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Test Your Knowledge of Resumes
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Instructions: For each question, circle the best answer.
1. Resume rhymes with:
a. Legume
b. Sarah Mae
c. Broom
d. The dummy
2. What is the primary purpose of a resume?
a. To show your friends
b. To practice writing
c. To get a job
d. To get an employer's attention for an interview
3. What is the one thing that every resume should have?
a. Your name and contact information
b. All the places you have lived
c. The names of three of your friends
d. What position you played on the basketball team
4. Where is a good place to find a list of the vocational skills you have learned or are learning?
a. The encyclopedia
b. Ask a vocational instructor
c. The phone book
d. The TAR (Training Achievement Record)
5. Being a carpenter doesn't require good grammar and spelling, so:
a. Your resume can have spelling mistakes
b. Your resume can have grammar mistakes
c. Your resume can have both spelling and grammar mistakes
d. Your resume can have NO spelling and NO grammar mistakes
6. If you have never had a job before and your resume looks empty . . .
a. You are out of luck, since you don't have any experience to put on your resume
b. You can fake your experience because employers never check
c. You can include work-based learning, hobbies, and volunteer activities
d. You can ask your instructor for a reference
7. You have only one class to go to before you can get a high school diploma. Should you . . .
a. Say you have graduated from high school
b. Say you have only one class to go and will graduate on 'mm/dd/yyyy' (exact date)
c. Not mentioned that you dropped out
d. Not say anything about high school at all
8. When typing your resume using word processing software, what kinds of fonts should you choose?
a.
b.
c. Plain standard font
d.
9. When writing about things you have done, what would be the best way to describe them (select best example)?
a. I have taken some computer classes
b. I have taken some word processing classes
c. I have taken two word processing classes
d. I have taken one beginning class and one advanced word processing class requiring 45 hours of total class time
10. A very important part of any resume is:
a. Where you grew up
b. How much you want to make
c. Your career goal or objective
d. A concluding paragraph
Answer Key
1. Resume rhymes with:
a. Legume
b. Sarah Mae
c. Broom
d. The dummy
2. What is the primary purpose of a resume?
a. To show your friends
b. To practice writing
c. To get a job
d. To get an employer's attention for an interview
3. What is the one thing that every resume should have?
a. Your name and contact information
b. All the places you have lived
c. The names of three of your friends
d. What position you played on the basketball team
4. Where is a good place to find a list of the vocational skills you have learned or are learning?
a. The encyclopedia
b. Ask a vocational instructor
c. The phone book
d. The TAR (Training Achievement Record)
5. Being a carpenter doesn't require good grammar and spelling, so:
a. Your resume can have spelling mistakes
b. Your resume can have grammar mistakes
c. Your resume can have both spelling and grammar mistakes
d. Your resume can have NO spelling and NO grammar mistakes
6. If you have never had a job before and your resume looks empty . . .
a. You are out of luck, since you don't have any experience to put on your resume
b. You can fake your experience because employers never check
c. You can include work-based learning, hobbies, and volunteer activities
d. You can ask your instructor for a reference
7. You have only one class to go to before you can get a high school diploma. Should you . . .
a. Say you have graduated from high school
b. Say you have only one class to go and will graduate on 'mm/dd/yyyy' (exact date)
c. Not mentioned that you dropped out
d. Not say anything about high school at all
8. When typing your resume using word processing software, what kinds of fonts should you choose?
a.
b.
c. Plain standard font
d.
9. When writing about things you have done, what would be the best way to describe them (select best example)?
a. I have taken some computer classes
b. I have taken some word processing classes
c. I have taken two word processing classes
d. I have taken one beginning class and one advanced word processing class requiring 45 hours of total class time
10. A very important part of any resume is:
a. Where you grew up
b. How much you want to make
c. Your career goal or objective
d. A concluding paragraph
Answer Key