 Hello, my people welcome to the score channel. Welcome to another live stream on another wonderful Monday. It's all good to be here Good to see you guys today. We'll be talking about how to make a resume also known as a CV Okay, I feel like this is something that a lot of people don't understand and I understand why you don't understand Because nobody really teaches you this stuff You probably have gone through your entire high school career without ever being explained like how to do this So here you go. This is everything. They didn't teach you about the CV aka the resume I'm gonna show you guys step-by-step everything you got to do using a format that we typically use here at score now There is no one right format for a CV or a resume and real quick those two terms refer to the same thing I'm probably gonna say CV a lot just because Here in the rest of the world anywhere. That's basically not America We typically say CV to refer to this thing a curriculum DT But if they called a resume, it's the same basic thing Okay, same idea just two different names for the same thing if you're applying to universities in the United States odds are They're gonna ask you for this and even if they don't it's good for you to have one because sometimes You know, you might think oh my universities aren't gonna ask me for one But then like you're finishing up common app and one of the things they say is upload your CV And you don't have one and now you're stuck So it's always a good idea to make one just in case somebody asks and a couple basic things that we're gonna go over Are what you should include in that and how you should structure it? And so I'm gonna show you the template here and kind of walk you through it and sort of fill it out myself Hypothetically, I guess to show you the way. Okay, so let's get to it. Let's just take a look at what we got here so This here and and by the way feel free to hit me up in the chat if you've got any questions or Comments or whatever you need like always saying hi to my people here So This is a format that you can use. This is a publicly available format. I did not design This is not like score intellectual property, but this is useful. This is a good format. I like it It's got a very modern look to it I feel like some of the more traditional resume and CV formats are a little outdated and While they might make sense for a job application, you know We're talking about college applications a lot of times the people that are in the admissions offices are younger people So they can you know deal with a more modern format But basically every resume or CV is gonna start out with your name nice and big Okay, and I want to do that. I want to make my name nice and big because Like that's how we know who we're dealing with here. This should be front and center big letters Let them know who you are. Here's where you want to put in all your information We've already like pre-formatted a couple of these things You don't really have to have every single one of these items if you don't have a blog or a portfolio link Don't put one if you don't have a LinkedIn don't put one But like if you do have these things, it's good to include them here Especially the portfolio if you are, you know applying to any kind of theater major dance major Sports and they ask you for some kind of portfolio or videos or evidence of your work That's a great place to include that link so they can easily find it the purpose of this document is to give them a Succinct direct explanation of like your whole life And that's tricky because some of you guys have done a ton of stuff with your life so far So it might seem difficult to think well, how do I condense my whole life into a couple of pages? And by the way, it should be two pages You shouldn't be filling out like four or five or six pages of material like unless you're a freaking Nobel Scientist who's 70 years old and has like six pages of stuff to put And even then I would tell that person you probably can cut some stuff What we're looking for is the most important information So we're gonna go through section by section and talk about what you should put in each of these sections and how it should work So first of all the objective statement This is something that has appeared more recently in the last 10 to 20 years on resumes And it's something that I genuinely recommend because it makes it really clear what you're here for So all this text needs to be is just to tell you what major or program you're trying to you know Be admitted to and also when right so maybe this changes Maybe if you're applying right now, you're probably gonna do fall 2022, you know, and that would be that would be ideal Right fall 2022 and pursue You know bachelors Degree in Let's say I don't know biology. I'm gonna go for biology. Okay So that right there would let them know very clearly where I'm What I intend to do when I become a student at this university and when I intend to start studying And so that information is gonna be very key. It's just good to have that out right out front Then from there, we're gonna get into the history now I have broken this down into a few different sections again This is not the only way that you can do this but this is one way that I think is effective So first and foremost your education history, that's gonna be really important You got to think about what information they look for first, right? They're kind of filtering you out based on a few different things for example When and what if this program is full or it's too late to apply for this period Then they're gonna throw this in the trash right away and that's why this information should go first like We want this to be in the same kind of order that they are going to look for information So the first thing they want to make sure is okay. Do I have room for this person at this time? Yes or no if so, okay, do they have the grades? Do they have the high school experience that I need them to have in order to admit them and that's what's gonna go in here Now I have just pre-formatted this with two sections to repeat sections here Because maybe you went to multiple schools if you went to multiple schools in your last four years Then you should include both schools in this list If you are currently a university student and you are transferring abroad Then you should put your university first and then your high