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- Hey, guys. It's Joy here, and welcome back to Fros In Focus Fridays where I teach you how to build your brand and make money online. Today, we're going to be talking about resume tips. I'm going to be giving you tips on best practices for your resume, how to format each section, what sections you need and all of that great stuff.

And these tips are things that I use to get internships at Elle magazine, NBC, Universal, and Google. So these tips I have tried, and they have worked out for me. And also, the tips and tricks that I'll be referencing come from a nice little PDF that my school has provided for students.

So if you want to reference the PDF, or have it in your archives or whenever you're working on your resume, please click on the link down below where I have free resume guide or you can go to bit.ly/free-resume-guide. And I will just email you over the link to this cool guide that my school offers for us.

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So let's start off with some general resume tips as far as formatting, what it should look like, and things like that. The goal of your resume is to really just articulate your experience and why you're a good fit for the job. So your resume should be one page. It should be in black and white ink. And it should also have no fancy, crazy-to-read, hard-to-read fonts.

It should basically use Times New Roman or Arial. I know it's boring, but those are the things that will be easy to read. If a job recruiter cannot read your resume, how are they going to know if you're qualified for the job? Also, you should use 12 point font. The smallest you should go is about 10. The key is to make it easy to read so that they can get straight into who you are, what you do, and what you are excellent at.

One thing I also see in a lot of resumes is people putting too much personal stuff on the resume. So don't include a picture of yourself. Don't include your age or your religion, or anything like that on your resume. Also, this is kind of new-- in the new kind of age of job searching-- I wouldn't even include your address on there. I would include your city and state. The address isn't really necessary. If you get the job then you can give them your full street address.

Another reason not to give out your address is if you're printing them out and handing them out at career fairs you don't know if it's going to get lost, and then somebody will have your whole job history and where you live. So that's never good. So I just say do your city and state, and hold off on the address.

My last quick tip before we get into the sections on your resume is to do not use personal pronouns. And by that, do not use I, her, he, she, it. Do not use personal pronouns. That is not how to correctly write your resume. So if you say, I did this, I help on-board five new team members to onboarded five new team members.

So once you remove those personal pronouns at the beginning of your bullet points, you'll start to realize that the first word is going to be an action verb. So you want those verbs to be strong. So instead of saying, I planned a new marketing plan-- you might say, strategized a new marketing plan. So getting strong action words at the beginning of your bullet points, but we'll talk more about your bullet points once we get into your experience.

So now that you have the quick tips and you've audited your resume, hopefully you'll be able to make some edits. If you're finding out some new information in this video make sure you thumbs up and leave a comment down below. Let me know any questions you might have. But now let's get into the sections of your resume.

The first section is your headings. So your heading is where you're having your name, your city and state, and your email address, as well as any relevant links. So if you have a website or a portfolio, or your LinkedIn, I always recommend doing your LinkedIn on there just so it's easy to know how to contact you. Make sure everything is spelled right here, add your phone number. This is the most critical section because this is where they're going to contact you.

The second section should be your education. Education is so important, especially if you are a college graduate, especially if you're in college or a college graduate, or you done something special with your education. You should not list anything on there from high school unless you're a freshman in college and you don't really have anything. But if you're looking for more things to put in your education, you might consider putting relevant coursework.

I don't have this on my resume because my resume is full, but if you're needing to add and fill some of that white space, add relevant coursework that is relevant to the job you're applying to. You might also list your GPA on here if it's a 3.5 or above, and your major or overall. And that's all my tips for the education section.

So let's get into the next section, which is your work experience. So here you're going to list, in chronological order with the dates, the month, and the year that you worked at each position. You're going to have the company. You're going to have the city it was in and you're also going to have the position title. I recommend putting three to five bullet points that are basically full statements about what you did or accomplished.

And the way you format your bullet points-- I learned this when I was interviewing for Google-- is you talk about what the problem was, what your solution was, and what the results were once you implemented your solution. And the key thing is to be very specific. And in your results section, talk about numbers, talk about statistics, talk about anything that you can add a value to so it's easier to visualize.

So you might start off with an action verb. So you might say strategize new campaign for declining sales on this product and raised revenue by 3%. Sorry, I had to think about that off the top of my head, but that's an example of something you might do to kind of really just talk about the whole story. And that's one bullet. So you might have three to five bullets that are like that.

Once again, if you need more concrete examples, go down to the link below and click on the guide. I'll send it straight to your email, the one that I'm referencing, and there's a couple of example resumes on there for you to check out the formats, how they did the bullets, and all that good stuff.

The next section is the honors and activity section. So this is a great place to list anything that you've been awarded, any types of clubs or organizations you're in in your college, and things like that. The last section is your skills section. So this is where you talk about any types of skills you have. Computer, software, language, anything that you think is relevant to the job, I would list here.

Definitely do not lie in this section. Do not say you are an advanced coder when you don't know how to code because some surprise interviews will have you actually showcase that you can do what you said you could do on your resume. Or you don't want to be that person who gets there on the first day and they're like, do this, and you can't do that. So only list of skills that you know how to do. If you're just starting to learn something, then put beginner next to it just so it's clearly articulated what your skills are.

So now that you know all the sections of your resume, let's just end off with some quick tips and big mistakes you want to avoid when you're doing your final edits on your resume. So first, references. Do not put references are available upon request. It's 2019. Everyone knows that that's just taking up space. Like, don't put that on there.

Another trip I have is to eliminate white space. So if you only have filled up half the page, you need to figure out how to fill that other half of the page without making the font size 72 point, you know. So you have to really think about what you did, what you accomplished, anything like that that can fill space. Like I said, you can do things like relevant coursework, maybe expand upon your skills, and things like that.

My next tip is to format on Microsoft Word or Adobe Illustrator. If you are more advanced, if possible. The reason is, if you use something like Canva, where you export it, sometimes those documents are not readable when you submit them to an online portal. So basically, the way resumes are reviewed nowadays is you'll apply to the job online and then they'll take the job description and they'll basically say, give me resumes that have skills in photography. And then if you have photography on your resume it will pull your resume up.

So you want your resume to be readable and scannable, and things like that. And my last tip goes along with that. So since basically a computer is reading your resume, it's so important to read your job description thoroughly and highlight things that are relevant to you that you have, and make sure it's on your resume.

In 2019, you're rarely going to be submitting the same exact resume to every job. You should be tweaking your resume. So it has the same keywords on the job description that are also on your resume. So you'll go through the job description, highlight keywords, key skills that you have, and then make sure it's on your resume. So if it says Adobe Suite on the job description, make sure you say Adobe Suite on your skills.

So those are all my tips for resumes to get your resume on-point, and make sure you go grab that free guide because it will be very helpful for you guys to reference throughout your whole job search. If you have any questions, leave them down below. But other than that, that's all the time we have for today. And I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye!

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