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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A group of students learned how to craft the perfect resum&#233; Saturday afternoon.</p><p>The Greater Wilkes-Barre Association for the Blind and the Community Services for Sight partnered to teach the kids about resum&#233; building as well as about traveling via Luzerne County Transportation Authority buses and other forms of independent travel in the Wyoming Valley.</p><p>The group of students boarded an LCTA bus in Exeter, rode to the transit center in downtown Wilkes-Barre and then headed to the THINK Center to learn about resum&#233; writing.</p><p>The session was part of the Transition Assistance Program, which runs from September through June to help high school students in the Insight Club prepare to transition into adult life, said Sara Peperno, president and CEO of the Association for the Blind.</p><p>&#8220;The big component is really trying to identify what they want to do in the future,&#8221; she said.</p><p>After building their resum&#233;s, the next session will focus on mock interviews, allowing the students to talk with local human resources professionals.</p><p>&#8220;This allows the student to focus on the future earlier,&#8221; Peperno said.</p><p>The resum&#233; workshop was led by Danielle Dominick, an instructor and career navigator with CareerLink. Dominick gave the students tips on how to build their resum&#233;s, such as how to tailor experience to potential jobs, and then polish up the documents.</p><p>Dominick then worked one-on-one with the students as they drafted their resum&#233;s.</p><p>Shelby Shuma, 14, of Sugar Notch, said she found the information in the session to be useful.</p><p>&#8220;I think (it&#8217;s) very helpful and will come into use later in life,&#8221; she said.</p><p>The assistance program works with area school districtsm, the Luzerne County Intermediate Unit as well as the Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services, who refer students to the program. Peperno said the goal is to continue to grow the club, which currently has 50 children involved, and continue to look for opportunities for the students.</p><p>&#8220;We plan for the program to continue to grow,&#8221; she said.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Denise Culver helps student Camrein Havrilla, 16, of Luzerne, during a career skills educational program at the Innovation Center in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/web1_TTL032617InsightKids1-2.jpg</photo0><caption0>Denise Culver helps student Camrein Havrilla, 16, of Luzerne, during a career skills educational program at the Innovation Center in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. </caption0><photoCredit0>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta></subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Brigid Edmunds</p><p>bedmunds@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Brigid Edmunds at 570-991-6113 or on Twitter @brigidedmunds.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Program gives visually impaired students insight on resumé writing