school second If you only went to one high school and that's it just you can delete this second one here and boom problem solved But that's why there's two here by default generally we find that there's a lot of people that will need Two of those spaces some people won't if you don't don't don't use it. You don't need it So here maybe I put like for example my high school diploma That's what I got and what's the name of my school, you know, awesome school USA Yeah, because that's where I went to school and when did I do that? Well, maybe, you know, you put the years, right? Or something simple like that you could say well from okay. Maybe that was from 2017 to 2021, right? If that's the case I wouldn't need this right. Well, let's say hypothetically, you know, um, maybe I'm pursuing my in biology at awesome University Peru, you know, that doesn't really exist. But hey, whatever and maybe I've just put here 2020 to 2021 and so now, you know, this is incomplete, right? Obviously someone reading this would know right off the bat Okay, this is incomplete. They're still working on it and then here's where I would put my high school diploma from awesome school, you know, and and maybe here we changed that then to 2016 to 2020 so Again, if you have split stuff if you have some university some high school that you need to show go ahead and do that If you have multiple high schools, you could theoretically have your most recent university plus two high schools down here I don't think that would necessarily be worth mentioning that that first high school But there are some cases that might call for three items here So if you're a master's applicant, naturally, you're going to have at least your undergraduate and your high school diploma, but you wouldn't need to mention much here The first thing on this list should be the thing that we develop more So here is where I'm going to want to comment a little bit about my performance in this program and Notice I say quick synopsis of the school you graduated from I mean like one or two sentences, you know awesome university Peru is a top 100 institution worldwide You know boba. There you go. There's a quick synopsis, right? GPA or let's say 3.8, right? Top 10 of the class And then if I felt like mentioning maybe some specific courses that I took I could do that If there were some important electives or important courses that I think the university I'm applying to will consider I want to include those in here as well But basically that's it. Just keep it simple. Keep it direct. You do not need to write full sentences here Okay, you don't need to get into every single detail. You don't have to say I had a GPA of 3.8 like I can just say GPA 3.8 top 10 percent of the class boom Because remember we're gonna have to get a lot of stuff in here and we don't always have enough space So keeping it simple is good. Don't write paragraphs about I had such a wonderful school experience I love my school so much. I had a great time and they don't they don't care They're not reading this to learn more about your feelings. They're looking for the facts Okay, so keep it factual now Once you've got your education stuff figured out again, you're gonna want to make sure all that information's accurate If you have any ap exams ib exams definitely mention your ib courses I would definitely recommend here. For example, if I if this was a, you know, maybe awesome school You know, maybe I say english hl Math hl like I would just list my courses in here GPA of you know, whatever, let's say 3.9 final ib grade That's 43. I'm just an awesome student in this hypothetical scenario. This is not realistic for me at all But hey, I can dream um now The the reason I encourage people to keep this stuff relatively short is because this is the section that we're gonna develop a lot as we will with this section And this section but I want to talk about the differences between these first because I think There is a little bit of confusion as to what you should put in each of these sections. So Starting with experiences, what's the difference between saying well experiences and like extracurricular activities or hobbies Generally the way I see this and the way I like to develop these is Experiences are gonna talk about things that are more significant to you these I would highlight a couple of things Where I've worked for somebody else or some organization. Maybe I was a volunteer Maybe I participated in a club Maybe I actually had a job and I want to describe that here Those are experiences that I think are worth pointing out. Those are activities that you've done where you We're working for somebody else or maybe you even started up your own thing extracurricular activities. I think of these more as the Actual activity, but maybe I participated in multiple different places for that, you know I might say okay Well, I mentioned I'll talk about a sport here and say well I participated in this sport with this group and that group and this many years and I can go into detail about that activity Whereas here I want to focus a little bit more on the organizations or on the groups that I've participated with And the types of experiences they gave me. I feel like these could be they could overlap with these You know with your extracurriculars. I just want to highlight them, but then it grabs the side thingy Um You could have one of these in here if you feel it's worth dedicating a lot of space to But just remember the most important thing goes first So whatever I put in this experiences section ought to be Like the most important experiences that I think I've had that you should know about So let's say hypothetically I wanted to include some work experience and maybe some volunteer experience, right? So I might say customer service representative at in sync media um, and I tell you I don't know maybe I did this for two years right from 2016 to 2018 and Even if that's not the most recent necessarily it's going to be the most important one It's going to be the one that I want to put forward first, right? So let me bring that text back so I can change that um Actually know that this would actually be later. Let's let's try to be consistent with our lore Okay, so I want to give a little bit of context first and This this one's for for me an experience that I would consider very significant because I had an employer number one So I