There are different types of resume styles, chronological and functional. The first is self explanatory , but the second is about organizing things in terms of how they function in relation to a certain job. Physical resumes should be no longer than a page, but digital ones don't have that restriction. Resumes should be organized in a way such that it includes these categories: contact info, career objective, summary of qualifications, education, work experience, and capabilities. Add a headline to summarize your information, and definitely include a photo. References are also important to have. Also using nouns instead of verbs when describing your positions is useful. I think the this reading has a lot of good tips to making a resume easier to write, and it's hard to not just recommend the entire thing. If I had to choose one thing as the most important takeaway from it all, I would have to say the visual examples that can probably be used as templates for writing my own ...