Having been out of college for over a year and only having one job since graduation, which didn't last too long due to the company's financial troubles, I been looking for work and have not received call backs on places I've submitted my resume. Mainly I am looking for help tweaking the bullet points of my resume to make it pop and stand out. However, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
OBJECTIVE
Obtain a marketing position where my ability to learn quickly and adapt to sudden changes can be effectively utilized to increase overall production and efficiency.
EDUCATION
Loyola Marymount University
Bachelor of Business Administration • Los Angeles, CA • December 2006
- Concentration in Marketing and International Business
- GPA: 3.44
- Minor in English
- Mu Kappa Tau Honor Society, Marketing (Association of College Honor Societies Member Society)
SKILLS
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe (Photoshop, ImageReady, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash), Quark, HTML, website development; photography; Microsoft CRM; PC and Mac proficient
EXPERIENCE
DG Lights
Freelance Web Designer • Carlsbad, CA • November 2007- Present
- Develop a new design for company website that integrated the company’s new look and objective.
- Integrated Flash and Javascript to enhance the user’s experience by providing a clickable, rotating banner on the homepage and Lightbox image preview.
- Design several different layouts for company to showcase different concepts, which enabled owners to pick and chose their favorite layout and elements to add to the layout.
Solutions Consulting Group
Marketing Coordinator • San Diego, CA • January 2007 – November 2007
- Execute tradeshow strategies to expose company to construction options industry, which resulted in over 90 leads and at least 3 hot leads.
- Assist in the development of marketing campaigns by brainstorming possible channels of distribution, designing ads and collateral, ensuring timely execution of material with vendors, and follow-up.
- Arrange and edit customer and internal monthly newsletter before electronically distributing to mailing list.
- Edited White papers and other marketing materials.
- Conducted a direct mailing campaign to introduce the company to new customers.
- Organized and help manage business meetings and trips.
- Interact and fulfill the needs of various exhibitors throughout the United States.
- Edit and update the Fox Exhibitor website with the latest image, news and information.
- Execute daily administrative support for marketing team, to include – but not limited to answering phone calls, running print material to copy center and organizing film files.
- Monitor and facilitate panels to make sure discussions started and ended in a timely manner.
- Supervise 2-4 volunteers to help control over 100,000 attendees at the convention.
- Control overflow of attendees by persuading attendees into a line to ease entry into panels and distribution of panel materials.
- Research and compile a listing of artist related items in a PowerPoint presentation for management.
- Contributed in the raising of over $200,000 for MTV Tsunami Relief.
- Help with daily editing and posting of online contests over eBay.
- Ship materials nationally and internationally via UPS.
- Interact and communicate with consumers to suggest promotions, specials and fashion trends for the season.
- Interact and respond to over 15 specific, individual customer needs on a daily basis.
- Surpass daily associate sales and wardrobe goals.
- Assist engineers with special/one-time projects and relay data in a quick and accurate manner.
- Evaluate over 100 photos for final print quality before releasing product into market.
- Support writing systems process technician in editing and management of internal webpage.
Twentieth Century Fox (In-Theater Marketing)
Intern • Century City, CA • September 2005 – May 2006
San Diego Comic-Con International
Volunteer Programming Staff • San Diego, CA • July 2004 – July 2005
Universal Music Group (eBay)
Intern • Santa Monica, CA • January 2005 – April 2005
Express
Brand Sales Representative • Santa Monica, CA • October 2004 – December 2004
Hewlett-Packard (Kelly Services)
Product Development Assistant • San Diego, CA • August 2000 – January 2004
Notify Jeans
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Just purely going on the articles that Savvy posts, I would maybe recommend taking out that you are PC and Mac proficient as well as Microsoft Office proficient. Looks good though! Good luck!
1I'll be featuring this resume on SavvySugar tomorrow and will take a crack at the others in next week's posts. I hope it helps!
2hey yoruhana,
one thing i noticed right away is that you should make sure that all of your verbs are in past tense. you did a great job of using active words rather than passive when describing your experiences and skills, but for consistency's sake be sure that they're all in past tense.
good luck! i'm looking for a new job, too... i have a similar background and graduated in may '06, so i am quite familiar with your predicament.
3Hello, I would remove the express and hewlett-packard jobs. If you then have room on your 1 page, i'd expand more on the things you do at your current position. Even then there are still a lot of jobs listed and you could probably cut it down to 3 or 4. I would move your degree to the bottom of the resume. Yes, they will still see it, but they will see work experience first, which you do have! Personally I'm not a huge fan of summaries, but if you are going to put on i'd be a little more specific about what type of position you are looking for. Just my thoughts.
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