had to answer to other people. I was responsible for certain tasks And also because it was a large portion of my time. I literally was working full time while being in high school So I feel like that's something they should know about that that you know is a very significant experience for me And so I'm just going to focus a little bit on that work experience, right? um I might want to itemize some things right the responsibilities like You know So I might explain a little bit of what I had to do So again, I have a little bit of context a little bit of the Responsibilities or the things that I had to perform while on this job You know and then I I would like to point out a little bit of my performance. Well, how did it go? Did I do well, you know, um Maybe Okay, so These little things right but let's say I mean that's maybe a less of a common experience for you guys a work experience So let's talk a little bit more about something that might be a bit more practical for you right a volunteer um, let's say I was a volunteer for you know, um Saving Yeah, this is this is a new NGO that I just invented and let's say I did that from 2019 to 2021 still right, um So I give a little context again, right? Um And I could do the same style of format like what did I do right and so that's included All right Okay, so You know again, I'm just trying to detail a little bit of what I did and you know Maybe at the end my results right worked with over So there we go Um, so again, you see the the sort of format the way I'm structuring this information I don't need to write much more than this honestly like if you're describing feelings and emotions and you know all the context You're going too far. You're giving too much information that nobody cares about at this phase. Okay? It's not that that information isn't important. It's just that that information isn't important on this document If you want to talk about how moved you were and how emotional your experience was as a volunteer do that in one of your essays Because odds are one of your universities is going to ask you about your community engagement If you want to talk about how you got this job and how it made you feel when you first got that job Do that in one of your essays write about, you know The work experience and how you first got the interview and how nervous you were when you did the interview Write about that experience in an essay Get one of the people from that company to write you a recommendation letter where they can share that perspective That's where that kind of stuff belongs. It doesn't belong in your resume Your resume is supposed to be very succinct Buried to the point No filler no bs. No flow ro no fat All right, it needs to be slim So I've got four or five lines and I think and even this I was being silly here. I could probably delete that um Four lines. I think it's plenty a teeny bit of context What you did there and how it went Beginning middle and end three or four sentences move on. Okay You can add more things as you need to here But I I really find that a lot of people over use This section really over include things. So and I think that you know, these are experiences, right? I'm gonna get into the extracurricular activities and hobbies in a second and how I would see those differently But right here. I have this brief little skills section. This is one section I I frequently delete because a lot of you guys don't have any skills or you think you do and you don't Like for example, empathy is not really a skill. Okay. It's not really really a skill. It's more of a social Like awareness that I mean, it's it's good to have it But I don't know if I would consider a skill like kindness. I see people put kindness in here. That's not really a skill Okay You either are a nice person or you're not okay I don't really think of these as qualities. These are skills things you can do show me like Microsoft office, right? um If I know how to use all those programs, I would put that in here adobe Creative cloud. Uh, I know how to use that. I use it all the time. Um, spanish advanced You know, um, maybe english native These are skills. These are things that you can apply in other situations to get things done. Okay um, maybe you are You know an expert carpenter Like maybe your thing is just you like making things out of wood and so that's one of the things you do um You know, I don't know what else could be a good skill. Um, maybe you got like cooking, you know your uh michelin's star chef So whatever like these should be things that I can see you do Okay, things you know how to do or use tools technology think about stuff like that. Um I feel like this is something that again gets misinterpreted a lot if all you have is a bunch of adjectives in here You're doing it wrong. Okay. I do not have a lot of adjectives. I have nouns Okay, I have things Spanish english carpenter chef Programs that you can look up And learn how to do all right. So that's what I want to include in the skills section. I think that's what's important Now if you don't have a lot to add here go ahead and delete it Look, you can always get rid of that section and there's nothing wrong with doing so you're young You probably don't have a lot of skills yet. That's okay. That's why you're going to college Let's talk about these extracurricular activities. So What I like to do with these is think globally first. What is the activity and then what do I do with it? Or what's my experience with it? So I probably would start with like the biggest one, right? Let's think about you know writing like like for me. That's an extracurricular activity, you know, um All right, and you can even do a little paragraph about this first, you know, I Like I could do a little thing here Okay, so just a little again This is where I can give a little bit more context about this activity because again different people can write different things maybe um, you know Yeah, my poetry collection called awesome thoughts. It hasn't been published yet. I actually did write a novel. That's not bs I'm not making that up. Um Yeah, so whatever I could put more things in here if I wanted to but the idea here is I am just trying to give you a quick overview of This activity and how important it is to me again, whatever you put first says more All right, so if I put writing before everything else, I'm letting the person know This