Further Information

Tips on How to Prepare a Resume:

• Tailor the resume for the specific opportunity by highlighting technical qualifications that match specific job requirements.
• Summarize the technologies with which you are familiar and how long you have used each one.
• Emphasize all certification and advanced training in specific software or hardware.
• Highlight your achievements. Demonstrate your impact on the bottom line, showing ways you improved productivity, reduced cost or increased efficiency.
• Show areas where you have been given increased responsibility for a job well done.
• Include special recognition, awards or participation in relevant trade or professional organizations.
• Proofread for errors. You can be screened out for not being detail-oriented.
• Review your resume with your references so that they are up to date on your current accomplishments.
• Update after every position or assignment.

Online Job Resources

• Association for Computing Machines. ACM is the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.
• Association for Women in Computing. Promoting the advancement of women in the computing professions.
• ComputerWorld Careers.
• Dice.com, Online employment web site specifically for the high tech field.
• Green Bay Press-Gazette (find a job in the classified's with the Green Bay Press-Gazette)
• indeed.com. Great jobs & career information for software developers. Also has over 30,000 jobs in a searchable database on this site!
• Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals. "The way to the top of the computing profession."
• Monster.com, Largest online employment web site.
• UWGB Career Web Site, UWGB's Career Services Department
• Wisconsin JobNet Job Search, JobNet contains current job opportunities that employers have listed with Wisconsin Job Services

Links for More Help:

• For course listings and descriptions for Computer Science and other disciplines, check out UW-Green Bay’s Programs of Study page.
• More help is available on-campus at the Career Services Office at SS 1600, 465-2163.
• Contact Academic Advising at SS 1600, 465-2362.
• Another service for UW System students on the Web is UW HELP On-Line. This service provides in-depth information on the programs of the UW System.