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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

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

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

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.

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