{"id":981,"date":"2020-04-18T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:47:35","slug":"best-tips-writing-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/best-tips-writing-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the best tips for writing a resume?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;re some best tips to write a resume:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a <strong>professional email<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Update your <strong>contact information<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Set your <strong>font size<\/strong> to <em>10 \u2013 12 size<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Use <strong>reverse \u2013 chronological<\/strong> order<\/li>\n<li><strong>Align your content<\/strong> to the left to make it skimmable<\/li>\n<li>Make strategic use of <strong>bold, caps and italics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Choose an <strong>attractive and readable font<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Only add jobs<\/strong> you\u2019ve had in the past <em>10-15<\/em> <em>years<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Give your sections <strong>simple subheadings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Include URLs<\/strong> to social media profiles, personal websites, and your blog.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a <strong>resume format<\/strong> that works for you<\/li>\n<li>Consider using a <strong>professional design<\/strong> <strong>template<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Consider putting your <strong>education<\/strong> first<\/li>\n<li>Lose the <strong>phrase<\/strong> \u201c<em>References available upon<\/em> <em>request<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Read the<strong> job description<\/strong> and read it again<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;re some best tips to write a resume: Create a professional email Update your contact information Set your font size to 10 \u2013 12 size Use reverse \u2013 chronological order Align your content to the left to make it skimmable Make strategic use of bold, caps and italics Choose an [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[251,23,28,70,259],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queries","tag-best-online-resume-builder","tag-professional-resume","tag-resume-formats","tag-resume-tips","tag-resume-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}