Resume Writing Tips and Assistance

By Moe Bedard

Whether you land an interview or are passed over for an interview is largely dependant on the quality of your resume. In difficult economic times, where unemployment is high and jobs are scarce, your resume needs to be qualitatively superior to your competition. Luckily, there are a number of different tips and strategies for effective resume writing as well as resume writing services that will help American workers for a fee and some completely free of charge.

Resume Writing Tips:

• #1 Insure you highlight your achievements paying closest attention to how you have directly improved the bottom line of a business.

• #2 Check for grammar, spelling and usage errors. Check your work a second time and have at least one other person check your work. Having someone else critique your life’s work on paper may feel uncomfortable, but not nearly as bad as being unemployed.

• #3 Keep your resume brief and to the point. Never exceed two pages unless instructed to do so.

• #4 Is your contact information up to date, address, phone, fax?

• #5 Include a statement of purpose and tailor your statement of purpose to each employer you submit your resume to.

• #6 Use common a common font and a common font size, e.g. 11 or 12 point font

• #7 Exclude negative commentary about past employers

• #8 Use the active voice when writing, i.e. do not write in past tense and use verbs frequently to describe what you have done for employers in the past

• #9 Avoid contractions, e.g. “it’s” is bad, “it is” is appropriate.

• #10 Avoid using the pronouns “I” and “me”

Paid Resume Services:

Career Strides

Professionalresumes.com

Resume Edge

Resume Lines

Check Mate Resume

Free Resume Services:

HowtoWriteaResume.net

ResumeTemplates.org

Microsoft Templates

Recent College Grad Resume Templates

FreeResumesamples.org