CAREER OBJECTIVE

• A logical, meaningful statement describing in a concise manner one’s immediate and possible long range career goals.  
• Use as specific a title as possible without being too restrictive. See Samples.

SUMMARY OF SKILL

• List four or five appropriate areas of skill that demonstrate abilities required for the position desired.
• Use these functional skills (e.g., communication, marketing, purchasing, planning, managing, etc.) that are areas of personal strength as subheadings.
• Under each subheading use short action phrases to describe and quantify related accomplishments and/or results.
• List subheadings and accomplishments in order of importance.
• It is not necessary to identify the employment or non-employment situation where experience was gained at this point.  It will be listed under Work History.

EDUCATION

• Placement will emphasize or de-emphasize education.  Usually if education was completed less than five years ago, it appears immediately after Career Objective, otherwise, it appears after Summary of Skills or Work History.

WORK HISTORY

• Brief chronology of employment history.
• Entries listed in reverse chronological order.
• List position title, place of employment, city and state, year and month dates of employment.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• List and indicate positions of leadership and responsibility that were held.  Omit references that may be potentially controversial.

HONORS

• List academic, leadership, athletic awards, and/or memberships in honorary organizations.

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

• Only list if applicable.

REFERENCES

• Available upon request
• May be listed on a second page with name, title, address, and phone number.  Choose individuals who are familiar with our accomplishments and work experience.  Get persons' permission before you list them as references.

This page last updated on October 13, 2003
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