 okay why won't my hang on don't record yet because now I can't there we go okay so welcome to resumes 101 uh thanks for coming today we have a pretty good crowd so that's great um well oops my thing is going crazy hang on let's go back there we go so uh to start again what is a resume okay so we're resume in short is a demonstration of your qualifications and suitability for the type of position or employment that you're seeking okay it outlines your education your experience and your skills it's also a summary of your abilities accomplishments and attributes and we're going to go into this in a little bit more detail and this is really important it's your opportunity to stand out from other applicants so you want to use it to the best of your ability uh here's some just overarching tips for you to keep in mind when you are composing your resume don't think of it as a list of job descriptions but you want to think of it as a list of successes skills and strengths some people go into great detail describing what they did and it's better to focus more on sort of a summary of the skills you were utilizing and if there were any positive successes during that experience for you to highlight those you don't need to list every single thing that you did you want to think about how you did your job as opposed to what you did in terms of the what you really want to focus like I said above on the skills not so much the duties unless the duties are really implying a skill so your resume should be visually pleasing you want it to be consistent consistent concise and professional uh you also want to leave some white space on there keep it uncluttered and the rule is generally one to two pages but those pages should be full so you don't want to do one and a half pages they should be full pages so if you're getting like one and a quarter you you're going to want to see how you can be a little more concise and get that on to one full page this is important think about information architecture you want to create a hierarchy and and a structure to your resume and stick to it dates have one format job titles have a format places of employment have their own format and you want to repeat that structure through your resume so it's really easy for the viewer to find the information they're looking for you want to focus on skills and experience that are relevant and when I say relevant I mean relevant to the particular job that you are applying for and you really want to punch those points and the best way to do this is I usually recommend people create a master resume so that means everything that you've ever done and it doesn't matter how long that resume is because you're not going to use it you're going to use that resume as a starting point because you're going to customize it for each specific job that you're applying for so it'll get into that one or two full pages by the time you're submitting it and I'm going to do a little demo on this a little bit later so you can kind of see a an example of of how to do this okay there's a few different types of resumes uh chronological resume that lists all experience in reverse chronological order so that means the most recent job first and then moving back in time uh functional resume and that's where you split things out into um headings like communication skills and other kinds of skills and followed by a list of places that you worked and you would also have education there but we'll go through what order you would place things in a minute um most often I would recommend a combination of the above so you're going to list most recent first but you're going to separate things out into different categories and I'll show you what I mean by that okay so starting from the top generally of your resume this is what you want to include a correct contact uh listing for yourself and that includes your name your address your email you want to put your uh links to your online presence there not necessarily social media but more like your online portfolio um make sure you list a phone number and make sure that somebody can leave a message at that phone number um you don't want somebody to call and your messages are full uh then you're there's a sentence or a listing that happens right under your contact info that I'm going to call highlights of qualifications this used to be sort of a career objective that that's a category that it we're sort of moving away from now it seems like what's more helpful in that space now is what I'm referring to is a career profile you can call it a professional summary you can call it a professional statement something like that and it's really can be a sentence that sort of demonstrates your suitability for the job that you're applying for and with that you're using that resume for and I've got some examples that I'll show you there's a lot of different ways that you can do that then you're going to want to list your education you do not need to put your high school on there um high school completion is implied by the fact that you're listing your post-secondary education and you can put your current degree up there you can just project the graduation date forward or you could put to present with whichever you want okay skills is usually the next heading you can get to and I this is a category that a lot of people miss and it's a really key part of your resume and this is where you can really punch up in point form how you match the skills that they're looking for on the job posting and that's really really important to do then they can find it really easily it's not buried in a description below a job somewhere you're going to list your experience and this is it can be job experience but it can also be other types of experience so sometimes what's helpful is to separate this experience section out into related or relevant experience and additional experience what this does is it it really helps you pull the most relevant experience right up front and center for the viewer to find instead of it being buried down there in a reverse chronological order you can still go in reverse chronological order but you know you might be working at Starbucks and you don't want that to be the first thing that they see it's super valid and valuable to show that you worked at Starbucks there's a lot of good skills that you gain working in frontline services like that but now you can move Starbucks down lower in document to additional experience and I'll show you later what I mean yeah you can totally include class projects and collaborations whether they were for credit or not just your own projects that you're working on and that really helps if you feel like you don't have a lot of related experience you do actually have related experience it's just not in the form of a professional job so I demo that in some later you'll see it and it doesn't matter if you were paid