How To Write A Resume


The Experience Section

List your relevant work experience in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Keep bolding italicizing, and underlining to a minimum - bolding your job titles only will highlight your experience effectively. Each experience entry should consist of:

• Job/position title - this should be bolded.
• Company name and location (city, state or country if not in U.S.).
• Duties/Accomplishments - describe what you did (not what you were responsible for) and the skills you used/developed. Relate, as closely as possible, your past experience to the job for which you are applying. How to write a good resume bullet

Example:

Customer Service Representative / Administrative Assistant, 2002 - 2004
K&B Homes, Pleasanton CA

• Managed and updated customer's information using company's computer network
• Assisted Spanish-speaking homebuyers in K&B showroom.
• Administrative duties: faxing, updating files, and answering multiple-phone line system.

President, 2002-2004
California State University Honor Society, San Jose, CA

• Led officers efforts to organize and promote year-round activities
• Coordinated with campus decision-makers to develop more student-friendly elections

OR

To save space, you could use this paragraph format, but bullets are much easier to read:

Participated in a city wide response to local flooding by organizing student club presidents and officers to participate on different city outreach efforts throughout the city.

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