amanda murdock POSITION TITLE 000.000.000 Your City | State Linkedin.com/in/yourusernam youremail@mail.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE This is most important part of your resume. In this section you need clearly state WHAT are your best achievements and awesome skills and HOW they can help the X Company to grow. You have to present yourself, sell your candidature. No sale can be made without a value. If possible, show value to your achievements by using numbers, percentage to quantify them. And what value you can add for the company. State clearly and show how you will fit their position and their company. EXPERTISE • Add here your Competencies • Enhancing group productivity • Improving Efficiency • Attention to Detail • Problem-solving • Customer Relations • Please use our common • LIST OF EXPERTISE EDUCATION MASTER OF ARTS (TYPE OF DEGREE) Your major/minor Your University 2000 – 2003 City/State BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Natural Sciences Your University 1996 – 2000 City/State Please list your degrees from highest to lowest level. WORK EXPERIENCE WRITE POSITION TITLE HERE Company, City, State | 2015 – Present I’m sure you know yet just to remind: 1) please list experiences in reverse chronological order (most current experience first); 2) don’t forget to use right tenses – using past tense for any previous job and present for your current one. You can just delete this paragraph and go straight to the bullets. • • • • • The First rule is to use action words when giving details describing your work experience. Put the most relevant and impressive achievements first. Your accomplishments are your step to success, and are valuable for the company. We are all hired to be responsible for something yet the company looks for the INPUT, benefit they will get by having you as a worker. So describe what you managed, pioneered, achieved and you can use our ACTION WORD LIST. The company will look for a TRIO-benefit of how you can help them earn the money, save the money, or save the time. And the successful resume of your will need to have at least 2 of those. Don’t forget to add the VALUE and talk numbers wherever possible. Again, use numbers, amounts, dollar values, and percentages to quantify your accomplishments and responsibilities wherever possible (e.g., "Increased monthly sales by thirty percent," "Supervised and trained six new employees," "Handled daily receipts totaling $4000"). WRITE POSITION TITLE HERE Company, City, State | 2010 – 2015 • • • Remember the first rule, and then look to match the requirements and responsibilities that the company is listed. Again use the action words describing your past achievements. Try to identify even more specific to the job listing skills you have and duties you had. Job listings are like a puzzle waiting to be completed and your skills should be the pieces needed to complete it. Therefore, analyze and analyze the job listing, and mention the skills most suited to the position. Whatever you do, don’t exaggerate about you qualifications, because a wrong piece will never fit in once tested. POSITION TITLE HERE Company, City, State | 2008 – 2010 • All job postings are using PDF format of the resumes, so you will need to save the WORD DOCUMENT as PDF file. And it should be saved as a “borderless” PDF file. Meaning that there should not be any white/extra space around the title and the PDF should look exactly as you see it now. Please check out VIDEO tutorial of how to save your resume as PDF file.