is an extracurricular activity. That's really important to me Okay, this is something that I care about a lot so You know, it's something that I'm gonna put first if I think it's something that's really valuable to me as a person But also valuable to the admissions officers like am I gonna be doing a career where I'm gonna do a lot of writing? Because that's when I should probably You know That's where I should mention this first If I'm doing something more sports related, maybe I would put a sport first, right? Um, and that's where I can go into other topics as well other activities and other hobbies, right? Um Yeah so the I think it's called horology. I'm gonna double check that actually I'm pretty sure that's what it's called this like the study of watches or like making watches. I like I like that. Um, yeah, yeah instruments for time. Okay. I know what I'm talking about. Cool. Yeah, so You know, maybe I'll talk about this too many keyboard shortcuts Like this right here is the kind of thing that definitely isn't an experience, right? This is just something I do Something I like and it's not something that's organized or formal or even outside of my bedroom Okay, I just have a box of watches up in the shelf and I like my watches and I'm interested in watches and like the history of them and You know how they work and I find the piece is fascinating and like I had one that had a transparent back So you could see the moving parts inside and that just blew my mind and like This is the kind of thing you can include on your resume Don't feel that this is not okay or not good enough Because just the fact that you're interested in something that a lot of other people are not interested in Is going to make you a more interesting candidate to the university So it's okay If you can you know, if you want to include that information don't feel that it has to be formal activities at all times It could even be just like I mean you could literally just put in here like anime lover you know, I've Binged every anime And crunchy you can There you go So like I could just do this right I could just write this whole thing I mean literally there's nothing wrong with doing that if that's an Activity or a hobby something that you like to do go ahead and include it now All these things I've put in here are personal things that I don't really have any sort of External connection to but let's say that, you know, I do have something else in here that I want to put in right um A volunteer teaching right This is the thing I do in this hypothetical scenario. So again, this is a little more formal. It has a name It's an organization. It's something that I've done with friends If I feel that it merits more discussion and that it's more important And I consider it like a big part of me and my experiences then I might put it up here, you know But I typically like I might look at this and go well, okay It's something I do a little bit every year and It kind of all depends on how far up you want to lift things right again What comes earlier is more important I typically recommend not having more than three things in the experiences section because once you if you put everything in here Then you basically have eliminated its meaning right there needs to be some distinction So these are I typically try to see this as like external These are things I've done for other people in other people's environments But maybe where I have been an important person in those environments And these could be things that are a little more internal like these are things I do and these are things that are interesting to me And that I don't see them as full blown major experiences in my life But they're all things that I care about and things that I want to include So that's how I would probably fill out those sections I know that the definitions between these are a little blurry And you can use your own imagination to figure out the best way to do it The last part here that I have is an awards and recognition section It's a great place to drop certificates If you've won any prizes or anything you can list them here Here I generally do encourage people to put things in reverse chronological order But at the same time if there's something really really really important that you want to put first you may there's nothing wrong with that You know, so maybe I don't know. I got like the school Like let's let's imagine a couple things, right? All right, let's say hypothetically got an award for you I got an award in a contest from school for writing, you know And again, I'm just going to keep this very very simple if if it's not clear what this means like for example, let's say I got the awesome award 2018 like do I know what that word is if I show that to somebody did they know what that means? Why did I get the awesome award? You need to give a little bit of context or a little bit of information here? Um, I got the most awesome nickname I'm not going to tell you what mine was because I want to keep it a mystery But point is, you know, I need to explain a little bit of what this means Okay, if this if I'm going to put because a lot of you guys have you know Unique schools every school likes to put their own cute little names on things and if you don't have any context for that Somebody looking at this is just going to go. Okay. Well, whatever that doesn't mean anything to me And maybe it was important. Maybe it was something like this. Maybe you have your honor roll Like 2017 to 2019. So maybe for three years. I was on the honor roll, but like What does that mean at your school? Because in some schools that might be only for a limited number of people in other schools That could be anybody who has over a certain grade point average in other schools It could be for people with perfect attendance and things like there are different rules for what constitutes an honor roll So you should specify those things, right? um Maybe Like if it's this if that's the rule then I I got it. Okay So you want to make sure that there's a little bit of context on these awards again Not to go into a ton of detail of how you want it and how you felt when you want it And how big of a deal it was go ahead and describe that up here If you want to talk about the award that you got and give more detail about it in here You know, go ahead do that But here you should just list them very very directly. You