5 Essential Elements in a Resume

Whether you are writing a resume for a job, volunteer, or school application it's a daunting task ahead of you. You've probably procrastinated this long enough confused of how you should write a resume. Although resumes vary in their purposes and template, you should always remember these few essential elements in your resume:contact information, mission/objective statement, accomplishments, education experience, and most importantly you should review your resume before submission.

Contact Information:
Whenever you are writing a resume it is important to always include correct contact information ensuring that it is valid and up to date so your potential employer may contact you. It is vital you check your resume before submitting, confirming your contact information includes your name, email, phone number and address. You should also verify that all your information is up to date. so often people forget to update their information when they have moved or changed providers especially if they are reusing a previous resume(which they shouldn't) and this often cause a lot of miscommunication between potential employers and employees that could cause them the job.

Objective Statement
Another factor to consider is your mission and objective statement. Your objective statement should be located near the top of your resume which will outline your goals and intentions. Many people keep their objective statement vague but in reality you should be precise and to the point. Employers have to review tons of resume and they are probably looking for a specific position to fill, if you make your objective statement vague there is a possibility that it may end up in the trash.

Accomplishments:
In any resume your accomplishment is a key point to include, a resume should be created to show off yourself so you should include any major events, ability or achievements, previous work accomplishment or anything that would make you stand out above all the other applicants. This should be included regardless of your age or experience. It may be hard to do so if you are just starting out or haven't done much but it's essential. Try to think of anything you have been involved in, I'm sure you can think of something. Even if you're just coming out of school there are many things you can include. I find my brain process better and is able to recall events in silence so give it a try, sit down and go through your life.

Education Experience
You should always include your education whenever you are writing a resume. This includes any courses or schooling you have taken, completed or in process of and your GPA if it's significant. You should present this in order of your most recent to the latter with your most recent schooling or course you have attended listed first. If you've yet to completed a course or graduated you should include the course you are attending and the expected date of graduation.

Reviewing your Resume:
Finally it's time to proof-read your resume, this is a vital part to the process of completing your resume. Make sure that your resume is free of typos and grammar mistakes, check through, edit, check through, edit, check through and edit again. Then when you finally think your resume is to your best ability without any mistakes check through once more and have a friend review it. It is important that you ensure there are no callas mistakes or worse painfully obvious mistakes present on your resume since this indicates a lot about you when reviewers review your application.

Targeting:
Also remember to make your resumes targeted, you shouldn't be reusing resumes for different jobs you may be able to reuse the template but you shouldn't just print out a 100 copies of one resume and hand it to 100 jobs. You should make your resume appeal to the company you are potentially working for with facts and facts alone. Also remember to include previous work experience or anything else that would draw eyes to your resume. I have to stress and remind constantly that a resume is meant to attract your potential employer and make yourself stand out from the rest.

Now remember these tips when you are writing your resume, do some more read up and research. And don't forget to continue following our blog for more posts. And don't forget these are just some of the many elements in a resume. Be sure to include these but don't live by these alone. We may be having a follow up post on this one to cover work experience and a few other elements on include. Also often you can get relatively good resume template on Microsoft Word. To do this when you create a new document select "resume" and choose what applies to you. I'm currently in the process of getting PLR (Private Label Rights) to a book so that I may give loyal readers and followers this additional resource FREE as I encourage additional reading and research. You never know you may find it a blast.

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