Resume Components
Heading:
- Includes name, address, phone number and email address.
- Consider listing both current and permanent addresses.
- Include a professional e-mail address and check regularly.
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Objective:
The objective gives employers a general idea about what type of position you’re looking for. They will read your resume looking for experience/skills that will support your objective. For career fairs, if you’re in the exploratory stage, you might want to leave off an objective.
Example objective statements:
- An internship in the computer engineering field
- An entry-level position in bioscience laboratory environment
- Editorial Assistant within the publishing industry
- A marketing assistant position in the healthcare industry
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Skill Highlights or Summary of Qualifications:
For undergraduate students, this is a chance to highlight computer, language, transferable skills, and personal traits. Graduate and more experienced professionals should have a longer Summary of Qualifications section. Bring these skills to the forefront of your resume if appropriate for the job you’re seeking to help employers easily recognize them and to make sure they’re scanned into an employer’s tracking system.
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Education:
This section should follow the Objective and Skills sections of your resume if you’re an undergraduate student, or if you are a graduate student and it directly relates to the area of work you are trying to break into. Typically, GPA can be added if it is 3.0 or higher. Remember to add your study abroad experience to this section. Class projects could also be listed here as subsets, such as “Projects,” if you used or developed skills and experiences that are directly relevant to your Objective.
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Experience:
Include the company/organization name, location (city and state), your dates of employment, and the job title. Bold the organization or the job title. Under each job, list accomplishment statements which should be powerful and succinct while demonstrating your skill and the end result. Quantify your results whenever possible by adding numbers and/or percentages. Always begin
accomplishment statements with
action verbs. Use present tense for your current job; use past tense for all other jobs.
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Activities:
For each activity listed, follow a consistent format. Spell out acronyms. If there is an activity that you’re involved in, such as a fraternity, and you hold a position with many accomplishments, consider adding that to your Experience section instead. The activity section is optional.
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