1. Open the Door to Opportunity!
RESUME WRITING
Open the Door to Opportunity!

2. RESUME Resume is summary of your educational qualification details
It highlights your skills and experience relevant to the field
It highlights your objective and accomplishments
Its purpose is to get you an Interview call
A resume should reflect more than just work experience
It should consider your extracurricular, and leadership qualities

3. TYPES OF RESUMES Occupational resumes Chronological resumes
Functional resume
Combination resumes
Curriculum vitae (CVs)
Online Resumes

4. Occupational Resumes Business Analyst Resume Insurance Manager Resume
Sales Agricultural Resume
Bank Manager Resumes
Sales Retail Resume
Commodity Specialist Resume
Tax Accountant Resume
General Laborer Resumes
Elementary Teacher Resume

5. Chronological Resume Key components of Chronological Resume
Identification
Job Objective
Key Accomplishments
Education
Professional Experience
Affiliations/Interests
References

6. Functional Resume Key notes for Functional Resume
Should include personal details like name address.
Objective describing position you seek.
Profile giving summary of your talents and experience.
Experience listing your position, employer and dates.
Education details and Training Undergone.
Lastly Awards and Recognition received.

7. Combination Resume
The hybrid resume balances the functional and chronological approaches
It starts with skills, accomplishments, and qualifications of the job applicant.
Second page is reverse chronological ordering of your work experience.
This format allows the reader to first match your qualification against job opening.
It showcases your work experiences in the most marketable fashion.
It highlights your both job skills and accomplishments.

8. Curriculum Vitae
A curriculum vitae (CV) provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications.
It is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview.
An outline of a person's educational and professional history.
A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications.
It is an application form that is designed to bring out the essential information and personal qualities that the employer requires.

9. Information a CV should include
Personal details
Education and qualifications
Work experience
Interests and achievements
Skills
References

10. Online Resume Benefits of online resume.
You can submit your resume on any online job portal website which will manage your resume and make it visible to employers.
You can update your resume online anytime and anywhere.
Attach files such as Certificates, Word documents, PDF, and databases.
Add up to 5 different photos.
Very easy-to-use and it is Free.

11. Types of Online Resumes
Career Change Resume
Entry Level Experience Resume
Public Information Director Resume
Writer Resume
Dispatcher Resume

12. RESUME WRITING TIPS
List your technical knowledge first, in an organized way.
List your qualifications in order of relevance, from most to least.
Quantify your experience wherever possible.
Begin sentences with action verbs.
Highlighting all of your strengths.
Be concise resumes reflecting five years or less experience should fit on one page. Omit needless items.
Have a trusted friend review your resume.
Proofread. Be sure to catch all spelling errors and grammatical weaknesses.

13. Steps in Resume Writing
List your activities
Write about activities
Pick items to highlight
Create resume sections
Format your resume
Study Resume Examples

14. A well-designed resume does a number of things:
Paints a positive and factual picture of YOU.
Sets a positive tone for the interview.
Guides the interviewer in what to ask.
Influences others who approve the hiring.

15. Steps to a Good Resume
Choose a job target (also called a “job objective”). An actual job title works best.
Find out what skills, knowledge, and experience are needed to do that target job.
Make a list of your 3 or 4 strongest skills, abilities, knowledge that make you a good candidate for that target job.
For each key skill, think of several accomplishments from your past work history that illustrate that skill.
Describe each accomplishment in a simple action statement that emphasizes results

16. Steps continued
Make a list of the primary jobs you’ve held in chronological order. Include unpaid work that fills a gap.
Make a list of your training and education that is related to the new job you want.
Choose a resume format that fits your situation—either chronological or functional.
Arrange your action statements on your resume according to the format you chose.
Summarize your key points at or near the top of your resume in about five short lines.

17. Step 1: Choose a job target
“FOCUS” The people who have the hardest time finding a job are often the ones who insist on writing a “generic” resume that lists everything they ever did. They HOPE some employer will figure out what job will fit them….but employers won’t do that; they’re looking for people who know what they want.

18. Step 2: Find out what skills and experience are needed
Find that information in job ads, in employer’s job descriptions, or from someone working in that field.
Informational interviewing is one of the BEST ways to find out exactly what skills the job requires. Visit someone who does that kind of work and ask them to tell you about it.

