help with formatting my resume

[weflyhigh]

I have:

part-time job for 3 years (assistant manager)
part-time job for 4 months (delivery driver)
part-time job for 5 months (bartender)
babysat for 7ish years (probably won't list?)

1 internship in high school (at an architecture firm)

1 month summer program "exploring a foreign culture" (didn't really work out, shadowed someone in the US for 4 weeks lol)
*1 month WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) volunteer program in Hawaii
*few months volunteering at local animal shelter

1 major scholarship awarded (full 3.5 year tuition)
1 minor award (met 3 criteria, didn't apply or anything, not very serious)

member of an economic (my major) "society" for less than a year
member of a fraternity for 3.5 years (was "scholarship" chair and pledge class president, but neither of those really meant anything special)
*member of my school's biggest charity event for 2 years, didn't really do much for it except help raise money probably 5 times and organize 2 fundraising trips

skilled with a computer (MS office/photoshop, some C++)


my question is, how can I list all or most of that on my resume with minimal categories?

Like... education, work experience, other experience, awards/honors, skills? that seems like too many

please/thank you


*edit: added WWOOF, philanthropy, and ASPCA

 

[BoomerD]

Do NOT forget to include your assessment of Avatar. It's one of the most critical things an employer needs to know about you.

 

[Leros]

I think your categories are fine.

 

[Hacp]

Part-Time Job as assistant manager: Yes
Internship at architectural firm: Yes
Scholorship: yes
Economic society: yes
Fraternity with leadership positions: Yes
Summer program in exploring foreign culture: Yes
Computer Skills: Yes
everything else: NO

 

[Crono]

Experience, Education, Skills - in that order.

Awards isn't necessary, but if you wanted to add that at the end, it wouldn't hurt.

edit: don't list the babysitting, and probably not bartending, either (not unless it's a hospitality/service industry job you are applying to).

 

[weflyhigh]

Part-Time Job as assistant manager: Yes
Internship at architectural firm: Yes
Scholorship: yes
Economic society: yes
Fraternity with leadership positions: Yes
Summer program in exploring foreign culture: Yes
Computer Skills: Yes
everything else: NO

Hmm, ok.

I also volunteered for my school's largest philanthropy for 2 years (it only happens for a few months a year, though) and had a couple leadership roles in that

and

I volunteered working on an organic farm in Hawaii for a month (WWOOF World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms)



include either of those?


edit: and to Crono, I am applying for mostly business-related jobs

 

[unokitty]

I think that the principle is relevancy. That is, list everything that is relevant to the job you are seeking but nothing else.

Remember that a resume is an invitation to talk. Nothing more.

If your resume creates a feeling in someone that they want to interview you, then it has been successful.

Resumes don't get jobs. Though, they can get interviews. With an interview, people can get a job.

And remember to have someone else proof read your resume. It need to be free of spelling and grammar errors.

Best of luck,
Uno

 

[weflyhigh]

Right now I have it as "Education, Experience, Organizations, Awards, Skills"

there is only one thing under awards, though (it's plural... ?)


I included the delivery driver under experience because I could put in some analytical/logistical words

Didn't include ASPCA, WWOOF. Should I throw ASPCA under organizations or is the white space more valuable?


is there a better way to organize this?

 

[weflyhigh]

I took a class where we used StockTrak (stock market simulator). Should I mention that anywhere?

 

[olds]

format resume:

 

[mshan]

Glancing at your OP, seems like a laundry list with no message to potential employers more than anything else.

Step back and ask yourself two questions:

- what type of job am I looking for?

- what skills, training, education, and experience do I offer the potential employer I am applying to? (and specifically, the simple message your cover letter and resume should convey is this is what I offer, not this is what I want or need)

If you can do that for yourself in a few concise sentences, then you can format your cover letter and resume in such a way that the viewer actually has some sense of what you may have to offer that firm.

As for specific formatting of resume and what to include vs. not needed, each sub-section is typically in reverse chronological order, and like others said, major sections would be actual work experience, then education (post-graduate, internships, college, then high school), then other stuff such as specific skills, awards, honors, etc. that show how you completed or led some successful project that convey that you have something like great organization skills, leadership skills to motivate and lead others, or that you are just a great team member that can fit into their organization, do your work competently, be responsible, reliable, get along well with others, that you are really motivated and have always delivered more than the bare minimum previous jobs required, etc (basically, try and think from perspective of what the employer you are applying to would want, not what you yourself feel you want or need).

If you are applying to many disparate potential fields of employment, you may actually need more than one slightly different revisions of the cover letter and resume tailored more specifically that particular job market.

Good luck.

 

[mshan]

"member of an economic (my major) "society" for less than a year"

Something like this might send the wrong message (e. g. suggest that you quit too easily), is not necessary, and probably is just better left completely out of the resume.

"member of a fraternity for 3.5 years (was "scholarship" chair and pledge class president, but neither of those really meant anything special)
*member of my school's biggest charity event for 2 years, didn't really do much for it except help raise money probably 5 times and organize 2 fundraising trips"

Depending upon how successful you were in meeting or exceeding your targets, these are actual accomplishments that might nudge an otherwise generally interested employer with a ton of similar looking resumes on his / her desk to call you in and get more specifics about your leadership, management, and general people skills. 3.5 and not full 4 years of scholarship might make people wonder why, so need to word carefully without being misleading or disceptive (e. g. you first learned about scholarship first semester, applied for it, and have had it renewed each since all the way through graduation).

"1 major scholarship awarded (full 3.5 year tuition)
1 minor award (met 3 criteria, didn't apply or anything, not very serious)"

Were these competitive scholarships where you had to beat out a lot of other people to get them, or were they purely needs based (if the former, it could possibly be another accomplishment that might catch an employer's eye enough to call you in for an interview to discuss further)

"skilled with a computer (MS office/photoshop, some C++)"

Something like this needs much more specifics as to exactly how skilled and proficient you are with those programs (e. g. formal certifications and big completed projects that potential employer can then use to easily gauge in their mind your skill and proficiency level, absolutely and vs. others you may be competing against for a job)