The objective of your resume is to think about the employer’s necessities, and to open the possibilities to being hired in the job you want. Describe your goals in the resume, this will be the first part in your document so take the time you need to do this, not more than three lines and don’t talk about your personal achievements but orient the description to what is the employer looking for, you will find more examples in our sample resumes.
Writing your resume.
- Find your 2 or 3 best skills, think about what do you like to do and what do you think are the things you do well.
- Make those skills marketable and place it in your resume using persuasive words.
- In the Professional profile add three or four paragraphs describing in a better way those skills. This part is crucial in your resume.
- To highlight your work experience, add 2 or 3 things you made and you feel proud of, describe the process and the results.
- To describe your Experience use a clear way to present the information, you can use this example:
Java and .Net Programmer: New Technology Corps, Los Angeles, CA (2003-2007).
- Add title, company, city, state and the years of work.
- Below this add one or two lines of the specific tasks you developed there.
- References are an important part of the Resume, add all the information you have about the work experience you described before.
- If you have some work experience where you had left the job after few weeks or months and you don’t want to explain it, do not add the months of work just the years, so the information will look like this (2003-2004).
- If you don’t have much work experience describe the courses you took in the University or if you had any volunteer job that is relevant to the job you are applying to.
- It is important to detail your Education, bachelor and Master degree (if you have). If you have some other training also add it, if you still didn’t finish your education list the year like this (2007 - present). If you had not finished some course just list the number of years you studied: Accounting Course – Michigan University (two years).
- At the end of the resume, and if there is still some space there, add Other facts section, to show more good things about you that will catch the employer’s curiosity, this will make he/she call you. In this section you can add your Languages or computer skills.
Do not:
- Do not add information about sex, religion or health, in many countries it’s illegal to discriminate people for these reasons, is better not to include this information.
- If you still do not have a job offer please don’t ask about any salary.
- Do not let the work to the spell-checker, sometimes it’s not enough, do it by yourself, review all your words, names, numbers, etc.
- Don not use many big words, simplify your writing, make it clear and easy to read.
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