节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-04-19
难易度:High
关键字:disability, disclosure, explicitly, break the ice, springboard, bring to
the table
Today we are talking about things that you should or should not include on your
resume.
The first tip that we've talked about today is about a disability.
If you have something that you maybe aren't able to do as quickly as someone
else, you may have a disability.
But this should not be a problem for you when you are trying to apply for a job.
There are different ways that you can provide disclosure during your interview
without putting it on the resume.
Well, we have another great tip coming up in the second part of our article.
Let's read it now.
(Music).
Should I Put This on My Resume?
... Then in the interview you can use these achievements to break the ice about
your disability if you choose to.".
4. Grade point average:
It's great if you graduated from college with a 4.0, but if you did so 10 years
ago, it's probably time to remove your GPA from your resume.
"A person's GPA would normally only be listed on the resume if [he] recently
graduated from college," Margolin says.
"If the GPA is below a 3.0, it is usually best to leave it off.
In certain circumstances, a GPA would remain on longer ... some job listings
require a certain GPA minimum.".
(Music).
All right.
Well, we're learning some good tips for what you should and shouldn't include in
your resume.
Actually, at the beginning of this section, we're still talking about your
disability and whether you should include that or not.
The sentence is: Then in the interview, you can use these achievements to break
the ice about your disability if you choose to.
So your achievements might be your professional experience or your hobbies.
And you can use these in your conversation, maybe you can then break the ice.
Carolyn, that's from our Word Bank.
But what does that means?
Well, if you break the ice, it means that you introduce some information that
maybe is a little bit difficult to talk about,
and you try to relieve the stress or tension about a certain issue.
So if you break the ice, then you are trying to make things more comfortable
between you and someone else.
And sometimes if there's a group of people together for some reason, they don't
know each other.
Sometimes you don't know what to talk about, you could say:
I broke the ice by starting a conversation with somebody.
Actually, if you're playing games with people, sometimes those games are called
ice breakers,
games that break the ice so that people can be more comfortable around each
other.
That's right.
And it isn't always easy to break the ice when you first meet someone, so you
might try playing some ice-breaker activities.
Well, continuing on to our next point in the article, our fourth point is grade
point average, your GPA.
And it says it's great if you graduated from college with a 4.0, a perfect
score.
But if you did so 10 years ago, it's probably time to remove your GPA from your
resume.
That's right.
They say it's great if you did this because actually it's... it's awesome.
It shows off a little bit of who you are because a 4.0 is an excellent GPA.
As Carolyn said, it's the perfect GPA.
So of course you might be tempted to boast about this or to want to show this on
your resume.
But if you got a GPA like that more than 10 years ago, maybe it's time to remove
it from your resume.
It's time to take it off of the resume.
That's right.
And the article continues:
"A person's GPA would normally only be listed on the resume if they recently
graduated from college," Margolin says.
And we learned some information from Lavie Margolin yesterday.
And she is a career coach.
And here she says that if you recently graduated from college, including your
GPA on your resume is a good thing.
That's right.
It's actually quite normal.
But she continues.
If the GPA is below a 3.0, it is usually best to leave it off.
Carolyn, why might she say this?
Well, if you have a lower GPA, it might actually hurt your chances of getting
the job.
So you might just include your education, what you majored in and where you went
to school, and leave off your grade point average.
That's right.
Now you might have noticed that when we're talking about GPAs, 3.0 or 4.0, we
say 4.0, not "four point zero" usually.
It's usually best to say 3.0, 2.0, 4.0 and numbers like that.
Well, let's continue with the lesson.
In certain circumstances, a GPA would remain on longer ... some job listings
require a certain GPA minimum.
That's right.
So some jobs actually want you to include the GPA on your resume because they
want to know what kind of grades you got in your field of study.
It's important to your employer, so then you would need to include it.
That's right.
Now there's that last word in the sentence, "minimum." That's the least that you
do or the least amount of something.
If you ever see the letters "MIN.," you know that is short for the word
"minimum." Just in the future, if you ever see that, that is "minimum".
Right now it's time for us to continue learning something with Michelle in the
Langauge Lab.
(Chinese).
Now I'll give the time back to our teachers.
Well, we've been learning some different tips for what you should and shouldn't
put on your resume.
And sometimes you might be confused.
You don't know what you should write, so it might be good to let others help
you.
Well, do you ever let others proofread what you write?
And maybe, how could that benefit you with your resume?
Carolyn?
Well, I usually have people help me proofread, look over things that I write,
especially if it's something important like a resume.
And actually the first time I wrote my resume, I had someone, a professional
resume writer look at it,
and help me through so that I had everything just the way it should be so that
the employers would see all of the important information.
All right.
I think it's very helpful to do that - to have someone help you and look through
what you have written.
It'll make you more confident as well.
Well, thank you for joining us today.
And we have some more to learn next time right here at Studio Classroom.
See you then.