Senior Exit Portfolios

Virtually every high school in America today has some form of exit portfolio requirement for seniors; and virtually every one of those senior exit portfolios contains a résumé. High school teachers, generally one or more English teachers, do their best to teach their students how to create a résumé to include in this portfolio. Because résumés for high-school-aged young people are a special challenge, this task does not always result in the student actually having a well-written résumé he or she can successfully use in a job search. Having a résumé-writing instructor provide the resources to help students learn what they need to know is why I wrote Your Résumé: A Crash Course.