don't need to make it more complicated than it really is So you keep going with your awards and all that stuff. So If you've followed this instruction so far, I know that a lot of people here when you guys are You know applying to university for example on common app They allow you to have up to 10 extra curricular activities So a lot of people are going to have a lot more than just the four things that I've put here But this is about how much you should dedicate to each I would look at this and say, okay. Well, this one's probably less important my anime life Then you know, which doesn't even really exist Then my volunteer teaching and my watch is probably or less important than that So I'm going to move these things around and get to where I feel like the order reflects how much I care, right? So I really care about writing. I like writing. I care about teaching I like watches, but I don't know that they're like as important as the things I've done I mean, I got my collection. It's cool. But like it's not the most important thing about me Anime, you know, I'm just making this up for fun. But like I would leave that at the bottom. So The idea with that is to structure these things in a way that shows Okay, this first thing is the most important to me and everything else is a little bit less important If you're doing it this way, if you're keeping it to two, three, four lines Maybe you should have no problem filling out more of these now If you're getting to the point where you're at the bottom of this second page and you're running out of space Couple of things you can do we can always try to make some things a little smaller We can try to like reduce, you know, some of the stuff Make things a little a little tighter. Uh, for example, I could like go into here and just look at where's my uh I need to see my rulers Got a new version of word. There we go Yeah, so you can go to the rulers for example and just like try to grab some of these like Margins and maybe adjust them a little bit to create some more space. There's always, you know ways that you can do these things Um, but another thing you can always do is just look for room to delete stuff Like what can you delete? Is there any way you can eliminate lines like right here? I have one line that's just dedicated to the work the word money so um I can probably just say earn more There you go, just to leave a little line poof So that's some of the tricks you can use to try to get your CV down to two pages and it really should be two pages because There are some institutions that are going to limit you to two pages They're going to say no no no no more than two and if you have more than two that could be a problem I think it's a good idea to have two versions one that's longer with everything you want and one that's just You know for two pages and that way you'll never be surprised if you get caught in the situation where they tell you It has to be shorter But to be honest if your resume is longer than three pages You're doing it wrong and nobody's gonna read all that and and it's almost gonna maybe make a negative impression on you Because it's kind of like who do you think you are dude? And I realized that a lot of the applicants doing this lack context, right? I realize you you lack a little bit of a You know world knowledge, but here's the thing if I apply to a job it's two pages max always I've never sent a CV longer than two pages to any job that I've ever gotten And that's the expectation in the working world So understand that the people that are looking at this document come from that background and in their brains Two pages is what it is and if you're gonna put way more than two pages you as a Recent high school graduate who has not accomplished a lot yet It's kind of arrogant it comes off as like oh wow look at me. Look at all my awesome accomplishments And it's like bro. I'm twice your age and I don't have that much stuff on my CV. Come on Like who do you think you are so? Two pages is good If you have a lot of information in there maybe look to cut some of it out not all of it's equally important I've seen people for example who have CVs that have like, you know activities that they only did for three months okay, cool, but If that's what's making you go over two pages get rid of that like some of you did for three months isn't that big of a deal So focus on things that you've done for a long time focus on things that you've done You know, we talked about that in the extracurricular video How you should focus on things that you know from a variety of different aspects But also for an extended period of time if you've listed seven volunteer Organizations and you only have like I don't know one or two things from other categories Maybe you should remove a couple of those volunteer experiences or try to find a way to put them all together Like can you lump it all into volunteering and then just say hey, I've wanted for like 12 different organizations That's awesome. Show them how important it is But you don't need to itemize each and every activity or each and every instance try to keep it simple So that's essentially what you need for your, you know CV remember that they're going to have all this information in your application in other ways So the this is a quick overview This is going to allow the admissions people to take a quick look at you Learn a little bit about your background and hopefully admit you to university Now we help people with this type of stuff all the time So if you need some help with it, you can go to preposcore.com and hit us up I'm also going to be working on a more concise video for people that I'll probably publish in january about this Because I've already got the queue full through the end of the year which feels so good I gotta be honest. It feels really really good To have Like all these videos done I've been working really hard to try to max it all out So that I can go to the states and enjoy myself and actually just enjoy a couple of weeks with my family without making videos So that's the plan Feels good So I will have something out about this in a little more detail soon But I wanted to show you guys for now just a basic overview of those different sections and what you should include On your resume or your CV and uh, you know, if you have any questions hit us up Thank you guys for watching. I will see you next week