Writing the parts of a resume people actually read
Specific, checkable guidance on the sections that decide whether you get a call: the work experience bullet points, the summary, the skills block, and the keywords an applicant tracking system screens on.
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Accountant Resume Examples: Entry Level to CPA
A controller wants three answers from your accountant resume: CPA status, the ERP you've closed the books in, and what you own. Here are examples that give them, from a…
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Accountant Resume Examples: Entry Level to CPA
A controller wants three answers from your accountant resume: CPA status, the ERP you've closed the books in, and what you own. Here are examples that give them, from a…
Server Resume Examples: Covers, Checks and Upselling
Managers read a server resume for section size, covers per shift and how you move the check. Here are bracketed examples for casual, fine dining, banquet and bartender-server jobs.
Security Guard Resume Examples: License, Posts and Incidents
Recruiters at security companies check your guard card before anything else. Here is where it goes, with bullets for each post type, incident report wording and an armed version.
Project Manager Resume Examples: Scope, Budget and Delivery
Lead with your method and credential, give every project a size line, and write bullets about what the plan met in real life. With IT, construction and agile versions.
Engineering Resume Templates: Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and More
Pick the engineering resume template for your discipline, then get the parts every engineering resume shares right: the discipline line, FE and PE placement, and project bullets with real scope.
Internship Cover Letter: Examples When You Have Little Experience
With little experience, an internship cover letter runs on your graduation date, one class project and how you work. Here's the structure, with examples for four fields.
CNA Resume Examples: Certification, Clinicals and Bullets
Put your state certification and registry line first, name your setting, and write ADL, vitals and transfer bullets that stay inside CNA scope. Examples for new and experienced nursing assistants.
Thank You Email After an Interview: Examples You Can Send Today
Send it within 24 hours, keep it to about 100 words, and include one detail only that interviewer would recognize. Examples for every kind of interview.
High School Resume Examples: What to Put When You Have Little Experience
Three complete high school resume examples, for a first job, a college application and a summer job, plus what to write in each section when you have no work history…
Resume Objective Examples for Every Situation
An objective earns its place in five situations. Here are 29 examples, most rewritten from a weak line into a two-line summary with one clause of intent.
Nursing Resume Examples and Skills for Every Specialty
Put your license right under your name, give every job its unit, ratio and EHR, and write bullets for the specialty you are applying to. Examples for ICU, ER, med-surg,…
Cover Letter Examples for Your Resume, Written by Job
Six short cover letters written for real jobs, each showing what that field screens for first. Copy the structure, replace the brackets, and send a letter that sounds like you.
Questions to Ask the Interviewer (and What Each Answer Tells You)
Thirty questions to ask at the end of an interview, grouped by what you want to find out, with what a good answer and a weak answer sound like.
Skills for a Resume: What to List for Your Job (With Examples)
List the skills your job ad names, in its words, and prove each one in a bullet. Hard vs soft skills, where each goes, and what leads the list in…
Resume Action Verbs: 200 Stronger Words, Grouped by What You Did
200 action verbs for your resume, sorted by the kind of work you did, each group with an example bullet for a named job, plus the weak phrases to replace…
Cover Letter Templates for Word: Written, Not Blank
A cover letter template in Word solves the layout and leaves you the writing. Here is how Word's built-in designs compare with a letter already written for your role, and…
LaTeX Resume Template vs Word: Which One Reads Cleanly in an ATS
A LaTeX resume template and a Word file can both parse cleanly, and both can break. Here is where each one fails, a two-minute test for your PDF, and how…
Administrative Assistant Resume Examples and Skills
Lead your administrative assistant resume with who you support and the software you run, then give every bullet a volume. Examples for calendars, travel and invoices, plus entry level and…
Software Engineer Resume Examples: Entry Level to Senior
A graduate and a staff engineer prove different things on paper. Here is what leads a software engineer resume at each level, with bullets to adapt and the lines recruiters…
New Grad Nurse Resume: Examples, Clinicals and Skills
No RN job yet? A new grad nurse resume puts license or NCLEX status in line one, lists clinical rotations like jobs, and treats your capstone as your strongest experience.
Computer Skills for a Resume: What to List and How to Prove It
When you list computer skills for a resume, name the software and the level, then prove it in a bullet. Lists by job type, where the section goes, and what…
Data Analyst Resume Examples: Tools, Projects and Bullets
Examples you can adapt for every part of a data analyst resume: the tools line, bullets with one business outcome each, and projects for entry-level and career-change applicants.
