Student Resume Template <<

 

 

 
Example of a Student Resume

O B J E C T I V E

 

I am Reliable and mature person with people skills and is not afraid to do what is right. Searching for opportunities to increase leadership abilities and affect youth in America. Obtain a position in one of the military academies to excel and serve my Country, my God and honor my family in Engineering, Cyber Security and Information Systems.

 

E D U C A T I O N

 

• Clinton Christian Academy

 

• Grace Brethren Christian School

 

• Bishop McNamara High School (Raising Jr 2012)

 

A T H L E T I C    C L U B S    A N D    O R G A N I Z A T I O N S

 

·         Blue Streaks Youth basketball team (2007)

o       Shooting Guard (Highest points)

 

 

·         Oxon Hill Football (2005-2007)

o       Regional Champions

o       Half Back/Corner Back

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·         PG Storm POP Warner County football team (2008)

o       Half Back/Defense lineman

 

·         Marlow Heights POP Warner football team (2009)

o        Tight End/Defense lineman

 

·         Track Express AAU and USATF track and field team (2008-Current)

o       AAU Local and Regional Champions (4x100, 4 x 400)

o       Long Jump All America Gold Medal Regional Champion (2007)

o       National Junior Olympian Track and Field (2008 -2011)

o       National Junior Olympian 8^th Place in Long Jump (2008)

o        Long Jump, 4x100, 4x400

 

·         Oxon Hill Track AAU Track team (2003-2008)

o       Local and Regional Champions (4x100 Relay)

o       National Junior Olympian Relay team (4x 100)

 

·         Fort Belvoir Swim Team (2007& 2010)

 

·         Grace Brethren Christian School Track and Cross Country (2009)

o       100m, long Jump, 4 x100m

 

·         Diamonds in the Ruff Boxing Organization (2011)

o       Training and fitness course

 

·         Bishop McNamara Track and Field (2010-2012)

o       Indoor (Long Jump, 400m 800m)

o       Outdoor (Long Jump, 200m,400m, 4x100,4x400)

o       Cross Country Track (3.2 miles)

 

Randy McCain’s Resume

 

A C A D E M I C   C L U B S   A N D   O R G A N I Z A T I O N S

 

·         Grace Brethren Bible Quiz team leader (2009)

National Society of Black engineers (2011)

 

·         Young Marines youth organization (2010)

·         Seacadet Washington Navy Yard Team Rank (Current)

o       Seaman E-3

·         Cyber-Patriot Security team (Current)

o       Worked with NSA to set up local network intrusion detection

o       Successfully Defended network against infiltration by NSA red cell members

 

·         Dream for Kids Youth Organization Group Leader (2009 -2011)

 

·         Metro warriors Youth leadership organization (2011)

 

·         Alpha project leadership workshop leader (2011)

 

·         Bishop McNamara Symphonic Band (Current)

o       Saxophone (1^st Chair)

o       Several Out of State and City wide competitions

o       Received Excellent for Musical reading

·         Its Academic Bible Team (2009)

 

·         Metro Warriors Youth Organization reading group (2011)

 

A C H I E V E M E N T S   A N D   A W A R D S

 

• Honor Roll 5th -9th Grades

 

• Presidential fitness award (7) Years (2003-2010)

 

• National Society of Black Engineers Metro Warriors Chapter (NSBE) (2010-Current)

 

• Honesty Award (2009)

 

• Commitment Award (2008)

 

• Metro Warriors Youth Organization Leadership Award (2011)
• Sportsmanship Award Track & Field (2008)

 

• Outstanding Christian Leader Award (2009)
• Selected to 2012 Lead America Engineering & Technology Conference at Berkley California
• Certificate of Completion Operation Cavorting Beasties and Maritime Interdiction Operations August 2012
• Naval Sea Cadet Corps Commendation Ribbon of CyberPatriot Team December 2011
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet 50^th Year Anniversary Ribbon
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet 25^th Year Commissioned Ribbon
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet Physical Fitness Ribbon
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet Second Year Service Ribbon
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet Trident Appurtenance
• Certificate of Award Naval Seacadet Recruiting incentive Ribbon.
• Certificate of Advancement to Seaman Apprentice E-2

