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About the Course

What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will craft an essential cornerstone of the modern-day job or internship search: the resume. You’ll review resume best practices and explore current trends with guidance from a professional career counselor and recruiter, and you’ll exchange structured feedback with your peers as you work to polish your own resume. When you complete the course, you’ll have an eye-catching resume that lets your professional strengths shine. What you’ll need to get started: This course is designed primarily for young professionals or college students who are writing their first resume or looking to give an old resume a fresh and polished professional look. All job seekers will benefit from the course material and project, however, regardless of their career stage or professional background. All you will need is word processing software that allows you to create a resume on a computer- there are free tools available. *About Project-Centered Courses: Project-centered courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of like-minded supportive learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share....

Top reviews

PP

May 26, 2020

It's wonderful experience with Quiz of Resume. I learn lots of things about resume and I am sure after completing this wonderful course everyone can write a effective and impressive resume.thank you.

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Apr 13, 2020

In the words of myself , i would say "Coursera" is certainty an highly professional educative platform to learn about academic and non academic lessons. I'm pretty much pleased with their lessons.

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By ABHAY G

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May 16, 2020

I really found it very useful for my future carrier.

I just recommend one thing that you can give more examples

By Sonia S K

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Jun 29, 2020

I learnt a lot about making a resume. This was a really helpful course. Zach's lectures were really good.

By Ahmad R

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Jan 7, 2023

This is a course for those who already have some skills in resume creation but for absolute beginners.

By Jayashree M

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Jun 28, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed learning this course, and it actually helped me in building my resume. Cheers!!!!

By Ganesh M

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Jun 29, 2020

It was really great experience learn a lot of new things and the 2nd-week assignment is a tuff one.

By Arvind S D

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Apr 11, 2020

It's very easy to understand and complete. This will add an extra but important skill to me.

Thanks.

By Mohammed S I

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Apr 7, 2020

The course contents are precise and updated. Learned a lot about writing a professional resume.

By Do Q

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Apr 12, 2020

Instructive and helpful. Might have done better with a few more successful resume analysis.

By Charitendra V

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Jun 16, 2020

Nice course, easy to understand. thanks Coursera for providing us access to those courses.

By Kartik G

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Apr 30, 2020

You should provide quiz related to the topics you teach, else it is a nice course to take.

By Sumit p

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Sep 1, 2020

Good for beginners ...

You will know how to write a good resume after doing this course .

By Syed A H R

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May 16, 2020

It was nice, but I feel like it can be made more presentable by including more examples.

By Christine S

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Nov 11, 2016

pretty good, would be better if some of detailed document in the video could be attched

By Francois O

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Sep 11, 2020

Lots of useful practical tips provided in this course on how to improve one's resume.

By Mo. S S

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Jun 4, 2020

Thanks for giving me very important points to consider at the time of resume writing.

By niladreeniloy

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Jun 11, 2020

should've talked about the structure of a CV or the the presentation of the resume!

By Parth D

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May 4, 2020

This is a very helpful course for those who are in the initial phase of the career.

By Emina D

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Feb 19, 2019

This course has got me understand some important factors in building my own resume.

By Alpamys A

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Nov 26, 2020

It is indeed quite an interesting course for those who do not know where to start.

By Ashraf A

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Jul 3, 2020

Very good Course. I just wish you provided more examples and downloadable content

By Martin M

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May 5, 2020

Aimed for recent graduates; it is helpful for those with more experience though

By lợi n

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Apr 25, 2020

it is very good to learn how to write a resume. I used to write a CV instead.

By Brian Q

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Jan 15, 2018

It is very similar to what I tell people in the career services work I offer.

By Vikas P

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Jun 26, 2016

Wonderful and a must enrol for all those who are writing their first resumes.

By Jay N

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Jun 15, 2016

Some information don't work in our context. But generally it's helpful to me.