it's okay to list things as relevant experience even if you weren't paid you want to put some volunteer experience there if you have some it's always positive to include volunteer experience in your resume it looks good and then you might have some additional information that you want to list their achievements and certifications you might have that are relevant to the position okay now we're going to talk a little bit about skills okay so I've put together some lists of skills uh skill sets and and don't don't get overly focused on how I've titled them you you may want to title them in a way that works best for that job posting and and you'll see what I mean but you know for example here's some example of some good communication skills that you might want to list um I won't reread them all out um it might be helpful to highlight team and leadership skills if that's something that's they're looking for in the job posting um critical thinking skills these are really good and you know with your education at Emily Carr don't underestimate these these are very valuable skills to highlight in a job application they're really really um hireable skills in the in the work market um here's some organizational skills that you might want to highlight uh some more now these are also things I often see students in my advising that are are forgetting to list these types of skills so I'm just going to pull them all up here but um on the left here you can see creative skills and studio skills um you could even combine these and say creative and studio skills and then list uh you know a combo of things but these are really great um you know collaboration which was in the last slide is a great one um you know the fact that everybody experiences um critique here that's really valuable in the workplace that you know how to effectively take feedback and incorporate it into your work it's really important skills so don't forget about that and then there's um obviously sometimes you can list software skills as technical skills and maybe combine it with the studio skills um and I've put some interpersonal skills there too take your cues from the job posting as to what skills you think you could best highlight you don't want a list of like 30 things you just want sort of highlights okay so let's get into some example resumes okay this is in our handout and I'm going to put the handout in the chat it's called how to get hired and we have another one called resume builder um at the very end I'll put it in the chat um so that you can download it from there but you can also download it from the resource section in arts work um they're they're all there too so this is an example of a resume that um is for somebody very early still in their education they really don't have any relevant professional experience so um I've kind of added these categories of um you know this is this is kind of skills but I've I've listed this is a student who's focusing on animation and illustration I've even listed relevant course work here because there isn't a lot of work to list yet uh notable projects here um the skills are here but I've just focused on um computer that could actually say software skills and studio skills and some leadership skills here uh are good to mention because they happen to be in this person's wheelhouse and you see here how I've moved the you know the London drugs and JJ bean experience way down here into additional it's still valuable but if I used just uh experience as one category then they would be way up there at the top and they would be some of the first things that the um the viewer would see so they're valuable but now we can move them down here so that because all of this is relevant to professional creative work and this is just kind of a bonus so um that's just kind of a demo of that um here's somebody who is um in design and um just a small note about design resumes it's good to highlight your design skills in a design resume and I mean I'm not a designer so don't judge me on this one but I was kind of attempting to do that but you just want to make sure that you don't over design it you don't want the design to overshadow the information that you want people to find okay so I've listed here skills and ability and technical skills and I've kind of combined software and studio skills in here um and then here's the degree the education listed and you can see how the information I've gone forward sorry you can see how the information here is very easy to find you know it for somebody viewing it they don't have to like do this deep diagnostic into the um resume to find the information that they're looking for uh this is actually this is kind of a visual arts resume and it's a hybrid between uh an artist CV and a professional resume so this would be if you're in visual arts and you want to apply to internships and art related jobs and you can see how at the bottom the select exhibitions are listed very much like an artist CV and I'll talk a little bit about artist CVs later um but the professional experience section is it follows more of a format of a resume you know it's got freelance work it's got student monitor work for Emily Carr that kind of thing but it's listed more like a resume than an artist CV and the studio expertise is right front and center even above the education there okay just a couple of things to keep in mind that you do not want to put on your resume um you don't want to put your age your gender your nationality or a picture of yourself um you know it's fine to put your pronouns I think but I think that these types of categories are in certainly in Europe and other places these are standard but in North America it's not standard to have this information on a resume you wouldn't include it so if you're applying for positions in North America you wouldn't want to include that kind of information um references so some people put references on their resume that's not where they belong um they used to be a sort of a trend of putting at the bottom of your resume references available upon request that trend seems to have faded so you don't need to list anything to do with references on your resume but what you do want to do is prepare a separate sheet that lists your references name title place of employment phone number and email and if you are applying for positions just reach out to the the folks on that document and make sure that they know they might get a call um you might want to send them the copy of the resume um that you're using for that application and you might want to give them a line or two about oh this is maybe even send them the job description just so that they're ready for a call if if uh if you're being shortlisted um okay customizing your resume this we talked about this earlier and this is kind of a demo it's important to remember that the resume doesn't get you the job it it