Theme 1:

Conduct a self-assessment of you managerial skills at https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_28.htm. Write a short reflective paper (no more than 500 words) about the findings and your experience of being a manager during this course. Explain how your mastered managerial skills supported your academic success and what you need to work on in the future. Offer a pathway to improvement through a specific practical application of a developing competency/skill.

Theme 2:

Describe in no more than 250 words how you are going to incorporate the mastered (by self-assessment) managerial skills into your updated resume. Share with your peers what you learned about your resume after completing the following steps:

**The goal of your first resume draft is to help you create a general document that can be easily modified in the future. This requires that you have a solid general template to work from.

You can either upload your current resume or you can build a new resume using UMUC's general resume builder or templates. Note that UMUC uses templates that are considered best practice in the career services field.

STEP ONE:

Option 1: Create a new general resume: Choose a template to download based on your career from the attachments provided below.

• Complete the general resume by entering your information into the placeholders.
• Be sure to remove any text that indicates this was a template.
• Save as a .doc or docx AND also as a PDF.

TEMPLATES

Biotech template
Career changers template

Federal Resume template
Limited Experience template
Relevant Experience template

Option 2: Upload an existing general resume or copy your existing resume into a UMUC resume template.

• Make changes to your current resume by incorporating information from this week's readings, videos, skills assessment, and resume format document.
• Save as a .doc or docx AND also as a PDF.

**For both Option 1 and Option 2, please note that your general resume should be no more than two pages long.**