How to Create a Resume and Succeed

Creating a resume is tricky and there is not one right way to do it. There are however, many wrong ways to put together a resume! From typos to puffery, avoid making resume blunders and get the job you want.

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Don’t clutter up the page. If a resume isn’t easy to read then it won’t be read. Employers look at hundreds of resumes as they search for employees. If your font is too small, your writing too wordy, or you bulk out your employment history too egregiously (seriously, no one cares about your summer job when you were 14) then whatever gems you have in there will be missed. Emphasize the good and cut out the mediocre, it’s ok if your resume doesn’t fill the page.

Keep it real in every sense of the term. Lying on your resume is not just a great way to not get a job, it is also a felony. Enhancing job titles, inventing employers, stretching employment to cover out of work time, are all serious lies if you are found out, and with background checks as standard, you will be. You will get a job if you have the qualifications for that job, if you feel the need to bulk up your resume then maybe you should consider more education or training. Try talking to someone about your qualifications to make sure you are covering all your strengths.

Spell it right. Please, please, use spell check, shop it around to your friends, and re-read your resume before you send it out. It is simply depressing how many resumes are submitted with obvious spelling and grammatical errors. A resume with any errors will be thrown out, so don’t disqualify yourself through laziness.

Clear language is the key to communicating, so put everything in the third person (no me or I), describe your jobs with bullet points, and make everything into action phrases (ex. you weren’t a manager, you managed). Keep it concise so an employer read it quickly and clear so they don’t misunderstand anything.

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