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FORMAT AND CONTENT OF A RESUME

FORMAT AND CONTENT OF A RESUME . HEADING . Include your full name, your current address with the number, street , city, state. Include your phone number(s), and your e-mail address.

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FORMAT AND CONTENT OF A RESUME

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  1. FORMAT AND CONTENT OF A RESUME

  2. HEADING • Include your full name, your current address with the number, street, city, state. • Include your phone number(s), and your e-mail address. • Remember that you want to make a good impression. Invest time in creating an e-mail address that projects professionalism. • DO NOT make this information smaller than the font size in the body of your resume!

  3. EDUCATION • Present your education in reverse chronological order. This section should come second. Your best qualifications should come first. • Include all degrees as well as the names and locations of the schools in which you received them. • Include academic honors, and extracurricular activities under the institution where you earned these.

  4. EXPERIENCE • This section should be written in reverse chronological order, starting with your most recent experience. • Include part-time, volunteer, school leadership roles, summer experience if it helps to demonstrate skills and accomplishments. • List the organization name, the location (city and state only), your title and the years you worked in that position (Use format “1996-97” or “Summer, 1997”.).

  5. EXPERIENCE • Describe your experience - what you accomplished, how you made a difference, don’t just copy your job description. • Use action verbs, quantifying and qualifying your background whenever possible by using statements improved ratings by 30%.

  6. ACCOMPLISHMENT STATEMENTS • Accomplishments should be brief and precisely stated. • Begin each statement with an action verb. • Whenever possible, include measurement in numerical terms.

  7. Accomplishments come from • . . . and from other types of activities you have done in your life so far.

  8. Examples of Accomplishment Statements • Initiated workflow procedures to increase production 10%, reducing turn-around time from 5 to 4 days. • Successfully organized and coordinated first annual winter carnival, which raised one-half of annual operating budget for student organization. • Researched current practices in comparable departments across the US, leading to development and implementation of new policies.

  9. LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES • You should include all foreign languages and your degree of fluency. (Suggestions: native speaker, fluent, conversant, and familiar.) • You may have a section for languages near the end of your resume, or include it in an ADDITIONAL INFORMATION section.

  10. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES • You may have participated in service or charitable activities that will demonstrate your interests and values to prospective employers. • These may be in this type of section, or may be references in your experience section.

  11. SPECIAL INTERESTS • Although information included in this section is not crucial to hiring decisions, it can provide an opportunity to point out diverse interests or life experiences. • Interviewers use this information to get a feel for which you are outside of your professional life, allowing you to highlight skills and abilities developed through avocations. • Languages could be mentioned in this section, if not in other sections suggested above.

  12. REFERENCES • Indicate that these are available upon request. • Prepare a list of references on a separate piece of paper. • Include the person’s name, job title, phone number, name, and address of the organization. • DO NOT PUT YOUR REFERENCES ON YOUR RESUME.

  13. OTHER POSSIBLE RESUME CATEGORIES: • PUBLICATIONS (OR PAPERS) • LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, AWARDS, HONORS (not mentioned elsewhere) • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  14. REASON’S WHY EMPLOYERS MAY NOT REVIEW YOUR RESUME • PHYSICAL APPEARANCE IS SLOPPY: poorly typed and printed, uneven margins or inconsistent spacing, font too small or to fancy to read, paper not appropriate, looks unprofessional • ERRORS: misspelled or misuse of words, poor grammar, typographical errors • DISORGANIZED: information is scattered, hard to follow, employer has to search for information

  15. REASON’S WHY EMPLOYERS MAY NOT REVIEW YOUR RESUME • TOO LONG/OVERWRITTEN: one page, no more than two; unnecessary information, unrelated to your job qualifications, long paragraphs and sentences • TOO SHORT: not enough information, gives only bare essentials of dates and job titles, sparse in describing duties or accomplishments on various jobs • WRONG RESUME: resume does not fit position applying for.

  16. REASON’S WHY EMPLOYERS MAY NOT REVIEW YOUR RESUME • INFORMATION NOT CURRENT: resume does not include current information • CONTACT INFORMATION MISSING: leaving out information such as your name, mailing address or telephone number • CONTAINS PERSONAL INFORMATION: do not include information about age, marital status, health, height, weight, gender, photographs, etc. • NO COVER LETTER: resume misdirected, sending resume without a cover letter

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