A Resume Is a Snapshot Of You

A resume is a snapshot of you, your education, and your job experience for an employer to view and consider you as a possible employee. Your should be put together in an easy to read format and contain as much information about you without being too many pages long. Here are a few hints on how to craft your resume.

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Always have your name at the top of the page and centered in large, bold print with your contact information just below in smaller, regular size print. Include your home address, home telephone, cellular number, and e-mail address. If you are able to receive calls at your present job, you may also want to include your business phone number.

Since your resume is what the employers see first, you will want it to be well-organized and professional looking. Print it on a thick paper rather than just regular copy paper. It is a good idea, too, to choose colored paper as that alone may make it stand out over others in the pile of resumes on the employer's desk. When we say color, we mean a muted gray, perhaps a cream color or a light pastel. No hot pink or neon green.

That's unbusiness-like.

Start each section with whatever will make the most difference in getting the job. Will your education put you over the top? Or perhaps it is your previous job experience. The goal is to get you into that interviewer’s office, so put your best foot forward and let your abilities speak for themselves -- with the most impressive part first.

Another thing that should be included is your participation in any social or community clubs or activities as well as any awards you have received over the years. If you served as a leader of a club or organization, include that as well.

Ideally, a resume should be a one page document, but often that is not possible for people who have extensive job experience or education. Never have a resume that is over two pages, however. This is just a stepping stone to get you into personnel. You can tell the rest during a job interview.

Use a pleasing, easy to read font, but don’t get too creative. You will want your future employer to look at you as a reliable, serious professional and your resume should reflect that.

Above all, make sure there are no typographical errors or misspellings on the resume. Nothing screams "unreliability" more than typos. Read your resume aloud, or read it "backwards", that is, start at the bottom and read up. Taking a different view of it can reveal things you wouldn't see otherwise because you've grown too close to it while preparing it.

Take these steps and get ready for a call from personnel. Oh, by the way, make some copies and take them with you...sometimes things get "garbled" inside the organization and all of the interviews don't receive copies. You'll make points if you can hand them out at the interview, and start going over the salient features with your interviewers.

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