gets you shortlisted hopefully for an interview or at least for the first stage before an interview could be a phone call um the number of resumes that employers receive for postings can be over a hundred or more um you know some of the pretty hot internships they could easily get hundreds or over a thousand applications so please keep in mind that your resume is going to get like a 30 second scan this is why it's so important that you're punching the information that they're looking for and not making them look for it because they might miss it you know imagine reviewing a hundred resumes yourself after like the 20th you're scanning seriously um sometimes resumes are scanned by shortlisting software so this is why it's so important to look through the job posting for the keywords and phrases uh that that show you what the employer is looking for um and then you're going to repeat these in your resume because if it is being scanned by software you're going to want to make sure it picks up those keywords and phrases okay here's a job posting this is we're going to kind of work through this so this is for um a design intern at bc children's hospital and this job was up on arts work a couple weeks ago um so what the exercise i would recommend is that you go through and you highlight what you interpret as the keywords in that job posting so i've done that you'll find those in the job description you'll find it in the list of qualifications that they're looking for and then sometimes they list uh you don't have to have this but it's a bonus kind of that nice to have so i would certainly highlight those two and see if there's any way if i have that experience that i can demonstrate it in my resume so from that i make myself a list of these things and then this is kind of my roadmap for editing my master resume down to make sure that i've included all of these things and and used some of the keywords that they're looking for so remember our graphic design um resume example so now you go through your own resume and you highlight where you've mentioned it and then you just go ahead and put a tick next to your list of keywords that was on the previous slide you may want to rephrase some things like you might notice at the top here um emerging visual designer with a focus on innovative brand connection uh creation i've i've edited that and i changed it to emerging design methodologies and technology because they mentioned that in the job description so it's a different way of saying the same thing but i'm going to use their words uh same with down below under the find me infographic here um you know a group project created an infographic as part of a group project i've changed group project to team because they use the word team like three times in that job posting so i'm going to use their term um then i'm going to go back after i've worked everything in and i'm going to do another pass so i can see that anything that is not highlighted i've worked that in and then i'm going to look and say oh i missed a few so at that point i can work those into my resume or i can say okay i'm going to mention that in my cover letter then instead um the ones in yellow were those nice to have so i don't need to worry if i don't have that experience i don't need to speak to it because it was just something that they mentioned would be a bonus okay now i'm going to talk just a little bit about cv's as opposed to resumes so a cv would contain information um that would not then generally be listed on a resume so academic and professional information like publications award scholarships um or grants you received teaching experience any workshops courses programs that you taught even if that was at a day camp or something it's still valuable um some you know if you had any professional memberships organizations or affiliations that you were a part of you would list those on your cv you would also list content that is public that would not necessarily be listed on your resume like um your exhibitions and you can list those group exhibitions solo exhibitions select exhibitions however you want whatever seems to work best for the the scope of experience you have with exhibitions um screenings and film festivals if you are in film or animation you would list those here uh any residencies you'd participated in commissions uh collections that um you know if someone had purchased your work and um collaborations and projects like for instance a public art project a mural or something like that you would list that on your cv couple of example cv's so here's an artist cv as someone who just finished fourth year so um you know uh it's good to get involved in um sorry my phone is ringing I apologize um it's it's good to get involved in things while you're in school uh everybody participated in the foundation show so you can definitely put that down um you know the woo newsletter letter is always looking for submissions so that's a great thing for you to submit your work to and then it's a great thing that you can list on your cv a couple of honors and awards down there at the bottom uh this is one with more of a um a film focus so um and it's it's actually a little bit more of a hybrid because you can see it has the professional statement there at the top um and some um technical skills and things like that but it includes awards and achievements so um it's it's a bit a little bit more of a hybrid uh it really depends on what the job posting is asked for sometimes they will specifically ask for a cv um an artist cv or something like that so um but don't be afraid to hybrid hybridize it a little bit like this um before we finish I'll just see a little bit about your application as a whole things to keep in mind um it's really important that you read the application thoroughly look for instructions and make sure that they follow it if they've asked for things uh they they've asked for links make sure you give them links um and if they've asked for specific formats then give them that make sure that you follow the instructions um you definitely want to begin early and apply early don't start your application the day it's due you won't have time to review it and and um also it's really important to note that certain postings may have a closing date but often they will close early if they reach their threshold of applications so don't wait till the last minute it's good to just get right on that and get that in early we even have postings on arts work where um the job appears we post it and then it disappears and we have to pull it down and we've estimated a a closing date because the the job didn't list one so just be aware of that definitely reread in uh read and reread the position um that exercise earlier I can't stress it enough you want to make sure that you've addressed the skills and experience that they've asked for in your application um it's