COM 480 Colorado State University Wk 3 Career Plan and Resume Capstone Project

For this assignment, you will be submitting two separate documents—a resume and a career plan. You may submit a resume and a career plan based on your own personal information or based on fictional information, thus keeping your personal information private. Either is an acceptable choice and you will not be graded based on whether you choose to submit actual or fictional information.

There are two preliminary deliverables due before Module 8.

• Choosing Option #1 or #2 for your final Capstone project. (Week 1: 25 points toward your Capstone project grade)
• Final capstone project update (Week 3: 25 points toward your capstone project grade)

The purpose of the Capstone project is to give you experience developing both a resume and a career plan. If you choose to use fictional information, you can then use what you have learned in this assignment to help you develop your own personal resume and career plan. If your time permits, you can even develop your real resume and career plan and the fictional ones for the assignment simultaneously. If you have any questions or concerns about this assignment, please contact your instructor as early in the course as possible so they can be addressed. You will submit both parts separately.

Following are the specific requirements for each component of this assignment:

Resume
Find a posting for a job that currently interests you and for which you are qualified. Using either your own information or fictional information, create a resume tailored to this job description. If you are creating this resume for a fictional person, you can feel free to add skills, experiences, or qualifications that you do not possess, in addition to creating fictional contact information, a fictional educational background, etc.

You may choose whatever type of resume seems most appropriate. Your resume should include the following elements:

• Contact information
• Qualifications
• Education
• Experience/history

You may also choose to include additional elements as appropriate and needed. Before submitting your resume, use the Capstone Resume Checklist and have at least one person read through it and check for errors in spelling, grammar, and formatting. When you have the final version of your resume, convert it to a PDF format to submit it to the Week 8 Assignments page for grading.

Career Plan
Using the Career Plan Template, develop a career plan either for yourself or for a fictional person. The information in the career plan should be as specific as possible, even if you are developing it for a fictional person. You should fill out every section of the Career Plan Template. Your final career plan submission should be well written and free of errors. When you have completed your template, save it and submit it in the Module 8 assignment area for grading.

NOTE: The Career Template just needs to be downloaded and completed.