Resumes and Interviews with Tom Shannon well received

Over 35 people showed up to hear tom Shannon’s expert advice on Resumes and Interviewing.   Tom started out with general formatting tips and then quickly moved into what to include and exclude in each section. The beginning of your resume is your objective and the content that follows it should all drive toward supporting the initial objective you stated at the beginning. So just like a good paper your first paragraph is a synopsis of the whole paper and the following paragraph back it up.

Tom also used examples to demonstrate how to improve the appearance and overall content. One student even let him use his resume as an example and while Tom pointed out a few mistakes come career fair his resume will look sharp thanks to his suggestions.

After the final question and answer session Tom even reviewed individual resumes one on one and gave pointers on how to make it stand out. Everyone who showed up knows how to get Tom to put their resume in the Yes pile (and avoid the no and maybe pile).

The ACM would like to thank Tom for spending some of the very little free time he has with us. He even moved his presentation time back an hour so the people at the IEEE meeting could come. Thanks for giving us the leg up on the competition!

Here are the slides from the presentation.

Tom explains the basic hiring process:

It was a full house and everyone was eager to pick up tips on improving their chances:

Tom (Shannon) gives Tom (Corll) some one on one tips: