Activity

6.1 Do you know what a resumé is? Read the text and practice writing the resumé .

Resumé

Personal information may be presented as a biography, a form or a chart. Resumé or curriculum vitae (CV) is another way. The word resumé comes from French and means “to summarize”. Your resumé is a one/two-page document that summarizes your skills, experiences, and qualifications for a position. Most employers expect the following information in applicants' resumés:

– personal information: name, address, phone number, e-mail;

– educational information: degree, name of college, major, date of graduation;

– professional history: titles of jobs held, employing companies, dates of employment, duties, a career objective;

– achievements: awards and honors, special aptitudes and skills, achievements at work.

There are two types of resumés: chronological (in reverse chronological order) or functional (stressing skills and expertise).

Traditionally, the information required on a resumé has usually been arranged in chronological order, emphasizing job duties. The chronological resumé has the following sections: personal data, career objective, summary (optional), educational history, work history.

The functional resumé stresses the applicant’s skills. The functional resumé has these sections: personal data, objective, summary (optional), skills, education, work.

 

6.2 Answer the questions.

– What is the idea of a resumé ?

– Are there different kinds of a resumé ?

– What information should be included into chronological and functional resumés ?

6.3 Study the resumé [2]. What is the difference in presenting personal information of Mr. O’Toole in his biography(see 5.6) and resumé ?

WILLIAM C. O’TOOLE

45299 Research Place

Ashburn, Virginia 20147

(703) 554-6251

SUMMARY

 

I have extensive knowledge and experience in overseeing training academy operations, staff management and development, and in managing budgets and facilities. I believe in creating a work environment where employees feel challenged by and appreciated for the work they perform. For me, the keys to providing quality leadership and training involve effective communication, fairness, integrity, and professionalism. I have shown, through past performance, that I am capable of displaying these attributes at a high level.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2006 – Present Executive Director, Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy

1981 – 2006 Montgomery County Department of Police.

2004 – 2006 Assistant Chief of Police, Management Services Bureau (since September 2004)

2003 – 2004 Acting Chief of Police

2002 – 2003 Assistant Chief of Police, Field Services Bureau (May 2002 to March 2003; February to September 2004)

2000 - 2002 Captain and Lieutenant/Director, Media Services Division

1998 - 2000 Lieutenant/Director of Training, Training and Education Division

1995 – 1998 Lieutenant/Deputy Commander, Silver Spring District

1993 – 1995 Sergeant/Supervisor of the Central Business District and the Piney Branch Initiative

1981 – 1993 Sergeant and Corporal/Supervisor, Office of Community Policing; Corporal/Unit Supervisor, Lincoln Park Initiative, Rockville District; Investigator, Major Offender/Drug Conspiracy Unit; Undercover Investigator/Drug Enforcement Section; Officer/Plainclothes Special Assignment Team, Wheaton District; Patrol Officer/Wheaton District.

1979 – 1981 Montgomery County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Correctional Officer

1975 – 1978 United States Army, Military Police Corps

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police

Virginia Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Academies

International Association of Chiefs of Police

 

FORMAL EDUCATION

2004 Graduate of the FBI National Academy, Session 219

1997 - 1999 The Johns Hopkins University, Police Executive Leadership Program, Master of Science

1978 - 1981 University of Maryland, Bachelor of Science

1973 - 1975 Robert Morris College, Associate in Arts

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

· Recipient of two Extraordinary Performance Awards, a Departmental Commendation, two Chief’s Awards, and four Community Awards.

 

 

· Honor graduate of the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Academy Correctional Officers Course.

· Honor graduate of the United States Army Military Police School.

 

6.4 Read the biography of a lawyer and write her resume.

Diane Davis is widely known in Louisiana. She was the judge of Supreme Court of the state and has won respect from her countrymen for a number of just decisions she had taken for years of court service. Every postman in New Iberia knows the Davis’ house at 1105 Sunshine Road because the family has always received a great variety of posts on legal issues.

Diane was born in Tenafly, New Jersey on the 3d of July 1931. Her father was a law lecturer at Princeton which influenced Diane’s choice of her future profession. Since childhood she has been interested not only in crime stories, but also in the legal aspects of life. That is why after high school graduation Cum Laude she entered Wellesley College and got her Bachelor’s degree in law in 1949, Master’s degree from Yale Law School in 1955 and Doctorate at Louisiana State University in 1956.

Shortly after receiving the Doctorate degree Diane started working at Mestayer & Simon Attorneys where she was an attorney from 1956 to 1984. In 1984 she was elected to the 16th Judicial District Court where she served for 17 years first as a District Judge and later as a Chief Judge. Later she worked in the Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

At present Diane Davis is busy with different projects for the Committee on Creation of New Judgeships; on the Committee on Admissions to the Louisiana State Bar and in some Courts of Appeals. She has plenty of assignments from such professional affiliations as: Marriage Committee and Guardianship Committee of Louisiana Law Institute as well as at the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Being a highly qualified lawyer Diane Davis shares her knowledge and experience on the pages of “The New Orleans Review” and “Louisiana Bar Journal”.

 

[1] Note: one, two, three, four… eleven, twelve, thirteen,… twenty, twenty one,…hundred, thousand;

first, second, third, fourth…eleventh, … twentieth, twenty first,… hundredth.

[2] You can find the full original copy in the attachment.