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Resume Writing - What if I'm a new graduate, or have no experience in the job I'm applying for?

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Louise Kursmark
Resume Writer and Career Consultant, Best Impression Career Services, Inc.
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Louise Kursmark, MRW, JCTC, CEIP, CCM One of the leading resume-writing experts in the United States, Louise is an authority on a wide range of career and employment issues. She has written 18 books about resume writing, interviewing, and job search and has been featured and quoted in countless online, print, and broadcast publications. Her passion is helping people “tell their story” in a way that is compelling, memorable, and relevant. As founder and president of Best Impression Career Services, Inc., Louise works directly with senior executives in career transition. She is also a founding board member of the Career Management Alliance, was the first person worldwide to earn the prestigious “Master Resume Writer” credential, and is a 6-time winner of "best resume" awards from two different professional associations.

Resume Writing - What if I'm a new graduate, or have no experience in the job I'm applying for?

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Host: What if I am a new graduate, or have no experience in the job I am applying for?

Louise Kursmark: It's a great question for particularly as mentioned for new grads because they will sometimes say I just don't have any experience, I have nothing to put on my resume. You better look at what experiences, what success stories, what projects and so forth you can find maybe from your classroom experience. Maybe from your extracurriculars, maybe from your part time jobs.

You might not be able to demonstrate in your resume that you have skill as a whatever is you want to be, a sales professional. But, maybe you want to demonstrate that you have good communications skills, that you have good persuasion abilities, that you are good organizer, that you are a good problem solver. So, think through your experiences in college, in the summers parttime, maybe even back to high school, to find examples that proved you have those skills and use those on your resume.

One of the best places that college students can look to find good experiences would be your classes. A lot of classes now require projects. Think about those projects. What did you do in those projects, was it something that allowed you to demonstrate leadership skills? Did you have a team that wasn t working well together and you were able to get them to do so.

Did you rescue your project that was in danger of missing a deadline, did you pull a team together to meet a really difficult challenge and succeed with an A-grade or nomination to for an award? Think about the projects of all the different classes that you were in and come up with several success stories to write in your resume that illustrate your skills without having to be genuine professional work experience. Employers don't expect you to have the experience, they do expect you to have the capabilities.

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