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1. Resume

What to Be Written in a Resume

1. Name and Contact Information:
   Your residential address is most appropriate, especially if you do not want your current employer to know that you are looking for another job.
2. Objective:
   A brief description of specific jobs that you are looking for.
3. Qualifications [Optional]:
   A summary of qualifications that make you a good candidate for the job you are applying for.
4. Education:
   A list of your degrees or certifications together with the names of educational institutions or programs and awarded years.
5. Work Experience:
   A list of names of the companies or organizations that you have worked for, the location of each company, the dates worked, your job title, and duties performed in reverse chronological order.
6. Relevant Skills:
   A list of skills related to a job that you are looking for.
   This may be combined with the qualifications listed above.
7. References [Optional]:
   A list of references that a prospective employer may contact or request a letter of recommendation about you.

How to Write a Resume

• Chronological Resumes (quite common)
• Functional Resumes (not popular among employers)
• Combination Resumes
• Targeted Resumes

• Provide a typeset resume in PDF
• Be careful about the order of items →

  Organize information from a viewpoint of an employer
• Be selective about information to be included →

  Remove information not essential to a job you are applying for
• Focus on the readability of a resume
  • Use bulleted lists and/or numbered lists
  • Utilize white space effectively
• Tailor a resume for a job instead of a general-purpose resume
• Include carefully chosen keywords that are relevant to job descriptions posted by employers
• Be specific in your descriptions and quantify with numbers wherever possible
• Revise online information linked from a resume, such as a home page, LinkedIn, blog, and Facebook
• Proofread and revise a resume thoroughly before sending it to a prospective employer

• Chronological resume posted by Cornell University
• Combination resume posted by Cornell University
• Engineering Sample Resume posted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Minutes of a meeting
• An abstract of a report
• An executive summary of a business plan
• An executive summary of a proposal
• A handout for an oral presentation
• A quick guide of a product

1. Determine who are anticipated readers of a summary.
2. Collect information that those readers may be interested in and/or relevant to.
3. Skim the information from a viewpoint of the readers.
4. Prioritize the remaining information and delete information of low priorities by applying the principle of minimalism.
5. Organize the information with a selected style & format.
6. Proofread and revise a draft at least a few times.

• Appropriate Title Representing the Content of an Original Document
• Name and Contact Information of an Author
• A Few Sentences Describing an Objective of a Summary and/or the Bottom Line (i.e., Conclusion) of an Original Document
• A Few Paragraphs for Describing the Essential Content of an Original Document While Keeping Anticipated Readers in Mind

Channel routing plays a central role in the physical design of VLSI chips. For two-layer dogleg-free channel routing, d max and vmax are the two traditional lower bounds. In this paper, we present two efficient algorithms for computing a tighter lower bound for the channel routing problem. Our algorithms successfully compute a lower bound of 26 for Deutsch's Difficult Example (DDE). The experiment on some large-scale randomly generated channel routing problems shows that our lower bound algorithms are much tighter than the traditional lower bounds, and are much more efficient than Pals' algorithm while obtaining similar (sometimes better) results.

" In the last decade there have been numerous high-profile breaches involving the theft of data from millions of bank cards—TJX, Barnes and Noble, Target and Home Depot to name a few. Some of these involved hacking the point-of-sale systems inside a store to steal card data as it traversed a retailer's network; others, like the Barnes and Noble hack, involved skimmers installed on card readers to siphon card data as soon as the card was swiped. Card issuers and retailers are moving to adopt more secure EMV or chip-`n'-PIN cards and readers, which use an embedded microchip that generates a one-time transaction code on in-store purchases and a customer-entered PIN that makes stolen data less useful to card thieves. As a result, card breaches like this are expected to decline. But it will take a while for chip-`n'-PIN systems to be widely adopted. "

1. Assume that you apply for a software engineer position of a company that develops and manufactures embedded systems such as vending machines, ATMs, self-service ticket machines, and digital signages.
   Write a cover letter and a resume for applying for the position.

2. Assume that you apply for admission to an MS program of Computer Science Department at Princeton University.
   Write a cover letter and a resume for applying for admission to the MS program.

3. Assume that you apply for an software engineering internship of Google.
   Write a cover letter and a resume for applying for the internship.

4. Write a one-page summary of the article entitled Experts pick the top 5 security threats for 2015.

5. Read the 3rd section with the heading "Develop A Crowdfunding Campaign" in the article entitled A Wearables Startup Playbook.
   Write its summary in a single paragraph.
   Then, read the entire article and write its abstract with 100 ~ 200 words.

6. Watch the video titled "Oracle Data Discovery: The Visual Face of Hadoop" provided on data analytics (so-called big data).
   Write a one-page executive summary of the video.