im making my first resume :D?

Question

i want to hand my resume into a few places.. is there anything i could do to make my resume stand out? i'd love to know any good tips or anything i should make sure to put on.. or what sections i should have.. i got education, work expirience, hobbies and interest and skills

Answer 1

Keep your resume short and sweet, easy to read, and have your name in big letters centered at the top, with your email address and phone number right underneath. Don't use funky fonts or long-winded sentences. The best resumes are the ones that give a lot of information without taking a long time to read.

You should try to make your resume fill exactly one page, not more or less. Use double spacing between paragraphs if necessary to fill up the page. These are the categories I have in my resume, in this order:

Objective (only one line)
Education
Personal Attributes and Qualifications (a list of descriptive words like "intelligent" and "organized")
Computer Skills (only because it applies to the job I was seeking)
Related Activities (only because I participated in some events that build skills for the job I was seeking)
Employment History
Hobbies and Interests

I have my items listed in this order because my education is the most outstanding part of my resume, but I have little previous work experience relating to the job I was applying for, so the Employment section went closer to the bottom.

Answer 2

Besides setting all margins to 1", the most important criteria for setting up a professional cover letter, curriculum vitae or resume besides relevant text, is "scanability." Here are some helpful tips:

1. Place just below your identification header [your hame, address, phone, email address] any Conditional Warning Statement such as "Confidential Resume,"Do Not Contact Current Employer," etc.
2. Always fill-in an Objectives category [just below the Conditional Warning Statement] and make sure that he Objective will contribute to the profitability of your future employer;
3. Select a mono-type font such as Helvetica, Arial, Courier or Times Roman; do not select any cursive handwriting styles which cannot scanned;
4. Keep font sizes within a range of 10 to 12 pts.;
5. Avoid styling text with a justified alignment, keep it flushed left;
6. Instead of using tabs to set up blocked text entries, generate a table and use the column and row settings accordingly;
7. Do not place an i.d. picture anywhere on the resume, this is a major taboo due to discrimination issues;
8. Do not place any graphic text [saved as .gifs] onto the resume since it may be overlooked during the scanning phase;
9. List at the very end of the resume your interests which should include travel experiences, language skills, social interactions such as golf, team sports, tennis, etc.

In conclusion, the above helpful hints were designed to allow ease of scanning of your resume into PDF which can then be text captured for seach purposes by your potential employer. Failure to conform the resume to appropriate fonts and styles as outlined above will result in rejection of the resume simply due to the inability of the scanning device to properly index relevant resume entries.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Yes, you have only 10 seconds to impress an employer so you're right about worrying what you can place in your resume in order to do that:
http://www.cvtips.com/quick_impress_resume.html
Now, I could also recommend the use of the European CV format, which you will find on the very same site, with a simple search. I find it practical, easy to use, comprehensive and quite complex from the point of view of the content.
Good luck!

Answer 4

If you know any odd forgen languages. hours willing to work. stuff like that.