Contact: catholicgauze[at]gmai[dot]com
Objective: To obtain meaningful employment doing geographical-related work for the summer whether it be geopolitial, geophysical, geoenvironmental, or etc..
Education
Master's of Arts in Geography (in progress)
GPA: 3.67
Bachelor's of Science in Geography
Minors in Spanish, Political Science, Global Studies
GPA: 3.82 (Magna Cum Laude)
Employment
Graduate Teaching Assistant (current employment)
My primary duty as a graduate teaching assistant is to instruct three sections of Environmental Geography Lab. I have to prepare lessons, make quizzes and tests, and answer any questions students have concerning their assignments. The labs themselves are pre-made by the professor but it is my duty to detail and describe the topic and the assignment. After some trial and error I have discovered tying the topic with local problems is the best way to capture the interest of the students. For example I will tie water scarcity with a drought or the Ogallala Aquifer shortage.
Intern
National Geographic Society
At National Geographic I was one of nine geography interns for autumn of 2005. I worked with the internet and film library divisions researching possible stories and providing a geographic perspective to new educational material. Other duties include writing news pieces for National Geographic Kid’s News Online and aiding the internet division with the recently completed redesign of the homepage. Finally, I assisted the digital film library with research possible videos to adopt for video of the day on MSN and Yahoo.
Student Technology Fellow
The student technology fellowship program was a merit-awarded employment opportunity for technologically literate students founded by the state of
Skills
GIS
Certified by home state with both hardware and software knowledge
Teaching
Proficient in Spanish
85+ Words Per Minute typing
Honors
Dean's List every semester of full time study during undergraduate studies.
Duel-enrollment student during high school
Graduate in two years; entered college with junior standing
President of Delta Zeta chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon geographical honor society (2004-5)
Award recipient for work done for state's geography convention
Recipient of many department and school scholarships
Full out of state tuition waiver for graduate studies
Memberships
Association of American Geographers
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Gamma Theta Upsilon geographical honor society
Golden Key International Honour Society
So that is my resume. Remember, Catholicgauze wants to do geographical work for you! And if you have no opportunities available, you just learned alot about me.
6 comments:
First you say that you want "meaningful employment" then you say "no matter how big or small my duties would be." Those two things seem contradictory to me. I would leave off everything after geoenvironmental in the goal statement. And I would call it Objective.
Have you been looking for seasonal positions at usajobs? They'll email you new positions daily.
Your GPA is respectable and a good inclusion.
In general, your employment seems skimpy and I would want more specificity in the tasks you perform. Is environmental geography a three-hour course? I would assume that as a teacher you make quizzes and grade assignments, but did you design the course, or are you teaching from someone else's syllabus. Do you like teaching? It isn't listed as one of your skills, so does that mean you aren't a skilled teacher?
Again, your internship at National Geographic isn't written in an exciting way. "Wrote stories for online news service." Duh. How many stories did you write? Did you rewrite newscopy, or did you do research? Can you include links to hte stories? What do you mean by "tested products with public with surveys" (not well-written). What's an administrative duty? You were an intern, so what were you administering?
"Extremely hard worker" is an example of trying too hard.
Are you going to mention the blog?
Do you have any honors beyond academic ones? What does "certified by home state" mean? Is it really that exciting to get an "out of state tuition waiver"? If so, explain that to me--is it a scholarship based on something?
Thanks for the advice Jude. The resume was edited for the blog and not as full as my "offical" resume. I did add on my full work descriptions. Thanks again!
Sorry to get carried away. I used to do this as part of my job working at a college--I critiqued resumes--so the old critic crawled out. Thanks for letting me comment (and not deleting it!)
No harm and I appreciate your effort. I rather have realistic constructive criticism than unwarranted praise. Thanks!
Do you want to be paid ;-)
We always have room for more unpaid interns and we are moving to a new building this summer, so if you like to carry things...
I'm proud of your academic achievements, that obviously does not come without great effort. (A fine example for this former college dropout.)
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