- Hey guys, welcome.
Today we're gonna talk
about CVs and resumes,
specifically for admissions.
So if you're sitting and wondering
what you should do you with
your CV, how do you write it,
do I need to provide all the documents
to prove everything
that you're mentioning?
I'm gonna answer all of those
questions in this video.
So if you're interested,
continue watching.
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We are going to look at a template
provided by Stanford University.
It's a template that I've used.
It's a template that you should use.
And it says that for every
10 years of work experience,
you should one page of your resume.
And there is a pretty formal standard
that I would advise you to follow.
Let's look at this template.
You start with your first and last name.
Please don't play with fonts.
I know it's very tempting
to download some template
from the internet
and to use a font that is super creative,
but unless you're a designer,
I would stick to something really formal,
really easy to read.
Sometimes fonts make it harder to read.
So please stick to this.
So you have first and last name,
your telephone number, your email address.
They say use Stanford address,
but you don't have it.
Again, we're looking at
Stanford's guidelines.
Then you're going with a summary.
Summary paragraph highlights your
accomplishments tuned
to a target job role.
Key accomplishments or skills
can be included with bullets.
If you're applying to
your master's program,
it's very important to mention
here's something that's relevant
to your master's program.
Maybe you've one a research
on a topic that you're gonna study,
maybe you have some work experience,
maybe you have some awards
that are worth mentioning.
I have my CV ready to download
together with my book.
The link will be below.
So basically I mentioned all of the awards
that I think are worth mentioning,
like Opportunity Award
by the U.S. Government
and DAD by German Award.
And some Olympus that I won,
some progress that I made with my company,
'cause it was relevant
to whatever I was doing
and I was applying to my master's program.
Then you go to your experience.
You start with something recent.
And if you don't have any work experience,
this section is replaced
by your education,
where you go more in depth
about your education.
But if you have some experience,
if you've done some internship,
it's really, really
worth mentioning it here.
You go with your organization
name, city and state.
One like organization description.
Don't include for recognized firms.
So if everyone knows
what Mercedes Benz does,
and everybody knows, you
don't have to describe.
If it's a smaller
company, less more known,
then give a one liner of what it does.
LinguaTrip is a study abroad
booking platform, whatever.
Your job title, what
were you responsible for?
If you were a sales person,
don't tell them that
you were selling stuff,
'cause that's obvious.
Instead focus on brief
description of accomplishments
with concrete actions
and quantifiable results.
I always tell you, numbers,
they play a magic game,
and they play a magic trick
with your application.
The plan was to generate
$3000 in revenues, I generated $10,000
and I was awarded number one sales person
in my department in 2018 quarter four.
Typically, three five bullet points.
Include budget, number of people managed.
If you managed people,
please write that down.
Like, managed team of 10.
If you've done something extra,
I would always mention it.
Like if, as part of your sales job,
you went to a conference in New York
to represent your company,
please put it here as well.
Or maybe organized, you
organized a conference.
Like mention that, 'cause
it's also really important.
And it talks about your experience.
Then, mention your previous
jobs if you have them.
Again, in the same manner,
but you don't have to be so specific.
You don't have to go into
too many details about your previous jobs.
'Cause what matters is like
your recent experience.
If there's something notable,
like please mention it for
the previous jobs as well.
If you have anything older than 10 years,
but I think the majority if you won't,
they offer you to create like an
additional experience section
where you would put
organization name and title.
Then we're gonna go to education.
So basically, this is
what they're offering
to Stanford graduates to use,
but it's a good manner to use this
to apply to Stanford or to
apply to any other university.
'Cause again, if you are
taking the highest standards,
I'm sure other universities
would appreciate that.
In terms of your education,
you write your degree
institution, degree name,
subject area, year.
I would also write your GPA
and tell them what's the scale.
So for example, I wrote five out of five,
so that they know that five out of five.
And if you were like top 5% of class
or something like that,
or like class manager,
if something like that
exists in your country,
you can also write that down.
'Cause again, this is
more like professional,
'cause this is more
intended for graduates,
but I love this structure.
This is why we're talking about it.
And I used it for all of my applications.
All of my students use it
for their applications.
One pager maximum.
Really easy, like you can
copy paste whatever's here.
The link will be below
to download this file.
For education, I would
write everything down,
like your Bachelor's, if you have it.
Your additional education,
maybe you've done study abroad
in your high school
and your middle school,
with just GPAs, just mention
them there and that's it.
And then something additional
like language competencies,
community service.
In my case, I mentioned
languages, travel, and ballet,
and like whatever you like to do.
That would add some additional information
about you as a personality.
A very important question,
do you need to provide all the documents
supporting whatever you wrote there?
No you don't, but it
should sound realistic.
If you're telling them
you're the winner of all the Olympiads,
you're a Ph.D. at the age of 23,
you've done this, this, and that,
they're gonna be suspicious,
they're not gonna believe you.
And I've talked to admissions officer
from one of the top universities,
and she says, "Yes, we actually."
Especially for like, oh what she said?
Like for some countries from Asia,
they see a lot of like
something that looks like fraud to them.
There are too many accomplishments
that they cannot verify.
When they Google company, it
looks like it doesn't exist.
When they Google an award, it
looks like it doesn't exist.
They cannot verify and it looks like
too many accomplishments
for a 20 year old person.
And they just disregard the application
because they think you
are misleading them.
And this is something that you should
just learn about America in general.
Everyone wants to believe you.
When you come to the office,
you don't bring like papers with you.
You just raise your hand and you swear
that you're telling the truth.
When we got married in San Francisco,
they were like "Were you married before?"
We were like, "No."
In Russia, they would tell us
like bring all of your papers.
In America, they would be like,
"Can you swear that you've
never married before?"
We're like, "Yes, we can."
So this is it.
But if you are lying,
there's something you're intentionally
like misleading people,
then they would just
disregard your application.
You don't wanna do that.
So, no, there's no need to
provide additional proof,
but yes, you need to be honest.
And if you haven't won
anything, don't write it down.
Find something else.
Maybe if you realize, if
you're looking at the CV,
and you're like oh my God
I don't have anything
that she's mentioning,
I don't have work experience,
I don't have this, this, and that.
Okay, if you're not
applying to top university,
maybe you don't even need it.
If you're ready to pay out of pocket,
maybe you don't even need it.
But if you're looking for financial aid,
if you're looking at high
ranking universities,
that maybe take a year off, not off,
but take a year where you would
go and get some work experience.
Maybe invest more time into conferences.
Maybe invest more time into publications.
Like do something that would
make your resume stand out.
And this is why I'm doing this thing.
This is why I'm recording this video,
so you could take action in advance.
Not like three months
before your deadline.
This is super important.
So, look at the application.
You can Google some sample CVs.
Download the template.
You can download my CV
together with my book
where I'm talking about
my admissions journey.
All of the links will be below.
Thank you so much for watching this video.
I hope this content was useful.
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please chat in comments.
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other peoples' questions
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