1. How long does a hiring manager look at your resume?
An average of 7 seconds What does this tell you?

2. An Effective Resume

3. What is the most important part of your resume?
Education
Experience
Skills
It is about “selling yourself”
How will you be an asset to this company, organization, institution?

4. Name Address Email, Phone
Objective: one sentence relates to the position
Education:
Name of School, city, state dates
degree, graduate hours (Cum Laude)
Experience: (above education once have experience)
Job Title, Employer, City, State dates
Duties and responsibilities (last job first)
Action verbs
Skills: relevant to employer/job Certification, dates
Activities: (omit later in life?)
Name activity, dates
Awards: (omit later in life?)
Name of award, place awarded from, dates
References: (optional)
Full name, phone and/or

5. Tips/Suggestions
Simple is better: 1 page unless, 12 inch font, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins
No exclamation points, please!!!
Be consistent & clear
No errors…. Proofread, proofread, proofread
Customize your resume
recent
relevant to that job
Show case accomplishments
Sell yourself using ACTION verbs
Do not lie

6. What recruiters think you should know (Forbes Magazine)
Impress the robot
What words?
Do your homework
Company and industry specific
Quantify your accomplishments
Numbers matter
Be consistent online and offline
Resume versus social media
Check back every two weeks
Robot – use words automated machine looking for (percentile match – internship, excel)