From a designer point of view:
I'm discovering that when I search for jobs in Classifieds, online job sites, and other online postings, the employers prefer a plain text or Word Doc as their resume form. My resume is a PDF that I designed in InDesign. It has my logo and DUH! lets people know I am a designer.
However, if you are submitting a plain text doc because it's the only way you can, how can you get creative with it? It just seems to defeat the purpose when you go to school for a design major and you are stuck sending out word docs.
Also, I have internships and unpaid experience as Pre-Professional experience on my resume. I did an internship and did a comp website for my sorority before I graduated. So that's what I put. My current design job is "Professional Work Experience" and then anything unrelated to design is just Work Experience. I didn't include retail jobs, but I did have a customer service/data entry job where I accomplished a lot and made mass improvements for the team.
Which brings up another question. Yeah I have a design job and I hate it. So I am looking for other design jobs as well as something else to keep the money coming in. If the job isn't a design job, I should have a different resume, right? Even though all my experience is pretty much in design?
Argh. Help!