Due Date: 12:00pm (Noon) on Monday, September 7.

The purpose of this assignment is to serve both as another “Getting To Know You” activity while also giving you an opportunity to practice genre analysis and writing. The genre of Resume is one that probably many of you have already written for real.

For this assignment, I do not want your real resume. That’s too personal to ask everyone to share. Instead, we’re going to be writing Imaginary Resumes, or Dream Resumes.

Please think about the following questions. Be as creative as you want.

1. Picture yourself at some point in the future (your choice exactly when). It can be a “realistic” future (such as a future in which the pandemic messed up everyone’s plans and significantly impacted the economy), or an idealistic future (such as a future where….none of this happened).
2. What is your dream job to have at that point in your life? (This is the most recent job you will list on your resume)
3. What jobs and other activities would you ideally want to do in order to make you qualified for that job? (These are the previous jobs/activities on your resume)
4. What other skills do you have or would you ideally develop — remember, this is your dream world! Doesn’t have to feel realistic to you! —  between now and this imaginary point in the future? For example, several of you mentioned in your introductions that you speak multiple languages. You could list that. Or you can pretend that you have already learned another language beyond what you speak in real life.
5. What imaginary job are you using this resume to apply to? The answer will shape what you include on this resume and how you organize it.
6. What other information do you want to include on your resume?

You can use elements from your real life if you want to. You can also change/make up stuff about your past if you want to. You may want to ask, “How long does it have to be?” or “How many things do I have to list?” or “What spacing/font size/formatting do you want?” You will determine all of these based on your research into resume writing.

Remember: the content is made up, but we are still figuring out and obeying the rules of the genre. Grading will be out of 2 points: 2 points for complete, 1 point for incomplete, 0 points if you don’t turn anything in.

Please post your imaginary resume here on the course site when you are done. Use the Categories “Student Work” and “Start of Semester.”

You can post your resume by copy/pasting it into a post, or by clicking on the “Add Document” button in the editor. Which one you choose will determine some of your formatting choices, since copy/pasting Word Doc formatting into a WordPress post without changing anything can often look odd.