To inherit - plan now - avoid the rush
By EUGENE TESSON
The time is drawing near when the senior is asked by his teachers, friends, relatives and himself. "What are your going to do after graduation?"
Just exactly what will become of him on the other side of the ivy is usually clouded in mystery. Those seniors going directly from college plaids to army greens only put off the confrontation with the outside world for another two years.
CONTRARY TO popular belief, the senior will not immediately inherit the earth. After the dust raised at graduation clears away he settles down into his appointed roll as office clerk, second assistant night manager or sales representative for International Widget Inc. in Beaver Falls, North Dakota.
The most popular theory for this sad state of affairs is that the college graduate lacks experience. (If a senior happens to
have experience when he graduates, then he shall truly inherit the earth.)
There is a way to circumvent this problem, however. The way is through the resume. A good resume can prevent a graduate from being sent to Beaver Falls. It can be a most potent weapon when done properly.
The services of a professional resume writer are expensive, but invaluable. To get a good writer, put a classified ad in the paper, inviting resume writers to send in resumes describing their abilities and experience. Pick the one who sends in the best resume. (An even better idea would be to hire the resume writer's resume writer.)
THE NEXT BEST THING is to write your own resume, employing these suggestions:
- Extracurricular activities:
  Be a joiner. This indicates that you are a team player and can get along with others. However it is not advisable to join simply
for the sake of having things to put in a resume. (Perish the thought.)
- Honors, awards, offices: This indicates ability and responsibility. Winning third prize in the annual Rachael Slywrenkin Interpretative Writing Contest is invaluable. Also, being elected sergeant-at-arms or official librarian of some organization.
- Summer employment: A word of caution - don't sacrifice vital experience for money. Don't take that $2.75 per hour job at Acme Warehouse unless you plan to load trucks for the rest of your life. Apply for a lower paying job at International Widget. They are glad to help college students finance their educations by employing them as assistant maintenance engineers. Perhaps these students will come back and work for them after graduation. (If they can afford to finish school.)
- Grade point average: The value of a high GPA cannot be
over emphasized. Plan early in college to achieve a high GPA. It is very important to any resume, especially when one realizes that the GPA of a senior will be compared by possible employers with others. In other words, a graduate from Bookfactory U. could possibly lose out to a graduate from Pushover College if his GPA was lower.
ABOVE ALL. in planning a resume, remember that all the hard work which went into getting the diploma may be in vain, and the senior will end up in Beaver Falls if his work is not favorably presented in the resume.
For in the final encounter with the outside world, the diploma is merely a statement of fact that certain requirements have been met, while the resume can be an active thing, depicting every phase of college life and every qualification of the graduate, which is almost neglected in the
diploma. Which of these, in the end result, will have the greater impact on the outside world?
Anesthesiology lecture is slated
"Disease and Pain," is the title of a lecture to be given by Henry K. Beecher, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche Auditorium. The lecture is open to the public.
Beecher, a professor of research and anesthesiology at Harvard University Medical School, is also anesthetist-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The lecture is sponsored by the Sigma Xi Honorary Society.
12 Daily Kansan Wednesday, January 18. 1967
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