Proper Resume Layout

Video Transcript

"I would recommend that candidates sort of default to a reverse chronological resume. So I guess we will walk through from top to bottom what that means. The very top portion of the resume is going to be the header. Obviously your name, when you write your name you can use all caps, you can use a bold on type of a font. Make sure that your name stands out not too big, not too small, but make sure that it stands out. Your physical address is important of course, phone number and email are important. Once again to drive the point home make sure your email is professional, make sure it is conservative. Nothing silly or controversial, or funny or whatever, make sure it is clean. Next step would be writing your objective. When we are talking about writing the headers of, excuse me the headings of each section of a resume typically we teaching using all caps. So I would type the word objective in all caps, and bold it. Next step would be writing your work experience section. So once again work experience in all caps, tabbing over and starting with your most current position. You are going to be typing in the company name, the job title, the location of the job, and the date range where you worked at that company. Now in terms of kind of the tools that you use on a resume we try to teach a conservative style of resume. Fonts I would select Times New Roman as an example, Arial is an example. I wouldn't use Courier, because that is a serif font. We are talking about serifs, sans serif fonts are always the best kind. What is a serif? It is the little tails that you see on the G's, or on the C's, or on the F's that are just a little too fancy if you will. So choose a san serif font when you are choosing a font for a resume. I think that by using bold in a consistent manner is very important. I said prior bolding your name, bolding your headings is a great idea. Stay away from italics. Italics can be a little bit hard to read. When you are talking about a point size for a font I would recommend not going any less than ten. When you are actually presenting a resume to a person in a place of business keep your paper very plain. I would stick with any kind of a white, any shade of white, any shade of cream is highly appropriate. Just keep it simple, keep it conservative. There is a great movie called Legally Blonde where the young lady put perfume on her resume on purple paper, no. Stay away from that."