Resume Tips

Here's a few tips on writing your resume.

• Study the duties for the job you're applying for. Identify two or three general skills that are important to the job.
• Review your background and experience list. Find talents and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to perform the job skills.
• List your talents and accomplishments under the job skills they relate to.
• Use simple, short, active sentences.

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ROBERT YEE
139 River Lane, Cedar, OH 01234
(513) 987-6543

OBJECTIVE: Part-time entry level position in bookkeeping.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Earned Exceptional Employee Accomplishment raise at McDonald's.
• Excellent at thinking through problem situations.
• 1 year successful experience in bookkeeping and as cashier at McDonald's.
• Finished business classes with high grades.

[This applicant is still in high school. He wants to work part-time until he graduates.]

EXPERIENCE:

Bookkeeping

• Accurately completed bookkeeping assignments at McDonald's in half the usual time required.
• Recorded daily sales.
• Computed total items sold and tallied total daily revenues.
• Assembled monthly reports showing cashiering errors and audited employee register records.
• Verified accuracy of vendor invoices and helped compute employee hours on time cards.
• Balanced family checkbook and helped pay bills.

Administrative Support

• Assisted store manager in training and assigning employees.
• Prepared new employee personnel folders.
• Called substitutes to cover during illness or rush hours.
• Filed and retrieved personnel records.
• Posted and filed official documents.
• Word processed letters, answered telephone, scheduled interviews, made reservations.

[Focus attention on strong points.]

WORK HISTORY

1990	Full-time student	Cedar High School
May 89-Present	Cashier	McDonald's
Dec. 88-May 89	Bookkeeper	McDonald's
Summer 1988	Clerk	Cedar Recreation Center

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Senior - Cedar High School
• Business Courses: accounting, word processing, journalism
• President of school Business Club

[Resumes do NOT include references.]

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