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How to Write a Resume
So I'm fresh out of college, graduated in May, and Im taking a year off to save up some money and get some job experience under my belt. I have a bachelors of science in biology and, although I could go on and on about anything science, I can't write a resume to save my life. I want to start applying to real jobs, but I want to look as professional as possible given my lack of experience and I don't think a word template is very reliable. Can anyone help? Advice. samples, and anything else helpful would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks so much!!!
Sarah
Re: How to Write a Resume
Stick with basic fonts like Garamond, Arial, or Times New Roman. Use underlines and bolds for emphasis or to highlight titles. Unless you have some greatly noteworthy experience your resume should be one page. Make sure you have a professional looking and sounding email address. You might even want to create one with your first name-lastname@hotmail.com or something.
Consider your resume audience. You might want to have several variations of your resume depending on where you're applying.
Keep your wording brief and to the point - so avoid words like "really," "very," and others that fill up space but say little.
The best thing for your descriptions of your jobs and tasks is to use action words. Maintained, delegated, achieved, set goals, organized, led, utilized, recruited, self-motivated, promoted, completed, participated, attended, proposed, trained, researched, etc. I have an example of this below.
As for content, since you're a new grad, you can have the first item on your resume be EDUCATION. I included mine with all personal content changed so you can see. This would be the place to note any awards, educational fraternities, your degree, and if you graduated with honors, etc.
After Education, you can list your job experiences with the most recent jobs first. You can also have a section called Other Experience that could be where you list non-jobs and non-educational things like volunteer activities, clubs, what you did on campus as a student, etc.
Education
University of ABC, City, State - May 2004
§ Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing Concentration
§ Minors in Leadership Studies and Studio Art
The Award - April 2004
§ In recognition of significant contributions as a leader to the University community
The Award - September 2003
§ Awarded to one senior woman for enthusiastic and resourceful efforts that enrich the University community
§ Recipient shall be a hard-working optimist who is distinguished by unselfish service and is an integral and critical part of College/University
JOB EXPERIENCE
Personal Banker, ABC Bank, City, State - October 2006 to February 2008
§ Provided bank products to new and existing customers through a stream-lined sales process
§ Discussed credit products with customers as a loan officer and advised them on the application process as well as the closing and funding procedures and documents
§ Helped non-approved customers understand why their applications were declined
§ Coordinated with the credit decisioning and underwriting departments of the bank to work on counter offers for customers
§ Coached tellers in the sales process to help them meet their daily sales goals
§ Made outbound sales calls to current and prospective customers
§ Serviced customer accounts for maintenance and quickly resolved any account problems
§ Achieved branch’s highest cross-sell average for 2nd quarter of 2007
Feel free to PM me with additional questions.
Also, you can use bullets to point out each descriptive phrase.
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I agree with the PPs about skills. But if there are 100 applications for 1 job the resume is the ONLY thing the person reviewing the apps has to go on. It has to stand out with format, wording, and enough info in the bullets to make the reviewer want to call this person for an interview.
A resume is a ticket to an interview.
Writing resume is not the toughest part , as you may download various resume patterns online and check out what suits you the best ,When it comes to resume writing start with your name in dark bold letter at left hand side and your picture at right hand side ,later put your Objective ,Then come your Educational qualifications , Then comes your Work Experience if you have any and then comes your Activities & Achievement ,Then finally your Hobbies.