What's up, everyone? I thought I'd walk you through how to write the best resume you can write to clarify here. Some countries call it a cv, but they mean the same thing for this article, so does a perfect resume even exist. The answer is no. If you go on the internet and type an excellent overview, you'll see all sorts of resumes from career experts, and some have the name on the center, others have the name on the side, some have callers, some even have summaries, while others don't. Well, that's confusing, and the reason it's like that is because there's no one-size-fits-all when you think of your resume as an advertisement.
This is basically what it is you're advertising yourself to a company; there are many different types of ads right there are billboard ads, social media ads, TV ads, and so on, and some people prefer one type of odds. In contrast, others prefer some different kinds of ads, and so it's a bit of the same with the resume, and that's why even experts have differences. Still, there are some best practices that you can follow to maximize your chances of getting to the next step in the recruitment process. That's what I want to talk about in this article.
I've also attached a resume template in the description. It's entirely free for you to use. I'm not looking for your email or anything like that, but if you find it useful, I would appreciate starting.
RESUME BASICS
with the basics for the formatting, please keep it simple, so a dark color and using the same font throughout, so keeping it consistent is probably best. If you are in a more creative field, say then it might make sense for you to add some colors and make it more personalized. Still, if you're not, it's a safe bet to go with a plain dark color when it comes to length. The recommendation is just one page. Unless you're in academia or you have a lot of work experience, then you might want to make it longer. Still, if you're a student or recently fresh out of college, you don't need anything more than one page as for the structure of the resume.
RESUME STRUCTURE
if you're a student this is the one you should follow so first off you'll have the contact details then you'll have the education section after which you'll have the work experience then the leadership and awards section, and finally you'll end with the additional information section on the bottom now if you're an experienced professional and it's been a few years since
you've left education, then the education section is no longer going to be on the top instead, you're going to bring it down, and work experience is going to go on the top right, and don't worry if you don't know what to include in the sections we'll go over that throughout the article, but overall the idea is that you're going to have whatever is taking up most of your time on the top right so if you're a student education is going to go up top well if you're a full-time worker then your work experience is going to go up top right now
CONTACT DETAILS
fairly self-explanatory in big you should have your name it can be on the side of it can be in the center that doesn't really matter too much and underneath that you might want to add your address your email and it should be a professional email it should be something like um Kenji's the goat gmail.com or anything ridiculous like that, and then next to it you can add your phone number
I've also noticed that an increasingly popular thing to do there is to add your LinkedIn profile, so basically, leave the link up there. I'd suggest you do so if you feel like your LinkedIn is going.
EDUCATION
to enhance your resume alright so moving on to the education section and here the more recently you've been in teaching, the more detail you should have in it, so if you're a student or you're a recent graduate, you should have a lot more than if you graduated say ten years ago right so you should include your university name on one side and then on the other side you'd have the location as well as your expected graduation date in a month and year format. Also, you want to include bullets for your major minor, or your concentration if you had one, as well as for your grades and at the same time if you've managed to reach the dean's list; for instance, you can also add that in there as well next up under education you can also include your high school or your exchange
if you did one overall I'd suggest including these if you feel like you don't have much to talk about in your later sections. Your resume feels empty. You can talk more about the high school and the exchange rate. Lastly, you can also include a relevant coursework section if you find that the job description says that they're looking for people that have taken financial accounting. You can put it in there and try to highlight it like that right.
WORK EXPERIENCE
all right, so moving on to the work experience section and here you want to list out your jobs in chronological order such that your most recent one is on the top, and similar to the education section, on one side, you want to include the name of the employer as well as your position and then on the other side you want to have the location as well as the dates that you were working there
so for the description of the job, I suggest you use bullets instead of using complete sentences, and you want to use action verbs, so verbs like I created I conducted I researched other things like that that get to the point in the end and at the same time if possible you want to try to quantify things just so the recruiter gets more context as to how big or small what you did was suitable as an example instead of writing I was responsible for creating a marketing campaign to sell more products you should say created a marketing campaign that increased sales revenue by 40 quarter and quarter
It's to the point it's got action words, and it quantifies, giving the recruiter more information and perspective than just saying I sold more products than before. Another good tip for what to write in the bullets is to use the XYZ formula and let me explain it means I accomplished x as measured by y by doing z if you're a sales rep. For instance, it could be something like group subscriptions by 20 months a month by pitching new product features where in this case the x the accomplishment is the subscription growth the measurement is the month of the month, so 20 in this case and lastly the pitching new product features is the doing and if you feel like you have no relevant work experience say because you're still very young, it's still better to put something like bartending or tutoring or anything at the end of the day it does show that you're motivated and you're trying to do something right next up
Leadership and Awards
we have leadership and awards, and this can really be anything from winning a chess competition to being a president of a club to doing volunteering work, or it can even be more educational stuff like one might be taking a public speaking seminar or going to a conference other things like that
it is very vague as a whole leadership in awards, so yeah, try to use it to your advantage, right, and the same XYZ framework can also apply here, so let's look at an example if you're the president of the school math club, one bullet could be increased the club's national ranking by 25 positions after winning the municipal tournament by developing a rigorous calculus training program and again as I said earlier if you don't have much to say in this section you can omit if you don't necessarily have to have it there it's really about what makes your resume look better and lastly
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
we've got the different information section, and here there are no clear guidelines you can include things like the languages you speak your interests your extracurricular activities or any links that you think are relevant and this section is often overlooked in my opinion this is basically if you have two competitive candidates it's what's going to set you apart
if you both go to the same university, for instance basically if you have something in common with the recruiter, they're more more likely to talk to you right so I won't neglect this area at all. I would adequately think about it. The last thing you want to do is is put some stuff that is probably going to sound like a lie like say I love studying, I love analyzing data, and I love reading my textbooks. No one's going to believe that, and it's not going to make you feel very personable, right, and one resource that I think you should be using to your advantage.
USEFUL RESOURCE
if you're still a student especially has to do with the career center at your university, so if you don't know, your university typically hosts one-on-one sessions that are entirely free with a career counselor who is going to be the person that can give you some tips on how to structure your resume cover letter and so on I study at Cornell University for instance, and this is what
their career center has to say here it says see us for help with your career exploration, your resume, and so on, so it's a resource that I think you should be using if you're still a student after all when you think about it from the university's point of view if their students are going to the best jobs out there it's going to enhance their reputation as a university too right, so it's kind of in their interest to help you out but if you're not a student you can also still download some of their guides so, for instance, Harvard University has a focus on
experiences say that it's worth updating it every time, but I thought it just took too long, so yeah, that's all for this art if there's one key takeaway here is that you have complete control of the content of your resume, so try to make it seem as attractive as possible that's all
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