Resume Phrases – Economics Majors

It can sometimes be challenging to come up with ways to describe your accomplishments, especially those from academic settings. Here are a handful of resume phrases that Economics majors may find useful:

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Quick Tips: Grab bag resumes

Create a “grab bag” resume that lists ALL of your experience, paid and unpaid, in reverse chronological order. This grab bag resume is for your eyes only (and maybe the eyes of your career counselor); never share the grab bag resume with employers.

  • Your grab bag resume can be as long as you need it to be. 
  • Keep adding new experiences as you gain them. Even add different ways of describing your experiences. 
  • When you apply for specific positions, you can use your grab bag resume as a starting point from which you can begin creating a tailored, one-page resume. 
  • Just delete any information that is not relevant to the specific position to which you’re applying. Or, re-phrase information to make their relevance more obvious. 
  • Remember to re-save your newly tailored resume with a different file name – for example, naming it after the employer to which you are applying will make it easier to find later. 
  • If you come up with a brilliant new way of re-phrasing certain experiences, remember to copy and paste those new resume phrases back into your grab bag resume for future reference.



Resume Phrases – English Majors

It can sometimes be challenging to come up with ways to describe your accomplishments, especially those from academic settings. Here are a handful of resume phrases that English majors may find useful:

  • Compared and contrasted _________ with _________ resulting in 8-page paper and 10 minute class presentation
  • Conducted extensive literature review of academic essays about William Blake
  • Utilized Lexis-Nexus, EBSCO Host, Jstor and other electronic databases
  • Wrote extensively on topic of female concepts of power in 18th century France
  • Conducted close readings of texts
  • Examined “war writings” of 19th century Russia
  • Explored impact of poverty on expressions of faith in poetry of 17th century Europe; contrasted findings with translations of 17th century Chinese poetry
  • Led class discussion on the use of irony in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos
  • Organized meeting times among 4 fellow students for group project

Keep in mind that the phrases above are just examples and are provided to remind you of your many accomplishments as a student. Revise, edit and tailor the phrases as your needs require.




Video: How to Make Your Resume More Effective

This is an older video, but will hopefully still be useful. (I hope to post some newer videos soon, but ones that you don’t actually have to see ME.) Anyhow, for Cassie, and all the Cassie’s of the world, hope this is helpful.

Topic: How do you make your resume more effective when you have little to no work experience?

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