Cooperative Education & Work-Based Learning

Resume Tips

• Resumes should be clear, concise, clean and correct
• Limit your resume's length to one page
• Use one-inch margins on all sides of page
• Select one easily readable font and maintain font consistency
• Bold section headers to ensure that employers can easily pinpoint information
• Include white space on the page to make sure your information does not appear overwhelming
• Outline your qualifications and experiences by using bulleted sentence fragments rather than full sentences
• Do not include any personal information, for example; race, religion, marital status, pictures, gender, nationality or social security number
• Do not include any information related to high school activities or high school academics
• Do not include hobbies or personal interests unless there is a clear connection between them and your career interests
• Make sure that your resume is error free
• Have multiple people review your resume to check for misspellings, grammar inconsistencies and formatting issues