Resume and Interviewing
As important as searching for your top employer may be, it is your resume and interviewing skills that land the job!
Our career service advisers have the know-how to help make your first impression your best impression --- from resume evaluations to preparing you for a winning interview.
So if you are ready to launch your career, or are reentering the workforce after wrapping up your degree, give us a call. We are ready to help you succeed!
The Career Center
Ferry Music and Arts Building, 3rd Floor
Rooms 30-09 & 30-11
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Evenings and weekends by appointment.
Jessica-Lee Marino, Coordinator of Career Services
(908) 852-1400 ext. 2363
E-mail: marinoj@centenarycollege.edu
Adult and Professional Services - Career Services
300 Littleton Rd, Suite 301
Parsippany, NJ 07054
973-257-5190 | Toll free: 877-437-3746
Optimal Resume Service
Go to the following website:
https://centenarycollege.optimalresume.com
Click on: New Users Click Here
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
You may be asked to type an email address at this time (or before your access code). If this is the case, type your school email address. Then the computer will prompt you to check your school email. You will then get a personal access code to insert in your optimal resume site.
After creating a profile, users would then Log In to their specific accounts using the email and password set up in the Profile. Fill out your profile information.
Now click on New Resume.
• Start new resume
• Give it a name
• Read instructions VERY CAREFULLY before starting (new window)
You can type in your own information (replace text on the example pieces, etc.) whenever you’d like.
IF YOU NEED HELP – GO TO THE HOME PAGE, AND CLICK ON THE HELP BUTTONS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
Be sure to have enough text (not a lot of white space). If you have too much white space, add volunteer experience. Give details of your community service, etc.
Once you are done, save
After you complete your resume – be sure to SAVE, go back to the home page
• On the Optimal home page, after selecting the resume, you can click on “style” to choose any style you’d like!
• On the Optimal home page, after you created the final resume – click on DOWNLOAD. Download to a Word compatible resume. This is the resume you will want to save on your drive and then send to Career Services for review.
Feel free to try out the letters and other services on the website! Enjoy!
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