Resume Tips

Full Name

Address

Telephone number

Email address

Please remember:

1. Writing your personal information, such as your marital status, gender, age, or attaching a photo is not appropriate or necessary.  
2. It is important to leave the telephone number where you can be reached or where a message can be left.
3. Keep your contact information up to date.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Be brief (4-5 phrases)
• Describe and highlight your most relevant skills and/or qualifications, stressing your experience and your competencies.
• Use bullets when describing your qualifications.
• Tailor your qualifications to the position you seek.
• Combine employability and technical skills.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Degree/Diploma   (Area of study)                                                                                                                   Dates of study

Name of the School         

City/Province/Country                       

• Begin with the most recent educational experience.
• Write the full name of the academic institution.  
• List your high school only if necessary.
• Avoid listing courses in this section. List courses under Relevant Course Work only to prove relevant experience required in the job ad.  

WORK EXPERIENCE

Position title                                     Date of employment (from- to)

Name of the employer                                                                                                                                                          City/Province/Country

• Describe your job responsibilities and tasks.
• Start with the most recent or current position.

• Indicate company name, position title, duties and skills.
• Make sure that name of employer and the location are identified.
• Begin each duty with an action verb indicating a skill. Use past tense for the verbs, e.g. worked, conducted, etc. See list of action verbs. (link)
• Use bullets when describing job responsibilities and skills.
• Be specific and concise.

RELEVANT COURSE WORK

• If you do not have any or enough relevant work experience for this position, list some of your graduate or higher level courses related to the job requirements.   

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING

• List all the additional courses, certificates or training you completed which would be relevant for this position.

AWARDS/HONORS

·         List special recognitions such as Dean’s awards, scholarships, fellowships, athletic awards, community and professional awards.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Title of journal article/presentations

(Name of journal/conference, dates of publication/presentation)

• Provide appropriate bibliographic description of any publications, presentations etc. you have authored or co-authored.
• Distinguish between authored and co-authored.
• Use bullets when describing different publications/presentations.
• Use title case in the titles of the article/presentations.
• Be honest.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

• This is an important section if you are applying within the information technology industry, television and film production, graphic design, or any other field which requires the use of various software programs.
• Indicate your computer proficiency by listing all your technical skills you have used in the past and you are comfortable with, i.e. web applications tools, database, platforms, design tools,  

REFERENCES

Available upon request.