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I posted a resume last week and got a lot of good tips, I spent the next two days trying to improve what I had.

Is this any less bad?
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>>17281864
It's empty...

Write a short objective statement. List your other achievements, certifications, interests, whatever. just don't turn in this nearly blank garbage.
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>>17281864
Write a personal statement at least. Some life experience stuff would be nice too, other than the formal work stuff
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>>17281864
Here are some more tips for your resume

Education
>take off "Part time student". It is neither a skill nor something you accomplished through education. Instead, you can add the classes you took that are relevant to the job you are applying to
>write your grade level if you are a junior or a senior in college to show that your have enough college experience. Dont add anything if you are a freshman or sophomore.

Experience
>write your role first instead of the place you worked at to make your roles more easily visible. You should make the more important parts of your resume easy to find

Skills
>add your proficiency levels in all the skills you listed (ex. Proficient in Excel)

Also, it is VERY important that you add how your experiences show the kind of worker you are.
For example, in your Tech Assistant role you can add that you have good interpersonal skills because you had to communicate computer problems to the people using those computers.
Furthermore, in your Supervisory Role, add that you had to delegate instructions to your team and helped sustain a good team environment through your interpersonal skills. Write something along those lines

Add a section for Objectives: what do you want to accomplish or what do you seek in a workplace?
Add a section for accomplishments: did you win any awards? What did you accomplish?

The bottom line is that good resumes highlight good qualities. They dont highlight just the experiences you made.
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>>17281864
Don't indent so much. It makes it seem like you're trying to fill up space. Add a small list of relevant courses you took at the university, relevant to the position you are applying to. Add an achievements section and list relevant recognitions/awards you've received for your hardwork. I would suggest volunteering somewhere and add that to your resume. Also, the stranger the better. A classmate said she would put that she was a stilts walker and got callbacks just from curiosity.
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Is this resume for your major career or is it just a summer job type thing?
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>>17281985
This guys advice is pretty bad except the student part, I bet he's NEET or works in McDonalds
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>>17282035
Summer job type thing but hopefully any entry level IT shit if I can find it
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>>17282096
Why is it bad advice? Please explain.
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>spread shitting
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>>17281864

i was in that thread and it looks like you took my advice on some stuff, but you wrote it out hella weak man. you dont need to list community college as experience. list yourself as a tutor or a tech assistant, dont say 'community college' its weak. i told you that.

just say you were a tutor. clarify if you were independent or 'hired' by the school. they dont need to know whether or not you got paid, but saying 'hired' makes it sound like you were so fucking smart they hired you to do something.

make 'tutor' and 'tech specialist' two different experience fields. consider writing in traditional paragraphs instead of in lists, as you can use more words, amke it seem more professional. for instance tutor

>hired for the academic school year of 2012 to 2013 to tutor fellow students in the fields of math, science, and technology.

expand from there but you get the idea. tech supervisor can be its own thing easily enough.

when it comes to managed cash register just say 'general accounting. when it says 'rotated stock weekly' say 'managed stock rotation'. it implies that you made other people do it cuz you were promoted above them.

under 'created advertisement deals and specials' just list it as 'managed promotions and advertisements'.

word it impressively.

your skills list was updated with what we suggested but still seems weak in the ways you worded it.

you also do need SOME references. they literally never call so dont owrry about it, just list your previous employers, maybe a teacher, even fake having a relative on there.

i had famous high profile people listed on my resume and they never once received a call. its just something you ptu there to show people could vouch for you, and it takes up space making it look more professional. you can even just list an email instead of a phone number to avoid any possible embarassment. but you need references to just fill up space.
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>>17281864
be more descriptive
dont b like " i wash kids ass for a living" be more like " between the vagina and anus i washed all types of childrens ass with wet towels in bathrooms...etc"
use size 10 font
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nobody needs your address
if you're a student you need to say when you're avaliable to work.
nobody gives a shit about your GPA
"took care of re-orders" does not mean anything specific outside of "Food Place". say what you did and hopefully that you did it under budget
lol at "spread sheeting". just say Excel, Word, HTML, CSS, JAVA. nobody who receives this POS resume is going to believe the lie that you have social media or advertising skills.
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>>17282116
You could write out all your career-related courses, your could just drop your major next to your school name. Part-Time Student means that you have less than 12 hours of classes. That is important. That's related to your schedule.

I agree that you should switch your role and job location around, and dropping proficiency levels can be useful. You can use Excel, or you could be a master of Office using word, excel, access, and powerpoint effectively. Might be useful to learn a tiny bit of Visual Basic if you haven't.

Anon's advice elaborates where elaboration is not necessary. The kind of worker you are is practically in the title. People know that a supervisor supervises. It's redundant.

And Objective/Background wouldn't hurt, but keep it very sweet, and use business language instead of normal voice. Leave off any I statements, and make it second person without pronouns.

"Have achieved this in this field. Spent 10 years doing this" That way, when the interviewer glances down. it's short, the important details are there, and they can just read it by adding You. "You have achieved this in this field? You spent 10 years...?"
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>>17282890
that your could should have been or you could
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>>17282894
i swear, my eyes saw the words i meant.

Short and sweet, not just sweet. you don't gotta romance :P
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>>17281864
Businessbro here. Much to say. First of all, put education at the bottom, get rid of your GPA (if they want to know, they'll ask) and PT student (irrelevant), and add your expected graduation date (even if you're not sure, guestimate). Now, we're going to add a bunch of shit to get your experience to make you look appealing. Especially the supervisor part. A good way to set up each bullet point sentence is: What you did -> Why you did it -> What was the impact. Example: instead of
>Created advertisement deals and specials
Put:
>"Developed and implemented successful marketing strategies to increase sales revenues, resulting in significantly improved organizational profitability"
I doubt you do, but if you have quantitative evidence to show the increase in sales (even a rough percentage), you should put that instead of 'significantly improved.'
I'm not going to do each one for you, but you get the point: What, why, impact. Do that for every single one.
Next, you add more skills. Like the other anon said, say: "Proficient in..." Leave out spread sheeting. Say instead, 'Proficient in Microsoft Excell, Word, Powerpoint, outlook, etc'. even if it seems basic, just add it in. Adobe photoshop, acrobat, etc.
Also, change 'troubleshooting' to the same tense you used for all the other bullet points.
That should be enough to get you started for now.
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