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Resume.

The Basics.

  • What experience, skills, aptitudes, or traits do you have, or think you might have, that could be of some use to some employer?

  • What skills have you developed, at least to some degree that you have never used at work?

  • Do others at work or elsewhere, come to you for any particular kind of help? What kind?

  • Do you have military experience? Provide details such as branch, grade, specialty, discharge status, duties, accomplishments, medals, citations, or commendations. Did you receive promotions ahead of schedule?

  • Have you ever published an article, report, or anything, even as a volunteer? How about a company or professional association newsletter?

  • Have you ever given a talk, speech, or presentation, or provided training to anyone at work or elsewhere? Give the specifics.

  • Computer literacy and related skills: What platforms or operating systems do you use? List software, programs, internet skills etc.

  • What foreign languages do you know, and what is your level of skill in each (native speaker; fluent; moderate; phrase-book etc.)?

  • Do you have any special travel experience, domestic or foreign? If you studied, lived, or worked in a foreign country, how long were you there?


Awards/Recognition.

  • Were you praised, recognized, or given a pat on the back for anything - a particular assignment, a method of working, a trait of character? How? By whom?

  • Were you promoted ahead of schedule?

  • Selected for any special responsibilities or programs?


Responsibilities/Activities.

  • How many people did you supervise? Orient? Hire? Train?

  • How large of a budget did you manage?

  • Who do you report to?

  • What was the highest level in the company that you reported to or communicated with directly?

  • Did you coordinate anything?

  • Serve as liaison between groups or key individuals?

  • Mediate between groups or individuals? Resolve any conflicts? Serve as mentor to anyone?

  • Did you do, or participate in, strategic planning?

  • Did you evaluate any individual or group performance, or any task or project research?

  • What was your function on the team, or your contribution to winning? Your team's percentage of wins?

  • Did you back up someone? Who?

  • Did you do any surveys or other research or studies? Determine requirements?

  • Prepare recommendations?

  • Design or manage any processes, systems, or projects?

  • Consult for anyone, inside or outside the organization?

  • Did you gain experience in any special use software? Analytical or evaluative procedures? Equipment or hardware?

  • How much reduction in costs or increase in profits did you contribute to?

  • Did you add any smoothness, quality, or economy of operation that noticeably improved the way things were before you assumed responsibility?

  • Any concrete or specific signs of the gain you achieved?

  • Did you propose, suggest, or initiate any programs, changes, or improvements that were implemented at least partly because of your initiative?

  • What positive results occurred?

  • What did you do as a volunteer, beyond the regular duties of your position?

  • Whether you were paid for it or not, what were you particularly good at that made a difference in how the office (job, project, assignment) progressed from day to day?

“You are not your resume, you are your work.”

~ Seth Godin