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RESUME
Resume is a vital part of the employment process. Although a resume should give a lot of information about you, you need to determine your main “selling points” and then to select and. order facts in a way that will impress your reader. Here are some guidelines:

- Match your skills and experience to the needs of the organization.
- Stress what sets you apart from the crowd.
- Remember that the primary aim is to rouse’ the employer’s interest, not to provide a biography.

Your resume should include enough information about you for the employer to feel that you are worth interviewing. Here is a list of the most common kinds of resume information. Be prepared to omit, add, or alter according to the job.

Name and Address
Usually this information is placed at the top of the page. Resume, unlike CV, Curriculum Vitae, is limited by one page only. Be sure to include the full mailing address with a postal code. You may also add a telephone number. If you are a student with a different mailing address for winter and summer months, give both addresses and the dates when you will be at location.

Present Employment
This information helps the reader to grasp quickly the basis of your experience and the level of your responsibility.

Job Objective
This category is useful if you are a student trying to suggest that you have definite career goals. It may also be useful if you want a specific job in a large organization with a number of vacancies. In any case, it’s better to give not the position you would like (for example, a sales manager), but the area and the general level of responsibility (for example, «a management position in marketing» or «management trainee»).
On the other hand, if you are willing to try a variety of jobs, it’s better not to include this category.

Summary of Qualifications
Some consultants recommend to place a capsule “Profile” of one or two sentences before the more detailed listing of your experience or qualifications. This summary is your chance to hit the reader directly with your most important attributes for the job, for example, “an energetic and skilled communicator”, “a specialist with the ability to analyze needs and implement solutions”, “full of entrepreneurial spirit”.

Education
For students whose job experience is scanty or nonexistent, this section usually comes first. Educational qualifications are most often the primary selling point. Begin with your most recent educational attainment or your most advanced degree or diploma.
If you have a post-secondary education, it’s not necessary to include your high (secondary) school, unless you have a particular reason for doing so. Be sure to give the date you obtained any degree or diploma, along with the name of the institution that granted it.
If courses you have taken are a selling point, list those relevant to the job you are applying for. (This is especially important for students seeking their first permanent job.)

Work experience
In most resumes, this information is the major focus: In a standard resume, it is given in reverse chronological order. Students should include all volunteer and part-time jobs.

However you arrange the section, follow this guide:

1. Make the information action-oriented. For example, write:
- reviewed customer service procedures;
- organized employee training seminars;
- prepared budgets for the promotion department;

2. Stress accomplishment. Instead of listing your duties for each job, tel1 what you have achieved. Rather than say that your “duties were to supervise customer accounts and keep the books”, say that you “supervised the customer accounts and kept the books.”

3. Be honest. A small lie in resume is enough to wipe out the employer’s trust in you, even if it is discovered wel1 after you have the job. Integrity is an attribute never worth sacrificing. This advice does not mean that you should write about all your faults and draw attention to errors. But you should not misinform the reader.

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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra

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