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Subject:Re: ... what makes a resume stand out? From:Tothscribe -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:35:57 EDT
> Andrew suggested, show ACTION and RESULTS in your resume: What did you do?
> What did it accomplish? Show me!
I'm better at talking about what I did rather than how generally wonderful my employers find me to be. :> Also, my future plans tend to have seismic shifts, so goals and objectives tend to give me a rash.
But I agree with the "show action and results" statement. My solution has worked pretty well for me: a two-page resume using this layout:
Skills - stick 'em right up front where HR can check them off. Subdivide them into types: in my case, "Word processing and publishing," "Multimedia and Internet," and "Other."
Education - okay, maybe that could go to the second page, but I like having that "currently earning a Master's in Writing" up front.
Then the rest of the first page is a bullet list of accomplishments, divided by type. Writing - manual for X, guide for Y, web site for Z. Training - class for X, class for Y, class for Z. DTP (okay, not the greatest experience, but I have to explain the 10 years between original graduation and becoming a writer somehow, and no way in hell will I say "secretary"!)
Page two is the chronological list of employers and contract information.
This has worked quite well for me; well enough that I've been called in for interviews by people who lost the second page but still were impressed enough by the first.
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