How do I start to write my first resume?

If you have never written a resume before, the website Best Sample Resumes has helpful hints and templates for a good "starter" high school resume  like the one below.  

In a student's resume, you highlight your achievements like your projects, extracurricular activities, summer jobs and any other part time experience. Add a touch of your soft skills that are required in all professional jobs. 

For more basis information about how to write your first resume, go to their website at:

http://www.bestsampleresume.com/

Sample Resume: 

Joshua Jones

321 Waring Ave

State College PA 16801

814.237.2016 (cell)

High School Junior
State College High, State College, PA

Objective 

To get a summer position that will allow me to use and develop my strong organizational skills and people skills while making my contribution to a retail store's profitability.

Educational Credentials

• 3.8 GPA
• Honor Student  (Freshman: Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, Sophomore:  Spring 2010;  Junior: Fall 2010 and Spring 2011)
• Captain of the debate team 
• Captain of the chess team
• Came in third in the state spelling bee
• Won Student of the Year Award in 2009

Sports

• Part of the Wrestling Team, Our team won the district championship
• Reserve on the football team

Extracurricular Activities

• Part of the drama club
• Won the school spelling bee

Organizing Skills

• Helped the teachers organize all the school social functions
• Worked as a subject editor for the high school newspaper 

Work Experience

Giant Food store
Sales Clerk
Duration: March 2010 - May 2010
Responsibilities

• Helped the customers with their shopping
• Helped casher's with bagging customer purchases 
• Helped stock shelves

Pop's Hardware Store

Part-time Salesman
Duration: November 2009 - March 2010
Responsibilities

• Sold hardware equipment
• Wrote correspondence letters
• Maintained the daily cash book
• Showed customers how use the hardware equipment

Other Qualities

• Extremely hard working 
• Sharp memory
• Good writing skills 
• Good communications skills
• Enjoy interacting with people
• Good athlete

References

Available on request

Passion and Focus (John Piper's post - Steve Jobs: "He knew the Couple of Things He wanted to Do")

John Piper's reflections on Steve Job's focus in life helps encourages us to:

Get the wisdom of the house of mourning. Learn from the shadow of your own funeral. One thing matters. Whether you make an iPhone, or use an iPhone, let every breath, every thought, every deed be one thing-the "work of faith"-the work of the Lord.

Read on for what our focus should be as we pursue vocation that honors God and serves others taken from the following link:

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/steve-jobs-he-knew-the-couple-of-things-he-wanted-to-do

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Steve Jobs: "He Knew the Couple of Things He Wanted to Do: by John Piper | October 25, 2011

Steve Jobs, the biography by Walter Isaacson, went on sale yesterday. In an interview Isaacson commented on the effect Jobs' cancer had on his life focus.

He talked a lot to me about what happened when he got sick and how it focused him. He said he no longer wanted to go out, no longer wanted to travel the world. He would focus on the products. He knew the couple of things he wanted to do, which was the iPhone and then the iPad.

Wisdom in the House of MourningI just preached at a funeral. Funerals are high privileges for me. "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting" (Ecclesiastes 7:2). So much wisdom is to be had there. "Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom" (Psalm 90:12). This is what the house of mourning is for: Lessons in mortality and the learning of wisdom.
Sometimes God makes us go to the house of mourning. He decrees cancer. We are forced to live in the shadow of our funeral-the school of wisdom.
The wisdom Steve Jobs learned, he said, was this: Do a couple things, and do them well. You don't have time for much. And most of things are not lasting. So do two or three things, and do them amazingly.
Not a bad lesson. In fact, really good-as far as it goes.
What Matters Is United in One ThingBut when Paul described what he learned in the long shadow of his own funeral, it was based not merely on the inevitability of death, but on the death of death. "Death is swallowed up in victory"-through Jesus Christ.
Here's the lesson: "Therefore, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:58).
There is one thing, not two or three, that matters. All is united in one thing: "The work of the Lord." It might be computers. It might be conversions. Whatever it is, in the shadow of your funeral, let it be "the work of the Lord."
"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord" (Colossians 3:23). "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). "Whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord" (Colossians 3:17). By faith in Jesus, every act becomes this one thing-the work of the Lord.
Let Us LearnGet the wisdom of the house of mourning. Learn from the shadow of your own funeral. One thing matters. Whether you make an iPhone, or use an iPhone, let every breath, every thought, every deed be one thing-the "work of faith"-the work of the Lord.

