I participated in the October Resume Challenge here at UNE, where I submitted my resume to Handshake after I had revised and met with career services about it. Although I had done these steps even before this challenge came out, I appreciated that the school was trying to get students to be active participants in their own working lives. Although I didn’t get a work study job, I hope that by my continued efforts, I can either find a way to make up the money that I didn’t receive, or eventually land a work study job that I was technically given. I learned that the earlier you do these things, the more likely it is that you will succeed at getting a work study job, and this is true for many things in life, that it is good to do as early as possible. Even if it didn’t work out this time, it still showed me the benefit that I had in doing these things far before most of the people in my class.

For doing all of these steps, I got some free Halloween candy and I got entered to win a couple of grand prizes, including Bose headphones or a bluetooth speaker. Also, because of my meeting with Donna from Career Services, I learned more of the specific details that make a resume the best that it can be, which is especially useful with my lack of career experience, since I am only in my first year of college. I also learned how I will be able to expand my resume when I do gain that experience that comes from things like work study jobs and internships. So through this, I gained a connection with career services, who I have already had another meeting with about my choices of what I want for my major and how I can figure that out for myself.