CONTENT OF YOUR RÉSUMÉ
Heading: Your name should be in a larger (up to 14-16
point) font. Make sure you have the correct contact
information including address, phone, and email without
the link enabled.
Professional Summary: Brief statement at the
beginning of your résumé that states your strengths for
the position to which you are applying.
Education: Include the name of your degree, major,
school, city, state, and date of completion or intended
completion. You can include your GPA and relevant
coursework.
Skills: (optional) Skills should be relevant to the position
and can be pulled from any of your experiences. This
section will be placed near the top of the page to be
seen first.
Experience: You may include paid, unpaid, full-time, part-
time, internships, and volunteer positions. Use action
verbs and short phrases to explain your qualifications and
catch the reader’s attention. Using numbers can validate
your skills and experience.
Extracurricular Activities: Include membership in clubs,
organizations, professional societies, sports, and
committees, etc. You can describe your responsibilities
and leadership positions, but it is not necessary if you are
struggling with space.
Technology and Foreign Language Skills: For foreign
languages, provide a level of proficiency (i.e. advanced
proficiency, fluency, conversational). List any software
that you can use, database skills, and any others related
to the job.
ACTION VERBS
Begin each descriptive bullet with a strong action verb. If you have a job description to which you are applying, try to use the
words that are used in that description to describe your experience. Do not overstate your responsibilities and stay truthful.
Administration
Approved, arranged, catalogued, classified, collated,
compiled, conducted, coordinated, documented, initiated,
inspected, monitored, operated, organized, prepared,
prioritized, purchased, recorded, rectified, resolved,
spearheaded, specified, supervised, systematized,
transformed, terminated
Analysis
Amplified, analyzed, calculated, compiled, computed,
detected, diagnosed, disapproved, evaluated, examined,
forecasted, formulated, identified, investigated, measured,
programmed, researched, solved, studied, surveyed
Communications
Acted as liaison, advised, advocated, arbitrated, authored,
counseled, corresponded, commented, consulted, displayed,
edited, guided, instructed, interviewed, interpreted,
informed, lectured, lobbied, moderated, marketed, mediated,
negotiated, published, presented, promoted, recommended,
referred, taught, trained, translated, wrote
Manual
Assembled, built, constructed, delivered, installed,
maintained, navigated, operated, rejuvenated, repaired,
replaced, restored, rewired
Planning and Development
Created, designed, developed, drafted, devised,
discovered, estimated, initiated, improved, modified,
planned, proposed
Management
Audited, allocated, balanced, charted, collected,
documented, expedited, invested, inventoried, logged,
maximized, procured, processed, scheduled, updated
General
Accomplished, achieved, completed, contributed,
enhanced, evaluated, expanded, handled, increased,
originated, performed, provided, served, strengthened,
transformed