HOW TO WRITE A RESUME

1 HOW TO WRITE A RESUME What Is A Resume? A resume is a personal advertisement of yourself. It is a summary of your educational background and training, your business or professional experience and qualifications, your achievements and objective. Purpose: The purpose of your resume is to get you an interview. In order to achieve this goal you must interest an employer in wanting to take action, read your resume and call you for an interview. Therefore, it should be

attractive and short and most importantly it must answer the needs of an employer. The employer needs are an employee with the skills needed to perform the job. Therefore, prior to writing a resume you must understand and identify your own special skills as they relate to the type of job you are seeking. I. Before you attempt to write your resume you must: A. Identify the type of position you would like. B. Identify the skills needed to do the job. C. Identify your skills as they relate to the job or those skills that match B. A. Identify the type of position you would like. *If you have not identified what you would like to do – you are not ready to write a resume. Do not be alarmed – you are not alone. Take the time now to do a self- assessment or make an appointment with the Career Counselor as soon as possible. B. Identify the skills needed to do the job (or kinds of jobs) you are seeking. To identify the skills needed to do the job requires simple research. Although job requirements may vary from industry to industry or company to company, the basic...

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