How to Write a CV: Secrets of Professional Resume Writers + EXAMPLES

1. 1. How to Write a CV: Intro: Hi, My name is Andy, and welcome to the secrets of professional resume E Riders. This course is for executives, students, managers, professionals and leaders from all industries seeking new and better opportunities. If you're one of those than congratulations, because there's no better time to create a better future for yourself with intense competition for the best positions, the need for an excellent mind blowing resume me has never been greater, even though still employed or looking for better work, more money, more challenge, a better geographic location or all of the above. That's why it's essential to create a high impact er's in me that markets you end your skills, your personal brand with impact and precision so you can stand above the crowd. Some of the most qualified think arisen me is Justin outline of all jobs and educational background. To some extent, that's true because your work history is an essential part of your resume. Me, but done correctly expert resume me writing can help open doors to the really good positions, increase your income and help you enjoy what you're doing every day. To do this, your resume me must develop and market your skills and abilities. Your resume me is part of a cohesive, high impact career marketing program, and when written correctly, it can pay huge dividends. We've all heard that the average resume me gets about 1 to 2 minutes of attention by employers. If you're lucky. In fact, it may never be seen by human eyes. When you understand how hours a means air sorted and view these days, you can leverage the latest technology to your advantage rather than let it block your career advancement. Yet when all is said and done, remember that you don't need to be perfect to be hired for a new position. You just need to appear less in perfect trainable and more likable than most other candidates seeking the same position. If you doubt this, take a look at bosses or co workers you thought were unqualified to hold their position. How did they get their job? They marketed themselves into that position, and they want over the interviewer by making a personal connection. They came across his likeable, trainable and professional. How did they keep their job? They kept learning and growing within the company day after day. This course was designed to help you identify developing market your skills and abilities with the goal of landing interviews. I'll try to outline the entire process, including evaluating past work, experience, education and skills, and then translating and developing them into powerful selling points. I'll discuss essential points of format and organization for your achievements as well as layout and design. Remember to make notes. The more you involve yourself in the writing process, the better you'll understand what makes a successful resume me, and the better your final results will be, let's start. 2. 2. Determine and Market Your Career Potential: I've learned there's one common question that runs through the mind of virtually every employer. What can you do for me? Let's say your resume me makes it past the electronic screening software and finally lands on the desk or computer screen of the hiring manager in the first few seconds. He's looking for one reasons to keep reading, too. Reasons to consider you specifically for the position at hand. Three reasons to stop reading and move on to the next. Resume me saving himself. Time and effort. All three of these items need to be addressed from the very first sentence of your profile skills section right through to the end of your resume. Me? Obviously, the more reasons you give the better. Put yourself in his shoes and pretend you're reading your own. Resume me. Is it enough to write that you're skilled in new business development? Or do you need to be specific? Every line you ride on your resume, me must answer the question. Why should I interview this candidate? Now? You'll find worksheets to help you identify your transferrable skills, hands on experience and achievements with employers. This will become the content the meat of your resume me and is the most important step in developing your executive marketing piece. Not only will this exercise help you extract the accomplishments that will answer questions of prospective employers, it will help you learn more about yourself and make you more confident as you pursue new opportunities and walk into job interviews if necessary. Review performance evaluations from previous jobs and ask co workers what they think of your skills and strengths. Take the time to consider which aspects of work your best at and most importantly, what you really enjoy doing. What would be the ideal position for you? What turns you on at work? For many executives, it's being in charge of a wide range of functions, from staffing and budget planning to writing procedures, developing products or creative marketing. It's time to choose any or all of these areas and then develop and market the skills you have in each of them. Begin with the personal inventory and then use the skills assessment to brainstorm your favorite skill areas for the profile. At the top of your resume me where you interpret and develop your most relevant skills for the reader and highlight the knowledge you would most like to leverage in your next position without a strong development of your best talents right up front, you're asking readers to figure out what you can do for them simply by reading about your work history or even expecting them to read your entire resume. Me and it's very possible they can't or won't do this. The skills assessment sheet is really your wish list. Here's where you can write about and develop your most important skills and abilities extracted from your entire work. Education. Volunteer of personal life. Perhaps most important, never try to describe the type of person you are in your profile skill section. I still see this every day in homemade resume ease or those written by other professional resume me firms. That's because it's the easy way out. Writing about someone subjective attributes is easy and ultimately less refute Herbal than developing and marketing someone's hard core business knowledge, talents, skills and abilities. Stating that yourself motivated, professional, seasoned, energetic and so on can't be proven, and this can in fact be said about anyone. Why use this type of wording? Don't fall into this trap 3. 