Submitted by DigitalSHU on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 20:24.
First thing I noticed when I opened your resume was the nice clean layout, everything fits and there is good use of the space. As far as formatting, the only thing I might change is the way you have your name/address laid out. It looks a little bulky centered like it is. You might try and center your name and place the other information horizontally. This might give it a cleaner look.
The education section is laid out fine but you might want to put your expected year of graduation instead of class status. Just saying you’re a Junior doesn’t really give any indication of when you plan to graduate.
Based on your job ad and your major it looks like you are searching for a position writing code or dealing IT. The work experience section mainly outlines your managerial experience/skills. For the particular job you are applying, I would add a section of your related course work or known programming languages. Anything related to the job ad that would compliment your management skills. By doing this, I think you could cut down the amount of bulleted points for each job and make them more focused. I do think you make good use of parallel verbs at each bulleted point. The last thing about the work experience section would be to tell your employer which university dining service you worked for. I know that you worked for the Purdue dining service, but the employer might not be able to make the connection. I also think that would be more impressive to them considering the volume of students, etc.
Overall, I think you have a great resume and with a few minor changes it will be even better. Hope this helps.
The first thing I noticed about your resume was the simple top and easily distinct sections. I like how you made use of double lines for section breaks. This made it very easy to find the different sections of your resume. I think you could benefit from placing your dates in a different font or something to make them stand out more from the rest of your job descriptions. They look a little out of place over on the side with almost the same style of font as the rest of the resume. I think that you did a good job of not having too much open space in your resume and allowing space where it’s needed. Your use of space before each new section is very eye appealing with the lines around the section title. I noticed that you have listed working for University Residences Dining Services as a student manager and previously as a student supervisor. On first glance this was a little confusing because you had the dates that you worked as a student supervisor and I wasn’t sure if that was also with University Residences Dining Services. I think if you cleared that up a little bit it looks good.
Tweaks
First thing I noticed when I opened your resume was the nice clean layout, everything fits and there is good use of the space. As far as formatting, the only thing I might change is the way you have your name/address laid out. It looks a little bulky centered like it is. You might try and center your name and place the other information horizontally. This might give it a cleaner look.
The education section is laid out fine but you might want to put your expected year of graduation instead of class status. Just saying you’re a Junior doesn’t really give any indication of when you plan to graduate.
Based on your job ad and your major it looks like you are searching for a position writing code or dealing IT. The work experience section mainly outlines your managerial experience/skills. For the particular job you are applying, I would add a section of your related course work or known programming languages. Anything related to the job ad that would compliment your management skills. By doing this, I think you could cut down the amount of bulleted points for each job and make them more focused. I do think you make good use of parallel verbs at each bulleted point. The last thing about the work experience section would be to tell your employer which university dining service you worked for. I know that you worked for the Purdue dining service, but the employer might not be able to make the connection. I also think that would be more impressive to them considering the volume of students, etc.
Overall, I think you have a great resume and with a few minor changes it will be even better. Hope this helps.
Resume
The first thing I noticed about your resume was the simple top and easily distinct sections. I like how you made use of double lines for section breaks. This made it very easy to find the different sections of your resume. I think you could benefit from placing your dates in a different font or something to make them stand out more from the rest of your job descriptions. They look a little out of place over on the side with almost the same style of font as the rest of the resume. I think that you did a good job of not having too much open space in your resume and allowing space where it’s needed. Your use of space before each new section is very eye appealing with the lines around the section title. I noticed that you have listed working for University Residences Dining Services as a student manager and previously as a student supervisor. On first glance this was a little confusing because you had the dates that you worked as a student supervisor and I wasn’t sure if that was also with University Residences Dining Services. I think if you cleared that up a little bit it looks good.
-Chris