{"id":34687,"date":"2013-08-07T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=34687"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:10:40","slug":"translating-your-resume-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=34687","title":{"rendered":"Translating Your Resume Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Caitlin Moen, Head Editor , <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5694\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Louisiana<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translating Your Resume Language<\/span><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-28764\" alt=\"caitlinmoen\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dinner-300x200.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Prior to and while attending grad school for my MLIS I worked for 3 \u00bd years at a church. This is a huge chunk of my work experience, yet, the religious nature of the position makes it a little tricky to speak to. \u00a0I worry that people see \u201cchurch\u201d and automatically discount it as valuable experience. \u00a0I\u2019ve worked hard to find ways to overcome this possible reaction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>I never lie or make things up for my CV; instead I take the experiences I had and translate those experiences into the vocabulary of the industry to which I am applying.<\/strong> \u00a0It\u2019s actually remarkable how applicable the experience ends up being.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the church I scheduled work groups and mission trips &#8211; this translates to volunteer coordination. \u00a0I planned Bible studies, youth group activities, holiday parties, book clubs, and more &#8211; what is this but program planning that any librarian does? \u00a0I kept bookkeeping records and membership records &#8211; database maintenance (with a specification of the programs used). And I helped grow the church with communications, marketing, and social media &#8211; this of course is outreach and marketing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>It all comes down to making sure to show the experiences you have in the language of the industry<\/strong> to make sure hiring officials SEE what value you can bring, even from outside the library world. \u00a0What is obvious to you, having lived the position, may not be something a search committee or HR person will immediately grasp when reading your resume. Translate the experience and make your application that much more dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Caitlin Moen, Head Editor , INALJ Louisiana Translating Your Resume Language Prior to and while attending grad school for my MLIS I worked for 3 \u00bd years at a church. This is a huge chunk of my work experience, yet, the religious nature of the position makes it a little tricky to speak to.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=34687\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,4121,293,3594,5071,112,5072],"class_list":["post-34687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-caitlin-moen","tag-experience","tag-inalj-louisiana","tag-language","tag-resume","tag-translating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-91t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}