3. Resume/CV Essentials: Izumi essentials. I know most of us don't like to fill out forms, but by now you should have filled out the worksheets in the previous chapter. If you haven't done this yet, do this now because those sheets will provide the primary content for your resume. Me. Let's review the definitions and importance of the different pieces of information. Your resume Me may include name, address, phone number and email address. It's hard to believe, but I've actually received resume ease without phone numbers. Needless to say, those applicants didn't get far with our company. Be sure you've listed your contact information correctly and include a link in an address. If you have one job titles, you can change job titles to be understood by as many employers as possible. For instance, marketing Manager Northeast Sector can become marketing manager, followed by an explanation that you were responsible for a team of 12 in the marketing of X products throughout the northeastern United States. However, don't give yourself a promotion listing a title that implies more responsibility than you actually had, such as director of marketing company names and dates. Unless you've had four or five jobs shorter than one year and you are riding a purely functional resume. E include company names and locations city and state. Unless they're local use months, as well as years or amid months. If it helps you leave out jobs or cover your tracks, however, be consistent and be able to back everything up in an interview. Job duties. Identify key duties in your jobs and then developing. Highlight your achievements and how you exceeded. Job expectations include part time employment when it applies to the position desired. You may also include part time jobs or volunteer work that shows initiative, self motivation, leadership and organizational or communication skills. Licenses and certifications obviously include licenses and certifications. Be sure to include civil service or government agency licenses, grades and classifications when appropriate for the type of job you're seeking. For example, Siri six and 63 license holder C. P A or C F P. You should also spell out these acronyms if you think there's a chance they won't be understood and so on. Education list. The highest level of education reached first avoid listing high school. If you have a college degree, education becomes less important as work experience and abilities expand. Place your education section following employment when you have several years of applicability. Work history. You should also include college attendance and course completions, even if you didn't earn a degree. Include additional professional training, especially if it was sponsored by an employer. It shows the firm had confidence in your ability to learn and succeed. List which firms sponsored the seminars or college courses. If you have no applicability work experience, develop any relevant education or training in your profile skills section. Qualified with sentence starters such as trained in familiar with or knowledge of. You need to get your most relevant keywords right up front and be clear about your level of knowledge or expertise. Languages. Knowledge of a foreign language can be extremely valuable. List your level of proficiency. Speak conversational French fluent in Spanish, read and write Italian familiar with Russian and so on. You can mention these in the communications bullet in your profile section or near the bottom in the personal section. Professional memberships. You should list trade and professional groups if they're relevant to your future position. This demonstrates an active interest in industry developments and that you're up to date in the latest concepts and technologies with your peers. These affiliations can prove very valuable in personal networking 4. 4. Eliminate from Your Resume/CV: eliminate from your resume. Me The following sections cover information that you should eliminate from your resume. Me. When employers want to know your salary requirements, they generally want to know whether they can afford you or how cheaply they can get you. They also want to make sure they don't end up paying more than they need to fill the position. If this is requested in the job posting her advertisement, you may included, but on a separate salary history sheet and never on the resume me itself. On the other hand, consider the following survey and you may wish to omit salary information altogether. In a survey of more than 200 employers who posted job opening stating Resume ease without salary, history will not be considered a full 94% of respondents said they would still call a candidate if they thought he was right for the job, even if salary history of requirements were not included. If salary information is not requested, then do not offer it, you could be knocked out of consideration for being overpriced or underpriced. Another option is to mention a salary range in the cover letter. Although I am