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My resume sucks

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The skills section is what you really need to work on. Since you have no real experience in the work world, at least you can elaborate on your skills to let the HR guy know what you are at least capable of. Despite what someone else said, don't add stuff like community service if you didn't do it. Lying on your resume can only turn out bad.

And mowing lawns ain't so bad. I did similar menial work during the Summer once. You could say "landscaping" or "gardening" if you don't want to put "mowing lawns" on your resume. At least it's better than nothing.
 
ya know, makes me kinda jealous when i see high gpa, but then i see the lack of work experience, makes me feel all warm and tingly inside 😛
 
Here's a sample of mine: Resume

I think you should take out the extra white spaces. Don't indent your contents. Highlight each category / sections title (Work Experience, Education, etc). See if you can mention any of your achievements. You may want to split your "Abilities" section into two. Or you can just simply change it to skills. You can have Computer Skills which can include software / hardware and Technical Skills, which can include anything technical but does not necessarily fall under Computer Skills. You can center your name, address, and info. Get to the point. Don't use really, really long sentences.

 
Whaaaa WHaaa........ You're resume blows mine out of the water.

Mine's so bad I'm afriad to apply for jobs. 😱
 
Originally posted by: JohnCU
My mom's friend may be able to get me a summer internship at the telephone/cable/internet company that provides service for the county I live in. She told me to write a resume and send it in and here's what I got: click for resume

It's very short and pretty boring, what should I add? I've never had a job before so no previous work experience. I could list some of my highschool teachers that would be references for my work ethic maybe...?
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No where to go but up 🙂
 
well its better then mine considering mine consists of nothing.

im a junior in College and ive never held a "Real" job in my life
 
Don't feel bad,

I sent a resume To Hickory Tech for a techinal ditrector position and I got a letter saying and I qoute "after reveiwing your resume we have decided not fill the position"

Now I may not have been qualified for the job but after reading mine it was SO BAD they decided to hire NOBODY:Q

 
You better update the the thread title man.

* Confirmed * Official crappy resume thread!
 
just curous, how many people use that ms word template for their resume? I goto job fairs and estimate easily 60% of people just use that.
 
Originally posted by: speg
Don't worry im 19 and never had a "real" job either.
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that is not bad, i am 21 and never even had any kind of job. Btw your resume is not that bad and u did kind of go up from store insider to solutions advisor but one question are u still working as solutions advisor?
 
would put at the end reference available upon request. If they ask u for reference u can give them the people name and number that u worked for so they can confirm u actually did work their.
 
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