 

TRAINING

·         Seacadets Basic  Recruit Training Boot Camp at Great Lakes Michigan

·         CPR& AED Certification September 2012

o       Sudden Cardiac arrest prevention for Youth

·         Advance Training US Naval Sea Cadet Corps, Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO)

o       Training focuses on physical fitness, self-defense tactics, basic law enforcement skills, tours of USCG stations and vessels, along with team building and other skills

·          International Marine Forensics Symposium Training (March 2012)

·         Cyber Defense Camp Prince Georges Community College (July 2012)

·         Training in CYBERETHICS, CYBERSAFETY, CYBERSECURITY

·         Detection in  Steganography Encryption Decryption secret-key, public key, and hash function

 

·         Selected to 2012 Lead America Engineering & Technology Conference at Berkley 

 

W O R K    E X P E R I E N C E

Sabinco Solutions Regional Retail Provider for Clear 4G wireless Internet,  Jr. Sales Associate

·         Organized and maintained database for company’s 4g Equipment,

·         Performed regular inventories on 4g equipment.

·         provided internet service for mobile devices and new customers

·         Registered new customers

·         Developed data entry list for new customers

·         Served as sales agent promoting new 4G internet service during fairs and festivals.

·         Organized business receipts and customer lead sheets for over 200 customers

 

 

New Technology Solutions Group, Cisco IP Phone installer, US Patent and Trade Department of Commerce. Alexandria VA campus

 

·         Installed Cisco VoIP phones on Alexandria USPTO Campus wide over 14,000.

·         Inspected and TestedVOIP for correct software version, IP address and special features

·         Tested 911 calling service

·         Filled out test documentation and reports for deployment of each phone.

·         Escalated problems to senior management and Government managers.

·         Ensured Ethernet cables were installed in accordance with best phone installation and wiring practices.

 

V O L U N T E R    E X P E R I E N C E (Over 750 Hours)

 

·         Feeding the homeless at Homeless Shelter 2nd and D street in Washington DC (40 hours)

 

·         DC Dream kids youth worker supporting National soccer tournament and DC for Kids Outreach Program (8 hours)

·         Project Alpha I and II (Project for males on leadership, sexually, goals and dress etiquette) (16 hours)

·         Youth worker unloading food boxes for monthly Angel food distribution. (24 hours)

 

·         Youth Usher board for National Church of God (8 hours)

 

·         Track team youth worker at Local Track Meets (45 hours)

·         National Church of God Summer Vacation Bible Study Youth Counselor (160 hours)

 

·         Metro Warriors National Society of Black Engineers Chapter Youth Mentor (300 hours)

·         Sound and Video Technician supporting weekly and special services at the National Church of God. (240 hours)

·         Youth Mentor for Trouble Youths helping kids from Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic System (4 hours)

 

 

Photos of 2012 Summer Trainings

14 Days Maritime Operations Training/Graduation (Seacadets) Jr Naval Seal Training

https://picasaweb.google.com/107854987736292027057/MIOOperationsTrainingRandyIII

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwTa5pjwCK46UXRwR08wTzRUZnM

 

10 Days
Great Lakes Seacadet Boot Camp Great Lakes Michigan
https://picasaweb.google.com/107854987736292027057/Randy_Graduation_Seacadets

 

7 Days
Seapearch Submarine Training Fort Indiantown Gap
https://picasaweb.google.com/107854987736292027057/RandysSeaPearchTraining

 

14 Days

CyberSTEMSummer Program 2012Pg county community College

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80580712@N07/

 

References and Letters of Recommendation Available upon request

 

Hello all, attached is a list of practice questions with responses using the STAR method and a chart containing the action words that we reviewed at our last meeting. Also please find information on the STAR method below. Please contact me if you have any questions.