seeking an income in the range of $95,000. This number is negotiables, depending on the potential for advancement, benefits, type of position and geographic location. It's best, however, to avoid discussion of salary until you've hooked the employer. Once you get an offer or at least have a phone conversation, then you can negotiate compensation, including benefits, insurance, stock options, bonuses, geographic considerations and potential for career advancement. Resuming at the top of the page references available upon request at the end. If the person reading your resume me can't tell, it's a reason me. Do you really want to work for her? As for references, create a separate references sheet with three or four names, titles and phone numbers of previous supervisors and personal contacts. If you're sure they will give you a positive reference, print these on the same paper. Stock is your resume me and bring this page along with your resume me to the interview to complete job applications. If necessary, the personal representative or hiring manager may want to contact a former employer, but usually someone will check with you before doing so. Double check this at the interview. If you are concerned, about keeping your job search. Confidential reasons for leaving a job for the most part, don't include this information on your resume. Me? You want to highlight positives, not negatives. The only exception to this is if you were promoted or transferred within a company. Why? Because this show's continuity and growth positive reasons. During the interview, you may be asked why you left a particular position, and you should be prepared to answer such a question. Then rehearse a concise response with a positive spin. Until you're confident about this. Check your library or bookstore for books on interviewing or consult recruiters, religious or political groups. This type of information has a chance of working against you, so don't offer it unless you know it will be perceived in a positive manner. Try to put business considerations first. What do these associations have to do with the position you're seeking? Like anything else? If it won't help you get in the door, leave it out. If you have volunteer experience with schools or service groups, Kiwanis, the Rotary Club, Boy Scouts and so on, then you should develop and include this experience on your resume. Me in a personal or volunteer section. You may also leverage the communication, organisational and leadership skills acquired with these groups and paraphrase the men your profile section with those qualifying sentence starters trained in familiar with and so on . Any negative information, remember that resuming it reading is a process of elimination. So don't give the reader any reason to take you out of the running. Never mentioned lawsuits or a bad experience with a former supervisor and avoid including any item that could be seen as affecting your performance on the job. For example, the fact that you were unemployed for two years because of an illness. You may disclose this to the employer if asked, when you get the chance to explain yourself directly, but no one's asking you to spill your guts up front in your resume. Me a photograph Unless you're applying for a job as a model, don't include a picture or other physical description of yourself. You may briefly list excellent health in a short, personal section, but when you provide a photo, you open yourself up to being considered based on your appearance. Don't subject yourself to the personal biases of an HR department or hiring executive 5. 5. Optional Items: optional items. The following sections cover some optional items you can include in your resume Me title. If you're applying at a large company that maybe hiring for many positions at the same time , this component will help readers quickly match U. N Your Resume me to the job you're seeking whenever possible. Modify the title to match the actual job description. Chief financial officer, director of marketing and so on. If you don't have the time or resource is to constantly update the title, simply rely on the first paragraph of your profile Experience section to show readers what you can do for them and where in general, you're coming from objective. You may use an objective in place of a title. This element helps define and summarize your job goals so the reader can quickly determine what type of position you're seeking. It also focuses on what you want, which is fine as long as you know it's in sync with what the employer wants. Always keep this to one sentence or less. Objectives air best when they're specific and focused rather than broad and vague, just like titles. They may also be omitted completely, in which case the first paragraph of the profile section takes over military service. You may include any positive experience in the military, especially leadership experience. If you're seeking a position with a firm involved in defense contracting that hires former military personnel than your military background may prove. Invaluable include heist rank attained supervisory experience and applicability. Training for technical positions include systems and equipment operated, repaired or maintained. If you're only applicable work experience was in the military, then it must be developed like any other job. On the other hand, if you're looking for work that's completely unrelated to skills gained during your time in the military, it may be best to list only the highest rank attained. And the city and state of deployment a personal or interest section if you need to fill room at the bottom of the page, include 2 to 3 lines outlining your interests. But make sure the interests you choose can help lead to interview discussions or are