Secular work is sacred - What we learn from the story of Dorcus

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Work Rewards
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2, by Os Hillman
12-23-2011
"For He repays man according to his work, And makes man to find a reward according to his way." (Job 34:11 NKJV)
There is a belief held by many in the body of Christ that says "If I'm not doing something that has an inherent spiritual value, then it has no value at all." This sacred/secular dichotomy impacts believers everyday as they go into their secular workplace. They believe what their secular work is simply a means of supporting the real ministry carried out by local churches, ministers, missionaries, and vocational ministries.
However, this has no biblical basis. Some of the most important leaders in the early church had secular jobs. And, they did not see them as jobs only to support other ministry. They considered their own jobs as ministry.
Consider Dorcus (also known as Tabitha), who was a clothing manufacturer who was "abounding with deeds of kindness and charity, which she continually did."(Acts 9:36)
When Dorcus died it was immediately brought to the attention of Peter which tells us she was very important to the early church leaders. "Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcus had made while she was still with them" (Acts 9:39). Dorcus was known equally for her business as well as her ministry among the people. However, she was about to be known for being raised from the dead!
"Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, 'Tabitha, get up.' She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up. He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called the believers and the widows and presented her to them alive. This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord" (Acts 9:40-42).
What type of ministry in the workplace do you suppose Dorcus had after this event? Dorcus is a great reminder for every worker in the secular marketplace that "He repays man according to his work, and makes man to find a reward according to his way."

God Gives us a Desire for Our Work

The below can be found at https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1345fe9be0044091 on the "Prime Time with God - Refecting on Faith, Work and Ministry" website of the Ephesians Four Ministries

God Gives Us a Desire for Our Work
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2, by Os Hillman
12-21-2011

You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands (Job 14:15 NKJV).

Did you know that God has already pre-wired you for the work He created you to do? We all have things inside of us that excite us when we think about it. God is the source of this passion. However, our career path may require many stepping stones before we reach the work that we were ultimately created for. The psalmist says "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Ps 139:16).

When the ark of the covenant was to be designed to contain the sacred ten commandments, God prepared a man to perform the important work.

"Then the LORD said to Moses, 'See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts -- to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of craftsmanship'" (Ex 31:1-6).

We do not know much about Bezalel, but you can be sure he had many jobs leading up to this most important assignment. He was also the first man mentioned in all of scripture to be "filled with the spirit of God."
When your work is empowered by the Spirit of God you will be hand-picked for some of the most important assignments. He says the skilled worker will even serve before kings (Prov. 22:9). God will see to it that your skills will be used for His ultimate purposes. This is the call of God for each of us -- to be fulfilled in our work and to use our work to fulfill His purposes on the earth.
He seals the hand of every man, that all men may know His work (Job 37:7 NKJV).

Today God Is First (TGIF) devotional message, Copyright by Os Hillman, Marketplace Leaders

Testimony - Are you as passionate as a salt miner?

Deep underground in Poland lies something remarkable but little

known outside Eastern Europe . For centuries, miners have extracted salt

there, but left behind things quite startling and unique. Take a look at the

most unusual salt mine in the world.

From the outside, Wieliczka Salt Mine doesn’t look extraordinary.

It looks extremely well kept for a place that hasn’t mined any salt for

over ten years but apart from that it looks ordinary. However, over two

hundred meters below ground it holds an astonishing secret. This is the salt

mine that became an art gallery, cathedral and underground lake.

 

Situated in the Krakow area, Wieliczka is a small town of close to twenty thousand inhabitants. It was founded in the twelfth century by a local Duke to mine the rich deposits of salt that lie beneath. Until 1996 it did just that but the generations of miners did more than just extract. They left behind them a breathtaking record of their time underground in the shape of statues of mythic, historical and religious figures. They even created their own chapels in which to pray.

Perhaps their most astonishing legacy is the huge underground cathedral they left behind for posterity. 

For more information you can go to the following website:

http://www.kopalnia.pl/site.php?action=site&urlMain=2,26,1,853,,&&id_site=26&level=853