Résumé Sections 101
This section includes your degree, school name, graduation date, and maybe your GPA.
What is the Education section?
This is the most important reason you should tailor your résumé for each job — it helps your résumé pass this automated gatekeeper.
What is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
This many pages is typically the sweet spot for a résumé.
What is one page?
It's okay to use the same résumé for every job you apply to
What is FALSE?
You put your age, marital status, or a photo of yourself on your résumé. These details open you up to this issue.
What is potential bias or discrimination?
This section highlights jobs, internships, and volunteer work, including what you accomplished in each role
p.s. It does not need to be paid
What is the Experience section?
On average, recruiters skim résumés for this long
What is 6 seconds?
These strategic words, often pulled from the job posting, help your résumé pass ATS filters and stand out to recruiters.
What are keywords?
Your résumé needs to connect your past experiences with this forward-facing goal.
What is the job/career you’re applying for?
This outdated info can be a privacy risk and isn’t needed for most applications.
What is your personal address?
If you’ve completed a research paper, group project, or designed something impressive, it goes here.
What is the Projects section?
Ideally, job descriptions should not be longer than __ years, but definitely no longer than __ years
(double) loophole
(triple) What should you do in addition to the loophole
What are 5 & 10 years?
What is unless it is relevant to the job?
What is add current experience in a different section?
To keep your résumé from looking cluttered or cramped, your page margins should fall within this ideal range.
What is 0.5 to 1 inch on all sides?
A résumé should not just say what you did, but also communicate this about your work.
What is the impact, outcome, or value of your contributions?
“Netflix binger,” “Pro at chillin’,” or “Lover of long walks on the beach” — this quirky section adds no real value and screams unprofessional for most resumes.
What are personal interests or hobbies?
More than just a list, this résumé section should be curated to reflect only the most relevant technical, language, and interpersonal abilities for the role you're applying to.
What is a Skills section?
The most strategic résumés are not written to list everything you’ve done , but to-
What is position you as the ideal candidate for a specific role?
To ensure readability across devices and print, résumé body text should use a font size in this specific range.
What is 10 to 12 points?
You tried to get fancy and used multiple text boxes, icons, charts, and graphics. It looks fire… but this is what it lacks at its core.
What is functionality or ATS compatibility?
You write Texas A&M University in your education section, but you're an Islander. By doing this you are...
What is misleading/misrepresenting?
This section is often underestimated, but when written well, it highlights leadership, initiative, and collaboration in settings outside of formal employment.
What is the Activities section?
This powerful résumé technique involves emphasizing numerical value, rather than simply listing duties.
What is quantifying?
Professional résumés should use fonts that are clean and easy to read, such as these commonly recommended styles. (list at least two)
What are Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Garamond, Times New Roman?
By curating your sections, choosing action verbs, and ordering content carefully, your résumé shapes this.
What is your professional narrative/story/summary or personal brand?
Your résumé uses five different bullet styles, random bolding, and inconsistent spacing. This visual shows a lack of this.
What is formatting consistency?