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Resume
Do's and Don'ts |
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| Do's |
Don'ts |
- Account for all gaps with skills and accomplishments
- Customize your objective for each position
- Emphasize positions related to the job objective
- Explain skills and accomplishments in previous jobs
- Keep resume at one to two pages (Unless you have a post-graduate degree)
- Leave one inch margins all around
- List your skills and accomplishments
- Have someone proofread the final copy
- Reproduce clean and clear copies
- State facts
- Stress achievements
- Use 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper
- Use dynamic words to explain what you’ve done
- Use good quality paper (20 lb. Bond paper or 25% rag content)
- Use proper tense
- Use short paragraphs or use bullets
- Use simple, direct language
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- Be too trendy or cutesy
- Be wordy
- Erase or white out errors
- Include a photo
- Include geographic restrictions
- Include salary history
- Include supervisor’s name
- List references on resume
- Print on both sides of the page
- Reproduce poor copies
- Send a resume without a cover letter
- State date of availability
- Type “Resume” at the top of the page
- Use dark colored paper
- Use false information
- Use fancy type or fonts
- Use “out of date” resume
- Use pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
- Use resumes with objectives different from that of the position for which you are applying
- Use trick fold-outs or gimmick approaches
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Information Courtesy of MTC Job Placement 1/2003
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