related to responsibilities demanded by the job. You could mention that you're an avid golfer or that you subscribe to certain trade journals in your industry. The interests you list may also represent indirect skills that can reflect positively on your potential. For example, playing on a recreational sports team may indicate that you work well with others. You're a team player. Your involvement in the Big Brother or Big Sister program shows you can be a good role model and that you have leadership potential, of course, Omid items that have no connection to tackling the job, especially pastimes that might be considered controversial or in conflict with the company's goals, age and marital status. Legally, these two items have no bearing on whether you're called in for an interview. But let's face it, some employers still discriminate based on age and marital status, revealing your age can label you is too young or too old. What if you're twice as old as the president of the company, or half a sold is the average manager? You may be perfect for the job, but prejudice can run deep. Leave out your age altogether and get the reader to focus on your relevant skills and abilities 6. 6. One Page or Two: one page or two. Contrary to popular belief, one pages novel was best to page Resumes earned a bad reputation years ago because people were including too much useless information they were writing long, irrelevant. Job histories are expanding too much on their personal likes and dislikes, hobbies and so on. Try to think in terms of relevance rather than number of pages. About 90% of my clients require two and even three page resume ease. Unless you have an extensive and relevant work history or a detailed technical background of more than five years, try to keep your resume me the two pages. But don't leave out important skills simply to force your resume me into two pages. Once again, it's content that drives the length of your resume. Me. Imagine that you're writing a proactive advertisement of you as a person and of your most relevant skills. The profile skilled section lets you make sense of your background for the reader even before he picks up your resume. Me grab that person's attention by spotlighting the skill and talent you'll bring him. Whether that takes two pages or three, of course, depends on how many benefits you have to offer and Accountemps survey pulled 150 executives from the nation's 1000 largest companies. A full 64% of respondents said they prefer to page resume ease from candidates for executive positions, and 73% said staff level applicants should stick with one page. 7. 7. The Proactive Resume/CV: the proactive resume me to pack the most punch into your resume. Me think like an advertiser. You're the product, and as such, you must interpret and market your benefits to the reader in a present day. Proactive manner. Again, the profile section gives you complete freedom and space to determine how you want to be perceived by the reader. It's always tempting to focus too much on the history of your work experience, of which you may be proud rather than interpreting the value of that history, your marketable skills and abilities to the reader, the language you use must add strength to your descriptions of work, experience, skills and training. But it should not be so business like has to seem like just another memo. Business letter, outplacement style. Resume me, as advertising executives would say, Don't just talk about the steak. Make it sizzle. Avoid run on sentences You semi colons, commas and periods to let the reader breathe between phrases. We live in a sound bite world, and your statements and listings should be written in short, concise, digestible sentences. Go for strong action oriented words when describing your experiences. Avoid Pacific sounding verbs such as did wasn't used and employ more powerful descriptors such as exceed, increased perform indirect or the past tense of such words at former positions. Whenever possible, try to vary your use of words. Well achieved is a terrific word to describe your accomplishments. It loses its impact if repeated in every bulleted listing. When developing your resume, me keep a dictionary, and perhaps at the source by your side at the source will help you find synonyms for commonly used words when you're searching for a fresh way to describe a skill or experience . Another flaw I've been seeing lately is too many sentences, starting with responsible for avoid doing this more than once per page, although you can Sprinkle it lightly within text. Alternative sentence starters for job descriptions include Managed, directed in charge of supervised, controlled and so on. It's okay to use sentences that take I we, he, she and other pronounce for granted. Omit these words altogether. Use the abbreviated third person form. This is more direct. It helps you get straight to your qualifications and sell them when space is tight, however, or if you must have all of your qualifications on two pages, you can reduce the profile section 22 or three short paragraphs with bullets, the following list features and powerful high impact words you may find helpful, used before or after the keywords specific to your position or industry. 8. 