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Layout and Design Tips:
- Layout:
- Add interest and clarity by using bullets, indents and varying font styles (bold and italics).
- Avoid using unconventional fonts or adding photos or graphics.
- Length (general rule is):
- 1 page for early-career (entry level to 5-10 years)
- 2 pages for mid-career candidates
- Job Data:
- Provide the reader with relevant detail about your past and present employers, such as product information, size and physical location.
- Measureables:
- Quantify your job duties, reporting relationships and achievements with actual numbers.
- Dates:
- * Make sure the dates are clear and without gaps.
- If you're a mid-to-late-career candidate, you can save space by lumping early-career jobs together.
- Credentials:
- Be accurate-and honest
- Misrepresenting your degree is unethical, and could result in consequences that are embarrassing-or worse.
Overview:
- A resume is a reflection of you and your professional career, it should be absolutely perfect.
- Make sure your resume is as up-to-date as possible.
- Include all accomplishments.
- Include all contact information (phone, cell, voice and e-mail).
- Include your name on all pages.
- Interview Hiring Manager for clarification of position priorities
- If you e-mail your resume, name the document after yourself (i.e. jackfrost.doc, not titles like myresume.doc or resume6.doc).
- List all positions and jobs in chronological order, starting with most recent.
- List in 'bullet' format legitimate, measurable and quantifiable accomplishments. Place them under the specific position in which they occurred, not in a general summary.
- Put the Month/Year next to all positions as well as your college graduation date.
- Include information on your specific type of degree, major and GPA.
- Proofread your resume at least 3 times.
- Show your resume to others to have them proofread it as well.
Be Specific With Information
- Name of Company, Division and Title of each position held.
- Accomplishments (measurable & quantifiable)
- Exact sales numbers, quota attainment, company rankings, territory volume and sales growth.
- Brief position description (customer base, products sold & territory).
- Dates of employment, education, accomplishments and training.
- Educational information (GPA if it was 3.0 or better).
AVOID THE FOLLOWING
- Writing in paragraph form or being too wordy...be specific!
- Using the words "I" or 'me', or writing in the first person.
- Gaps of time between positions without some form of explanation or reason.
- Putting down references or objectives, these statements are a waste of space.
- Extending more than 2 pages, One is better, two is ok, three or more is frowned upon.
- Just giving a job description without any specific information about what you have accomplished.
- Putting down personal or completely irrelevant information on the resume.
- Using the words 'References available upon request', this is a given and a waste of space!
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