Create a Resume

Use the Resume Organizer sheet to brainstorm all of your professional activities/duties per job, education and training, and relevant personal endeavors. Include dates and locations for each item.

Highlight the 5-6 most important items per job or other category. Rate items as being of high importance because they:

1. Serve or have served as your primary job tasks
2. Relate specifically to the job you're applying for
3. Serve as big honors, affiliations or extra-curricular activities and relate to the job you're applying for.

Create your resume template - how you want to organize and format it.

• Place items in reverse chronological order by category.
• Frame/articulate each item using powerful yet honest language - see the "Action Verb, Skill Words, and Phrases to Consider" sheets.
• Check for accuracy, spelling, punctuation, and formatting issues.
• Have someone else read your resume to double-check all items.
• Select light colored, "simple" resume paper to print both the letter and resume on. Do not use pink/blue/goldenrod colors because the employer will be making copies and these shades do not copy well.
• Print your documents and make sure the document printed well and that the spacing is correct. Double-check again for errors before turning it in.