Interview Assitant: Creating a Resume - How Do You Go About It?

Creating a Resume - How Do You Go About It?

In many ways, it is simpler than ever to go about creating a resume. If you purchase a sophisticated word processing application, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, they will include several different templates for resume design.

The most difficult part of creating a resume is deciding what information to put in it! Despite what some people would have you believe, having a college degree certainly opens doors. Not having a degree will prevent you from getting even an entry-level position in most fields.

In order to assure your prospective employer that you have the experience needed for the job, it is as well to participate in as many organizations as possible - relevant to your chosen field - while you're in college. Work experience gained by working on the college newspaper will stand you in good stead when you're applying for a job at a news agency.

Even if you're going to work for an individual who never went to college but, because of their fantastic computer skills, for example, was able to create a multi-million dollar business on their own, chances are that they are going to expect you to have a pretty thorough resume. There's usually room for only one genius in businesses of those kind.

A resume consists of three parts - your education, including the names of the schools you have attended and the specific field of study you followed, your work experience, including names and addresses of companies, and specific work that you performed for each employer. The third part typically features miscellaneous information such as your hobbies, and is where you list your membership in various professional organizations - another important key to make you resume look all the more inviting.

A separate page to your resume is a list of your references. Make sure to talk to your college professors, and your supervisors and associates at all your jobs, so that you can include their names and phone numbers on your reference list.

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