Tag-Team Résumé Improvement

A week before the session, tell teens the must bring a résumé to the next session. (If they don’t have a résumé, ask them to create the best one they can. They can look online or talk to friends for tips. You may still have to bring in a few résumés for teens who don’t have one.) Then, on the day of the session, have the teens read “How to Create a Winning Résumé.” Ask them to share any other information they know about résumé-writing that Represent didn’t cover. Make a list on flip paper of everything people say that’s helpful.

Then have teens trade résumés and offer corrections based on the tips in Represent and the list that the group created together. Focus especially on identifying transferable skills (such as “being responsible” or “working as a member of a team”) that they already have from informal jobs like babysitting or extracurricular activities at school.