{"id":851,"date":"2012-10-07T21:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T18:10:29","slug":"group-mentoring-group-3-session-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2012\/10\/group-mentoring-group-3-session-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Mentoring, Group 3 Session 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Group Mentoring session of the Fall 2012 semester occurred last Tuesday, October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. Matthew Ullrich, Leadership sophomore, was the head of this session. His Leadership group and their Leadership Council mentors began their session by discussing the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\">www.abovethelaw.com<\/a>. Then, they focused on resume writing. Matthew noted key takeaways regarding resumes as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resumes are reviewed in 14 seconds. That is why it is necessary to have the most important information in the 80% zone.<\/li>\n<li>Two of the most important sections of a resume are &#8220;Leadership Experience&#8221; and &#8220;Volunteer Work&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a simple format. Make sure everything is clear, concise, succinct, and consistent.<\/li>\n<li>If one sentence has a period, all sentences should.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid distracting, unnecessary lines, borders, and spacing.<\/li>\n<li>Sales experience is always a positive asset to include since individuals are always selling something (including themselves!).<\/li>\n<li>Watch spelling and word choice. Spell out all words.<\/li>\n<li>It is better to utilize a various choice of verbs in your resume. For example, instead of &#8220;led&#8221;, use &#8220;manage&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The group then centered their discussion on how a company could never have all A players. Matthew notes key takeaways from this portion of the session as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a person is passionate then\u00a0he can be a major asset to a company.<\/li>\n<li>Employers hire for a person, not a position. Even if a person is not right for a position he could be right for the company.<\/li>\n<li>An individual is never being hired for himself; he is being hired for a team. One must know the team to know if the individual will fit in.<\/li>\n<li>Passion comes from within. If an individual is a passionate person then he could bring that passion to whatever he does.<\/li>\n<li>It is important to be a passionate person because employers will see that and be more likely to consider the individual as a candidate to hire.<\/li>\n<li>It is important to be a team player and to be able to get along with all types of personalities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find your passion! Try to step out of your comfort zone to meet new people and get new experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Group Mentoring session of the Fall 2012 semester occurred last Tuesday, October 2nd. Matthew Ullrich, Leadership sophomore, was the head of this session. His Leadership group and their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[647,34,298,297,292],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-insight","tag-group-mentoring","tag-passion","tag-resume-review","tag-resumes","tag-www-abovethelaw-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}