Resume Template

Candidate's Name

Street address, City, State, Zip

username@u.washington.edu | (206) 123-5678

EDUCATION

School Name, City, State June 2000

Candidate for Master of Business Administration, Concentration

Certificate programs listed

Additional activities, awards, honors

Activities such as clubs. Format: Officer title, Club name

Undergraduate Institution, City, ST/Country June 1996

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Major

Achievements, honors

Thesis, study-abroad program, etc. Keep this section concise.

EXPERIENCE

Company Name 1, City, ST/Country 2000-Present

An optional line describing company’s business, to help recruiter contextualize bullet points.

Job Title, Division or Subsidiary if applicable

(Optional) Brief overview of job responsibilities. One or two lines at most.

Each bullet should describe results and achievements. Quantify how well you did the job. Can use multiple phrases. Each bullet should be 1-3 lines long. Group responsibilities and activities logically to the reader

List bullets in the order starting with one that broadly describes your job, moving to more specific points.

Proceed with additional bullets that drill down to key achievements, describing the activities with action verbs, avoiding passive tense (is, are, there is, were accomplished). Try to include numbers to quantify your achievement.

Company Name 2, City, ST/Country 1996-2000

An optional line describing company’s business, to help recruiter contextualize bullet points

Job Title 1, Division 1 or subsidiary1 if applicable

(Optional) Brief overview of job responsibilities. One or two lines at most.

Apply same principles for developing bullets as mentioned earlier.

A note about formatting: If you lose the formatting of a line, don’t replicate it manually. The trick is to place your cursor somewhere in the messed up line, then go to Format > Styles and Formatting, then click on the style you want to replace it with.

Job Title 2, Division 2

(Optional) Brief...