Resumé Tips
Perfect for the job? An outstanding resumé that clearly identifies your skills and abilities helps us find you.
A solid resumé goes a long way to making a good impression.
Highlight your strengths
- Make it easy for us to contact you. Provide your current address, home, work and phone numbers and your email address.
- Define your career goals. Why do you want this type of job? In one or two brief sentences, explain how this particular job fits in with your plans and objectives.
- Promote your background. Make three of four bullet points that summarize your qualifications and achievements relevant to the position you are applying for. Each statement should highlight, in a few short sentences, something about your experience, skills, community activities and personality traits that make you the perfect fit for the job.
- Give us details! Outline your key skills and, for each item, add three or four bullet points to describe your experience and precisely how your skills were used and developed. This experience can be activities either at work or in your community. Put your most relevant expertise first. Be specific about your accomplishments - exactly how did you use the skill, and how did it make a difference to your organization or the customer? Start each sentence with a verb to keep your resumé active and dynamic.
- Provide your work experience, starting with your most recent job. Under each job position, add three or four bullet point statements about the work you did or are currently doing. Start each statement with a verb and keep them short and descriptive.
- List your education. This section should be simple and include any diplomas, certificates or other relevant completed training or education.
- Tell us about your professional affiliations, including community and volunteer activities.
- Brag about your awards! List any work-related, academic, volunteer or other awards you've received.
- Provide references. You'll need two or three people who can verify your related work/volunteer experience and talk about your skills and abilities. On your resumé, list each of their names, their relationship to you and their contact information. Instead, you may prefer to write "References available upon request" and bring their contact information to the interview.
