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RESUME TIPS
Profread your resume. Running it through a spellchecker and grammar checker is important, of course, but so is having human eyes read it and a human brain interpreting your words and provide feedback. If you know anyone with professional experience in writing or the English language, ask them to proofread for you.
Compare your resume to other real-world resumes, especially ones of people with similar experience, background and job type. Remember some people won't feel comfortable sharing their resume, so be considerate, and don't ask a potential co-worker.
Make sure your professional and academic history is accurate and as detailed as necessary to highlight your experience, but not more than that. Unecessary details clutter up a resume and make it difficult for a screener to focus on the important points.
Include all your contact information and make sure - doublecheck - that it's accurate. Include a mailing address, email address, phone number and, if you have one, a fax number too. Many employers and human resource personnel prefer using the telephone and fax, especially if there are documents that require signatures.
Keep your resume focused on the type of job you're seeking. While a resume should mention most, if not all, of your academic and professional career, it's a good idea to fine-tune the document to expand on those things that are most relevant to the type of job you're seeking. It's not beneficial to devote as much space to that summer job you had at the grocery store as to having been an assistant to a Nobel Prize winning phycisist when you're seeking a scientific job.
Going hand-in-hand with the previous tip, you should prioritize your resume. While keeping it chronological, try to put your most important achievements first.
Finally, target your resume before you submit it to a potential employer. It's a good idea to tweak the phrasing in the resume to target the specific job, industry and employer you are pursuing. A generic boilerplate resume is more likely to get lost amongst the dozens or hundreds of other generic resumes, and at the very least, is uninspiring and un-memorable.
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