How to write a resume in 10 easy steps
You can learn how to write a resume quickly. Often times we don’t have the
luxury of spending a month to write your resume.
You’ll be posting your resume on career builder in 24 hours
Follow these ten easy steps and you’ll be posting your resume on
career builder or monster.com in 24 hours or
less.
1) Start with a resume template.
Either a generic template or somebody else’s written resume will do.
2) Collect your employment information (addresses, dates, etc.) before you sit
down. If you have any written performance reviews or job descriptions, grab
those, too.
3) Before you start writing your resume be sure you’re clear on what you’re
going to write where. Understand your resume format. You don’t want to write
duplicate or worse, conflicting information in different sections of your
resume.
4) Write your employment history down.
5) As you write your employment history, start writing your skills in a separate
section.
6) Don’t worry about creative writing here. Just churn it out. You can always
revisit your resume and put out later drafts. Now you just need a marketing
document to get your name out and noticed by prospective employers.
7) Only after you’ve written the rest of your resume should you write your goals
or profile. That’s because your goals or profile sections are summary sections
and more easily written after you’ve technically finished the rest or your
resume.
8) Make your resume answer “so what.” If you have an accomplishment or
description that doesn’t automatically answer “so what,” rework it or remove it.
9) Tighten up your resume. Go through it and reword any sentences that use
passive verbs (was, were, is, am, etc.) Use action verbs.
10) Proof your resume for typos. Sometimes you can have words in your resume
that aren’t spelled correctly but they aren’t the word you mean. I still
remember a college essay I wrote where I accidentally typed “worriers” for
“warriors.” Spelled correctly? Yes. Did it make sense? No. Two tricks? Print off
your resume and read it out loud. Another way to catch typos is to read your
resume backwards. It makes you slow down and your eyes don’t make those rapid
adjustments.
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