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Top Resume Tips

Need help creating or updating your resume? It certainly can be complicated because your resume is going to be reviewed by software as well as by recruiters and hiring managers.

Review these top resume tips:

1. Contact Information:
   • All pertinent contact information should be centered at the top of the resume
     • Name (First & Last)
     • Phone numbers
     • Home address
     • Email address
     • LinkedIn address
2. Objective
   • This needs to be a short, targeted statement that clearly states your career objective that is aligned to the position you are applying for.
3. Education:
   • Education is typically listed toward the top of the resume under the objective.
   • You don’t need to include the exact date you graduated.
4. Work History:
   • Resumes should only have the last 10 years of employment listed
   • The titles that should be used for this section are: Work History, Professional Work History, Employment History etc.
5. Job Title, Company and Dates:
   • The job title, company name and years of date worked should be bolded
   • The job title should be aligned to the left followed by the company name immediately underneath or to the right of the job title with the dates worked aligned to the right: (examples below)

   Administrative Assistant XYZ Company	8/2015-8/2016
   XYZ Company Administrative Assistant	8/2015-8/2016
   Administrative Assistant - XYZ Company	8/2015-8/2016
   XYZ Company - Administrative Assistant	8/2015-8/2016

6. Job Responsibilities and Duties
   • The job responsibilities and duties are listed underneath the job title, company and dates.
   • There should be a minimum of 3 bullets (responsibilities/duties) per position.
   • The first 2-3 bullets should directly correlate to your experience and the job description of the position that you are applying for-
     • Administrative Roles: Who did you support? How many people did you support? If you coordinated travel was it international and domestic? If you used MS Office how did they use it?
     • Customer Service Roles: Did you work in a call center? Did you have to meet metrics? Did you take inbound calls or did make outgoing calls or both?
     • Data Entry Roles: What were you entering in daily? Was it more numeric (10 key ) or Alpha numeric (letters and numbers)? Have you used Excel? If you have how? Did you enter information into the cells of Excel or did you manipulate data?
   • If you had multiple positions at ONE company use this format:
     • List the company and have the dates of your full employment aligned to the right
     • List all positions held at the company with bullet points under the position title with the date range in parenthesis next to the title

     XYZ Company	6/2010-9/2016
     Executive Administrative Assistant Job Duties	(8/2015-9/2016)
     Administrative Assistant Job Duties	(6/2013-8/2015)
     Office Manager Job Duties	(8/2011 -6/2013)
     Receptionist Job Duties	(6/2010 -8/2011)