My friend Dani (who was one of my Muthaship roommates) was cleaning out her Yahoo inbox and found a resume of mine from 1998. Dani has always been an expert resume crafter, and I’d sent her my resume for a little help. This was the finished product, but we both had to have a laugh at what my resume looked like when I graduated college.

Resume 1998:

Goal:
Stimulating work and educational experience in a creative environment with opportunities for growth and advancement.

Educational Background:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (focus on media and society), University of Washington, Seattle WA
    Dean’s List, 3.5 accumulated GPA

  • Musical Theater Major, Emerson College, Boston MA Fall 1993
    Commended Honors Student, Dean’s List

  • Bainbridge Island High School Graduate, Bainbridge Island WA
    Gold Cord Senior (Four-year member of National Honors Society)
    recipent of Washington Honors Award (top 10% of WA graduates)

    Employment History:

  • October 1997 to Present: Guide Captain and Freelancer at ENTROS, Seattle, WA
    Assistant managerial position for an entrepreneurial entertainment company specializing in intelligent socially-interactive game designing, making and playing. Responsibilities have ranged widely from operations restaurant work, to adminstrative and production work, to designing, implimenting and guiding games.

  • June 1997 to Present: Editor at Lotus Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
    Regional Editor for a growing electronic music magazine based in Los Angeles. Responsibilities include writing features and reviews, coordinating writers, photographers, artists, distributors and advertisers through-out the Northwest for a nationally distributed journal.

  • February 1997 to June 1997: Clerical Assistant at Landels Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, CA
    Acted as a junior legal secretary in the Labor Law department of a busy San Francisco law firm. Responsibilities focused on general secretarial assistant work such as copying, typing, filing and transmitting letters, court filings, deposition documents, etc. Made use of Word Perfect 6.0 for DOS and DOS Office.

  • September 1996 to February 1997: Document Specialist II at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, Palo Alto, CA
    Responsible for the filing needs of 14 Attorneys within the Corporate department of one the largest law firms in California. Includes the categorizing, indexing and filing of incoming documents and the retrieval of previously filed material.

  • May 1995 to August 1996: Sr. Sales Associate at m.j. feet, The Birkenstock Store, Seattle, WA
    Included sales (with a high volume of phone and mail orders involving multi-line experience), intense customer service, and light managerial duties of a world-renowned Birkenstock retailer.

  • September 1994 to March 1996: Creative Editor & Transcriber at The Island School, Bainbridge Island WA
    Transcribing and editing text and working with students at a progressive private school, aiding in students’ development and writing of stories, essays and poetry. Includes extensive use of Macintosh word processing software.

    Skills & Proclivities

  • 75 wpm typing
  • Advanced experience with multi-line phones
  • Highly developed skills in group process analysis and social interaction studies
  • Advanced client/customer service skills developed over 5 years of working intensely with deeply varied groups of people ranging from special needs children to successful attorneys
  • Articulate and professional with a vested interest in advancement and education with-in work environment
  • Experienced with multiple task management in high-pressure environments
  • Unique social perspective developed from experience with subcultural studies and group advancement theories

    Computer Experience Summary

  • Summer 1996, Internship as a Commercial Webpage Consultant/Developer for Seattle 2000
    Responsibilities include creative consulting with independent firms and developing of commercial websites under the umbrella of Seattle 2000. Makes use of HTML, UNIX and Adobe PhotoShop technologies.

  • Student in Communications 486 at University of Washington, Spring 1996
    “Telecommunication Policy and Research.” Upper-level communications class focusing on contemporary issues in telecommunication policy and New Media technologies. Computer-integrated class with a focus on research performed via the World Wide Web. Advanced use of Netscape, HTML, UNIX and Microsoft Word 6.0.

  • Proctor for Sociology 241 at University of Washington, January 1995
    Responsibilities included assisting both the professor and students in a computer-integrated Social Psychology class. Weekly testing of students was conducted via computer and as a proctor I fielded questions related to both the technologies being used and the material presented in the class. Made use of Excel 5.0, Microsoft Word 5.0 and Works in Windows 3.1.

    • This resume is going to be great fodder for me to look at when I’m feeling depressed or like I’m not getting anywhere. Compare what you see above to my current resume. If I make as much progress in the next four years as I have in the last four…I might actually make something of myself yet.