WIT is happy to provide resume review services free of charge for university employees. Maintaining an up-to-date resume is important to active jobseekers and individuals seeking to promote their work in other ways. Whether you’re exploring new opportunities, preparing to speak at conferences, or aiming for a promotion, our volunteer reviewers will help you create a resume showcasing your skills and accomplishments.
How it Works
Each of our volunteer reviewers has their own experiences, specialties, and services offered. Look over the information provided by each of the reviewers below and choose the reviewer you feel best suits your needs, then book a resume review session (typically 45–60 minutes) with them through their Bookings link. After booking a session, you’ll receive an email with guidelines and a Box Upload link to share your materials before the session.
General Instructions for all reviewers:
- Have a draft resume available for review. Reviewers will not be helping you create a resume from scratch.
- Reviewers generally require that you to share your materials with them at least 2 business days prior to your scheduled session, but each individual reviewer may have different requirements.
- Redact any sensitive information before sharing your resume (for example: home address, personal phone numbers, names, and contact information for references).
Individual reviewers may also have additional instructions and requirements for those seeking their services. Please read over the guidelines the reviewer provides carefully to ensure you get the most out of your session.
Our Reviewers
Sheena Bishop
Sheena Bishop, B.S., M.A., is a Senior Privacy Analyst in the growing Privacy Office in the division of Technology Services. The Privacy Office serves the Urbana, Springfield, and System offices in support of data privacy engagements, consulting, and analysis. Sheena specializes in support of higher education and research and brings 5 years of experience working in the Research Compliance Office at Stanford University where she was a Certified IRB Professional (CIP).
Sheena’s Services :
Sheena has personal experience with switching careers and can help you tailor your resume to meet your specific goals.
Bobbi Hardy
Bobbi Hardy has worked for over 15 years in IT at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In that time, she’s held Academic Professional and Civil Service positions, has supervised students and staff, and has been on dozens of hiring committees. Bobbi’s educational background is in Rhetoric, Library and Information Sciences, and Social Work. She currently works as a communication and customer relations coordinator. Bobbi is passionate about using her strengths to empower others and connect them with opportunities.
Bobbi’s Services:
Bobbi offers three levels of resume review depending upon the level of feedback you are seeking:
- Pencil Level: Just look for typos and verb-tense agreement
- Blue Pen Level: Look for typos, verb-tense, and formatting
- Red Pen Level: Everything is fair-game, look for everything listed above and provide suggestions for anything on the page
Ginger Hundgen
Ginger is a Senior Project Manager with Technology Services on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus. Ginger is a Six Sigma certified Scrum Master, Process Improvement Specialist, and Lean Practitioner. Before her time as a project manager, she worked 7 years in corporate customer sales and secured her Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Operations at Depaul University.
Of most importance to you, Ginger’s favorite past time is helping people market their experience to propel them into their next role. Drafting a solid resume is only part of this exercise. Ginger will help you refine how you tell your “experience story” with targeted accomplishments and precise language.
Ginger’s Services:
- Grammar and punctuation editing.
- Search optimization. Does your resume contain “searchable” requirement words that are fundamental to the roles you are applying for.
- Help market you. If you are switching into a new role, are you highlighting your previous experience and accomplishments to show your fit for the new role?
Al Payne
Allison (Al) Payne has been working on the Urbana-Champaign campus for 16 years, first at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts (KCPA) as a ticket office supervisor (with a little IT on the side), from 2011-early 2020 as a workstation support IT Pro in the College of ACES, and now as the Manager of Technology Support and Training for the Gies College of Business. She serves as the Dell negotiating team lead and Lenovo co-lead for the Campus IT Bulk Purchasing initiative, sits on the IT Council End User Svcs subcommittee, TeamDynamix Collaborative Board, TDX Communications and Training Committee, and co-leads Urbana TDAG. She has been involved with the Answers @ Illinois Knowledgebase efforts since 2014. ITLW Summer 2014 and MGRdev Fall 2021 cohorts.
Al’s Services:
Al has sat on several dozen hiring committees at the U of I as a member, Hiring Manager, and Search Chair, and has served as a mentor for several IT Pros moving from part-time to full-time work or moving from their early career to the next step of their journey. If you’re looking for anything from a basic proofread to help with fully tailoring for a specific job posting, she’ll be happy to help!
Jyotika Sirohi
Jyotika is a Senior Project Manager with Technology Services on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus. She is a certified Project Management Professional and Six Sigma certified Scrum Master.
Jyotika’s Services:
- Resume size and format- What is a reasonable resume size and what is considered a good resume format?
- Search Optimization- Does your resume contain “searchable” requirement words that are fundamental to the roles you are applying for?
- If you are switching into a new role, are you highlighting your previous experience and accomplishments to show your fit for the new role?
- Grammar and punctuation editing.
- Cover letter basics
Ashley Valentijn
Ashley Valentijn is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at the University. She’s been working in higher education for 5 years now and sat on job search committees throughout that time. She will help optimize your resume, whether you are actively looking for jobs or just want to keep your resume up to date.
Ashley’s Services:
Ashley can help with general grammar, spelling, organization, and formatting, in addition to making the most of each word and bullet point in your resume.