Resume Things

Unsure of how to represent your level of foreign language fluency?

• Find a helpful government guide to determining fluency levels at http://www.govtilr.org/.

Confused about objective statements?

• For those of you who choose to do them, here's how you make them useful without being limiting. Include that you're looking for a spring internship for 10 to 20 hours per week.

Wondering how best to represent Federal Semester on your resume?

• Include Federal Semester in the top under Education, and use a succinct description:
  
  "A highly selective year-long program that combines an academic seminar in federal health policy/homeland security policy/the U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an academic internship."
  
  or
  
  "Highly selective program designed to prepare students for federal service careers"