41) David is aware that the majority of résumés are now subjected to keyword searches in an
applicant tracking system. To help David use keywords for his benefit, which of the following
parts of his résumé should include relevant keywords?
A) contact information
B) personal data
C) introductory statement
D) hobbies
E) heading
42) The keywords that describe specific skills, attributes, and experiences an employer is looking
for in a candidate are known as ________.
A) adjectives
B) action phrases
C) action verbs
D) verbs
E) nouns
43) Which of the following should be included in the heading of a résumé?
A) skills and abilities
B) contact information
C) work experience
D) educational background
E) career objective
44) Which of these email addresses would be appropriate in a résumé?
A) deathhammer@email.com
B) hardworking.harry@craftsolutions.com
C) cindy.cooper@highlandsystems.com
D) nancy.drew@email.com
E) evan666davis@email.com
45) The introductory statement of a résumé includes ________.
A) career objective
B) contact information
C) work experience
D) the URL of your personal Web page, e-portfolio, or social media résumé
E) educational background
46) A career objective ________.
A) offers a brief view of your key qualifications
B) offers a brief recap of your career with the goal of presenting increasing levels of
responsibility and performance
C) is a brief introductory statement that precedes your name and contact information
D) identifies either a specific job you want to land or a general career track you would like to
pursue
E) presents your educational background in depth, choosing facts that support your professional
theme
47) A qualifications summary ________.
A) offers a brief view of your key qualifications
B) offers a brief recap of your career with the goal of presenting increasing levels of
responsibility and performance
C) is a brief introductory statement that precedes your name and contact information
D) identifies either a specific job you want to land or a general career track you would like to
pursue
E) presents your educational background in depth, choosing facts that support your professional
theme
48) A career summary ________.
A) offers a brief view of your key qualifications
B) offers a brief recap of your career with the goal of presenting increasing levels of
responsibility and performance
C) is a brief introductory statement that precedes your name and contact information
D) identifies either a specific job you want to land or a general career track you would like to
pursue
E) presents your educational background in depth, choosing facts that support your professional
theme
49) Which of the following candidates should include a career summary in their résumé?
A) Derrick has just graduated from college and plans to continue a career in nonprofit fund
raising, a job he has internship experience with since his freshman year.
B) In his short stint at the organization, Nathan was promoted two times.
C) As an experienced manager, Grover had grown with the company, managing double-digit
annual growth in revenue and employees in his division.
D) After all these years as a junior assistant, Chris is finally relieved that he is a junior manager
now.
E) After two year, Don is planning to make a transition from being an army man to a corporate
executive.
50) For which of the following applicants is education their strongest selling point?
A) a college graduate who has no experience
B) an upper-level manager who is to be promoted soon
C) a recently promoted lower level manager
D) an office assistant looking to upgrade his qualifications
E) a college graduate with 10 years’ work experience and a very specific skill set
51) ________ should be mentioned in the education section only if the associated achievements
are pertinent to your career goals.
A) Educational objectives
B) Career objectives
C) Scholarships
D) Academic awards
E) High school or military training
52) If you do not name your current employer in the work experience section of your résumé and
only mention the industry, you ________.
A) are creating doubt in the mind of your potential employer, who is entitled to disqualify you
based on this omission
B) may not be noticed by recruiters
C) may lose out on the keyword search
D) are following expected résumé protocol and are allowed to keep your employer confidential
E) are not being honest and transparent
53) In your résumé, most of the space should be devoted to the jobs that ________.
A) are relevant to your education
B) were the most challenging
C) you held the longest
D) are the most recent
E) are related to your target position
54) Barney has spent a number of years in the professional work force. However, when he
started, he held a number of part-time, temporary, or entry-level jobs that don’t relate to his
career objective now. In the work experience section of his résumé, Barney should ________.
A) include all those details to give the right picture of his career path
B) mention the details so that the manager gets an idea of his wide range of exposure
C) include them only in the career summary
D) exclude the irrelevant details that might clutter his résumé
E) avoid mentioning anything that is more than five years old
55) The activities and achievements section in the résumé can be used to ________.
