How to organize your resume?

Organizing your resume is the most important task in your job, because the employer will devote a few seconds to read it. Hence, you should follow this formula to get rid of confusions and complexities:

Contact information: you should start with your contact information (name, address, and phone number). You can place your name either in the beginning of the resume or below your signature, while the rest of your information can be either placed in the left or the right side in the beginning. BUT, it should be addressed below your name if you have chosen to place your name in the beginning of the resume!

Education: you should mention the names of schools you have attended, its location, your living (in-campus or out-campus), your course titles if it is required and you should mention anything else related to your education and relevant to your position.

Experiences: you should mention the experiences and the skills you have acquired. You should describe the skill or the experience you possessed provided with the location, the title position and other relate stuff.


Awards and and honors: you should mention the titles and the purpose for being awarded.

Interests: consider the importance of your interests and its relevance to the company.

Skills: your skills are part of your credibility. So, specify your relevant skills and your professional level.

Fonts: you should select a reasonable size. The most acceptable size usually goes to size 12 and should use Arial or Veranda instead of Times New Roman.

Papers: should not use colored papers such as blue, gray, or green and should not use glossy papers.

Content: use action words to portray yourself as someone who is active and gets things done and minimize the usage of the articles (a, an, the) and never use first person pronoun I.

Journalistic questions: you should always use journalistic questions (who, when, why, how, and what) to develop your contents. For instance, use (when) to indicate where you did get a particular experience or skill. Journalistic questions are really important; it helps you to identify your information and to prevent confusions as well.

Headings and subheadings: you should use it to help the employer skim over your document to find the desired information quickly; since the employer will devote a few seconds over your materials. Therefore, you should provide the employer with headings and subheadings.

Proofreading: you should proofread your resume countless of times to get rid of grammatical weaknesses, unusual punctuations and to catch up any hidden mistakes. You should pick up a trusted friend, or your professors, or even a member of your family. You should get more than one person to review your resume and seriously consider their advice.