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How to prepare a Resume.
Sample resumes:
RESUME TIPS: (Want to print and read it offline? Click here.)Make sure that your resume meets the following specifics:
- Includes your GPA. You may use the highest GPA you can, provided that you correctly label it. For instance you may use your cumulative GPA, your accounting course GPA, your business course GPA, or your upper division GPA. But, remember you MUST label exactly what combination you are using so that when they are looking at your resume it doesn't appear that you have misrepresented your GPA.
- Avoids generic descriptions of yourself such as honest, hard working, intelligent, organized or collegial. All of you have these characteristics and this provides no added information to the recruiter.
- Include all jobs. Almost none of you have public accounting job experience. The firms are not looking for that. They are looking at whether you have been employable, whether you have worked with people, what simple job skills you have acquired and what supervisory opportunities you may have had. Believe it or not, you HAVE learned a lot on your jobs. So, please quantify and define your experiences to provide as much specific information as you can. If you opened and closed at your Subway job that indicates that you were trusted. If you handled the cash register that means you were trusted and also had a lot of face time with customers. If you were a hostess that means that you were good with customers. If you taught swimming lessons and had 8 students in a class that means that you can manage.
- At the end of your resume contains a section about hobbies and activities. Recruiters tell me that the first thing they look at is GPA and the second they look at is hobbies and activities. Those activities make you a person and make you interesting. They also give the recruiters something to talk about during the interview. They aren't going to be asking technical questions.
- Has parallel structure. That is, if you say supervised busboys, ordered supplies and scheduled waitstaff hours, make sure that your verbs agree. So you wouldn't say supervising busboys, ordered supplies and was able to schedule waitstaff hours. Your verbs in all jobs should be parallel. Only your current job will use the present tense.
- Avoids the use of "I" in your resume.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY - NO TYPOS OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. They literally throw resumes away if you have any of these. So, we proof, proof, proof.
- Has an electronic file name the includes your full name.so recruiters can find it.