19. Step 3: List your strongest skills
Examples taken from resumes: Target job: Customer Service Representative Relevant skills: verbal skills problem solving skills computer skills customer care skills Target job: Department Manager Relevant Skills: Personnel Management Budgeting/Financial Planning Supervision and Training

20. Step 4: Accomplishments
Examples taken from resumes:
Job Objective: Electronic Sales Representative
Direct Sales and Product Demonstration
Set sales record for 3 consecutive months.
Exceeded quotas and increased sales in largest territory
Job Objective: Merchandising
Set up effective retail displays of goods in supermarkets and package stores
Inventoried and reordered display materials

21. Step 5: Write action statements
Think about what problem existed in your workplace.
What action did you take to resolve the problem?
What were the beneficial results of your action?

22. Examples of accomplishments written as action statements
Developed friendly, supportive relationships with customers, building a loyal base of repeat customers.
Advised callers on how to make connections.
Designed and presented hour-long weekly orientation program; doubled membership
Assembled materials and reports.
Developed greatly improved filing system saving time.
Transformed a disorganized warehouse into a smooth- running organization; saved $250,000 in recovered stock.

23. Step 6: List past jobs
List your most recent job first, then your earlier jobs.
Include ALL jobs IF you are young and have very little work experience
Include ALL jobs that show experience related to your job objective
Include unpaid work if it helps to prove you have skills and experience or it fills in a gap.
Omit jobs that were very brief UNLESS they are needed to show how you developed your skills—or to fill in a skimpy work history.
Round all employment dates to years.

24. Step 6 continued Eliminate the earliest jobs; go back only 10-15 years
If you did roughly the same kind of odd job repeatedly, you could create your own job title and call yourself self-employed.
If you are CURRENTLY unemployed, Don’t use the word “volunteer”. Rename the category “Work History”.

25. Step 6 continued
If you have gaps in your work experience, tell what you WERE doing as gracefully as possible rather than leave a gap.
Examples:
Full-time employee
X-Pakistan leave, Cultural Exchange Program
Full time student

26. Step 7 List training and education
Omit high school if you have academic credentials from college.
Mention your college work even if you don’t plan to get a degree.
Omit this section IF you have no training, no college experience, and no courses to list that are in any way related to your new job goal.
If you completed a training class, list the certificate you earned.
If you only completed part of the training, list every course you took that is directly related to your current job target.

27. Step 8: Choose a format
Choose chronological if you’re staying in the same field and you have an unbroken employment history
Chronological means your work experience is arrange in order by dates of the jobs you’ve held with the most recent first. This one places more emphasis on your JOB TITLES

28. Step 8 continued
Functional means your work experience is described by emphasizing the SKILLS involved. Put the descriptive details into
skill-group paragraphs.
Example:
RELEVANT SKILL #1
-something I did using that skill
RELEVANT SKILL #2
Job Title, Company, City, province, dates

29. Step 9: Arrange your action statements
If you chose a chronological format, place each action statement under the appropriate job title where the action happened.
If you chose a functional format, place each action statement under a skill category.

30. Step 10: Summarize your key points at the top
Keep each summary statement to one line. Include key points that a new employer will need to know and those that will make you look attractive and qualified for the new job.
Examples:
- How much experience in this line of work
- Training or education in this line of work
- A special accomplishment or recognition
-Your key skills, talents, special knowledge
-Something about your attitude or work ethics

31. Reminders Proofread for grammar and punctuation. Check the spelling.
Get feedback from someone experienced.

32. Looking for a highly challenging and dynamic work environment, where I can transform my knowledge to valuable work experience and which can refine my research, managerial, & learning skills.
To take a challenging position in an esteemed organization with devotion and determination, so that it can enhance my skills and knowledge in the best interests of the organization and for my personal and professional growth.
To obtain a meaningful and challenging position in a healthy, friendly and competitive atmosphere that enables me to learn and excel. Believing that good team leadership and a hands-on approach to management brings increased standards of services.

33. References
Parker, Yana Damn Good Resume Guide, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA
Parker, Yana The Resume Catalog:
200 Damn Good Examples, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA