Winning Résumés

Slides from the presentation now available: Adobe PDF

ABSTRACT: 

Like anyone else seeking employment, engineers prepare their résumés to convince prospective employers of their abilities. Often, however, in preparing their résumés, many applicants fail to respond to the needs of the readers, that is, their prospective employers.

This presentation will focus on audience analysis for producing winning résumés. In large companies, personnel recruiters usually read résumés first. Only when approved by recruiters are résumés sent to the real employers—the people who will actually hire. To write a résumé that wins an interview, an applicant must be aware of these dual rôles and create a document that responds to the needs of both audiences. Techniques are included to use if your résumé doesn’t get you an interview.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: 

Prof. Andrew Malcolm retired in 2001 from the Rochester Institute of Technology after 30 years. For 29 years, he taught technical English to deaf students at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the RIT campus. Malcolm has presented two dozen IEEE/S-PAC talks at colleges and universities from CSU-Long Beach, California to Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Prior to entering academia, he was a field engineer, electronics design engineer, chief draftsman, technical writer and publications supervisor for various firms in the aero-space defense and electronics industries. He is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communications and a Life Member of IEEE, having joined the Institute of Radio Engineers —a predecessor of the IEEE—in 1954.

DIRECTIONS: 

The church is located just west of the intersection of Rosendale/Vly Rd and Rt. 7, on the corner of Niskayuna Rd and Rt. 7. There is plenty of parking, accessible from either Rt. 7 or Niskayuna Rd. The meeting will be in the large white meeting hall next to the church. Enter through the large glass doors at the lower level. Please note that there is no smoking allowed anywhere on the church grounds.

Map to Niskayuna Reformed Church
NOTE: Valley Road = Vly Road

LUNCH: 
Lunch is provided.

RESERVATIONS:  
Please contact Lou Tomaino at schdyieee (at) yahoo.com by Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:00 AM to reserve. This event is free for IEEE members, $5.00 for non-members to help cover the cost of the room.

Please be courteous and cancel your reservation if you cannot attend so that we have a chance to adjust the food order and seating.

Sponsored by the Section PACE (Professional Activities Committees for Engineers).