The Global Resume Career Building Workshop was put on by Career Counseling Services. This workshop was aimed at developing a more professional resume to be a competitive applicant while incorporating a global profile, detailing how past global experiences can relate to future global endeavors. The workshop began by going over the do’s and don’ts of what to include in a resume profile as well as how to increase the level of detail to make your resume stronger. I learned about what the core of my resume should include and how to communicate the skills I have that relate to the employer’s needs. The types of skills included should be specialized skills, adaptive skills, and career readiness competencies. What I enjoyed the most was hearing her personal opinion on how including a global profile into your resume can make you stand out so much more as an applicant, since it is not as traditional. She explained how we should blend the information about our career objective with information describing our intellectual and global competencies for a more holistic resume. Intercultural competency is becoming more of a target area for companies to look for on a college student’s resume. We were also introduced to a website that gives resume examples based on major and country, which I thought was very interesting.
Overall, I thought this was a very helpful workshop to see what companies want and reflect on my own resume as well as think of new information that I can incorporate into my resume to create a more global profile. This event relates to international affairs because the objective of the workshop was to understand that incorporating a global profile into our resume would make us a stronger applicant for a domestic or international job that takes intercultural competency into account when hiring.