The document provides advice and tips for creating an effective resume, including recommended headings, formatting, and content. Key recommendations are to use a professional email address, include relevant skills and experiences above basic job responsibilities, and highlight quantifiable achievements and results rather than just responsibilities. Keywords, formatting properly for applicant tracking systems, and avoiding lies are also emphasized.

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Resume Advice
Intuit Careers
In an ideal world we wouldn’t need a resume

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Most of us, however, live in the real world

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The Disclaimer
100 recruiters 100 opinions

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Recommended Headings
Do not use short-term phone #’s or inappropriate email address
Between
locations?
OK
But list perm first
and use perm in
resume database

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What your email says about you
Do
• Keep it Professional
john.smith@yahoo.com
• Skill related
johnsmithPMP@yahoo.com
• Free email
john.smithPMP@yahoo.com
• Buy your own domain
john.smith@johnsmith.com
• School address with lifetime
forwarding
john.smith@university.edu
Do not
• Work email
john.smith@work.com
• Service provider email
john.smith@verizon.net (in
case you can’t afford to keep it)
• Inappropriate address
dorksanddragons@yahoo.com
hotmamma@yahoo.com
• Shared emails
johnandjane@yahoo.com
• Unmonitored emails
Ikeepforgetting@yahoo.com
Professional is key

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Focus / Summary
Don’t make me have to guess what you do

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Education
Texas A&M – B.A. in Marketing
Stanford – B.S. Computer Science, GPA 4.0 Expected 06/2012
Marcus High School, Flower Mound, Texas 2008
Awarded Bank of America Distinguished Scholar of Liberal Arts
National Merit Scholar, Distinguished Scholar Award
Recent grads, include year
Upcoming grads – include expected grad date
Didn’t finish – put hours completed
GPA listed if above a 3.0
Recent Grad – top / Experienced - bottom
List high school info only if significant awards & recent grad
Experienced - (do
not include date)
Entry level &
under special
circumstances
HS Grad Only

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The meat of the resume
situation-action-result
Results, not responsibilities

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How do I get a job without experience?
Ask yourself
• Do I have any related work experience – project or driver?
• Do I have non career-related work experience? What skills
did I gain from that job that are valuable to an employer?
• Everyone should ask:
– Have I won any awards?
– Do I have any leadership experience?
– Do I have any volunteer experience?
– What technical knowledge do I have?
– Do I have foreign language skills?
– Is there a hobby that might be relevant to my search?
Recruiters want more than just job responsibilities

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Then create
Awards
• President’s Award for Academic Excellence – 2009
• First Place, Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing - 2010
Leadership
Alpha Kappa Psi - Vice President of Campus Relations 2009-2011
– Expanded Essential Card (original entrepreneurial venture by AKPsi Pi Tau)
Stanford Marketing Group, Lead Project Director 2008 – 2010
– Directed marketing projects with Google and T-Mobile which were implemented in their 2010
marketing campaigns
Youth Action Council of Denton County, President 2005 – 2008
– Awarded Presidential Volunteer Service Award (annual national community service award) 6 times
Technical/Skills
• Java, Python, C, PHP, HTML and CSS
• Familiar with C++, MySQL, CSS, HTML, XML, JavaScript
Skills and Interest
• Languages – Fluent in English and Spanish, learning Japanese and Swahili
• Created three video documentaries highlighting poverty in America
Work experience is handled same on any resume – internal or
external

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Above the fold
Easy to
read
Key
points
listed
early
Easy to
see
success

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DO NOT INCLUDE
• Personal information like marital status, children, height,
weight, religious or political affiliations
• References available upon request
• Unprofessional email addresses
• Short-term emails, phone numbers
• Abbreviations – don’t use “text” language
• “generic objectives”
• First person – No I or My
• “responsible for” or “responsibilities included”
• Graduation date – except Early Careers
• Functional formats – use reverse chronological or hybrid
Highlight what is critical to the job you are applying to

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DO NOT LIE ON YOUR RESUME
No
–Little white lies
–Tall tales
–Lies by omission
You will get caught.
If not today, then
tomorrow - but you
will be caught!

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Saving your resume
1” margins
Arial-Times Roman-Courier
10-12pt font
Layout Mode
100%
Use older version of Word
Remove “tracked
changes”

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Posting your resume online
Posting Text Resumes
• No special characters
• Left justify
• Indent with spaces, not tabs
• Hard break at end of each
line – no wrapping
• Save file - plain text, RTF, or
ASCII text
• Spell check, proof read
Posting HTML Resumes
• Use simple text editor like
Notepad
• Put tag at beginning and end
of your document
• If you include hyperlink –
include the whole name –
called the absolute
http://www.intuitcareers.com
Keywords are critical no matter what format you use
Upload Word version if it is an option

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Understanding how resume search works
Contextualized search technology -
software weighs keywords in the context
of the whole resume. Contextualization
goes deeper and examines factors such as
how dated is a given set of skills and
where in the applicant’s career path did
they acquire experience in a subject area.
Semantic search technology – software
that essentially counts keywords. Using a
targeted keyword multiple times could be
interpreted by the ATS as a positive
resume for a certain position.
Overly formatted resumes embedded
with pictures, graphics, bullets, tables and
logos can be incompatible with most ATS
software.
Keywords are king, no matter what technology is used

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Understanding job board search results
Give me a reason to click & load Word version if you can
What type of
engineer?
Java Engineer!
What type of
engineer?

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Understanding how recruiters search
In almost every resume search
Keywords, resume date, mileage search
Boolean
Date
Searches
Mileage

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Tips for Sending Your Resume
Please Attach Your Resume!
Name, Position # in Subject Line
Spell Check, Proof Read, T-Cover Letter
Professional Voicemail

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Create your signature line
Renaming a Hyperlink
Copy the URL you want to
rename –
www.intuitcareers.com
Right click on the URL
Click Edit Hyperlink
Text to Display (at the top) –
this is what you are naming
your Hyperlink – in my case
Intuit Careers
Address (at the bottom) – this
should contain your URL
address
Gail Houston∙ Senior Recruiter
gail_houston@intuit.com
Intuit Careers ∙ 214.387.2000
Find Me on: LinkedIn ∙ Facebook∙ Twitter

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How to learn more about Intuit Careers
Join:
Facebook - www.facebook.com/intuitcareers
YouTube - www.youtube.com/intuitcareers
LinkedIn Company Page www.linkedin.com/company/intuit
Slideshare – www.slideshare.net/intuitcareers
Pinterest – www.pinterest.com/intuitcareers
Instagram – www.instagram/intuitcareers
Follow us on Twitter:
@intuitcareers – Intuit Careers Twitter Account
@intuitstudents – Intuit University’s Twitter Account
@ghouston – Gail Houston – Product Manager Recruiter

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Resume Example to Follow
Microsoft Word
Document