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CTC301 – Professional Success
Seminar
Unit 3.2 Assignment: Final Chronological Resume
Due Date: 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Unit 3
Points: 50
Overview:
In this assignment, you will update and submit your final chronological resumé to focus on the
position of your final project. The completion of this resumé will assist you in creating the Applicant
Tracking System (ATS) resumé, a required section of your final portfolio project.
Instructions:
Update your chronological resumé to focus on the career position in your portfolio project.
Include these sections in your chronological resumé:
• Your current contact information
• Job objective/summary
• Educational history
• Experience: Employment, volunteer experience, and extracurricular
experience, if applicable
• Special skills: Occupation-specific and transferable skills that relate to the
position
• Awards and achievements
Requirements:
• Include the job description with your resumé submission. Use only information relevant
to the position in your resumé.
• Resumé should be free of any images, designs, charts, tables, and be well-structured,
clear, and concise.
• Include core industry keywords and a significant number of keywords from the job
description.
• Be sure the resumé is easy to understand, and all abbreviations spelled out.
• Submit your resume in Word format.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you
write and again after you write.
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Evaluation Rubric for Chronological Resumé Assignment
CRITERIA Deficient Needs Improvement Proficient
(0-5 points) (6-7 points) (8-10 points)
Chronological
Resumé is Relevant
to the Position
Chronological resumé
includes a lot of
information that is
irrelevant to the
position.
Chronological resumé
includes some
information that is
irrelevant to the
position.
Chronological resumé
includes only
information relevant to
the position.
Chronological
Resumé Formatting
Chronological resumé
format includes
images, designs,
charts, and tables. It is
not clear and concise.
Chronological resumé
format is somewhat
free of any images,
designs, charts, and
tables; it is somewhat
clear and
concise.
Chronological resumé
format is free of any
images, designs,
charts, and tables. It is
well-structured, clear,
and concise.
Chronological
Resumé Keyword
Optimization
Chronological resumé
is not optimized;
contains insufficient
core industry keywords
and keywords from the
job description.
Chronological resumé
contains a few core
industry keywords and
a few significant
keywords from the job
description.
Chronological resumé
contains core industry
keywords and a
significant number of
keywords from the job
description.
Job Description
Included with
Submission
Job description is not
included with the
submission.
n/a Job description is
included with the
submission.
(0-2 points) (3 points) (4-5 points)
Chronological
Resumé is Easy to
Understand
Many abbreviations
are not spelled out.
Some abbreviations
are used instead of
being spelled out.
All abbreviations
spelled out.
Chronological
Resumé Saved as a
Word Document
Chronological resumé
saved to another type
of file other than Word.
n/a Chronological resumé
saved in a Word
document format.
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