Have you heard the urban legend that an experienced college recruiter can make an initial decision on whether or not to read your resume in less than six seconds?

• Would you like to see if your current resume can survive the six-second glance?
• Would you like to improve your chances of surviving the initial cut?
• Do you know what happens to your resume once you hand it to the recruiter?
• How do you craft a resume that competes with 100,000 other resumes?

ECE alumni Dr. Matthew Clark has supported college recruiting efforts for a variety of large corporations and is a master at sorting resumes in six seconds or under. Join us for a discussion of how most industry companies handle resumes, what types of follow up activities are worthwhile, and how to improve your chances of having your resume pass the six second glance.

• The presentation topics will include (but not be limited to):
• Basic and advanced guidelines for resume creation.
• How to make your personality and unique skills evident, making an impression in a world of cookie-cutter resumes.
• What resume format should you use?
• How to navigate the world of online resume submission portals.
• A demonstration of the six-second glance. Dr. Clark will sort a pile of previously unseen student resumes.
• Detailed discussion of actual student resumes— the good, bad, and the ugly.

So, what does it cost for this great advice? Just bring a paper copy of your resume with your name and addressed replaced with “Georgia Tech Student.” The paper copies will be used as a demonstration tool, and will be destroyed at the end of the demonstration.

Matthew Clark, Ph.D.
Matthew Clark’s day job is as a signal and image processing engineer at Northrop Grumman Information Systems in Raleigh, N.C., where he fuses signal processing and digital design techniques to create small intelligent sensors. Dr. Clark is also the alumni recruiter (Georgia Tech) for Northrop Grumman’s Future Technical Leaders Program. He has been recruiting at Georgia Tech for over 15 years for both commercial and defense companies.

At various points in his career, Matthew’s title has included the terms software, hardware, ASIC, signal processing, and program manager for TRW, GTRI, Hughes/Raytheon Missile Systems, Nortel Networks, Intel Americas, TASC, and Northrop Grumman.

Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, a master’s in electrical engineering and a doctorate from Georgia Tech.