Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering                    Phone:         (405) 744-4337

Oklahoma State University                                                                  Fax:             (405) 744-6059

Stillwater, OK 74078                                                                            EMAIL: mstone@ceat.okstate.edu

MEMORANDA

To:        BAE 1012 Students

From:    Marvin Stone, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Date:     August 4, 2005

Re:        Lab Assignment No. 1

You will need a resume’ many times throughout your career.  I have scheduled Catherine Southwick, the

Coordinator of CEAT Career Services, to speak to our class on Monday, September 19th.  To prepare for her visit and for attending the Career Fair scheduled for September 13^th, please prepare a preliminary resume’.  Catherine will later provide materials on how to improve your resume and a cover letter.  You may visit her office in Engineering North if you would like to review these materials before her visit.

We will be working in our laboratory class to get your user ID’s, login and e-mail functioning.  During that time, when you are not engaged in the ID/email process, you should focus your efforts on getting your resume’ completed.

Use Microsoft Word to create your preliminary resume'.  You will find Word on the Start menu of the PCs in the Lab.  Please ask for assistance if you need help in starting and saving files.  You may use a Word Wizard to create the resume, but I would recommend using your own style.  You may refer to:http://www.osucareerservices.com/  for examples.  (To use the Wizard select Word from that menu and after starting Word, select File, New, Other Documents, Resume' Wizard.)  You will probably use this resume’ to apply for jobs and we will later post this resume' to the web, so be careful to produce a document that you will feel comfortable presenting to an employer.

I will grade the resume and will be looking for the following items:

1. A neat 1 or 2 page Resume'

2. Correct Name and address information

3. At least Education and Work experience sections complete and correct

4. Received by me through e-mail in MS Word format before September 13^th.

Once you have created your resume', you should save it in your directory on drive L:.  Do not neglect to do this as you will need your resume’ for later work in our class.  In addition, I will expect that you know how to use your “L:” drive.