What is key to a good resume?
Asked by KiLo
Please help me figure out what to change in this resume. If you see any spelling or grammar error please feel free to point those out as well. The wording is not so great either. I need tips on what things should I focus on pointing out, and things I shouldn't put on the resume. I didn't intend to write the resume for a specific audience or job, but most likely I would want it be for a clerical or office job. Here's the resume (not the whole thing): Objective Highly self motivated and goal oriented individual committed to pursuing a position in sales management with TA Travel Centers. Summary of Qualifications •Able to multi-task in a high volume customer focus team based environment. •Excellent interpersonal skills, effective oral and written communication skills. •Bilingual-fluent in both English and French. •In depth computer experience with Excel, Word, Web designing, Visual Basic programming, Flash, Photoshop, and PowerPoint. Experience Village Pizza & Pub, Carpentersville, IL 2007-2008 Host/Server’s Assistant/Busboy Achievements: •Generated costumers by providing attentive and personalize service. •Led to an overall increase in tips by talking with customers giving them an “at home” feel. •Managed to serve and bus several parties of 40+ customers. Responsibilities: •Handled many task at the same time including kitchen duty, serving food and drinks, attending customers, restocking, clearing tables, sitting customers, and overall maintenance of the restaurant. •Worked after closing hours cleaning dining area, bar and restrooms, restocking, and closing the facility. •Handled a very fast pace and busy environment with little to no mistakes. Motorola, Shamburg, IL 2008 Industrial Intern Achievements: •Improved quality of product by carefully paying attention to details and eliminating defects. •Accelerated flow of product by fast, but attentive, rate of work, thus achieving production goals earlier than expected. •Reduced hazardous incident by following company policies, procedures and method of safety. Responsibilities: •Built radio sites according to plans given by project managers. •Scanned, inspected and registered the product into computer data. •Wore safety equipment at all time. •Moved heavy equipment with proper lifting techniques. Also I was thinking on including hobbies or volunteer work. How would I go about doing so?

Best Answer:
The key to a really good resume is its gotta be short, breif and well presented, because you have pasted it on yahoo answers i cant see how you would present it in word document, umm i put mine in a table but obviously edited it, hide the table, basically when presenting it you gotta fiddle with it around but never put fancy writing just put normal font but change the sizes, employers never spend a lengthy time on a resume the just brisk through it. Include interests and if your going for a clerical job then add a cover letter i have put the link down for you to see what a cover letter looks like, include all your certificates, reference letters if you can, employers might not spend a lot of time through it but when they brisk though it they will be impressed by the more scanning they doin an interveiw. Another thing to make it look really professional get those folders with the leather cover you can get them usually in any office store,that is for the interveiw. Dont freak out remember , <-- short, breif and well presented--->, best of luck
I know i'm studying HR http://www.careerone.com.au/news-advice/cover-letters/how-to-write-a-cover-letter-20071204
Answered by Jolpori