8. Title or Objective: dialer objective professional's argue about the value of including job objectives or titles and resume ease. Some claim the two elements are unnecessary and only take up space. Others believe they add focus to the resume. Me and quickly tell a busy employer exactly what type of position you are seeking. I lean toward the second school of thought. Let's define each element and then examine its merits and its weaknesses. The title, The more straightforward of the two elements, is the title, and its purpose is pretty self explanatory. Its 2 to 4 words to finding the exact position or overall type of position you're seeking centred at the top of your resume. Me typically presented in all caps bold and or italics when applying for a specific position. The title should read exactly the same as the job title used in the job advertisement er posting. If you are willing to work for a company in any capacity and would be interested in other job openings, then you may omit the title completely and let the first bullet of your profile section do the talking. If it's not possible to constantly change your title as you come across new job listings. Simply use an overall title that describes your area or level of expertise. The title is easily changed with every resuming you send out, however, because it stands alone at the top of your resume. Me, a title should never consist of just one word, but of 2 to 4 words. The objective. The objective is a short statement that comes directly after your name and contact information. It describes the job you want. It may even work in tandem with the title is a one line expansion of the type of person you are or the type of work you're seeking. As you read this definition, you may already see what the weakness of such a statement might be. Remember that a resume me is supposed to focus on what the prospective employer wants. The objective tends to focus on what you want. Still, there are times when the objective can enhance your resume. Me, for example, if you know exactly what you want to do and it matches perfectly with the position you're applying for, then by all means introduce your resume me with a targeted objective that zeroes in on the job. However, if you're not sure about the job responsibilities of the position you're applying for or you're applying at a company where you'd be willing to consider other openings just to get in. Then don't waste resume me space by including an objective. Instead, rely on a title in the first paragraph of your profile section to develop relevant skills and abilities pulled from your education, training, volunteer background and, of course, work experience. It's best to customize the objective for each resuming. You send short and sweet the best objectives air specific and indicated clear. Focus again. If you are interested in a broad range of jobs within a given company, you may consider omitting these components. That's when a combination resuming format works especially well. The first profile a bullet gives the reader a big picture of the types of skills and knowledge you can bring to the job. This puts even greater importance on the profile section of your resume. Me 9. 9. Market Your Skills in the Profile: market your skills in the profile. In the profile section, you develop your most relevant skills, abilities, knowledge and qualifications. Although I sometimes use the word summary to describe a profile section, I use it only a shorthand to me. A summary implies a week. Overview. A rehash of your past. The profile section should fit you like a key into a lock into the ideal position you're seeking. Right now, the profile gives you control over marketing yourself. You choose which skills to emphasize, which to downplay and which keywords to include. Without a profile. You're at the mercy of your job history. Here's where you actively interpret and sell your most transferrable and relevant qualifications. It's what you can really bring to the table and why the reader should call you in. You can and should use elements of your profile in your 32nd elevator speech when you must quickly describe your value proposition to a potential employer, a network contact. It's an essential component of the combination format. Other sections, such as employment experience or education, supported with job specific details packet And even if you're having trouble fitting all your relevant work history on two or three pages. You should still try to include a shortened to 23 sentence profile section at the top of your job chronology. You should always give the reader a solid context. How to think about you, reasons to keep reading the meaning behind your work history and how you'll fit into his organization. Remember, they're hiring you and your skills, not your last job. It's important to note that your profile section may contain marketable skills and abilities. Regardless of whether you've used them on the job, you can list almost any skill, aptitude or training with the right qualifying words. Start with the skills that are most valued by the prospective employer and that are your strongest. You can then follow those with weaker skills as long as they're still relevant. Keep your profile to 2 to 5 bulleted paragraphs for a two or three pages of me, a one page resume me is fine with 123 bulleted paragraphs or sentences, depending on space considerations. Start with the type and level of skills you have that would best match the job. Keeping in mind. Would you really like to do? These might include three or four top executive items such as experience and start up operations, new business development, market penetration and or mergers and acquisitions and the next paragraph begin to break down and expand upon the major areas mentioned in the first paragraph. Which skills can you leverage to give you success in your key areas? These might include strategic planning, market research, competitive analysis, budget development and or forecasting for multiple locations or international or Fortune 500 accounts in the paragraphs that follow. Get more specific, proficient in or knowledgeable in the set up and management of multiple operations. The management of multimillion dollar budgets. Production lines set a panned or scheduling Windows. Seven. If