Quick resume help?

Question

hey yo i am applying for my first jobs(pretty sucky i know) and i was wondering if anyone could help me with some ideas and what/not to do ,colours of text, for my resume.

thanks alot.

by the way... i am applying for jobs at boost juice(juice bar for those who havent heard of it ) and regent cinemas and a local ice-creamery.

Answer 1

Just stick with Grey for headings and black text.  You don't want to make your resume looking like a rainbow

:-)

Have headings such as  

NAME

ADDRESS

DATE OF BIRTH

TELEPHONE

E-MAIL

DRIVERS LICENCE

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

(Put your results in order of highest to lowest )

SCHOOL

YEAR

SUBJECTS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY  

(if you have none put in your work experiance through school, or helping out family business etc)

ACTIVITIES (Examples, put no more than 3 in)

·Travel

·Fashion

·Sport

·Dancing

·Reading

·Socialising

·Computer games / programming

·Cooking

·Cars

DEMONSTRATED QUALITIES AND ABILITIES (Examples, put no more than 5 in)

·Enthusiastic

·Positive attitude

·Keen desire to learn and succeed

·Good personal presentation

·Self motivated

·Desire to obtain a long term position

·High achiever

·Customer service skills

·Word processing ability

·Ability to learn quickly

·Good oral and written skills

·Computer literate eg Microsoft Word,  Excel and Access

·Internet and E-mail skills

·Ability to learn new tasks acquire new knowledge quickly

·Good work ethic

·Strong focus on obtaining best results

·Proven planning skills

·Ability to uncover opportunities

·Ability to successfully communicate with all types of people

·High level of personal presentation

·Excellent team building skills

·Influencing skills

·Problem solving skills

·Enthusiastic attitude

·Good time management skills

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS (Examples, put no more than 4 in)

DATE‘YEAR’

·Awards in Silver and Bronze for Ballroom Dancing

·Bronze Medallion for Swimming

·Volunteer collector for Red Cross

·Merit award in a subject eg Science, English

·Learners Driver’s Licence

·First Aid Certificate

·Customer Service Award

·Award in Westpac Maths Competition,

·Aust. Schools Science Quiz

·Surf Life Saving Award

·Coaching Awards

·Representative in State sport

·Participation in sport competition certificate

and some REFEREES  (2-3 would be good)

NAMEJohn Smith

POSITION

ORGANISATION

TELEPHONE

..etc...

Hope this helps you.

You can google 'Sample, templates Resumes' to give you more ideas on layout as I can't show you on here.

Answer 2

go in microsoft office publisher there is heaps of different templates