The document provides guidance on resume basics and formatting. Key points include focusing on skills, using a reverse chronological format, including sections for education, experience, and skills, and emphasizing accomplishments through strong action verbs and quantifiable results. Sections should be consistently formatted, with experiences divided into related, leadership, and other categories.

1. Resumes

2. Review the Basics
 Focus on SKILLS
 Write for the audience
 .5 to 1” margins
 10-12 point font  be consistent
 Reverse chronological order – newest first
 No personal pronouns
 White or off-white paper
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3. Format
 Objective (optional)
 Education (study abroad)
 Skills (Technical)
 Honors (if relevant)
 Related Courses (optional)
 Experience
- Related, Leadership, Other
 Activities
 Languages
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4. Header Information
 No one right header – see samples
 Keep email and voice mail professional
 List the best phone number where you
can be reached
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5. Objective
 Optional Section
 Be Specific
 Objective not necessary when attending
fairs unless focused or have multiple versions
 Careful about UCS Primary Resume in
Careerolina
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6. Education Essentials
 College and High School (FY & Soph)
 Degree, Major(s) & Graduation Dates
 You can have a major and two minors, or
two majors and a minor (double major rules)
 List GPA if above 3.0 (overall and major)
- 2 decimal places only
 Relevant Courses (optional)
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7. Skills (Technical)
 Programming Languages
 Scripting Languages
 Operating Systems
 Web Site Development
 Database Development
 Other Tools

8. Experience
Content
 More than jobs
 Divide into types of experience
Format
 Simple bullets
 Action verbs
 Quantities and percentages
 Focus on accomplishments and skills - describe what you
accomplished, not just "Programmed software to calculate
chess moves", but how fast was it? what language did they use?
if they put something in the app store, how many downloads did
they get.
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9. Experience
Experience Section(s)
 Different format options – see samples
 Use consistent format throughout
 Different types of experiences—related, leadership,
class projects, etc.
 Hacking you’ve done on weekends or as side
projects should be listed, especially mobile/app
dev/or web which usually isn't always covered in
the classroom
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10. Activities
 Employer favorite
 Leadership in action
 Shows interest outside of the classroom

11. Skills
 Languages (foreign or second
languages)
 Do not include communication, public
speaking, organizational and similar
skills – show those “in action”
 Place this section in the resume that
markets you the best
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12. Walter Hanes
133 E 13th Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919-123-4567 whstudent@nyu.edu
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S. Computer Science May 2014
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC
B.S. Computer Science May 2011
GPA 3.2
COMPUTER SKILLS
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Mac OS and Linux (basic)
Programming: JAVA, C Language, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Software: AppInventor for Android, XCode for iOS, MS Office (Windows, Mac), Electronics Workbench, BlueJ, Miracle C,
Eclipse, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks
Other: Video Editing experience, Troubleshooting of PCs & Networks, Disassembling/Assembling PCs/Laptops
EXPERIENCE
MTVN/Viacom, Nickelodeon, Raleigh, NC Spring 2013
Quality Assurance Intern, Information Systems and Technology Department
• Discovered and deduced triggers for dozens of issues on major entertainment sites
Middle East Airlines (MEA), Beirut, Lebanon June – July 2012
Networking Intern, Systems Engineering Department
• Troubleshooting PABX system and also overseeing UPS’ functionality
• Reviewlocal and international servers which controlled different parts of the corporation
ACTIVITIES
Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC September 2011- May 2012
Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach
NCAA Division 1 –Big South Conference - Final Record of 10-8-1
• Coached several players who were named Attacking & Defensive players of the week and also All-Tournament,
All-Conference and All-Freshmen teams
Suffolk Perinatal Coalition, Riverhead, NY March – April 2011
Information Systems Consultant
• Helped change and implement my new idea for how their systems and database should run

13. MEI JEN (JANE) LEE
654 E. Boston Avenue Apt. 6J • Chapel Hill 27599
(919) 123-4567 • mjstudent@cs.unc.edu
EDUCATION:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, GPA: 3.98 Expected May 2015
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, XML, VBA, HTML, SQL/PLSQL
Scripting Languages: Perl, CGI, Javascript
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux
Web Site Development: Java Servlet Programming, TCP/IP Programming, HTML, MS FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Ruby on Rails
Database Development: MS Access, MySQL, Oracle
Other Tools: Eclipse, MS Office, Macromedia Flash 5.0
EXPERIENCE:
Rockwood Systems Ltd, Raleigh, NC 2013-Present
Software Assistant
Power Communication Reimplementation (Zoho CRM)
 Configured the call center application for a network communication provider using Zoho tools.
 Wrote business services using e-Script. Created workflows to automate the business process.
Experiment Tracking System (Ruby on Rails)
 Developed and tested a web based application for automation of lab processes and experiment tracking.
 Created on-the-fly workflow for experiments and managed experiment meta-data.
UNC Chapel Hill | Kenan-Flagler Business School
Fixed Income Portfolio Analytics (C++, Excel, VBA) Fall 2013
Created application for analyzing portfolio of bullet bonds.
 Calculated day-over-day change in notional, risk and LGD for each ticker and quality code.
 Analyzed portfolio sensitivity to yield curve shifts.
Replicated Concurrency Control and Recovery System (Java) Summer 2013
 Implemented a distributed concurrency control algorithm for transactions using two phase locking, multiversion
read consistency and deadlock avoidance mechanism.
 Handled failure and recovery in a multiprocessing environment.
ACTIVITIIES
President, UNC Computer Science Club 2012/2013