you're still having trouble starting this section, think of the type of work you've done that would be useful or relevant. Or that shows an aptitude for the next job than extract developing market The skills you used to do that work Here are some examples skilled in long and short term strategic planning and business development in major national markets. Coordinate logistics, inventory control and vendor relations, as well as contract negotiation and cost reduction in the X industry plan and conduct training programs for staff and managers in new product lines, sales presentations and account tracking procedures. Get the idea once again, avoid overused general statements such as excellent communication skills and instead explain why that's true. Give the reader specifics without details and tangible skills backed up elsewhere in your resume. Me, your statements could read his fluff. 10. 10. Developing Your Career History: developing your career history. The Employment Experience section is a development of actual work events and is a fairly structured element. Tell the reader what you've done or achieved at other companies and back up and verify the statements about skills and abilities in your profile section. Almost always, your previous jobs are listed in reverse chronological order that is, your most recent work experience is listed first, followed by the previous job and so forth each job listing in the employment section of your resume. Me should include the following components Company name used. The complete name. Avoiding nick names or abbreviations that may not be familiar to the reader. You may omit this in rare cases where confidentiality may be compromised, as when posting your resume me on large nonexclusive Internet databases. Company location. You city and state only and don't list the company phone number. You want the employer to call you first if you think the company's name won't be easily recognised, include a short description in italics on its own line, such as a national distributor of circuit board equipment and supplies. Your job title. You might consider translating your title to a more universal title. If the internal label is unusual or unfamiliar to other work environments, just don't promote yourself to a job level. You didn't really have. Dates of employment typically use your and month. However, you may omit the month, particularly if you have a history of longevity staying with employers for many years. In this case, as long as the years are correct for the jobs your listing, you could leave out a combined irrelevant jobs lasting only a few months. Job descriptions. Most employers will have some idea about your responsibilities by your job title, but spell them out anyway. What are the size and scope of the company? If you want to stay with that size company, what departments do you oversee, if any? Try to include specifics. If you supervise, people indicate how many employees report to you directly, and how many indirectly, if you're in charge of the budget, include the amount achievements at each position. Employers love to see achievements, accomplishments and results that demonstrate excellence on the job. Here you can list awards, percentage increases and any other raw data to support your image of success. Typically, this information will appear in the list of bullet format, which sets it often catches the eye of the reader. Following is an example of a high impact job description. 11. 11. Education: education, justice with skills and work history. How you list your formal education training, special courses and required certifications depends on their relevance. Because this is your personal advertisement, begin with the information that will put you in the best light right now and play up your strengths. In fact, in rare cases when education is both very recent and your strongest suit, you may place a dried under the profile section and just above the employment Experience section. Even if you didn't earn a degree at a certain college, it may still be to your advantage to indicate that you have taken or are taking courses, perhaps listing the specific classes that may be relevant to your job goals. Some clients ask me, Should I include my high school information? I tell them, yes, if there's no other indication that you've graduated from high school. In other words, if you list that you've earned a bachelor's air an associates degree, it's assumed that you graduated from high school. As for dates, I sometimes advised leaving off the date of graduation, whether for high school or college age discrimination still exists, and often older workers are the targets of this bias. But remember, if you omit the dates for one listing under education than leave them off for all if you choose to list that you earned an associates degree, but leave off the fact that you did so in 1972 then you should also leave off the date For your recent completion of a certification program, I recommend listing certifications and training programs following such formal education listings as college. However, you may also highlight your most relevant certifications in the profile section. If you have a minimal amount of formal education, your certifications, as well as workshops, seminars and other professional training experiences you've gathered, become more important when you list these. Be sure to point out any pertinent subjects covered and note that you completed or graduated from the course. Give yourself credit for any kind of training, formal or informal. This communicates much more than the fact that you have acquired a certain knowledge. It also conveys to the reader that yourself motivated have a desire to keep informed about changes in your field and are eager to grow in advance traits that all savvy employers are looking for 12. 