker marker I’m not quite sure about
that one gear me I’m a technician
reproduction management on cows I breed
cows okay so good so describing your
current job I’m before your job title
you in running text in regular text you
should use an article I
Oh Baba that’s fine and then in your
description you can remove articles and
stuff leo says I’ve been working with
software development currently I’m
studying a new language of programming
to improve my skills in web development
that was nice really good nice one
Jim face says I’m examining the role of
genes and specific cells that control
bone formation whoa interesting so not
examining about I’m examining the role
of genes in specific cells that control
bone formation hmm that’s the that’ll
make it perfect nice one Tarek on
Facebook I’m an architect I’m an
architect I have 12 years of experience
okay nice start so then one day what is
your specialty like are you specialized
in renovations are you specialized and I
don’t know the specific material what
kind of buildings do you make so try to
give lots of details what is it that’s
like a highlight for you what is it
that’s special about you that nobody
else can do why should I hire you
convinced me
so think about them um I study software
engineering and I have worked fixing
computers Andre yeah mmm
I’m working in the Department of
Computer Science in the University of
Rochester
Zhang Lin sorry if I pronounced that
wrong so I work I work in I work in
remember present tense simple present
tense for your regular actions I’m work
it’s sorry I work in the department of
computer science is correct Jeremy how
can I say that I don’t have experience I
would not say no experience I would not
say that again I would focus on your
studies what have you studied
and so what maybe you’re working towards
a certification for example if you don’t
have any experience think about ways to
get like related experience or to talk
about other things you know how to do so
that you can gain some experience
yeah all right uh I’ll sad dig sorry if
I said that wrong I’m I graduated in
electrical power engineering and I
worked for three years in the same major
in my country but currently I’m working
in a glass company in the US okay nice
so I graduated ah thank you for your
point
I graduated from maybe like the school
of Electrical Engineering I don’t know
or I studied Electrical Engineering and
power so when you want to talk about the
university where you studied and you
finished your studies say I graduated
from blah-blah-blah University I
graduated from ba ba ba with a degree in
your major that’s a good one so I don’t
have time to write that out okay yeah
there are a lot of there are a lot of
things to read that it looks really nice
um Lai yes you can um I have to go on
though to the last point ooh actually
I’m like totally out of time aren’t I
can I finish a couple points and then
we’ll do the break or do I just need to
finish third points and then finish it
okay all right we’ll go to the last
group which is just general tips so I’m
out of time so we’re going to just talk
about some general tips to finish
today’s lie um so let’s continue on do
that doo doo will be up in a second so
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alright so the last category for today
is just some general tips first one is -
when you share what you did on your
resume explain your role in your
projects some problems I have seen in
the past nah not me but I have just seen
this people will sometimes claimed
responsibility for a project but they
don’t say specifically what did you do
so for example I can’t say like I am in
charge of English class 101.com
no like there’s a big team of people
that makes the lessons possible that
makes the videos possible that makes the
livestream possible so I if I want to
explain it I have to explain my role so
you should do the same thing in your
projects in your work what did you
specifically do don’t just say this
project I did this project or I made
this building or something explain
specifically what did you do so what are
you good at in other words next is share
your specific achievements so I
mentioned it at the beginning of class
this part be specific so if you can
share numbers you know what specifically
did you do don’t just explain like your
job description we don’t need a job
description but specifically what did
you do what did you achieve at your job
okay third right with your future in
mind so think what do you want to do in
the future so don’t focus yourself like
on the past what did you what have you
done what have you done but like what
are you aiming to do in the future so
the things you have done in the past
think about how to use those for the
future oh this one is very important we
have it twice customize your resume for
each job that’s my fault
it’s my fault I just I have it in two
spaces on my notes I’m sorry ice sorry
sorry sorry I must have been excited
about this point anyway customize your
resume thank you guys sorry okay
customize your resume for each job that
means don’t when you are applying for
jobs it’s my fault when you’re applying
for jobs don’t send company a and
Company B and Company C exactly the same
resume like
look at company a and Company B and
Company C like what are the vocabulary
words they’re using in their job posting
like what specifically are they looking
for so customize your resume use the
same vocabulary words that the job ads
are using so make sure your resume
nicely matches the company you’re
applying to so customize your resume
don’t just send the same one to a
million companies all right so that’s it
those are my general tips there’s a lot
more to do but unfortunately I talked
too much as usual but thank you guys so
much for joining in and thank you for
your awesome example sentences
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that’s that’s might be a good idea maybe
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