Resume Revised

Clay Zamperini
5555 Greenville
Dallas, TX 75206
(800) 555-4244

Objective
To be hired as an Art Director at TBWA \ Chiat \ Day

Education
Southern Methodist University – Dallas, Current Student
Advertising Major, Photography / Cinema Minor
Major GPA: 4.0, Overall GPA: 4.0
Honor Roll with Highest Distinction, Spring 2008

Experience
Assistant, Drake Morton & Associates, 2003 – Present

• Assisted in the launching of Emerald, the companies flagship email marketing program

• Assisted with photography and production for Mother’s Car Polish campaign starting in 2005, which helped increase sales by 33%
  

• Wrote and designed emails for an email marketing campaign for Riviera Finance which went out to over 5000 SEMA members

Public Relations Chair, SMU Program Council, 2008 - Present

• Placed ads for Program Council sponsored events in the Daily Campus school newspaper, as well as in various public areas of view

• Worked with Advertising Chair to create a revamped Program Council website

Activities / Interests
Beta Upsilon Chi, Member, 2008 – Present
KPNI SMU Radio, DJ, 2008 – Present


Prior to reading the section on resume building, it would have never occurred to me that the order of information was so important. For example, I likely would have sorted information by date, and put the dates before the titles, organizations, etc. In addition to that, the idea of keeping only pertinent information on your resume, and dropping high school clubs, first jobs, etc.