Korean Job Discussion Forums

[o_time]

I'm updating my CV and my experience is listed in short paragraphs below my job headings. For example
Taught all levels of English to both general and business classes. Students were of all ages including a young learners class three times a week. 70 percent of students who I taught my first year continued to study with me for a second year. I was completely in charge of course content and materials, and helped new teachers with lesson planning and presentation.


Or should bullet points be used for listing experience? Your opinions?

[Wangja]

You have 20 seconds to grab attention.

Use bullets.

[kat2]

agreed. Part of my last job (not related to ESL) was to read resumes and choose who to call back. If theircover letter was overly long, wordy, TMI then they were out. Short and sweet is the name of the game. Bullets are great for this.
My big pet peeve with resumes is people who begin bullets with differet parts of speech. Your whole resume should be uniform.
*taught english to second graders
*instruction of french to third graders
*lesson plans were created solely by me

No, no, no

SHould be:
*taught english to second graders
*instructed third graders in french
*created lesson plans indepently

Much better. Its just a pet peeve, but one that would make me consider a resume second class.

[ilovebdt]

I would write a one sentence into about a job and then bullet point your main responsibilities.

E.g.

June 2002 - September 2002: Kim's Slave Labour Hagwon, Seoul, South Korea.
EFL teacher teaching general English to children aged 5-15 from elementary to intermediate level.

Responsibilities/Main duties included:

*Creating lesson plans
*Setting and correcting homework
*Accompanying the students on field trips

ilovebdt

[Clutch Cargo]

[kat2]

and obviously you should capatilze the first letter in each bullet. And don't write should like this-- SHould

My first post was just to illustrate a certain point. Any punctuation, grammar, capitlization errors in a resume usually send you straight to the reject pile

[robot]

creating lesson plans, checking homework -- what teacher doesn't do that stuff?

for teachers who aren't on their first contract, i'd put better things in bullets:

* what popular course you are best known for
* what programs you have built
* what materials you have developed, books you have authored
* what marketing you have done for your class
* by how much you have increased class enrolment
* by how many points you increased the class average on a standardized test
* what awards you have received, what commendments from parents and/or administration
* positions of authority you have occupied, examples of leadership demonstrated

etc.

give hard evidence with lots of numbers.

ROBT.