ON THE FIRST DAY OF RESUMES,
NAU Career told me:
HAVE A SOLIDLY CRAFTED RESUME!
NAU Career presents…12 Days of Resumes!
Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle this holiday season while trying to build your resume! Turn on the fireplace, grab yourself a cup of hot cocoa, and read through our TWELVE DAYS OF RESUMES jingle to show every employer why you’re the best elf for the job!
We will be releasing a series of blog posts and videos leading up to December 25th with important information, so don’t miss out!
Check us out on all our social media channels (@naucareer) for more information and to see the NAU Career staff offer you the gift of their lovely voices this year to celebrate!
Day 1: Writing a solidly crafted resume
Your resume is a marketing document and should be focused on delivering a specific message about you to your target audience. In order to know what to include in your resume, you have to be able to answer the following question:
What do you want employers to learn about you?
Your resume cannot and should not try to tell everything there is to know about you!
The core message of your resume should include the aspects of your education, experience, skills, and characteristics that are relevant to your application. Once you know your core message, you can begin creating and formatting your resume!
Formatting tips
Here are some tips for creating a professional-looking resume:
- Use a professional, consistent font across all resume sections
- Use bold or italics to highlight important information
- Use black text only
- Make sure your font is readable, usually at least 10pt
- Align key information along the right and left margins, to make the resume easy to scan
- Use bullet points, rather than paragraphs, to describe your experience
- Consider including horizontal lines to distinguish each section, and/or border, but not if you have to cut content to do so
- Edit for typos, extra spaces, and indentations, consistent use of periods, etc.
For more information or to see some examples, be sure to visit our website or schedule an appointment via Handshake! Happy holidays!
– NAU Career Development!