Starting a career 7

Creating a resume:
In one of my business classes, we learned about creating resumes.  Listing education, work experience, skills, volunteer experience and references really makes you think about yourself and what you have accomplished up to this point in your life.  "As you are students, you won't necessarily have that much to write down", explained our teacher which made all of us kinda frustrated.  Creating my own resume wasn't a piece of cake either.  Thinking back and evaluating what information would be accepted as professional materials to put on a resume.  With putting, what my mom calls it, a "Self advertisement" it's hard to keep the information to a need to know level, as well as trying to stay humble and not brag about said accomplishments.  When starting to learn about resumes, our teacher told us the importance of not using the word, "I" and to use action verbs.  To me that sounded redundant, all verbs are technically action words, but then I saw the list of example action verbs, and understood that they all have a very positive and constructive connotation.  Resumes will really help when I apply for another job when the time comes.  This is because it is more common that applicants will drop off a resume before getting an interview for the job.  Having a better written resume will give you the advantage over others, as well as shows a certain aspect of professionalism.