12. How to Design a CV/Resume: out of designers Who me, If you ask a dozen people about resume me design and layout, you'll get a dozen different responses. Here are some key points on Resume ME design called from what works best for our clients. The initial appearance of your resume me or any advertisement, for that matter is, of course, very important whether or not we know it. We all make snap judgments about everything we see or choose to read. Is it attractive? Does it draw the eye? Do you feel good about reading further? There must be something about your resume me that makes the reader want to continue reading just like an Armani suit or a pair of blue jeans. The appearance of your resume me will create, or at least slant the first impression you'll make on the hiring authority because you have only 22 60 seconds to grab the reader's attention. According to some estimates, your resume me must appear inviting lightweight and clean. It must prod readers to pay attention to you long after the first few seconds when their attention is at its peak. Resume me formatting is easier and more fun than content development be creative but sparingly use a variety of elements, including type sizes and styles, whitespace margins and such special treatments as bullets in denting and boldface type. What type face what size typefaces used for text or either Serra For San Serif Sarah saw the hands and feet at the top and bottom of letters. This is an example of a Sand Saref typeface. Aerial 11.5 p. T. This is a sample of a very common serif typeface. Times New Roman 11 p T. Sarah types are recommended for most printed materials. Almost every major newspaper and book uses serotype. Serif is easy to read. The theory is that Sarah's help the I move along more easily from word to word. If you're in a creative or high tech field such as advertising or leading edge package design or your resume, me copy is sparse. You might consider a sand Sarah face such as Ariel Helvetica, Kenter New Gothic. For a more conservative executive approach, stick with times New Roman or Bookman. Keep your type size between 10 and 12 points. 11 or 11.5 point type is best. Anything smaller is hard for the eye to scan and anything bigger can seem excessive. Fill the page with essential information and then adjust the size of type margins and tabs to make it all fit. Bullet points and white space. One of the best ways to make your resume me attractive unreadable is to use white space space without type, break up blocks of text, add white space with bulleted text and use healthy margins and in dense white space, gives readers a break and helps them quickly scanned the page for key points. Bullet points of many shapes are common in resume ease. When not used on every line, they're a great way to make achievements or anything else you want to highlight. Jump out at the reader Ah, usually in Dent tab after each bullet. Another method of adding white spaces to in dent each paragraph after the appropriate heading, such as experience, employment and so on. I prefer an in dent of 1.522 inches from the left margin. Yet another trick we use is to leave blank spaces between groups of text use frills such as bold facing, underlining italics, bullets or dashes for emphasis, but not on every line. They quickly lose their impact when overused, they should be used only to make major points stand out or to set items apart. In break up type. Avoid using all the elements bold, facing, underlining and italics on the same line of type. Choose a combination of any two. My personal favorites are bolding and underlining, but pick whichever you like. Some of these techniques may seem trivial, but it's the little things that make a great resume Me without attention to detail. You end up with yet another resume me like those sent out every day by the thousands. These techniques will help distance you from the pack and win the resume Me game line length. The resume ease we designed for our clients follow a simple format. The body copy is usually indented about 1.5 inches from the left margin, which creates shorter lines and makes the resume me easier for the eye to scan. That's why newspaper columns are so narrow. This provides white space and an excellent place to put your section headings objective and profile. For example, outside margins should be one inch all around, but they may be shortened 2.75 inch or widened up to 1.5 inches as needed to fit your information on one or two pages. Again, don't be afraid to use three pages if that's what it really takes to develop and market your skills. If you still need more or less space than margin shifting, allows change your type size by 1/2 point, but try to keep it within half a point of 11 points. Avoid violating your margins or hyphenated words at the end of the line. You can make an exception to this rule for compound words such a self employed when the line ends after self. Don't worry about squaring off, fully justifying your lines and less space is really tight. Note that if space is a concern, you may also use the entire width of the page placement of dates. I recommend placing dates directly across from the job title er company name. Flush right. However, an assistant director for alumni career services at a major university said she liked to see dates placed immediately after the company location. I agree with this. If you'd like to hide her mask dates of shorter positions 13. 13. Resume/CV Example: busy me example. Keep in mind that if you use too much of anyone else's resume me, you run the risk of looking like someone else. This sample is presented with the idea that you'll use them only for help in writing your own unique presentation.