Resume Tips
A resumé that clearly identifies your skills and abilities helps us choose you.
- Provide your current address, phone numbers and email address.
- Explain how the opportunity aligns with your career goals and objectives.
- Summarize your relevant qualifications and achievements. They should highlight the experience, skills, community activities and personality traits that make you the perfect fit for the job.
- Add three or four bullet points to describe your key skills and experience, explaining how they were used and developed. Highlight your most relevant expertise first, and be specific.
- List your work experience, starting with your most recent job, adding three or four bullet point statements regarding the duties of that role.
- List your education, including any diplomas, certificates or other relevant completed training or education.
- Tell us about your professional affiliations, including community and volunteer activities.
- List any work-related, academic, volunteer or other awards you’ve received.
- Provide two or three people as references who can verify your experience and talk about your skills and abilities. List each of their names, their relationship to you and their contact information. You may prefer to write “References available upon request” and bring your references to the interview.