I’ll will share to you the guidelines on how to make a good resume, but every resume depend on everyone’s background and we have different background to write in our resume.

This guidelines may help those who are searching a job and having difficulties in making their resume. Read this simple tips to guide you in your resume making, but you must also trust your own thinking and knowledge on how to make your own resume. But with this guideline you can get more idea what to write and how to write your resume.

1. Before writing your first word in your resume, determine first the position you desired and the name of industry you want to target. Make an outline for your resume and fill up the needed information and details about your background.

2. This called resume because the details must length to 1 – 2 pages, this is the major rule in making resume. Make sure to make short and simple but very informative about your background. Always remember this, the longer your resume the less likely it will be read by the manager or the person in charge for hiring.

3. Don’t include pictures if not required by the company or industry.

4. Avoid functional resume format, what is this? – You can emphasize relevant strengths that you have like work experiences, qualifications, and accomplishments related to your skills but it is separated with each other in different skill section. But this is associated by many negatives so avoid this format more especially if you are fresh graduate and don’t have experiences in work.

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5. When you apply local don not include your personal information such as; marital status, number of children, date of birth, ethnicity. It is only acceptable international resume’s.

6. Always make sure to put your name at the top of your resume at first line in a large bold font with contact information below it.

7. For your summary section, put your introduction and brief summary of your background make this section short and strong.

8.In the experience section put your accomplishment in bulleted style, make this simple and strong but informative. 

9. Avoid writing or including your negative background, it can make your resume rejected by the company. If you really want to include your negative background make sure that you present it in a way that lessen the negative impact.

10. Use readable font and font size, for your body text used 10 and 12 font size and suggested font style is times new romans, it is more attractive and readable compare to other fonts.

11. make sure that your resume is accurate and honest, all must real about what you have written on it.

12. Don’t include salary information or expectation in your resume document.

13. Once you finalized everything, make sure to have the copies of your documents in different format like SCII.txt, adobe, pdf and HTML. This format is useful when you apply online,send via emails or printing your actual resume.

This are the basic guidelines in making resume, hope it can help you to find successful job.

Good luck and God bless