STAR Method

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/guide/star.html

 

Behavioral Interviewing

Behavioral Interviewing is a new style of interviewing that more and more organizations are using in their hiring process. The basic premise behind behavioral interviewing is this: the most accurate predictor of future performance is past performance in a similar situation. It focuses on experiences, behaviors, knowledge, skills and abilities that are job related. Traditional interviewing questions ask you general questions such as "Tell me about yourself." The process of behavioral interviewing is much more probing and works very differently. Employers predetermine which skills are necessary for the job for which they are looking and then ask very pointed questions to determine if the candidate possesses those skills. For example, if successful leadership is necessary for a position, you may be asked to talk about an experience in which you were a leader as well as what you think makes a good leader. To assess which skills the employer seeks, review employer literature, speak with alumni, family and friends who work for the employers, and listen carefully during the organization's information session.

During a behavioral interview, always listen carefully to the question, ask for clarification if necessary, and make sure you answer the question completely. Your interview preparation should include identifying examples of situations from your experiences on your resume where you have demonstrated the behaviors a given company seeks. During the interview, your responses need to be specific and detailed. Tell them about a particular situation that relates to the question, not a general one. Briefly tell them about the situation, what you did specifically, and the positive result or outcome. Your answer should contain these four steps (Situation, Task, Action, Result or "STAR") for optimum success.

 

STAR Method

·       Situation: give an example of a situation you were involved in that resulted in a positive outcome

·       Task: describe the tasks involved in that situation

·       Action: talk about the various actions involved in the situation’s task

·       Results: what results directly followed because of your actions

 

Before the interview process, identify two or three of your top selling points and determine how you will convey these points (with demonstrated STAR stories) during the interview.

It is helpful to frame your answer as a story that you can tell. Typically, the interviewer will pick apart the story to try to get at the specific behavior(s) they seek. They refer to this as "digging a well." The interviewer will sometimes ask you open ended questions to allow you to choose which examples you wish to use. When a part of your story relates to a skill or experience the interviewer wishes to explore further, he/she will then ask you very specific follow-up questions regarding your behavior. These can include "What were you thinking at that point?" or "Tell me more about your meeting with that person." or "Lead me through your decision process."

Whenever you can, quantify your results. Numbers illustrate your level of authority and responsibility. For example: "I was a shift supervisor." could be "As Shift Supervisor, I trained and evaluated 4 employees."

 

Be prepared to provide examples of when results didn't turn out as you planned. What did you do then? What did you learn? Your resume will serve as a good guide when answering these questions. Refresh your memory regarding your achievements in the past couple of years. Demonstration of the desired behaviors may be proven in many ways. Use examples from past internships, classes, activities, team involvements, community service and work experience.

 

Example of a STAR Answer

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/guide/star.html

Situation: During my internship last summer, I was responsible for managing various events.

Task: I noticed that attendance at these events had dropped by 30% over the past 3 years and wanted to do something to improve these numbers.

Action: I designed a new promotional packet to go out to the local community businesses. I also included a rating sheet to collect feedback on our events and organized internal round table discussions to raise awareness of the issue with our employees.

Result: We utilized some of the wonderful ideas we received from the community, made our internal systems more efficient and visible and raised attendance by 18% the first year.

Examples of a Behavioral Question

Behavioral questions can be difficult if you are not prepared. Always try to be conscious about what the recruiter is trying to find out about you by asking you a particular question. Setting up a mock interview with the MIT Careers Office is an excellent way to practice. Here are some examples:

·       Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convince someone to see things your way.

·       Describe an instance when you had to think on your feet to extricate yourself from a difficult situation.

·       Give me a specific example of a time when you used good judgment and logic in solving a problem.

·       By providing examples, convince me that you can adapt to a wide variety of people, situations and environments.

·       Describe a time on any job that you held in which you were faced with problems or stresses that tested your coping skills.

·       Give me an example of a time in which you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision.

·       Tell me about a time in which you had to use your written communications skills in order to get an important point across.

