Skills for Success: Fine Tune Your Résumé

Conventional wisdom says that the holiday season is slow for job hunters. If you find that to be true, you can use the down-time to your advantage by upgrading your résumé skills.

This Saturday at 12 PM, the JCEC will be hosting the final Skills for Success Speaker Series workshop of the year –

Skills for Success Speaker Series: Fine Tune Your Resume

Résumés have undergone changes in the past few years. Toss out the outdated and bring in the new. Show the value you will bring to an employer through a short profile of skills and achievements, by using numbers to indicate how you deliver results, and by demonstrating how your job skills match employers’ needs. Learn quick tips to create or update a resume that will appeal to employers and demonstrate the benefits of hiring you. Current trends in paper and online résumés will be discussed.

Presented by: Carol Silvis

Event fee: Free

Location: CLP – Main (Oakland)

International Poetry Room – 2nd Floor
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Contact:

Wes Roberts

412-622-3133

jcec@carnegielibrary.org

Registration is required for this event.

You can register by calling 412-622-3133 or by filling in the form on this page and clicking on the Register button.

The Skills for Success Speaker Series began this fall, and took place at CLP – Main JCEC and several of the South Hills branches. We’ll be offering another round of programming in these locations next year. To be notified when new events are scheduled, sign up for Jobwire (the library’s job and career email newsletter) by clicking the link on this page.

A very limited number of one-on-one résumé and cover letter assistance appointments with a qualified volunteer are also available in the JCEC, starting in January. To see if you can schedule an appointment or get on the waiting list, call the JCEC at (412) 622-3133.

Whether or not you’re able to attend any of our events, you may also be interested in the library’s online Résumé Maker tool (which I reviewed last winter), or one of our many résumé advice books: