BASIC RESUME ORGANIZATION

Education

Your resume should have an education section. If you have currently left school and are not recently working, the education section should be at the top of your resume. Otherwise, the education section should be at the underside of your resume; 10 years out of college, your work knowledge speaks more to who you are than a college GPA. The only minus point to this is if you have a degree from a well-known university or college; in that case, the learning section (plus where you attended high school) can go first. However, that decision is best left to individual choice and your assessment of just how critical where you went to school will be in influencing a potential employer. If you know (or suspect) a business recruiter attended the same small high school (or a similar school), by all means, add the data. If you were all- American everything in high school or the class valedictorian, make declare of it on the resume even though the data is old. SATs and your high school GPA, unless they were in the top 5 percent, should not be added. There are times when these sorts of data are inappropriate, so have two versions of your resume arranged.

Regardless of where the education section is placed, it should contain the name of the college (not abbreviated),  its area, the month and year you get (or expect to receive) your degree, the number  of years you were there, the degree conferred, specific honors, relative coursework, and any college associated, extracurricular behavior that are job associated.

Work Experience

Your high prior work experience describes a potential employer the most important data about your candidacy. These sections must be honest and communicate to the job you are applying for. Of course, you cannot change your work experience, but you can alter the awareness of that experience by constructing a resume that showcases the skills needed in the job you are currently searching. Previous experience is only one part of your appearance. Part of your victory on your resume as well as during an interview is your interest and enthusiasm for the job and the organizations. Most employers would rather hire an enthusiastic person who is willing to learn than an experienced person without enthusiasm. Of course, directly applicable work experience on your resume will help you. Same experience needs to be augmented by enthusiasm and a prototype of increasing responsibility in your prior work.

Career Objective- To Add or Not to Add ?

The only period to include an exact career goal to your resume is if you have an exact job in mind. For example, if you know you like to be an investment banker in New York City to the exclusion of anything else, then go ahead and give your answer. You will run into troubles, however, when an informed company recruiter sees your resume and wonders why you've limited your options. Jobs in many organizations want similar qualities, so being completely single-minded doesn't necessarily make sense, as stating a defined career goal can compromise your candidacy for other positions. In addition, if you cannot describe your specific goal don't add a vague target simply to have a career objective on your resume. For example: Career objective: To secure an entry-level position within a growing and dynamic rigid that gives a cross-functional experience ultimately leading to increasing accountability and a senior management position.

This is pretty much the same thing everybody wants, so why trouble stating the obvious? Career goal or targets are meaningless unless they are specific, short, and focused on the near-term. Even then, however, stating a career target is risky because once you submit your resume for a position you no longer control where it goes. Therefore, you may be over- looked for a position you would have been eager to accept, simply because the career objective on your resume does not suits.

Personal Web Sites: A Cautionary Note

While including a personal web site URL on a resume can showcase your technical skills properly, think cautiously about what your web site shows about you. Do you have links to inappropriate sites? Do you have pictures posted of you in potentially unprofessional clothing or conditions?  Sometimes a personal web site is simply that, personal and should be left as such.