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Environmental Resume Preparation:

DO's and DON'Ts

DO

  • Have accurate content
  • Omit first person pronouns (I, me, my)
  • Use short forceful phrases (not sentences) that begin with active verbs in the past tense
  • Make sure that punctuation, grammar, and spelling are perfect
  • Allow adequate margins and white space between paragraphs for emphasis and neatness
  • Accentuate the positive
  • Emphasize accomplishments Prepare a rough draft
  • Edit and re-edit
  • Have someone else critique your resume
  • Double check the final copy
  • Credit your achievements
  • Tailor your resume to each job application
  • Limit your resume to one page
  • Indicate that "References will be furnished upon request."
  • Look at resume examples provided by the ESP Internship Coordinator or look at other resumes shown on related Internet websites

DON'T

  • Be pompous or wordy
  • Take ten lines to describe something that can be described in two lines
  • Include geographic preferences or limitations unless absolutely necessary
  • Include anything negative
  • Let someone else prepare your resume
  • Include unnecessary data
  • Include hard-to-read, fancy, too big, or too little, and casual typefaces

 

For news or for more infromation about the Environmental Studies Program, please contact us at:

Environmental Studies Program
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210006
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006

Office: 612 Rieveschl Hall
Phone: 513.556.9707
Fax: 513.556.5299
Academic Advisor: Professor Mary Fox, 556-2489, mary.fox@uc.edu
Website: http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/environment/