{"id":972,"date":"2018-03-26T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=972"},"modified":"2024-01-13T22:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:51:21","slug":"build-a-resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/build-a-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Build a resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Great advice<\/strong> on writing a resume:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/13\/1224635841\/current-best-practices-for-resume-writing\">National Public Radio, Jan. 13, 2024\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Summarize.\u00a0 <\/strong>Who are you, professionally speaking?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Explain.<\/strong> What is your goal? What are you looking for?<\/li>\n<li><b>List your core skills.\u00a0 <\/b>Are you good at voice work? Stand-up? Copy editing? Design?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Work experience.\u00a0<\/strong> Explain what you achieved and what you learned. Bullet points and dates.\u00a0 Student media definitely counts, especially if\u00a0 you are an editor or managing editor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Education.\u00a0<\/strong> University major and minors, GPA if good, student media or other extra-curricular experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portfolio.<\/strong> Your best work.\u00a0 Can be on an interactive PDF or web site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Checklist &#8230; Does your resume have&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wcb-button cb-common check-button\">\n<li>Name and contact info such as email &amp; phone\n<ul class=\"wcb-button cb-common check-button\">\n<li>No you don&#8217;t need your home address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summarizes qualifications and goals &#8212; <em>&#8220;Award winning student media editor with strong interviewing and social media skills now seeking professional career opportunities in online or broadcast journalism &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Highlights education, experience and skills as major headings<\/li>\n<li>Probably has a good photo of you working as a reporter<\/li>\n<li>Provides education &amp; date of degree(s)<\/li>\n<li>Gives info about other training (eg Poynter Institute, fellowships, internships, etc)<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrates a record of professionalism, such as\n<ul>\n<li>Positions in student or professional media (freelance, stringer, reporter, editor&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio site to showcase your best writing, photos &amp; videos<\/li>\n<li>Professional\u00a0 \u00a0memberships SPJ, SEJ, NABJ, RTNDA or other media groups<\/li>\n<li>Non-media positions that show responsibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Has an &#8220;ask&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; Contact me at &#8230;\u00a0 \/ Looking for assignments in\u00a0 &#8230; (etc) \/ download my pdf resume here &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A professional resume\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wcb-button cb-common cross-button\">\n<li>is short (one page)<\/li>\n<li>Avoids personal details<\/li>\n<li>Does not mix past employment in non-media jobs with professional media work<\/li>\n<li>Does not have to be fancy or graphically polished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great advice on writing a resume:\u00a0 National Public Radio, Jan. 13, 2024\u00a0 Summarize.\u00a0 Who are you, professionally speaking? Explain. What is your goal? What are you looking for? List your core skills.\u00a0 Are you good at voice work? Stand-up? Copy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/build-a-resume\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-972","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}