ABSTRACT
Your resume will highlight your qualifi cations and stress the experience that you have gained so far in your career. It’s the written portion of how you will be judged and is as important as your demo recording. If you don’t engage your prospective employers ’ attention with your resume, you won’t have the chance to impress them with your air check or a personal interview! If you are looking for your fi rst job, you will not have an extensive resume; in fact, a single page should suffi ce. Only under rare circumstances should your resume exceed two pages. Don’t make the beginner mistake of padding your resume with every possible thing you can think of. Make your resume complete, but don’t tell your life story! It should go without saying that this document should be typed and absolutely
free from any mistakes. Computer word processing makes this easy, but it is amazing how many resumes are received that contain typos, misspellings, erasures, and other defects that greatly detract from any other content on the resume. In most cases, such resumes immediately eliminate the candidates from further
consideration for the job. Those who won’t take the time and effort to look up the spelling of a word or give any kind of thought to what they want to put on their resume probably don’t deserve to get the job. If you feel you do deserve a job, then put the appropriate effort into your resume.
