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Sample Resume

Helen Godfrey
Engineering Center, Room 2780
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: 305-348-1281/1282; Email: helen.godfrey@fiu.edu

OBJECTIVE

A position utilizing  _____, _______ and ______ skills

EDUCATION

Bachelor of (Arts or Science), your Major: ________, GPA: if it is a 3.0 or above

Florida International University, Miami, FL, Spring 2007

RELEVANT COURSES

List any classes that may be relevant to your job. Do not include the course number J

________              __________            ___________             ____________       

________               __________           ____________           ____________        

RELEVANT PROJECTS (if all of your projects were at FIU you may put FIU on this line)

Project name, Florida International University, Miami, FL, semester and year

• Bullet point your tasks.

EXPERIENCE

Job title, company, city, state, dates

• Put the most recent job first. Bullet point your tasks.
• Use strong verbs to demonstrate your abilities.
• Put your strongest selling points first.

COMPUTER SKILLS

List them. Always think: “which experience is most relevant to my objective?” and put that information first.

MEMBERSHIPS

If you held an office, bold your title and then put the name of the club, location, city, state and dates. As an officer, you may have relevant experience so you may put this leadership role under experience if you prefer.

HONORS

List them

LANGUAGES

Bilingual: ; fluent in…; proficient in …, basic…

INTERESTS

3 hobbies such as tennis, traveling and reading

Other information:  The body of your resume can be 10 or 11 font (Times New Roman) but make sure your contact information is larger  (you don’t want them to guess your phone number for example ).