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Join Date: May 2005
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Do any of you have examples of great résumés or know where I could find some? I want to dust off my old résumé and give it an update/facelift. I'm pretty happy with my job and I wouldn't say that I'm actively looking for new employment per se, but I do think it's a good idea to keep an eye on the job market around you and make sure you are getting the maximum compensation and fulfillment in your career. I think keeping yourself marketable and current in your career industry is a good thing.
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Wow, lots of awesome looking resumés. A bit flashier than what I'm looking for though. I need something that is a little cleaner, more traditional, and business oriented...though I do want it to be creative and eye catching at the same time too. I don't want the Plain Jane, Microsoft Word template résumé...the type that employers see hundreds of each day. :/
This is actually the posting I'm going to respond to...
Business Analyst II
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my advice : use Pages from the iWork 2009 suite, the templates look quite neat compared to Word
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Originally Posted by PB2K
my advice : use Pages from the iWork 2009 suite, the templates look quite neat compared to Word
I agree with your advice. Pages has some pretty professional and snazzy looking templates.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll take a look when I get home from work tonight.
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Originally Posted by PB2K
Absolutely useless for the OP (in light of the targeted position as a Business Analyst).
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Clinically Insane
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My #1 tip for resumes and interviews:
STAR !
Whatever you write and talk about, follow this outline
S ituation
T ask
A action
R esult
If you can bring that across, you will score. For the resume, focus on Action and Result
A STARed resume will draw attention. Never just list your past duties w/o refering to the Achievements and Results.
Situation, Task, Action, Result - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I'm a designer and most of those in that 45 link are just over the top and illegible. Maybe for illustrators some could be ok, but you still need to find the info.
Think readable type size, clean font, no heavy backgrounds, and for business you can't really go wrong. Think more about your spellcheck than your template.
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Would you recommend any sort of light background and/or graphic on a business resume, or stick with solid white? Also, would you suggest a particular font? I'm using Calibri right now for both section headers and body text (trying to stay as uniform as possible keeping same fonts throughout). Section headers are slightly larger with a dark blue color, body text is a bit smaller, indented. Looks to be a pretty standard resume with a clean, modern touch to it.
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Originally Posted by sdilley14
Would you recommend any sort of light background and/or graphic on a business resume,
Hell no. For your line of work, that's unprofessional.
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That's what I thought, just making sure I wasn't being old fashioned or out of touch. It's been a few years since I've updated this thing.
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No more then 2 pages long.
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I'll also recommend the templates in Pages - got quite a few compliments on how the resume looked when I used one.
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As of right now I have "Objective", "Personal Profile", "Experience, "Education", and "Software/Hardware Skills" on the first page and "References" on the second page. Would you suggest utilizing the second page for more information, or keeping it simple and saving the second page for references only? Also, how many references would you suggest? I have three professional references listed now.
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In my experience, when I listed family members as references, that didn’t bode so well. I usually have the last 5 bosses contacts for references.
Oh, and this might seem tacky to some, but I’ve gotten more call backs with résumés that have my photo attached.
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Originally Posted by sdilley14
Would you recommend any sort of light background and/or graphic on a business resume, or stick with solid white? Also, would you suggest a particular font? I'm using Calibri right now for both section headers and body text (trying to stay as uniform as possible keeping same fonts throughout). Section headers are slightly larger with a dark blue color, body text is a bit smaller, indented. Looks to be a pretty standard resume with a clean, modern touch to it.
I just use Helvetica Neue.
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with not much to do at my regular office job I am also polishing my resumee. I used the business template from Pages 2009. I wonder if iWork 2010 will have better ones.
Is it wiser not to mention your last fulltime job at all because it might appear one got demoted compared to what one did before ?
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Originally Posted by PB2K
with not much to do at my regular office job I am also polishing my resumee. I used the business template from Pages 2009. I wonder if iWork 2010 will have better ones.
Is it wiser not to mention your last fulltime job at all because it might appear one got demoted compared to what one did before ?
Given the market I think employers are more flexible in understanding jobs that were shorter in duration, further from your field of interest, and slightly below your skill/qualification level.
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