College Classroom Activities to Teach Resume Writing

College Classroom Activities to Teach Resume WritingFor those in need of help with resume writing, there are some easy-to-use classroom activities to teach resume writing to your students. These activities are extremely useful, and there are more being made for different colleges and universities all the time.Have a student or two who has recently received a new job ask you about their job responsibilities. Find out what they do in order to succeed in their job. Teach them how to write resumes that include what their responsibilities are, so that they will be able to explain to their future employer what they would have to do if they were hired to a new position.Write down the top-most resumes that you've seen in your class. Then take all of the letters that you've received from students who are in your classes. Divide the letters into groups. Use one group to create a few 'teaser' resumes, which you can read to your students while they're reviewing their letters.Next, each student i n your college class is given a resume. Each resume must begin with their name, and they are to be formatted similar to the sample resume from the college course you have been teaching. This means that the type of information included in the resumes will depend on the career that each student is pursuing. For example, if a student has an Associate Degree in Business, he or she should include details like: the names of the employers, when they began their employment, and the level of responsibilities that they assumed in their employment.Ask each student to create a few descriptions of the qualities that they think they will bring to their new employer if they are hired. This is a good time to introduce the four main qualities that an employer looks for in potential employees. You'll also be able to get a sense of what sort of work responsibilities each student would expect in their new job.Finally, as you review the resumes to determine which ones have been written by students in yo ur teacher's class, and the students each resume. In addition to teaching them how to write resumes, you'll also be able to look over the resumes and determine which one is most appropriate for each student.As you are doing this, remember that these activities are not intended to replace you teach your students how to prepare resumes for the workplace. They're just there to help you teach students how to do the best job they can.

Suite Dreams Opening a Bed and Breakfast

Suite Dreams Opening a Bed and Breakfast When she got the “corporate boot” in late 2007, Selena Einwechter had no questions about what to do next: Of course, she’d open a BB. Einwechter first dreamed of owning a bed and breakfast more than three decades earlier while backpacking through Europe, but it wasn’t until the late 1990s that she began getting serious about the idea. Then a deputy director in the North Carolina office of Gtech, which supplies systems for state lotteries, she began spending her spare time attending trade conferences, writing a business plan, even filling in as an inn sitter. And about a month before her number came up at Gtech, Einwechter had enlisted a real estate agent to help her find a location. “I thought I’d have more security if I built the inn while employed,” she says. When her company handed her a seven-month severance package, however, the search took on new urgency. In February 2008 Einwechter found an ideal six-acre spot in Mills River, N.C., just outside Asheville. Three banks turned down her $800,000 loan application before a fourth â€" a local institution with an innkeeper on its board â€" gave her the green light. Building the 5,000-square-foot house took a year; the Bed Breakfast on Tiffany Hill finally opened for business in June 2009. Related: Single Mom Opens Women’s Bike Shop Einwechter’s first customers were friends who had invested with her; 30% of subsequent bookings have come via word of mouth. She’s also listed the business in BB directories and keeps local tourism centers stocked with brochures. Last year, with an occupancy rate of 60% â€" well above the 44% industry average â€" the inn grossed $195,000, netting almost $90,000. Einwechter used the profits to add two suites, bringing the total to seven. This year she expects revenue of $265,000. “I am working harder than ever,” says Einwechter. “But I have met the best people, and I’m having the time of my life.” BY THE NUMBERS Percentage of salary she was saving before being laid off: 50%. With the goal of opening a BB, she began saving 3% in 1999, steadily increasing so that she was stashing half her income as of 2005. By 2008 she’d amassed $350,000 â€" $200,000 of which went to a down payment. Additional amount she raised from friends: $10,000. Borrowing an idea she saw in a documentary, she began selling $100 reservation deposits worth one night’s stay. Her first “investors” bought in a decade before the BB opened. “I have a great collection of friends,” she says. Fraction of her old salary she expects to earn in 2012: 3/4. Because most of her living costs are covered by the business â€" she lives on the property and draws meagerly from savings â€" Einwechter has so far chosen to reinvest profits. But this year she plans to take a salary of $75,000, not far from the $102,000 she earned in corporate America.

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