1.              Question: Worked effectively with subordinates, peers, upper management, and customers

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

2.     Question: Developed effective relationships

a.       Situation:

b.       Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

3.        Question: Made key/critical decisions with wide-ranging implications

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

4.     Question: Planned and executed complex projects

a.       Situation:My primary subsystem has a finite life.

b.      Task:During the time period when my system is expiring it is extremely important to maximize system quality and extend system longevity. As the primary subsystem engineer for leading efforts to maximize system quality and extend system life.

c.       Action:Led efforts to implement the functionality of a previously tested and verified calibration; used to extend system usability. Created data transfer process that allowed system performance updates on the first available opportunity. Facilitated TEMs to implement new ways to increase system longevity. Facilitated TEMs with a dispersed team of engineers to identify and implement sub contractor algorithm that was supported by data transfer process.

d.      Result: Increased system life 11 days past that of any comparable system. Contract award fee received double positives. Exceeded customer expectations. Implemented multiple process improvements, updated procedures, and increased team’s knowledge. Capabilities will be implemented on for future systems. Overall efforts proved that the system could be used past previous conditions. Currently supporting research efforts to identify ways to extend system life and prevent total system gap.

5.     Question: Made recommendations for improvement

a.       Situation: Attended product quality meeting with product experts and subsytems engineers. The product quality team wanted to understand theproduct quality trending methods that were being used in Mission Engineering.

b.      Task:My primary subsystem did not trend performance. Created a trending procedure to trend system performance.

c.       Action:Researched various aspects of subsystem data to understand what data could be useful to trend system performance. Investigated and determined which available processing tool would output necessary trending data. Manually entered system data into excel spreadsheet and plotted information as a percentage of change from a base value.

d.      Result: Created a new trending procedure that gave important insight into the performance of the system. Trend indicated that system failures were near. Briefed LM management, product quality team, and customers of future impacts and recommended to disable mode that would fail: preventing system failures. This process also provided operational data that was used to prevent system failures in future missions. Further improved the process by having the plots it automated. New tool and process is available for future use.

6.     Question: Solved difficult and challenging problems

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

7.     Question: Created Innovative ideas

a.       Situation: As a graduate CE at George Mason I was required to complete a scholarly paper in order to graduate. I wanted to pick a challenging topic of interest outside of my comfort level. One of my professors had discussed his work extensive work on GPR sensors for landmine detection and I reached out to him to be my scholarly paper advisor.

b.      Task:N/A

c.       Action:Researched and presented various sensors and fusion methods that could be used to detect and locate landmines; while providing low false alarm rates.

d.       Result:Determined that data from a chemical sensor, infrared, and ground penetrating radar systemwas a unique combination that would detect locate landmines and reduce land mine false alarm rates. Further concluded that customizing fusion methods to support the three sensors would lower false alarms than those seen in the IR and GPR fusion results. My professor stated that this was a great topic, suggested I turn it into a thesis topic and commended for an excellent job on my presentation. Determined that this system could be implemented to save lives and capture a piece of ~500 million dollar/year market. Consulted with my friend about entering the idea into the 2010 LM innovate the future competition. After conversations with a friend I realized that the innovate the future was funding for short time to implementation and that seeking Institutional Research and Application development (IRAD)funding to research the feasibilities of this system would be more suitable,because I envisioned the implementation of this system being a longer term effort.

8.     Question: Coached and mentored others

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

9.     Question: Handled conflict

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

10.                        Question: Influenced others

a.       Situation:My group had continuous late timecard submittals. Submitting timecards on time is very important and became an objective on my group’s yearly performance assessment.

b.      Task:Lead effort to reduce the groupsamount of late timecard entries.

c.       Action:Investigated the reasons why people were not submitting their timecard on time. Communicated slow computer concerns with management, was not an immediate solution. Implemented buddy timecard (was not fully effective). Implemented bagel timecard and sent automatic reminders; goal was to have zero late timecard entries throughout each month. Continuously motivated group to reach the goal of no late timecard submittals

d.      Result: As the months progressed late time card entries were significantly reduced. Created a cohesive encouraging environment, boosted team moral. Achieved zero late timecard entries for two months, team lead determined that the had been reached and didn’t want to buy bagels anymore J

11. Question: Describe how you dealt with failure

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

12. Question: Demonstrated integrity

a.      Situation

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

13. Question: Dealing With Stressful Situation

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result:

14.                        Question: Give a specific occasion in which you conformed to a policy with which you did not agree:

a.       Situation:

b.      Task:

c.       Action:

d.      Result: 

Action Words For your Resume <<<

Below are some examples of action verbs for resumes

http://www.seekingsuccess.com/articles/art110.php

 

http://www.bc.edu/offices/careers/skills/resumes/verbs.html