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Help With Your Resume - Multiuse
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Before you begin

  1. Make a list of what you want to tell potentioal employers about your experience and training. List beginning and ending dates, job title, skills used and the name of the supervisor. If you have little or no work experience, list skills you have developed through volunteer projects or work at home.
  2. Contact a few people who know your skills and/or know that you will make a great employee. Ask to use their contact information as a resume reference. If the person agrees, ask for current address and telephone number. If the reference checks email regularly and does not use tight filtering, ask for an email address also.
  3. List several ways that an employer will be able to contact you.
  4. The sites below offer help with organizing your information and creating a resume.

Resume Helper Sites

Work with a tutor - FREE: If you are an adult learner who needs help with a resume, your Library provides access to an on-line tutor. You can use the service from any comptuer on the Internet between the hours of 3pm and 10 pm daily. There is no charge to you for using this service.
  1. From the Library's home page at http://library.beau.org select the link for tutor.com (You've got homework).
  2. Enter your library card number if asked.
  3. Click Adult Learners
  4. In area 1, set the drop box to "Resume Help"
  5. In area 2, click "Connect"
Free On-Line Training Course From Learning Express: Help is also available through the Louisiana Library Connection. This service is free to you because your Library has joined with other Louisiana Libraries to purchase access. Your library card number gives you access from any computer which can access the Internet.
  1. Click to Louisiana Library Connection.
  2. If asked, enter your Library card number.
  3. Select "Learning Express"
  4. Login with your Learning Express user name and password. If this is your first use, you will need to create a free account.
  5. From the left column, select "Job Search and Workplace Skills".
  6. Click the arrow next to "Job Search, Resumes and Interviewing" to drop the menu.
  7. Click "Career Course: Creating a great resume" to get started.
  8. When you complete the course, be sure to save your resume in text format as well as pdf. The pdf will probably be wha you want to send to employers now. If you need to update or adapt the resume, you can load the text copy into a word processor.
  9. Notice that there is also a career course for creating cover letters.
On-Line Training Course From GFC Learn Free: Your library partners with Goodwill Community Foundation to make GCFLearnFree.org resources available to you. This is a free service of GCF and does not require the use of a Library card.
  1. After clicking the GCF url above, log in -or- if this is your first visit, create a free account.
  2. Select "Work & Career"
  3. Select "Crafting Your Resume"
  4. Work through the lessons in the self-paced tutorial. Lesson 9 includes examples of resumes.
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