Lab 19 · Resume Building Lab: One-Page IT Resume

🎯 Objective

Turn your learning into a hiring document: every claim on the page must be provable from work in this library.

🧩 Skills You Will Practice

• Resume structure
• Action-verb project bullets
• Skills honesty audit
• PDF finishing

🧰 What You Need

• Your completed lab list
• A document editor
• The Resume and LinkedIn lesson
• Links to your GitHub / project folders

📋 Step-by-Step Tasks

1. Set up the one-page structure in order: header (name, city, professional email, GitHub and LinkedIn links), 2-line summary, Skills, Projects, Education.
2. Write the summary honestly from your real stage, for example: 3rd-semester student, web and Python projects completed, seeking internship experience. No inflated titles.
3. List skills in groups (Languages, Tools, Concepts) and apply the interview test to each one: delete anything you could not discuss for two minutes.
4. Write 3 project bullets from your actual labs (for example Labs 7, 13, 14) using Action + What + Tools + Result: Built a responsive 3-page website (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with a validated contact form and a launch QA checklist.
5. Add Education with university, degree and semester, plus relevant coursework only. Move certificates below projects — proof before attendance.
6. Format ruthlessly: one page, consistent fonts and spacing, no photo, no full home address, file name YourName-Resume.pdf, exported as PDF.
7. Proof pass: read it aloud, click every link, and ask one friend to find your strongest skill in 10 seconds. If they cannot, restructure the top third.

✅ Expected Result / Deliverable

A finished, clickable one-page PDF resume whose projects are all real labs you completed — plus a gap list (skills you noticed missing) that becomes your next study plan.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

• Two or three pages for a student
• Listing skills you cannot answer questions about
• A fancy template that breaks when parsed or printed