A) offer a brief view of your key qualifications
B) offer a brief recap of your career with the goal of presenting increasing levels of responsibility
and performance
C) present your educational background in depth, choosing facts that support your professional
theme
D) highlight activities and achievements outside of a work or educational context
E) emphasize what you have accomplished in each position you have held in the past
56) Ruth is actively involved in her church. She goes to great lengths to organize events for
charity. In her community, Ruth is known for her leadership and organization skills. If she wants
to mention these activities in her résumé as part of an application at a local bank, she should
________.
A) not consider mentioning these because doing so might raise concerns for people with
differing beliefs
B) mention these activities because employers find these attributes valuable and religious
tolerance should be assumed
C) highlight her skills and mention that she did these for a not-for-profit organization
D) highlight her skills without mentioning any group she worked with
E) mention these skills in the career summary and not mention the group she worked with
57) When applying to U.S. companies, which of the following should never be included?
A) names of references
B) name of your previous employer
C) your personal contact information
D) name of any not-for-profit organization
E) your GPA
58) Helen is applying for a job as a senior accountant. With regard to her references, she should
________.
A) prepare a list of references and include them in her résumé
B) not prepare a list of references because in the U.S. she need not mention their names in her
résumé
C) prepare a list of references, only if she is applying for a position outside the U.S.
D) prepare a list of references and mention “references available upon request” at the end of her
résumé
E) prepare a list of references but not include them in her résumé
59) Which of the following candidates can use a résumé longer than one page?
A) Xavier just graduated from college and has experience working in a not-for-profit
organization while studying.
B) Edgar has eight years of experience as a software developer at a leading software solution
company.
C) Dennis has two years of work experience in sales and is applying for the position of assistant
manager at a local marketing company.
D) Louis worked at local clothing stores as an assistant for a year before going back to college to
get an MBA degree.
E) John will graduate in a few months and has volunteering experience as well as technical
certification in Internet security.
60) Gerald has just prepared his résumé and is ready to mail the printed traditional résumés to
organizations. However, his friends insist that he should be ready with more formats because,
depending on the companies he applies to, he might want to produce his résumé in as many as
six formats including ________.
A) audio
B) graphic animation
C) brochure
D) PDF file
E) spreadsheet
61) Do not include or enclose a photo in résumés, unless it is a ________.
A) PDF
B) printed scannable résumé
C) social media résumé
D) electronic plain-text file
E) résumé intended for an employer
62) Jennifer is preparing a video résumé along with six different résumé formats so that she can
stand out in the crowd of applicants. Video résumés can be a compelling supplement, but
________.
A) it is suitable only for creative jobs
B) most employers prefer social media résumés
C) it should be created by hiring professional video producers
D) it fails to capture relevant work experience
E) recruiters may find it cumbersome to view and ignore it
63) Scannable résumés are a type of printed résumé that is specially formatted to be compatible
with optical scanning systems that convert printed documents to electronic text. It differs from
traditional formats in two major ways, one of which is that ________.
A) it should not include punctuation
B) it should not have text in more than three colors
C) it does not need a career objective
D) it should always include a keyword summary
E) it needs a few manual adjustments first
64) A plain-text version of your résumé is simply a computer file ________.
A) that contains only font formatting, bullet symbols, and colors
B) that cannot be emailed to the recruiter
C) sometimes known as an ASCII text file
D) that cannot be pasted into the application forms on an employer’s website
E) usually called scannable résumés
65) Some employers and websites want your résumé in Microsoft Word format. However, make
sure ________.
A) that your computer is virus-free first
B) that the document is scannable
C) that you include a picture of yourself in the résumé
D) that you use electronic signatures
E) that the résumé is free of formatting
66) Linda has prepared a Microsoft Word document of her résumé and she wants to create a PDF
as well. She knows that creating a PDF file is a simple procedure, but she needs the right
software, like ________.
A) Adobe Reader
B) Microsoft PDF Reader
C) Google Chrome
D) Apple Reader
E) Adobe Acrobat
67) A variety of terms are used to describe online résumés, including ________.
A) web forum résumés
B) personal multimedia pages
C) social networking résumés
D) e-portfolios
E) digital format résumés
68) Rebecca is contemplating setting up an e-portfolio. Which of the following media is suitable
for her résumé?
A) traditional paper
B) printed scannable résumé
C) electronic plain-text
D) video
E) audio