By Adam Tulloch
Verizon Wireless sent employees to the CCSU campus last week to discuss résumé tips and career opportunities, giveaway free gifts and also give students the opportunity to enter a contest for a chance to win a free concert from hip-hop artist B.O.B.
Verizon employees Brittany Pagano, Nigel Jessamy and Manya Suffrard, also a CCSU student, discussed how to make your résumé sing, giving valuable tips for building a résumé that makes an impression.
“We like to help people out with résumé by giving them eight easy tips to make their résumés standout,” Jessamy explained. “The eight tip’s are to take a personal inventory, develop a clear and logical format, make your presentation pop, speak actively and concisely, think of the recruiter, go digital (but stay printable), hook them from the start and follow up”.
Verizon was also there to giveaway free gifts, including one gigabyte flash drives, notebooks and chances to win the latest technology they have to offer. CCSU students that have Verizon services can take a picture of a bar code and send it to a specific phone number. If you’re not a Verizon carrier, you can send a copy of the picture to an e-mail address. After receiving a text from the same number, the student has been entered to win new devices. It also enters CCSU in a contest to win a live performance from hip-hop sensation B.O.B.
“From a single two second picture text we can see B.O.B for free. I think it is a great thing for CCSU to get,” said Suffrard.
Twenty schools are involved with this contest, so the school with the most percentage of texts wins the B.O.B concert.
For the next four months, Verizon plans to come back to CCSU to discuss more information on careers and résumé tips. Expect to see Verizon on campus on Nov. 9th, Dec. 1st, Feb. 2nd and April 6th.
“Verizon is more than a job, it is a career with great opportunity to get a head start in life,” said Pagano.