Middlesex County College - Resume

Resume - Getting Started

Before you even think about writing your resume ....

Start with a huge list

Remember. This isn't a resume; it's the inspiration for a resume. It's the paper you'll look back to when you're trying to figure out how to start your resume.

Writing a huge list can be tough. It's a lot of information in one place. So what you should do is organize your list into the following sections:

Education: Where you went to school, what your GPA was (especially if it was very good J, a list of classes you took, what your major/minor was. If you're still in school, then your most up-to-date information is fine.

Employment: All the jobs you've ever had, and the dates that you had them.

Volunteering: What have you done for the community, church? What skills have you learned?

Honors: These are academic, athletic, or community awards or scholarships.

Activities at home and at school: What have you done in your life that demonstrates responsibility, initiative, competence, teamwork, or other personal skills and qualities? Have you raised children? Been a caregiver? Managed your band? Participated in contests or competitions? Sung in your choir? Taught Sunday School? If you held any leadership positions in any of these activities, throw that in too. Some of these will not appear on your resume as such, but still can help to craft other parts of your resume (e.g. the Objective)

Passions: Baseball, NASCAR, genealogical research, music, online gaming, drawing?

Skills: Speak any languages? What are all of your computer knowledge, especially of complicated software? Do you know how to operate heavy machinery? All that stuff goes into the "skills" category. This is the catch-all category of things you know how to do because you never know what the employer may be looking for.

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