Abstract:
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 worth-while, 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? Which ever tells the story best.
• 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 "Georgia Tech Student". The paper copies will be used as a demonstration tool, and will be destroyed at the end of the demonstration.

Bio:
Matthew Clark (B.S. CmpE 95, M.S.E.E. 97, Ph.D. ECE 07) started life as a software engineer while he was co-oping for TRW in Warner Robins, Ga., where he decided that what he really wanted to do with his life was to make hardware. He promptly returned to Georgia Tech to study Analog Systems. After earning his M.S.E.E. in DSP, he started at Hughes Missile Systems, where he worked on a signal processing applications for six weeks. Upon completing three years of FPGA and ASIC design, he accepted a position with Nortel Network in Raleigh, NC, where his entire group was quickly thereafter “redeployed." Matthew worked for Intel for six years designing WAN/MAN/Core Ethernet routing chips. In his spare time, he returned to his studies at Georgia Tech, timing his graduation to coincide with the next round of lay-offs. Matthew is currently employed as a signal and image processing engineer for Northrop Grumman, developing ways of moving computationally intensive signal processing algorithms into embedded hardware solutions.

Matthew is the alumni recruiter for Northrop Grumman’s Future Technology Leadership Program, as well as part of the college recruiting team, and has promised his boss that he will return from Georgia Tech with high quality resumes from the CSIP department.