2. Basic Contents
• Contact information
• A summary of your two or three most relevant
qualifications
• Your education
• Your work experience (if any)
• Other professionally relevant information
3. Contact Information
• Your name in Western style (first last).
• Your Western name if you have one.
• Contact info under your name
• Both current and permanent addresses and
phone numbers
• A professional-sounding email address that
you check daily
4. Summary
• Not an objective!
• Regardless of models you see use a
summary, not an objective
• Focuses on what you can offer a company
• Does not make self-judgmental statement
• Is no more than two printed lines
• May be a list or a statement of “hopes to”
“wishes to” “desires to”
5. Education
• Start with the most recent
• Dates of attendance (months and years)
• Exact names of degrees earned
• Precise name of post-secondary schools and
location
• GPA if the GPA is over 3.5
• A sub-section for relevant coursework to show off
special training or emphasis
• A sub-GPA in the major if over 3.5
• No high school level information
6. Experience
• Interpret this as:
any paid employment in any country
any significant long-term volunteer work
any internships
any major school projects worked on (especially lab
projects in the sciences)
7. Experience 2
• Roughly divide into two sub-categories:
Related Experience and Other Experience
• Related --- focus on experience that a future
employer wants to know about
• Other --- list briefly other experiences to show
future employers that you are a hard-working
person!
8. Related Experience 3
• Start with most recent
• Give full dates of experience
• List complete location (e.g. Pullman, WA)
• Give yourself a title for each experience (e.g.
Lab assistant, food service worker, retail sales
clerk)
• List three responsibilities that are not
immediately obvious from the title. Make the
responsibilities the focus of the entry.
9. Other Experience
• Start with most recent
• Give full dates of experience
• List complete location (e.g. Pullman, WA)
• Give yourself a title for each experience (e.g.
Lab assistant, food service worker, retail sales
clerk)
• Do not list responsibilities
10. Skills and Expertise
• Include all languages spoken and/or read. Briefly
assess your ability to use each language.
• List all major computer skill competencies. Do
not list all Office tools separately except Excel.
• If in sciences, list particular lab skills (e.g. DNA
extractions, auto-claving)
• If in engineering, list particular technical
competencies.
• List licenses that you have (e.g. Food Handler’s
Permit)
11. Awards/Memberships
• List any academic or athletic awards you have
received in college. Give dates and location.
• List any memberships in honorary societies or
professional associations.
12. References
• Use the phrase “References Available Upon
Request” at the very bottom of the page.
• Do not list references.
13. Formatting
• Unless you have an extensive work history, your
resume should open to not more than one page in
MSWORD.
• You should use space wisely and not create lists that
take up space.
• Form headers so that they are slightly larger than the
content font.
• Use the same font throughout (Times New Roman or
Arial).
• Use the least amount of formatting possible, since this
resume will be sent through the Internet and opened
in many different ways.
