Resume Tips

Listed below are some components of a professional resume for your reference.

Contact Information
Objective
Summary Statement / Accomplishments
Professional Experience
Highlight Your Accomplishments

» Sample Resumes

Contact Information

Make it easy to contact you; provide home and work phone, cell phone and email address. Don't make the recruiter track you down. Note: make sure your voicemail message is professional. You don't want a recruiter to get the wrong impression from a silly message on the recording.

Do not include personal information, such as marital status, here or anywhere else on your resume.

Objective

This is only necessary if your experience makes it unclear as to what you want.

Summary Statement / Accomplishments

First: Include your title and number of years experience.

Second: List special skills. Remember this is a summary; it should only be 2-3 sentences long. If your background is varied (i.e. sales and then operations), you should make a strong statement about the area in which you intend to focus.

Example:
"Financial Accountant with over 10 years' experience with two Fortune 500 companies. P & L, budgeting, forecasting and variance reporting. Bilingual in Spanish and English."

Professional Experience

List each position held, highlighting the most recent first. If you held multiple positions within the same company, be sure to list all of them - you want the recruiter to see how you've progressed.

The body of the position has two parts:

A description of your responsibilities; and
Your accomplishments. Do not use vague adjectives that say nothing. Be very specific.

Highlight Your Accomplishments

Increased revenues by xxx %
Increased efficiencies / process improvement (be specific - quantify where you can)
Cut overhead by xxx %
Increased sales by xxx %
Improved record keeping process
Increased productivity by xxx %
Staff development - i.e. promoted 6 supervisors to managers
Reduced turnover by xxx %

Other resume components include: Education (include dates of graduation - do not include high school), Professional Training, Affiliations/Appointments, Licenses, Technical Skills, Software Skills, and Languages.

Sample Resumes

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