The mention of resumes can easily send students into a panic, but Eastern offers resources that can help them craft their resume skills without much stress.

From 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Career Services will offer free 30-minute workshops to help students build and edit their resumes.

Linda Moore, director of Career Services, said her department has been doing the type of workshop for a few years and is one of their most popular offerings.

“Resumes are something people work on all throughout college, changing it for their professors’ specifications,” Moore said. “They rarely do it for just themselves.”

Moore said the workshops can focus on whatever the students need to work on, from creating a resume or “fine tuning” it.

“We’re always booked, but we can do a lot in 30 minutes, particularly when it comes to fine tuning,” she said.

Moore said the students who attend the workshops often vary in area of study based on the time of year.

“Different industries recruit at different times of the year based on how they run and their needs,” Moore said.

Social sciences employers recruit throughout the year to fill vacancies, and the education sector recruits near November and mid-March in the spring, she said.

Moore said this is because the schools have to wait on a variety of things before they can make hiring decisions.

The workshop focuses on resumes, but Moore said the next step is cover letters, which students have to make a separate appointment for, which usually takes about an hour.

“This workshop will probably be close to full, but we may have last minute openings as people get sick and things come up.” Moore said.

Students can register for workshop on the career services website.

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.