Electronic Resume Template
The
following resume template is geared towards larger corporations.
Companies often scan or translate electronic resumes into a database.
The way a C.V. is read by a machine is indicative of the format
presented. Keep in mind that not all aspects of the template will
apply to you, always be creative.
Name
(first, last)
Street Address
City, Prov, Country
Home Telephone #
E-mail
Summary
Profile
Objective:
A brief one line sentence that is specific to your career aspirations
ie:Architect and lead for software projects, preferably in a supervisory
role.
Accreditation
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Technical Strengths
- Present a few bullet point statements that are specific
and relevant to the above objective
- Distributed and Embedded Software, OOP, C++
- Sunview, X-window, OPENLOOK and MOTIF
- Database theory, SQL, Sybase
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Supervisory/ Team Strengths
- This column may/may not apply to you. It may otherwise
be titled: Project Management Experience, etc.
- Ability to produce realistic software schedules
- Technical ability to train and troubleshoot
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Employment
Position,
Company, Division of, since Date (month/year)
Responsibilities:
This section will describe what your duties were at the above
position. This will be presented in sentence structure. ie: Provided
technical leadership to groups of one to four member software teams.
Responsible for planning and scheduling technical assignments and goals,
defining and analyzing requirements, training, responding to customers,
and contributing in performance reviews. etc.
Technical Environment: List the technologies that you had hands-on
experience with at the above position. ie: Real time embedded
system, Sun sparc, HP-UX, W-Windows, C, C++
Projects: List the title or state the general gist of the projects
you worked on or led in a short sentence with the duration of each project.
ie: Real time embedded software for airborne data acquisition system,
using VxWorks (2-year project)
Accomplishments:
-
List a couple of bullet statements in comprehensive complete sentences
- Principal
Architect and Designer, library to hide the system dependencies
between the target environment (VxWorks) and the similar environment
(X/Open UNIX) creating a virtual environment for applications
-
Coarchitect and Designer, framework library for the applications,
controlling schedules of tasks, memory and address space management,
concurrency control / synchronization, IPC, etc. Supervised other
individuals
Graduate
School Employment
Position,
Departments, Institute, Dates
Responsibilities:
Similar to the above requirements
Technical Environment:
Overseas
Employment
Position,
Company, City, Dates (month/year)
Commercial
Product Experience
Hardware:
This is comparable to a technology summary. In addition to this listing
you have identified under each job where the technologies were utilized,
identifying your years of experience, and degree of knowledge.
Operating Systems: It's important to provide this list as a quick
reference, it gives employers a complete picture to refer to.
Languages: ie: C (6 years), C++ (2 years), SQL (3 months),
etc.
Graduate
School
Thesis
in...name the discipline ie: Computer Science
"Title/Subject"
Class
Projects
- List
your projects here in a few bullet statements
Relevant
Graduate Coursework (credits)
ie: Operating Systems (4), Database Design (4), Software Tools (3), Data
Structures (4), Network Algorithms, etc.
Degrees
List the degrees you have achieved to date in this order: Date of Completion,
Level, Discipline, Institute
ie: 1986 M.S. Computer Science, Washington State University
Languages
List the languages or dialects that you are proficient with. ie: German,
French, etc.
Interests:
This section should be brief, it can be quite important. Some employers
notice common interests, as well it is a spring board for any introductory
conversations. A moment when you can just talk without having to sell
yourself.
