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Resumes & Cover Letters: Tips & Examples
Your resume is a marketing tool that introduces you to prospective employers. Overall, it is an opportunity to demonstrate your fit for a particular job opportunity. It explains what you would like to do for the employer by describing your relevant qualifications, skills, and accomplishments.
These helpful tips will get you started:
- Research the Position: To market-relevant skills on your resume, visit the company’s website to learn more about the position and company for which you are applying. Talk to others you know who have worked for the company in similar positions. You may also want to visit websites such as glassdoor.com to learn about a company's interviewing style and questions they have asked other applicants.
- Use Numbers to Highlight Impact: Include numbers to show the number of customers served, money saved or earned, time saved, efforts improved, or the result of each of the examples you offer.
- Format Your Resume: Recent research shows that potential employers spend less than
10 seconds reviewing a resume. Make sure its easy to read by keeping these suggestions
in mind:
- Use everyday, professional language and avoid jargon
- Write in concise and easy-to-interpret sentences
- Give the facts, and don’t explain too much
- Single-space within sections and double-space between sections
- Bold or capitalize section headings
- Use bullet points when creating a list
- Proofread for spelling and grammatical errors
- Use Keywords: Keywords are the names of essential tools, procedures, skills, or systems needed to do the work. Most employers scan for keywords when looking at a resume. Add keywords from the position description, but do not cut and paste information.
For other helpful tips, check out CareerOneStops's Resume Guide.
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