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Investopedia.com Tutorials: Building Blocks and the Basics of Investing

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The Simple Dollar » How to Construct a Killer Resume, From Start to Finish

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Step 0: Do NOT fire up Microsoft Word and use a generic resume template.
Step 1: Open a plain text document and start listing all of the information you might ever include on a resume
List the details of every job, including every possible relevant accomplishment at each one. List every organized activity you’ve ever participated in, and every noteworthy honor you’ve received in your life. List everything.
Work experience (dates, names of employers, location, tasks, accomplishments)

Education (dates, degrees obtained, location)

Specific skills

Honors and awards

Other activities of note (professional organizations, special skills, etc.)
default resume
you’re going to use it to quickly build the real resumes that you will send to potential employers.
Step 3: Open a new copy of your default resume and eliminate everything that isn’t highly relevant or impressive
Tip #3: If you’re early in your career, you may wish to list some jobs that don’t match the description very well to establish a work history. That’s fine, but go minimal on describing them.
Step 4: Make your accomplishments ring with action
go through and change all of the descriptions of your work tasks into action sentences. Let’s work through three examples of this.

Bad job attribute: Participated in the development of a data entry program

Better job attribute: Developed a high-throughput data entry program in a team-based environment
Employers want actions that lead to results, not participation
In the end, you want to highlight those parts of the tasks you have done that will make you seem most exciting to the potential employer.
Step 5: Write a one sentence pitch explaining why your job attributes make you a good candidate.
Your resume should not have an objective on it.
you should have a statement explaining how your specific skills make you the right person for the job.
I have nine years experience developing high-throughput Java-based data entry software and leading teams in the implementation of this software.
write a one-sentence summary of your qualifications as they specifically relate to the job you’re applying for.
This will go right at the top of the resume.
Step 6: Make a polished document out of the material you’ve created
I recommend starting with LifeClever’s tips for giving your resume a face lift, for starters. I strongly recommend using Georgia as your font
I also recommend making your line spacing 120% (go to Format, choose Paragraph, choose Multiple, and set it to 1.2
I also recommend putting things in the following order:

Name/address/phone/email

Summary of Qualifications

Work Experience (unless this is your first “real” job)

Professional Organizations (unless these are slim, the eliminate or move to end)

Honors (unless these are slim, then eliminate or move to end)

Education

A note indicating that references are available upon request
you want this to be as short as possible. One page, with an additional cover letter, is best.
One strong approach is to create a short resume and a long resume, and include a short URL (made at TinyURL) to download the longer one if interested. I generally encourage people to include reference contact information in their long resume, but not in the short one.