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Resumé Guidelines
This resumé or curriculum vitae is used primarily to promote your skills and expertise to a client. A CESO client's decision to accept you will be based on its contents. The following guidelines and attached example are designed to assist you in writing an effective resumé. Other resumé forms are acceptable but, in our experience, the following format has been most successful.
(NB: Our computer system only accepts Microsoft Word document attachments.)
Note: For security reasons we ask that you DO NOT include your Social Insurance Number on your resumé or any other registration documents you send to CESO.
| 1. Full Name: |
- First Name, Middle Name and Family Name
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| 2. Contact Information: |
- Full mailing address
- Area Code & Phone Number
- Area Code & Fax Number
- E-mail Address
(Your e-mail address is very important as chosen applicants will be contacted by e-mail.) |
| 3. Summary of Experience: |
- Describe yourself briefly so the reader can have an idea of your experience.
- Mention your major achievements.
- Emphasize your main sector of activities.
- Your description should be limited to (10) lines.
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| 4. Professional/ Employment Experience: |
- In chronological order, beginning with the most recent, give the title and a description of each position held.
- Employer's name (please give current, exact names), year employment began and ceased, positions held.
- Emphasize your accomplishments as well as your duties and responsibilities.
- Positions held within the last 20 years should be described more fully than earlier ones.
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| 5. Education: |
- Indicate your formal schooling starting with the most recent degree or diploma.
- Name of the school, college or university.
- Degree(s) and / or diploma(s) and year obtained.
- Note: Complementary courses should be mentioned under Complementary Training.
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| 6. Complementary Training: |
- Give a list of pertinent courses you have completed.
- Name of institution, diploma/certificate obtained, year.
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| 7. Associations: |
- List names of associations of which you are a current member.
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| 8. Date: |
- Include date that resumé was prepared.
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Sample
Resumé
Donald Victor Jones
Address: 68 Montréal Road, Ottawa, Ontario K3A 6R2
Phone: (613) 880-0000
Fax: (613) 880-0001
E-mail Address: djones@internet.com
Summary of Experience:
Bilingual (English & French) electrical engineer with 42 years of experience in power systems planning & design. Pioneered the implementation of the 735-kilovolt transmission systems throughout the world. Experience is internationally recognized. Lectures at two universities. Frequently invited to give seminars and is extensively published.
Professional/Employment Experience:
1961 - 1996 ABC Power Company
(19,000 Employees - Annual Revenues $1,900 million CDN)
Positions Held:
1993 - 1996 Adviser to the Vice-President, Systems Planning
- Ensured technical quality of equipment retained for different electrical systems.
- Provided advice on system design and configuration including generating equipment, transmission and distribution lines, substations, protection, automation, communication equipment and regulation systems.
- Supervised study projects and training programs.
- Presented seminars on power systems at universities, national power authorities and power companies around the world.
- Directed a two year Master's course in Electrical Engineering.
- Developed a family of expert systems for the preliminary designs of power transmission systems within a university faculty.
- Appointed as secretary to two international expert committees, one studying the improvement of the performance of the 735 kilovolt system, the other involved in the planning, design and construction of High Voltage Direct Current systems.
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Resumé of Donald V. Jones
1975 - 1993 Manager, Systems Planning & Engineering
(400 Employees - Annual Budget - $1,250 million CDN)
- Responsible for insulation co-ordination studies and for technical and economic studies carried out for the purpose of: determining the general electrical specifications of generation, transmission and sub transmission equipment; developing general criteria for protection and control systems; and establishing criteria associated with good systems performance.
- Secretary to the Extra High Voltage project (group which designed and placed in service the world's first 735 kilovolt system).
- Participated in research programs for equipment of various electrical systems.
- Acted as consultant and adviser to several electrical utilities.
1963 - 1975 Head, Analytical Engineering Division - Planning
(6 Engineers - Annual Budget - $600,000 CDN)
- Carried out technical and economic studies associated with the planning of transmission systems.
1961 - 1963 Engineer - System Planning
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Honours) 1961
Ottawa University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Science Degree 1958
Ross College, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Complementary Training:
Introduction to Microsoft Office -˜97
Carleton University
Associations:
- Canadian Electrical Association
- Canadian Standards Association
- International Electrotechnical Commission
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