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[danaeris]

It occurs to me that there may come a day when some of you, my friends, are bored, and that I might provide something useful to me as entertainment for you. So here is a copy of my resume. Please give me any comments on it or suggestions to improve it!


QUESTIONER SEEKER

{insert address here}

Objective: A full time position beginning this November which will
challenge and motivate me, promoting professional growth.

Education
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Minor in Writing, September
1998-June 2002

NATIONAL COACHING CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Level I Theory, Technical, and Practical (administered by Sports
Canada). First Aid.

Skills
Computer skills: C, Visual Basic, Quick Basic, HTML. Macs, PCs, and Unix/Linux
Languages: English, some French, minimal Spanish.

Employment

Stanford Linear Accelerator Office of Communications Stanford, CA
Full time internship, June-present
Science writing at a wide range of reading levels for a variety of
publications about events and research being done at SLAC.

Technology Review Cambridge, MA
Internship February-June
Researching and writing short pieces for the Prototype and MIT News
sections. Fact checking. Will do one piece for Innovation section
post-internship.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Experimental Study Group, September 1999-June 2002
Undergraduate teaching assistant and grader for freshman physics and
writing classes.

Self Employment Various locations
Teaching, 1989-present
Tutoring. Teaching figure skating to students ages 3 to adult in
groups and individually as both assistant and head coach at over 6
skating clubs and companies. Designing costumes. Editing music.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Professor Bertschinger, July-August 2001
Ask an MIT Cosmologist web page - design and content. Redesigned the
webpage's structure, and researched and wrote educational content
under Professor's supervision.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, June-August 2000
Analyzed false data in order to learn to automatically filter false
alarms.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Professor Bertschinger, Summer 1999
Gravitational Lensing Simulations. Wrote and implemented a program
which inputs graphics, rearranging the pixels to simulate a lens. An
image of Saturn, lensed by this program was the front cover of the
textbook Scouting Black Holes by E. F. Taylor and Archibald Wheeler.

Other
Publicity Coordinator of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team 1999-2000,
designing advertisements for events that had to pull in approximately
$ 10 000 per year, and directing the efforts of approximately 100
volunteer team members in distributing them. Re-evaluated and
redesigned the system through which the team fundraises and
advertises. Member of ESG's Student Government.

Interests
Figure Skating, Ballroom Dance, Musical Theatre, Creative Writing,
Science, Astrophysics, gaming.



OK, I'm really going to sleep this time. Really!

Comments

You seem to be missing lots of detail

[earthdragon.livejournal.com]

Your objective should say what you want to do? Are you a sci writer? a programmer? a skatng coatch? If you are interested in all three you might want three resumes?

Coatching certification in what? This might be a comment in the experiance - teaching skating field, for sci writing it does not compare to MIT physics with writing.

Your skill lisiting are weak. don't bother with it, if you want to add some of them to experiance, inside writeups, that is ok.

Add details to your experiances. What publiciations did you write at slac? What articled did you write there and at TR?

I would also place ask a MIT cosmologist as experiance #3 for the version for writing jobs. Its very releven but burined under "I've done other stuff, its not relevent fro writing, but I'm not lame, and have a few other skills"

Hope that helps, or gives you things to think about.

[astrodan.livejournal.com]

Yes, let your objective directly state what you want exactly. Remember, this is the first thing HR people look at, if you confuse them or aren't clear the poor things don't know what to do.

This page of simple tips helped me, you might find it useful:

http://sagewire.sage.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/24/011203