Writing and editing a resume is quite nerve-racking. If you are on the hunt for a job, you know that the job market is competitive and that the single, biggest edge an applicant can have is experience. That is why, on a resume,  if you have experience, you have to play it up and make it look like the right experience, and, if you don’t have experience, you have to play up your skills and activities to make it look like you do. If you are writing a resume, there are some useful resources online!
Tip One: Write like a professional. Don’t tell the employer what you have done in your life, tell the employer what you have accomplished. List goals you’ve met, things you’ve organized and projects you completed in each job, organization or extracurricular activity that you list on your resume. Talk about the achievements that made you proud of yourself and that proved you can finish what you start.

Tip Two: Avoid the most common errors. These errors appear on so many resumes and cover letters and usually give the impression of a sloppy resume writer. The majority of them have to do with inconsistency. Often, someone will cut and paste words or company names onto a resume and forget to change the font to match the size and style of the rest of the font on the page. Another inconsistency occurs when people don’t consistently place periods after items in bulleted lists, or forget to bullet a line. Some problems have to do with lack of details, like, not addressing a cover letter to the person in charge of hiring, or spelling the company name wrong, or spelling the street in the address line wrong. In addition to inconsistencies, check for unnecessary commas, run-on sentences, and spelling errors that occur with homonyms such as to, two, too, and bare or bear.

Tip Three: Follow the ten big resume rules: 1. Bold and enlarge your name at the top of your resume; 2. Keep sections lined up down the page so that titles and subtitles, examples and phone numbers, line up with each other. This has an amazing effect on the eye; 3. Use a readable and pleasant font like Arial or Times New Roman; 4. Keep your font at 11 or 12 point, except for your name; 5. Don’t use the pronoun “I” or company street addresses and don’t discuss previous wages; 6. If your resume exceeds 1 page, fill the second page at least halfway; 7. Place a “continued” at the bottom of page 1 on a two page resume and put your name at the top of page two, number both pages; 8. Use a border and shading on your resume, but never intense graphics or other pictures; 9. Leave out hobbies, photos or other unrelated or personal data; 10. If you spell out one state or company or, for instance,  the United States of America, continue to spell out everything in your resume. Don’t fluctuate between abbreviations, like U.S.A., and full spellings.