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What is the best layout for a resume? |
What is the best layout for a resume? It depends if you have work experience or not. Chronological Resume: A chronological resume starts by listing your work history, with the most recent position listed first. Your jobs are listed in reverse chronological order with your current, or most recent job, first. Employers typically prefer this type of resume because it's easy to see what jobs you have held and when you have worked at them. This type of resume works well for job seekers with a strong, solid work history. Sample Chronological Resume Functional Resume: A functional resume focuses on your skills and experience, rather than on your chronological work history. It is used most often by people who are changing careers or who have gaps in their employment history. Sample Functional Resume Sponsored Links Source(s): http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumes/p/... Bold and underlined for headings such as Objective, Employment, Schooling, and References. Also make your headings 1 or 2 points larger than your information below each heading. This helps the hiring manager to quickly zero in on the information title they are looking for. Don't use fancy fonts...makes it hard to read. Do double space....makes it easy to read. Use only navy blue, maroon red, or black ink Use high quality paper- white, off white, beige or linen Include area codes for previous employers phone numbers Forget the fancy lines or designs, it takes focus away from the information. Pay attention to spelling and punctuation and including details such as zip codes (no they don't need a zip code- but including it shows you pay attention to important details should they be needed! little hint) Use a cover letter. It has been the only way many times to differentiate two or more perfect candidates. One cover letter I read gave the direct line to the student's record department and authorized our company to access their information on grades and attendance scores! This level of confidence, attention to detail, and willingness to differentiate themselves led them to be hired before they even knew they had an interview! One page! Besides setting all margins to 1", the most important criteria for setting up a professional resume besides relevant text, is "scanability." Here are some helpful tips: 1. Place just below your identification header [your hame, address, phone, email address] any Conditional Warning Statement such as "Confidential Resume,"Do Not Contact Current Employer," etc. 2. Always fill-in an Objectives category [just below the Conditional Warning Statement] and make sure that he Objective will contribute to the profitability of your future employer; 3. Select a mono-type font such as Helvetica, Arial, Courier or Times Roman; do not select any cursive handwriting styles which cannot scanned; 4. Keep font sizes within a range of 10 to 12 pts.; 5. Avoid styling text with a justified alignment, keep it flushed left; 6. Instead of using tabs to set up blocked text entries, generate a table and use the column and row settings accordingly; 7. Do not place an i.d. picture anywhere on the resume, this is a major taboo due to discrimination issues; 8. Do not place any graphic text [saved as .gifs] onto the resume since it may be overlooked during the scanning phase; 9. List at the very end of the resume your interests which should include travel experiences, language skills, social interactions such as golf, team sports, tennis, etc. In conclusion, the above helpful hints were designed to allow ease of scanning of your resume into PDF which can then be text captured for seach purposes by your potential employer. If the original resume was created in Word, WordPerfect or Mac Appleworks, it can be Saved As a PDF file which then can be saved as an email attachment. Otherwise, you can simply use a scanner and scan a hard copy of the resume and then save as a PDF file. Failure to conform the resume to appropriate fonts and styles as outlined above will result in rejection of the resume simply due to the inability of the scanning device to properly index relevant resume entries. Good luck! |
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