When listing your job experience, be sure to include the company’s name, address and how long you were employed.
All other categories should follow suit with your design, as well as all of your grammar, capitalization and words should be correct. For example, if you start off capitalizing each word listed in a bullet, make sure you do so for each bullet listing. Your spelling should be checked by another just in case spell check missed something (as it does often). Bottom line – this document is your chance at a new opportunity – make sure it is perfect!!!
After you are finished with writing the content, designing the layout and putting it all together, just a few more things before you can call it quits. First, find some great paper to print your résumé on. Normal white or off-white résumé paper is perfect. Be sure to stay away from colored or pre-designed paper – you want your information to stand out, not your favorite color.
And finally, figure out how you want to present your résumé. If you plan on sending or dropping off your résumé in, fit it in a nice binder – a binder is a great way to package your resume in a book format, and you can easily include any sample work as appendices.
If you don’t have any sample work to include, or just aren’t that flashy, a nice report cover is perfect for your résumé.
A perfect résumé isn’t hard to do – and now you are ready to go at it. Expect to spend a few hours on such a task, but don’t get frustrated. Just remember, your résumé is, in fact, the single most important document to help get you that great job, so be good to yourself and do it right. A little patience can go a long way – maybe even all the way to the top!