Library offers seminar to help students work on their resumes
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FULLERTON — Fullerton Public Library is playing host to a Resume Writing Seminar on Monday.
The target audience of the seminar is high school students, but the event is open to the public, library director Laurel Marlatt said. The hour-long event will kick off at 6:30 p.m.
“I feel like the library should be the heartbeat of the community,” she said. “If we find a need we should try to fill it.”
Fullerton guidance counselor Jordan Wetovick will serve as moderator for a panel consisting of Fullerton teachers Brandon Siegel and Shawn Ostransky, as well as Marlatt and her son, Ryan Marlatt, who is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Business. After the panel speaks, there will be a time for the audience to ask questions.
“The whole goal of resume writing is to get an interview,” Laurel Marlatt said. “You have to sell yourself to the person doing the hiring.”
She said that you do not have to be actively looking for a new job to attend, adding that the perfect job could pop-up when you don’t expect it and need to have the ability to put together a resume and cover letter when the need arises.
The library also has software that can help a person write a resume. Marlatt said that they have books that can help someone also.