Your resume, especially your Profile, should transmit to prospective employers this state of mind, together with your excellent qualifications for a starting position.

You will want to emphasize recent education or training. This might refer to specific courses you took and other activities that most directly relate to the job you now seek.

Consider your schoolwork as the equivalent of work because it required self-discipline, completion of a variety of tasks similar to those required in many jobs.

Take as much time as you need to make a detailed and thorough account of all your professional activities and associations to date, even those you may consider unimportant.

Consider part-time jobs while you were studying, events from your college years, such as short-term projects, periods of in-service training, research projects in which you have participated, term papers or documents you have prepared,
presentations made at seminars, workshops, or other meetings.

You should identify skills you acquired by your participation in these experiences and label those skills according to the skills headings used in want ads and job descriptions; in other words, you have to translate your duties into the headings of the corresponding jargon.

You should also look for anything that might be acceptable as experience and emphasize it. Besides education, this might include volunteer work, training, military experience, or anything else that you might present as legitimate activities that support your ability to do the work that you feel you can do.

You probably have far more valuable skills and experience than you realize. In our competitive job market, this is a mistake you can’t afford.

Good Luck!