Header
Includes your name, permanent and college addresses, telephone number(s), and e-mail address. Once you have graduated, of course, you would use only your permanent address and phone on your resume.
Career Objective
This is strictly an optional section on a resume. If you are reasonably focused on a particular type of position and/or industry, then include a targeted objective in your resume. Avoid pronouns and flowery phrases or cliches. A clearly, simply stated objective will serve as a confident statement of your interests.
If you are not certain about your career focus, then do not include an objective on your resume. You will undoubtedly struggle to draft a statement that fails to enhance your resume or increase your chances of securing an interview. Narrowing your career focus to a manageable number of career options is very desirable.If you are in need of assistance with this, meet with a member of the Career Services staff.
Education
Include the following: college name, city, state, degree, concentration, date of graduation, overall GPA ( if 3.0 or better), concentration GPA ( if 3.0 or higher), academic awards, and relevant courses (include only if they highlight features of your major concentration or show a specific skill).
If you contribute to the expenses of your college education, make a statement indicating percentage earned.
Do not include information pertaining to your high school years if you are beyond your sophomore year.
Computer Skills
Indicate the names of software that you are proficient in or reasonably familiar with. Also indicate your ability to work in an IBM windows environment and/or Macintosh environment.
Experience
This section should include the following elements:
- company/organization's name, city and state employment dates (to and from) job title and job description.
- Be sure to list all relevant experiences that will support your career objective. Include internships and/or unpaid positions.
In describing your experiences:
- highlight work tasks that are relevant to the position you are seeking.
- Emphasize major responsibilities and eliminate minor details.
- Use numbers whenever possible to describe the magnitude of your achievements.
- Use action verbs to begin your bullet-point statements.
Accomplishments
With a functional resume, this heading is an effective way to draw attention to the fact that you have not only performed your duties at your jobs and activities, but also have excelled by making positive changes and contributions. NOTE: While this sample resume does an excellent job of conveying this student's abilities and accomplishments, employers generally prefer the chronological format. You should choose a functional resume format only in circumstances where the chronological format cannot adequately convey your abilities (and after consulting with a career counselor).
College Leadership and Activities
Leadership: List campus positions you have been elected to or selected for. Use titles such as secretary, president, chair. Describe responsibilities by focusing in on experiences in which you were singled out as an achiever. If you designed a program, motivated people to attend an event or raised $1,000 for a charitable organization, these are all results and demonstrate qualities that employers find desirable.
Activities: Include clubs, professional organizations, sports, community groups or committees that you have been involved in.
Additional Categories
You may include information on professional affiliations, community service, international travel, special skills or fluency in other languages.