really important to send your resume and cover letter and examples of your work if they ask for that as one PDF all is one PDF to avoid people having to download and and keep opening different documents if if you have 200 applications that's a huge time waste for them um you should always include a cover letter with your resume it may not be requested in the job posting but it is implied and it really does give you an advantage over other applications that didn't include one um we are offering a presentation on cover letters tomorrow presented by our director Shannon McKinnon so I really encourage everyone to attend that one too uh if you can't then we are going to hopefully put that up and on the arts work resources page as well so you can you can watch the video later um I can't stress this enough either proof read your application and get somebody else to read it um you tend to miss your own typos uh so it's really important for someone else to um to look at it it can be a friend a family member the writing center will review them and also us uh you can make one-on-one appointments uh with us um but don't send it to me if it's due at four o'clock and you send it to me in 330 and say can you review this before the closing's in an hour because um I might be in an advising session or something and I likely won't have time so if you can't get me or you can't get the writing center at the very least try and get a couple of other people to to just read it over for typos before you send it um that's it for my presentation um I already introduced my colleagues Jeff and Shannon and just to remind people that we are available for virtual advising that would be with me and you just have to email co-op at ecuad.ca in order to um make an appointment and I'll I'll leave that slide up okay I'll stop talking Jeff any questions just pop them in the chat okay just leave your microphones muted but pop it in the chat and Jeff can tell me what they are no questions no questions okay I was really that thorough okay so just lane do you want me to um to to pop something into the chat yeah I can do that right now how to get hired and the resume builder absolutely and how to get hired has a little bit of info on cover letters too there's actually some info repeated over those two documents um so yeah oh I see a question okay I see a question when a company has a requirement of three years but you haven't had enough experience is there a way to convey that through the cover letters um if you haven't had enough experience I guess I would say and Shannon might want to add to this my advice would be don't pretend that you have it all boils down to what you consider experience you know if you're working on class collaborative projects say in design like that bc children's hospital job posting then that is experience but if they say three years of professional experience and you have zero then you can't really pretend that you have had that you can refer to yourself as an emerging designer just finished your degree but you can't really say I have three years of professional experience if you don't Shannon do you want to add to that um no I agree with you I but I think that you can use your your class projects as experience so when you but you yeah because they'll catch you out on it and it happens so you you have to be honest in your in your resume so and you really do um I see another question here could you show the slide between the two types of resumes from Anita uh okay so the two types of resumes do you mean between cv oh do you mean it's the resume examples yes yeah okay I'll go back to that slide well um you guys are looking at this question oh my animation sorry this is probably not the most so um yeah and somebody asked a question about um being in foundation this answers it too yeah absolutely and so this resume is a good one to um have a look at ester for really early um educate early in your education uh I mean in foundation you don't even know your major yet but you have taken uh creative process class a studio class you know you can you can list your project work in there that that's fine and as you move through your education and you get more experience then you're going to replace those uh you know and you're going to remove things like relevant coursework because it's you're going to have actual um project experience that you can list instead um okay so I'm going to flip to the next resume just to show those those ones again this resume is actually in the handout this one is not but I'm I'm going to try and add it uh some more resumes we're actually reviewing those resources um hopefully in the spring so um this one I just made for the presentation so there's a design resume okay any other questions Jeff um if I have an award from an international competition but I received it when I studied in middle school it's kind of related related um creative writing competition um can I include it I just answered yes in my chat so I would say yes and I do I agree with Shannon my director um because and I would really look again at the job posting particularly if writing is part of the job description and I think it's great to demonstrate that you got an award for your writing skills anything else Jeffy um not yet uh there's a question here that Delvin is saying that she's there having problems downloading so maybe just email us and I'm going to put our co-op email to co-op so yeah thank you also Jeff if you could put the arts work URL there in the chat um those resources are available for download among others there's other resources there um on arts work on the resources page I'm just scanning here okay everybody's thanking me you're very welcome and don't forget that um really you can take what I've talked about you can look at the handouts um don't be afraid to google things like you know design resumes and and kind of have a look at a scope of um of what's out there and um you know and then do a draft and then make an appointment to come and see us and we can go through it together and it's great if you bring the job posting because it really helps you kind of need the job posting because you want to tailor it to that um I see a question here will we be able to download this zoom meeting as a video um yes eventually um we're still working through the technical so this so we're going to give the presentation tomorrow and then we're going to get it into a format that's postable and we're going to try to get it up in the arts work resources page by the end of the year and then hopefully at some point in the spring we're going to try and create a resources page on the website so you don't have to go into arts work to get them but right now we don't have that uh we don't have permission we're not allowed um we don't own that part of the website uh okay so that's great thanks for your questions I guess we can stop record