Use as a sales brochure. Attract the prospective employers’ attention
and make them want to interview you. - Design
resume to focus the employer’s attention on your positive features.
- Use
a cover letter to prospect for jobs.
- Use as an opening contact when seeking an interview.
- Put the strongest statements at the top, working down from
that.
- Don’t assume that a resume takes the place of an application.
- Don’t try to anticipate every possible
question employers ask.
- Don’t
include pictures.
- Don’t
list relatives as references.
- Don’t
put resume in fancy binders or folders.
- Don’t forget phone number, area codes, zip.
- Don’t highlight problems ( hospitalization,
handicaps)
- Don’t
include addresses of prior employers in the work histories.
- Don’t include salary information.
