Is this a good resume?

Question

Valencia Watts

DOB:10/15/08

Height:5'2

weight:95 ibs

hair color: dark brown

eye color: hazel

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experience

class skits: Donating Love-Stella, You and Me Dicey, Count your blessings-poor person, Careful what you wish for-fool, Givings-Selfish rich girl, Welcome Love-Dorothy

YMCA children's play: The tree, and the little girl

Church Plays: Easter sunrise service-crying out at the cross, Christmas play-the angel, Mary did you know-Mary, Black History-slaves, preacher, marcher, witnesses, and colored people, Train to Heaven-Ms. Goody Good, Character Traits-Ms. Busy Body, Jesus is Great-child ministering

School Plays: I'm Proud to be an American-Ms.Sawyer, The sky is falling-Chicken Little, Big Bad Wolf-Little Red, Equality-Sarah

Training: Middle School Drama Club, Drama Ministry, Luther Barnes workshop(chorus class with Luther)

Special Skills and Talents:

Singing

Dancing

Sketching

Piano

Flute

Recorder

Writing

Sports & Hobbies:

Hip Hop, and Jazz dancing, piano, flute& recorder, hanging with friends. dodge ball, track& field, F.O.R.C.E. step team, and Stompin' Rams step team, tranquility dancing, fashion shows, doing sister's hair, swimming, teaching kids how to play the piano at summer camps, shopping, air hockey champ, biking& electric scooter, nature walks, acting, church choir, reading, camping, talking on phone, National Juniors Honors Society, poetry, Girl Scouts

ok hey guys that was my resume so tell me what you think!!!!

Answer 1

What are you trying out for?

My resume is the EXACT FORMAT.

Im 13 as well.

Im trying out for MACY on.

J.O.N.A.S.!

I cant wait.

Oh and your resume's ok.

Words of advice...

Dont drown your resume out on a bunch of c**p.

They already said that if your headshot is nice and they like your look or you can portray your character then they'll automatically call you in for auditions.

well n e ways.

Good Luck on Whatever.

Answer 2

Your DOB is wrong, unless you haven't been born yet...

Also you have some punctuation and grammatical errors that you should check out.

Other than that it is fine. Just in case, I would get a parent or friend to also look it over.

Answer 3

First impression is that you should remove your stats-age, size etc.  If you are good enough, those won't matter.  Besides, it seems that according to your birth date, you haven't even been born yet.

Put your characters before the play.

Where did you learn your special talents?  The school should be listed, with course(s) of study.

Don't repeat your abilities in your hobbies section.  that section is unnecessary anyway.  If you do include it, remove the extraneous stuff like shopping and your sister's hair.

Check your spelling and grammar.  That counts seriously.

Answer 4

amazing but i wouldnt post all of my info on the internet

organize it more

Answer 5

Valencia Watts(center this and make it big)

                                         [e-mail]

DOB:10/15/08 (as far as i know this is unecessary)

Height:5'2                                                    hair: dark brown

weight:95 ibs                                               eye: hazel

                                     EXPERIENCE (center make bold)

DONATING LOVE                     Stella                    School name, year

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS      Poor Person          School name, year

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH... Fool                      School name, year

GIVINGS                                 Rich Girl (adjective unecessary) Sch,yr

WELCOME LOVE                    Dorothy                  School name, yr

THE TREE                              Little Girl                YMCA, yr

MARY DID YOU KNOW            Mary                      Church, yr

TRAIN TO HEAVEN                  Ms Goody Good      Church, yr

I'M PROUD TO BE AN AM....    Ms. Sawyer             School, yr

THE SKY IS FALLING               Chicken Little          School, Yr

BIG BAD WOLF                       Little Red                 School, Yr

EQUILITY                                Sarah                      School, YR

                                           TRAINING

Middle School Drama Club, Drama Ministry, Luther Barnes workshop(chorus class with Luther)

                                    SPECIAL SKILS

Singing, Sketching, Piano, Flute, Recorder, Writing, Swimming

Dancing - hip hop, jazz, FORCE step team, Stompin Rams step team, tranquility dancing

okay! this is kinda how my professional acting resume is set up. take out extraneous info and focus on stuff that going to be pertinent to acting/theatre. all the church shows are great experience but you've done soooo many, that i took out most of them and left in the one with you cast as the main character in the title. put all of your experiences in order from most recent to least recent; so whatever you did last, that should be at the top. special skills should be grouped together but noticed that i seperated your dancing. you have a lot of dancing and that's great...showcase that. if you have formal dancing training, i would even make a seperate catagory for it under your theatre experience. also, go online and look at other people's resumes and use them as a guide for how to set yours up. there are lots of different ways. and don't worry that it your experience is amateour. you're only 14...what does that guy expect...silly. i say if you have done it, and it relates to theatre, it should go on the resume...it's experience! once you get more things on there, more recent things, then you can start removing older stuff.

when i looked back at how it looks when you put it thru, it didn't give me the spacing i wanted...i can email it to you in it's spaced form if you would like.

Answer 6

Yeah it really good but just curious why did you include your weight. hair and eye color? Valencia is a pretty a ss name !

Answer 7

First off, leave off your D.O.B. A casting director doesn't care how old you are, so much as how old you look. Add your vocal range to this field, put in a format that shows what notes you can reliably sing (for instance, my vocal range is listed as F2-G4).

Second, don't bother listing class skits. A casting director won't care how well you did in that.

Third, format the church plays and school plays so that each individual performance has its own line, as such:

Production A                          Role A

Production B                          Role B

Production C                          Role C

It'll be much easier to read this way, and look less amateurish.

Fourth, take singing, dancing, and writing off the special skills. If you have actual training in either of these fields, list that under "Training." Otherwise, your singing and dance ability will be determined in an audition. Your writing ability has nothing to do with your performing ability. If you include the piano, flute and recorder, make sure you include what sort of training you've had with them. I'm guessing the recorder is just something you learned for a year along with everyone else in your grade in elementary school though, like most kids did, and if that's the case I wouldn't bother including it. And list it as "Special Skills," not "Special Skills and Talents."

Fifth, the "Sports & Hobbies" section can pretty much be taken off entirely. A professional resume isn't a place list things like this. If for some reason a casting director wants to know about your hobbies they'll ask you, but it's very unlikely that will ever happen; your personal interests really have nothing to do with casting a role. However, it would be a good idea to list the step team work in your Special Skills section.

Answer 8

I'm only offering constructive criticism, so don't take this the wrong way.

It looks as if you have quite a bit of amateur acting experience, but most prospective employers wouldn't give this resume a second glance because it's so difficult to read.

Check with your state's Department of Labor for some excellent resources for creating a successful resume. They will even proofread it for you and offer helpful suggestions, absolutely free of charge.