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Originally posted by KappaStargirl
2) About email: Think about the email address you use. If you were an employer, would you hire someone who had your email address? It might be cool to you to have an email address of imtoosexyformyshirt69@...com, but would you want that on your resume? Pick something easy and professional, like your first initial and last name, or your initials and birthday. You can set up an email address just for work-related things and use your imtoosexy address for fun.
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Too true. There's a story at my school... MIT Information Services *hates* changing people's email addresses, and even if you have a legitimate reason (e.g. you get married and your maiden name is part of your username) it can take up to a year to process the change
... so they warn people to think carefully about their usernames. They tell a story about a guy who was chuckling over the "really cool username" he'd picked for himself, until he sat down to write his resume and realized "Email:
shithead@mit.edu" didn't look very professional.
My resume tips:
1. One page. (Unless you're applying for a job in academia, in which case you really want a CV listing your research, publications, etc.)
2. If you're in school or newly graduated, list your education first. If you're experienced, list employment first unless you went to an Ivy+ school.
3. Education and employment should be in reverse chronological order.
4. Employment should be relevant. If you're applying for a software job, don't list, say, your old paper route.
5. If you've volunteered at controversial orgs like Planned Parenthood, don't list them. Other volunteer work is ok if it's relevant.
6. Leave lots of whitespace. Recruiters and interviewers love to make notes in the margins, and no whitespace leads to a cluttered look.
7. Include buzzwords. Many employers scan in resumes and then do keyword searches on them, and/or do keyword searches on monster.com, hotjobs, etc. If your resume doesn't have the right keywords, they'll never see it even if you'd be a perfect fit.