The IDEA Center in Chelyabinsk held another Microsoft Unlimited Potential course in Word Processing Fundamentals. After acquiring good word processing skills, the alumni attended the seminar “Tips for Effective Résumé Writing,” which proved very informative and useful and equipped the alumni with basic skills of writing a good résumé, thus significantly increasing their chance of successful employment.

The Microsoft Unlimited Potential course in Word Processing Fundamentals enjoys unflagging popularity among users of the central public library in Chelyabinsk. Today good word processing skills are required from professionals in practically every sphere of work. During the course IDEA trainees learn to create and edit electronic documents, use tables, charts and graphs, work with page layout elements including margins, paragraphs, text alignment and page numbers, and also e-mail documents as attachments as well as open and save them and in HTML format.

After completing Word Processing Fundamentals, the most recent group of alumni was offered the seminar “Tips for Effective Résumé Writing,” which proved very informative and useful and equipped the alumni with basic skills of writing a good résumé. Trainer Elena Rasshivalova talked about goals and objectives of writing a résumé, outlined its basic structure and best ways of presenting personal information, and gave general tips about writing a good cover letter. In conclusion the trainees had a chance to put their MS Word skills to practice by writing their CVs and e-mailing them to their trainer.

After the seminar all the alumni received Word Processing Fundamentals CD-ROMs and printed instructional guides on writing an effective résumé.