When creating a resume, it may sometimes be confusing to know what sections to include. You may follow this guide for tips on what to include in your personal resume.
- Education – This section is a must to be listed so that employers are aware of your education level. All employers like to see the level of knowledge that you have gained from school environments so they can estimate where your skills lie.
- Work/Internship Experience – This section is a must to be listed so that employers are aware of your past jobs and the skills/tasks that you learned and accomplished while on the job. Seeing what skills you attain will tell employers whether or not you are suited for the type of work that is required at their company.
- Activities/Clubs – This section may be listed depending on the type of experience you have with activities and/or clubs. For example, if you are applying for a CNA job and you participated in a health-based club at your school, it would be relevant to list that experience and state the tasks you completed while in that club. However, if you were part of a club strictly for fun such as Bowling Club, you would not need to list that when applying for a professional job as it probably would not relate to the job that you are applying for.
- Skills – This section may be included if you have any hard skills that you feel are relevant to the job in which you are applying for. It is a common mistake for people to list soft skills such as hard-worker, active listener, and organized; however, these types of skills should be mentioned within your bullet points under your experiences. Some examples of hard skills that employers like to see are “proficient in Microsoft Office, fluent in multiple languages, CPR certified, etc.”.
- Honors/Awards – This section may be included if you have earned any high awards in high school, college, or any other area. You may list scholarships, high GPA and/or Dean’s List, exam results, etc.
- Projects – This section may be included if you have any relevant projects correlating with the type of job you are applying for. These projects could have been done at school, work, or personally. For example, if you are applying for a construction job and completed building a shed for a school project, it would be important to list that experience. On the other hand, if you were still applying for the same construction job, it would not be needed to list your 5th grade science fair project.
