How To Write A Resume

By Jason Taingahue
Some time in your life you are going to need a resume for a job interview, or to send out to places of employment when applying for them. The problem that some of us encounter is, where do we start and do we actually know how to write out a resume.

When you learn how to write out a resume it not only helps yourself but it gives all the basic details of what you have been doing job wise through your life and also outlines what kinds of experience you have to offer to the company/person that is wanting a position filled.

Ok the first thing that we need to do when writing out a resume that has a title page. I would say that on this page you have a border and the words "Resume" as a title and then followed by your name, address, phone number and email address if you have one. Have all this information going down the page and experiment with the different sizes and fonts as well. And remember you can bold txt and align it accordingly to, just experiment with it.



Do not make it look too artsy. We are going for the more professional look. This keeps the employer happy.

Now that we have a front page (Title and details) we can then move on to the next part of knowing how to write a resume and that is to start with writing out a description of your educational history. Eg, school and the subjects taken.

With that out of the way we can then add in a section called "Qualifications". This will tell the employer what type of qualifications you have. Also how long it has been since you last trained at that specific qualifications.

The next step at knowing how to write a resume is to write out a section of the "Jobs" that you have had? This will be in the form of company name, employer's name, how long you worked there for and the position that you held at the company. With this information, the employer can also see what type of hands on skills one has had after being qualified in various areas of ones life.

After finishing that section, we can then go onto the personal statement of ones self, and this is just a brief description of what type of person you are. For example, you could be honest punctual and reliable and always willing to give any new tasks 100% effort. So basically you are selling yourself to the employer.

After that, there are 2 more sections involved with knowing how to write up a resume and the first one is listing your "Interest and hobbies"? This is so that the employer can see how active one is outside of the work place, which could suggest that with sports such as rugby or netball this person is a team player.

The last piece of learning information on how to write a resume, is the section where you have a list of referee's with phone numbers and addresses to confirm written references, or just too tell them via phone/email what type of worker you are?

Now that we have all of this together we need to now get what we call a clear folder, which is a clear folder with clear pages and slots where you can stick your resume in and usually back to back as well, so that you can get 2 pages of your resume in one page. We then add in the pages accordingly and then we place in our certificates and references to support the resume that we have just learnt to write.

And that is how to write a resume.

See Also:
For any additional information on how too write a resume check out this site