Day 7

Today, we got to do something a little more interesting since we are done with the files! So, Ms. Cherie informed us that she will be retiring soon, soon as in before the semester even ends!!! She said that her last day was scheduled for November 26th. A job listing was posted for her spot as Volunteer Coordinator and more than 50 people had already sent in applications and resumes. Our job, to look through the resumes and look for: whether they addressed the job, if they had volunteer coordinator experience, volunteer experience themselves, whether or not there were typos, and finally any other information that stood out. This experience was pretty interesting, by reading over the resumes I learned some tips on the Do's and Don'ts of resume and application sending. Some applicants didn't address the job they were signing up for, which to me seemed like they couldn't take the time to make the change, or that they weren't completely interested in the job. Some wrote pages and pages (which was a turn off), and I couldn't even get through them. On the good note, I did find a few couple resumes that did stand out, they had volunteer experience, volunteer coordinator experience, and had even worked with the homeless services. I also noticed that, the majority of the resumes were female, I only saw about to male applicants from the stack I read. I'm not really sure exactly why this was so, but Ms. Cherie said she noticed that in the past as well.
From this experience, I definitely learned some tips on what and how to write a resume, which I will probably be doing soon. We got through about half of the resumes before our time was up. I wish we could be a part of the interview process as well!!! But probably not, o well, today was a fun day..until next time!!