Effective Resume Writing

Resume Tips for Teens

In your foray to the “adult world”, teens would inevitably encounter resumes when searching for jobs. Since you’re fairly new and this could be your first time to produce such document, this article focuses on resume tips for teens.

No Fancy Paper

A plain white one is enough. Colorful papers with distinctive scents are more likely to be placed in the “rejected” pile.

Find a Sample

Look for a resume and use it as a format. The usual information required is your name, address, contact number, email address, education and work experience. I know some of these information will be hard to supply, but with the proper style, any data can be worked to your advantage.

Work the Kinks

This is what I’m talking about when I said “proper style”. For example, if you’re still in school, you could just write something like “Presently a Senior at ”. If you’re in college, then add the course you are pursuing.

      Ex. Presently a Senior at , Bachelor in Business Administration, Majoring in Management

Another one is your work experience. Start thinking about the jobs you’ve had and incorporate them in your resume. Even babysitting is work, you just have to use proper terminology and spice it up a little. For example, you could say that you are involved in child care.

Site References

this is a very important part of a resume and is usually placed at the end of the document. Basically, its people you know who can vouch for your skill and dedication. It could be a former employer, a teacher or someone well thought of in the neighborhood. Place the contact number of your references and never ever forget to ask them first if you could use them for recommendation.

Building a Resume for a New Career

The first thing a job seeker must know before looking for a job is that one format of resume isn’t fit to send to all types of company. Each business requires different set of skills that must be featured in different resumes. To put it plainly, a resume must be custom made for the position you’re applying for. So what happens if you’re changing careers? Same thing, you have to let your resume advertise you.

When in between jobs, don’t just shower your resume over a number of vacant positions and hope for the best. Rather, look for a specific position, something that you are confident you can fill and exercise your wiles. Study your “target” job carefully and determine the skills and knowledge needed to fill the position. You can list these down as you go along to better have a summarized idea of what you are aiming for. When done, start itemizing your skills that could fill those much needed gaps. It is up you if you want to take the time to develop the skills that you don’t possess, however, don’t take too long as the position could be filled up by the time you finish. When done, your newly acquired skills will now be a focal point of your resume. Work them into the summary of your career history; highlight the experiences and strengths relating to your “target”. Don’t just insert the skills; instead re-write the whole resume so you could rearrange the whole content to emphasize your focal points.

As with any other resume, proofread your work and make sure that there are no grammatical and spelling errors. It could also be helpful to ask someone to proofread it for you  as new eyes will be more susceptible in spotting errors.

Preparing Your Resume- Effective Resume Writing

Online, there are many tips on how to prepare an effective resume. The first and most important consideration is that a resume must be concise and comprehensive. Whether we like it or not, this is the margin if a resume is either good or bad. Below is an outline of an effective resume.

1. It must be brief as not to bore the employer for reading, and comprehensive to tackle all relevant information.

    Remember, you are writing a resume and not a book. Try to eliminate information you think that will not help in your application. And, even if such information were eliminated, still, it is voluminous, try to eliminate according to importance.

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