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I've been offered a temporary network cabling job with a company and the president is requesting I submit a resume for future work with his company. I know nothing of resumes or what to put on them, as well as how to compile them. If someone could offer me some help, I'd be very appreciative.

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This is quite tough to answer, because it entirely depends on your skill level and experience level.

Try googling for various resumes. Check for latex resume styles. IN that search you'll get tons of resumes. Many of them are from students, experienced professionals, educators, and it will give you a wide variety of examples.

I suggest making a 2 page resume if possible. If necessary resort to paragraphs instead of bulleted points

Also here you should list a few things: (sorted in order of what looks best for you)

skills (languages (programming and natural), anything relating to job or otherwise)

education ( usually

awards and accomplishments (sometimes tied into academics for those who are just good students and nothing more)

experience (very important later on, will become front runner eventually!)

hobbies/interrests/goals (if you have too much blank space)

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Start with the 4 main headings 'Job objective', 'skill assessment', 'work history', 'education and training'. (flesh those out)

and add your own if you come up with them, but they are the main ones.

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Example (my resume)

Keith Schwerin Jr.

4840 Greenwood St.

Brookhaven, Pa 19015

610-874-3564

KeithSchwerin@msn.com

SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000, XP

Computer Architecture: PC Installation and Configuration:

FDD?s, HDD?s, CD-ROM?s, Modems, Mother Boards, Video Adapters, Ethernet NIC?s

Computer Networking: Data Communications directly and with modems,

computer networks, LANS with Windows XP, TCP/IP, Networks

Programming: C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Java

Web Technology: Design and develop web documents for the World Wide

Web

EDUCATION

A.A.S. Computer Software and Information Technology

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, Media, PA

Anticipated date of graduation: May 2004

GPA: 3.06

WORK EXPERIENCE

2001- 2003 Plumbmaster Inc. Concordville, PA

Package Inspector/Shipper/Order Puller

1 Package Inspector: Inspected and pulled parts for order if order was wrong: retrieved correct parts and removed incorrect parts, then packaged order for shipping

2 Shipper: scanned prepared orders (ranging from small boxes to many skids) into UPS or FedEx delivery system and loaded them onto proper truck for delivery; also received deliveries that came in after normal receiving hours

3 Order Puller: collected items on an invoice from the warehouse to be sent to the Package Inspector for packaging

1999 - 2001 Residence at Glenn Riddle Lima, PA

Dishwasher/Waiter

1 Dishwasher: in charge of keeping the whole kitchen clean (floors, walls, dishes, pots and pans, counters, emptying trash) and locking up the kitchen at the end of the night as the last to leave

2 Waiter: in charge of taking and delivering orders (as many as 6 tables or approximately 24 people) and providing coffee/tea and desert to those that wanted it

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if you have microsoft office, go to office.microsoft.com, they have some excellent resume templates.

at the very least they will provide a starting point.

STV

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Create a r?sum? in Microsoft Office

On the File menu, click New.

In the New Document task pane, under New from template, click General Templates.

Click the Other Documents tab.

Double-click R?sum? Wizard.

If you do not see this wizard in the Templates dialog box, you might need to install it.

Follow the steps in the wizard.

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If you wan't my opinion, the office templates for resume's are out of date, and no longer reflect the need of employers to see critical information.

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This has been posted so many times, I'd be glad to make a post that could be made sticky with a huge resource of URLs, text, etc... mods post here or PM me ;)

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