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 resume. The tips on the side of those visuals is also quite helpful.
My current resume is a chronologically organized one, but I think I want to redo it in the functional style. So far, my jobs have been pretty all over the place, so grouping them by skills is much more important than what I've done and when, in my opinion.
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