Writing Resumes

Your resume should briefly outline your educational and employment experience, your interests, and courses you have taken in your major. In short, your resume should tell the employer: who you are and what you know, what you have done, what you would like to do, and what you can do for the employer.

The resume should be neat, easy to read, and free of spelling and grammatical errors. Use margins and titles, logically arranged, to guide the reader. Develop separate sections on education, work experience, personal data, and extracurricular activities in such a way as to enable the reader who is probably skimming your resume along with many others-to get the highlights quickly.

• This must be done before you can start interviewing.
  
• Your resume should be limited to one or two pages in length. Include your name on the second page. Although your work experience (part-time and summers) may be widely divergent, you should include it in your resume because employers consider your exposure to work situations important.