Create and Update a Resume with MEFA Pathway

  Welcome to the MIPHA Pathway Learning Series. My name is Aja Stupart and I'm here for MIPHA. I serve as the MIFA Pathway Program Coordinator. MIFA is the state authority created in 1982, committed to helping families plan, save, and pay for college. Now, as an extension of MIFA, is MIFA Pathway. MIFA Pathway is a free college and career planning platform for students in Massachusetts.

I am on MIFA pathway. org. I'm going to select I'm a student.

For any first time users of MIFA pathway, we are, we encourage you all to create A new account. So you would select start here next to a first time user. You would fill out the registration form, putting your first name, last name, date of birth, the city or town your school is in and then. Where your school is located.

Once you hit submit, you'll be brought to another registration page, which will allow you to put in your email. You would be able to answer or put in to security questions and their answers and also your year of graduation. And then once you hit submit. Then you are all set and you can log in to Mifa Pathway with your username and password.

But since I already have an account, I'm going to select log in.

Before I select this green log in button, I'm going to just quickly call out this log in with Clever option. Clever is a integration with Mifa Pathway that enables single sign on capabilities. What that means is that there are two ways to log into to make a pathway. The first way is selecting this log in Clever button.

So if you're a student who goes to a school that uses Clever, you can take advantage of this integration. You can log in by selecting the log in Clever button, or you can log in via the Clever app gallery and select the MIFA pathway checklist. So I'm just going to log in with my username and password.

So since we'll be talking about how to create a resume and update a resume, I'm going to hover first to profile details. Now the profile serves as a backdrop for the digital portfolio and as well as a resume. So this is a great place to start to really fill in any activities, academics, uh, any honors and awards, uh, skills and strengths, work experiences.

And any certifications. We encourage students to come into the profile details periodically throughout the year and also throughout their academic career because we know that they have a great repertoire of things that they are probably doing and Be able to highlight those things. Um, allow students to do it on their profile and just having a place to keep track of everything is nice for students to be able to look back and see, you know, all the different activities they might have participated in throughout the year.

Um, maybe they've acquired new skills that they want to highlight, or maybe they have a, uh, an award or any honors, um, that they would like to include. That's a great place here to do so. So moving on, we're going to head over to the, to my resume. If you are familiar with, or not as familiar with the resume tool within Me for pathway, you'll see that we have renamed the resume tool.

Um, before it was called the resume builder. Now it's called, now it is called my resume. So you will see that change reflected in the menu bar as well as this orange banner within this new resume tool in me for pathway. There are a few updates that we made. Students can now list out any qualifications and qualifications are things that make students qualified for the job that they are applying to or the job that they are considering applying for.

So maybe an example of a qualification could be. Type in

an example of a qualification that could be utilized within the MyResume tool.

So I simply put in an example that I have five years of experience as a marketing and creative professional. I am interested in applying. What I have learned to a great job. Maybe your student also wants to put in, um, an objective. So an objective is a short statement that describes your positive attributes, attributes and professional goals.

So an example of a objective could be maybe talk about where you've previously worked or previous experiences that you have or any goals you have, any types of attributes that could make for a great objective would go here. All

right, so I put in I have previously worked as a marketing assistant as well as helped the marketing department create marketing materials for social media and the school's website. Now, continuing on about the resume. Another cool thing within the pathway that students can do is the option to customize.

their resume. Now that's something that was still in the same vein of the previous resume tool, but just being able to select and deselect anything students do not want on their resume is a, is a great feature, um, because it's important for them to be able to showcase different things that they want to highlight.

So maybe your student is applying for a job, As a marketing assistant, and they have, uh, experiences in marketing, then those will be the great things for them to highlight. Um, if there is a job that may not relate or fit, you know, what they are applying to, it's totally okay to deselect those things. And then also to any, um, activities or skills that they've learned.

Anything on the resume that really highlights, you know, why they'd be a good fit for that job or for that opportunity, um, would be a great way for them to highlight. So I'm just going to deselect some, a few skills that don't think highlight my current endeavor. I'm going to hit save. Now, another new addition to the MyResume tool is the option to save the resume as two types.

So students can save as a college resume or a job resume in this example I'll just save my resume as a job Type and hit save

we can see That this is the resume that I have worked on. I have my information at the top I put in my objective I put in my qualifications Everything looks pretty good students can also Go back. So maybe they want to edit this resume. They can do so by selecting the edit this resume button

And one new another new addition to the resume tool is the ability to really customize resumes so students can select The items below we've added an edit button to each of these sections. We have an edit button under work experience education activities Honors and awards skills and languages. So maybe students want to be able to add a work experience that they have, um, had or currently have.

They can do so by selecting this edit button and that button will take them back to the profile and it'll take them to the work experience section. Here is where they can add in Any new experiences that they would like to highlight, or maybe they'd like to edit a time frame in which they worked at a particular job, they can easily do that within the my profile

will just edit our dates. For when we worked at this particular job, and then we'll hit save.

Let's put in our weeks and years, and then we'll also put in when we were involved.

Perfect. Now we can go back to the resume. We can see we're going to click on view, save resumes. So this is the one that we were working on. We can see because we labeled the type as job, and we're going to click. Edit, we can see our objective or qualifications. We can see that we added in our work experience.

Okay, everything looks good. Now I'm going to just go back to View Saved Resumes and click View.

Students can view the resume in classic style or modern.

They can also download it as a PDF or a Word document. Last but not least, we definitely encourage students to create as many resumes as they would like. You can easily do that by creating or selecting the start new resume button and that button will allow you to Create your resume and customize it accordingly.

We also have added on the right side of this page We have added some helpful Guidance and tips that you can take You can utilize or incorporate as you are building out your resume. So we encourage you to keep your resume current. We encourage about, you know, creating a objective statement. We also include information about creating a cover letter and tips that can be incorporated into your cover letter as well.

That concludes this webinar on how to create and update a resume in MIFA Pathway. Thank you for attending this MIFA Pathway learning series. If you have any questions about MIFA Pathway or you want to learn more, please feel free to email us at info at mifapathway. org. Also, you can get in touch with MIFA at 1 800 449 6332.

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