How to Write a Winning Resume

Often times landing a job offer starts with the quality of your resume, which is essentially a summary of yourself on paper. Your resume provides a way for an employer to get a picture of who you are within about 30 seconds, and determine whether or not you are worth interviewing. Therefore, it is important that what goes on your resume is relevant, well organized and, most importantly, makes you stand out.

A resume can serve many purposes such as helping you get an interview, providing a first impression with an employer, and it can also give you a way to document your educational background, skills, work experience, and goals/achievements. A good resume typically exhibits the following qualities:
   
    - Consistent formatting
    - Conciseness, it is a summary of relevant information
    - Clear layout, makes it easy for the reader to raid for information
    - Contains only relevant and recent information
    - Sells the candidate, makes the candidate stand out from others

Throughout the following steps, I hope that my familiarity with resume writing, and my experiences through feedback from others will help you write or improve your resume.

Step 1 Things You Must Include

There are certain things that must be on any resume including your name and contact information, some sort of objective, your education history, and job related skills. It is also important to have something about your prior/relevant work experience , but it is hard to say this is a must have, because sometimes you don't have any. Even listing irrelevant work experience, such as a part time job you had, is better than listing none at all.

Comments

[gage6917]

 Great instructable! Helped me Polish up my own resume. Thanks!