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Resume Sample - New Grad
This resume sample is from an experienced new grad. Use this resume sample as a guide for writing your own resume.
James Shah
1255 University Avenue
Sacramento, CA -95825
(916) 555-1111
jshah@email dot com
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Purpose of Resume Writing
When you are writing your resume, it is important to keep in mind the purpose of the resume. The resume is meant to spark interest in you as a candidate. Your resume writing should be with the intent to get an interview, not a job offer. It is not meant to list every single course, skill or accomplishment you have. Remember, resumes get interviews, not jobs.
The resume should do the following:
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How To Make A Resume
Because of the volume of resumes employers receive, most of them now use some kind of resume tracking or applicant tracking system. This automates many of the tasks necessary for tracking candidates, and also makes it possible for an employer to find a resume they received months or years later. As a result of the technologies used, its important to keep your resume in a certain format that will be correctly read and interpreted by the systems. This used to be referred to as a “scannable” resume because of the hardware that used to scan paper resumes into the computer. Now, career websites and resumes received via email are "parsed" and stored in a database.
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A recent poll of technical recruiters and hiring managers asked for the top "pet peeves" - things they see on resumes and cover letters that make them less interested in speaking with a candidate. These make great examples of how not to write your resume.
By Doug Hardy
Even if you have less than a day before your job interview, you can outshine the competition with a little preparation. The following four tasks will take you about four hours (plus five minutes) to complete, and you'll walk into the interview confident you'll be successful.
Conduct Basic Interview Research
Find out as much as you can about the interview. Call the person who scheduled your appointment and ask:
From the article "Creating a Better Resume" by Ann Baehr, President of Best Resumes
INTRODUCTION
There are as many opinions on the subject of resumes as there are job seekers! Some of the more popular opinions are centered on the use of objectives, summaries, profiles, title headings, keywords, reference statements, personal interests, salary history, dates, graphics, fonts, and of course, the length of the resume.
Then there is the question of format. Should the style of a resume be chronological, functional or combination? One thing is certain - the resume should sell a candidate's strengths and qualifications, and answer a hiring manager's question, "How can you solve my problem?" It should also have full contact information, be organized, and provide specific information that a hiring manager needs to decide whether or not a candidate is well suited for a position.
Top Resume Writing Tips
1) Myth: Resumes should be only one, or at the most, two pages.
In most cases, this is true. It is the rare reviewer of resumes who, when being completely honest, will tell you that he or she spends more than a few seconds in the first review of a resume. Unless your resume captures immediate attention through an eye-appealing design and succinct, compelling language, your resume will be screened out after just 15 seconds. With this reality in mind, imagine the thoughts of the reviewer when he or she receives a four- or five-page resume, with another 100 resumes waiting for review right behind it.
How to Choose the Best Resume Format
The unthinkable has happened and you have been downsized from the company where you have been employed for the past ten years. In all this time, you haven't touched your resume and now find that you must completely rewrite it. Being the intelligent person that you are, you figure that writing a resume can't be too difficult, and you sit down with a book of samples, prepared by professional resume writers, hoping that they will guide and inspire you as you write your own. As you browse your book, you slowly come to realize that each sample is very personalized. There doesn't seem to be a template of a "typical" resume, and in fact there even appears to be many distinct formats. Maybe this isn't as easy as you first thought…with all these choices how will you ever make a decision about which style and format is best for you?
You are correct in your recognition that each resume is personalized and unique. Most professional resume writers' take great care to tailor each resume that they create to highlight the unique skills, qualifications, and accomplishments of the individual.
