Joey, you have a very professional resume. It does a good job of presenting your various skills and work experience. It also makes effective use of most of the paper. In all honesty, I was hard pressed to come up with some minor suggestions.
An easy change, that you can make, is to remove the hyperlink from your email address at the top of your resume. If you need help doing this, the bottom of page one in the resume design handout provides an excellent guide for accomplishing this in Microsoft Word. Another suggestion that I have, is to use font styles to increase the readability of your resume. Right now you have your section headings bold. I recommend that you make these also underlined. Doing this will then allow you to make the names of the companies you worked for bold. I feel that this will bring attention to the jobs that you have had. Some parts of your skills section seem a bit crowded. One way that you could fix this, is to remove Excel, PowerPoint and Word from the skills section. Most companies will just assume that you have these skills, if you have any sort of technical background. My final suggestion is to write a stronger objective. Perhaps write why you want to work for the company and it also doesn’t hurt to tailor your objective to a certain company.
Despite these areas for improvement, your resume serves as a solid foundation for presenting your accomplishments to employers. It is very well structured and you have plenty of good job experiences. All in all I feel that with some minor changes your resume will defiantly benefit you in the job search.
Joey, overall your resume is very straightforward and easy to read. There are some small things that you may want to fix, although they are just my opinion and everyone is different. First, your telephone number is in a great place, but you may want to put that its a cell or home number. I would assume that it is a cell number nowadays, but you may not want an HR person assuming anything. An obvious thing to fix is your blue email address. Your object statement tells me what you want to do, but it may need another goal in it. I am undecided about your skills section. I haven't ever seen that setup before, but this may be a good thing for a reviewer. Bullet points may be needed. I would encourage bullet points for each of your descriptions in your experience and activities sections, as described in Instructor Blog #2. Lastly, using the quadrant test, it seems that the bottom left of your resume has more "white" showing than the rest of the resume.
Now for the good of your resume. Not to contradict myself about the quadrant test, but I like flow of your resume, and one way you accomplish this is with your "whiteness" in the bottom left corner. Your headings are bold and easy to find, and the sub-headings in italics lead me from point to point. Your placement of your scholarship is perfect, right in the education section. Like I said before, the skills section is new to me, but it does prove extremely easy to follow, although it may be a big blob in the middle of your resume for someone skip over. It is good that you have a lot of experience in the automotive industry, and excellent that you put the Purdue Grand Prix, as this shows auto knowledge and extra-cirriculars. Although Marsh doesn't say automotive, it does show that you have an extensive history of dealing with people and unhappy customers. Great resume!
Some Suggestions
Joey, you have a very professional resume. It does a good job of presenting your various skills and work experience. It also makes effective use of most of the paper. In all honesty, I was hard pressed to come up with some minor suggestions.
An easy change, that you can make, is to remove the hyperlink from your email address at the top of your resume. If you need help doing this, the bottom of page one in the resume design handout provides an excellent guide for accomplishing this in Microsoft Word. Another suggestion that I have, is to use font styles to increase the readability of your resume. Right now you have your section headings bold. I recommend that you make these also underlined. Doing this will then allow you to make the names of the companies you worked for bold. I feel that this will bring attention to the jobs that you have had. Some parts of your skills section seem a bit crowded. One way that you could fix this, is to remove Excel, PowerPoint and Word from the skills section. Most companies will just assume that you have these skills, if you have any sort of technical background. My final suggestion is to write a stronger objective. Perhaps write why you want to work for the company and it also doesn’t hurt to tailor your objective to a certain company.
Despite these areas for improvement, your resume serves as a solid foundation for presenting your accomplishments to employers. It is very well structured and you have plenty of good job experiences. All in all I feel that with some minor changes your resume will defiantly benefit you in the job search.
Resume Critique
Joey, overall your resume is very straightforward and easy to read. There are some small things that you may want to fix, although they are just my opinion and everyone is different. First, your telephone number is in a great place, but you may want to put that its a cell or home number. I would assume that it is a cell number nowadays, but you may not want an HR person assuming anything. An obvious thing to fix is your blue email address. Your object statement tells me what you want to do, but it may need another goal in it. I am undecided about your skills section. I haven't ever seen that setup before, but this may be a good thing for a reviewer. Bullet points may be needed. I would encourage bullet points for each of your descriptions in your experience and activities sections, as described in Instructor Blog #2. Lastly, using the quadrant test, it seems that the bottom left of your resume has more "white" showing than the rest of the resume.
Now for the good of your resume. Not to contradict myself about the quadrant test, but I like flow of your resume, and one way you accomplish this is with your "whiteness" in the bottom left corner. Your headings are bold and easy to find, and the sub-headings in italics lead me from point to point. Your placement of your scholarship is perfect, right in the education section. Like I said before, the skills section is new to me, but it does prove extremely easy to follow, although it may be a big blob in the middle of your resume for someone skip over. It is good that you have a lot of experience in the automotive industry, and excellent that you put the Purdue Grand Prix, as this shows auto knowledge and extra-cirriculars. Although Marsh doesn't say automotive, it does show that you have an extensive history of dealing with people and unhappy customers. Great resume!