Teacher Resume Skills and Examples for Every Grade Level
Start your teacher resume with license and grade band, then the five skill groups principals look for, with example lines for preschool through high school and bullets for new and…
Medical Assistant Resume Examples and Skills (With Bullets by Experience)
Start your medical assistant resume with your certification, written the way the awarding body does. Then show both the clinical and front-office halves of the job and pick bullets for…
Cover Letter Templates for Google Docs That Match Your Resume
Any cover letter template in Google Docs gives you a layout, not the letter. Here's how to bring a Word template into Docs without breaking it, and what to write…
How to List References on a Resume (and When Not To)
Should you put references on a resume? No: they belong on a separate page you send only when an employer asks. Here is how to format it, who to ask,…
Customer Service Skills for a Resume (With Bullet Examples)
A skills list with no proof behind it gets skimmed. Here are the customer service skills for a resume that postings ask for, each with a bullet that proves it,…
Resume Templates for Microsoft Word: Pick One Written for Your Job
Most resume templates for Microsoft Word give you a layout and an empty page. Here is how to pick one that parses cleanly, fits on the right number of pages,…
Google Docs Resume Templates: Free Layouts vs Ones Written for Your Job
A Google Docs resume template from the free gallery gives you a layout and no content. Here are Docs-editable templates written for your job, a two-minute layout test, and when…
Resume Summary vs Objective: Which One Do You Need?
A summary says what you bring; an objective says what you want. Why the summary usually wins, the three cases where intent belongs, and the version that does both.
How to Tailor a Resume to a Job Description in 15 Minutes
Tailoring is four small changes, not a rewrite. A minute-by-minute routine, what never to change, and why ten tailored applications beat sixty identical ones.
“Tell Me About Yourself”: How to Answer It in 90 Seconds
Present, past, future - in that order. The structure, five worked answers for different situations, and the five ways this question usually goes wrong.
How to Write a Resume With No Experience
You have more material than you think. What counts as experience, how to write up unpaid work like work, and the one sentence never to put on the page.
Career Change Resume: How to Make Old Experience Count
Answer the reader question before they ask it. The hybrid structure, translating your work into the new field vocabulary, and the one piece of evidence that settles it.
How Long Should a Cover Letter Be? Word Counts That Work
250 to 400 words on half a page, and shorter in an email. What to cut when it runs long, what to add when it runs short, and how to…
How to Start a Cover Letter: Five Openings That Work
The first line has one job: name the role and give a reason to read on. Five openings that do it, six that do not, and why you should write…
How to Write a Cover Letter for a Job, in Four Paragraphs
Start with the advert, not the opening line. What goes in each of the four paragraphs, with worked examples, and six lines to delete on sight.
Cover Letter vs Resume: What Each One Is Actually For
A resume is a record; a cover letter is an argument. What only each one can do, the mistake that makes letters useless, and how to write both without repeating…
How to Edit a Resume Template in Word, Google Docs or Pages
Turn on formatting marks, change styles rather than paragraphs, and never align with the space bar. The edits that break a template, and how to avoid them.
How Long Should a Resume Be? One Page, Two, or More
One page under ten years, two beyond it, and never a page and a quarter. What a second page has to earn, and how to cut without shrinking the type.
How to Write Resume Bullet Points That Get Read
A bullet point says what you did and what changed because of it. The shape that works, how to find a result when you have no number, and five bullets…
How to Write a Resume Summary (With Six Examples)
Four lines at the top, written last and pointed at one job. The shape that works, six worked examples at different career stages, and the words to leave out.
The Harvard Resume Format, Explained (and How to Build One)
What the widely copied Harvard style actually consists of, why it works, where it stops fitting once you are mid-career, and how to build one in half an hour.
The Reverse-Chronological Resume Format, in Detail
Why newest-first is the default, how much detail each role deserves, and how to handle promotions, contracts, overlaps and gaps without changing format.
Resume Format: Chronological, Functional or Hybrid?
Three structures, and for most people the answer is the first one. What each format leads with, who it suits, and the one-minute way to decide.
How to Write a Resume: A Section-by-Section Guide
Gather, write, then format - in that order. What goes in each of the five sections, what a bullet point needs, and the fifteen-minute tailoring pass at the end.
The Best Fonts for an ATS Resume (and the Ones to Skip)
Almost every font parses correctly, so the real question is readability. The safe list, what to avoid, and the sizes and spacing that go with it.
How to Find Resume Keywords in a Job Description
A five-step method for pulling the words a recruiter will actually search for out of a job advert, and putting them where they count.
ATS-Friendly Resume Format: The Eight Rules That Matter
Eight formatting rules that keep an applicant tracking system reading your resume correctly, and the list of things you are still allowed to keep.
What Is an ATS Resume? How the Software Actually Reads It
An applicant tracking system is filing software, not a judge. What it really does to your resume, the seven formatting choices that break it, and how to check your own…
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