Revising my Resume

Nogs

Hey H/A! I'm in the process of revising my resume right now. There is a job opening at a local publishing company that I was notified about and it has prompted me to dust off the ol'resume and cover letter and give them an overhaul. It's been awhile since I've done this though and was wondering if I could get any tips? I'm trying out a completely different template than I'm used to, and it just feels weird to me.

Anwyays, here is a picture of it:


I think I still need to fill it out a bit, though I'm a little stuck on what else I can put in there.

and for comparison, here is my old resume:


So I dunno you guy, think I'm heading in the right direction? Or do those both look like total crap?

Etelmik

Some points:

Present tense looks really weird the way you're doing it. Use past tense.

Putting education at the top screams "student." Unless that's important for him to know, put it at the bottom.

You have few relevant jobs? Well, "experience" is a good way to encompass that. Keep that the same, it's slick how you stuck president in there in a manner that says that it matters (it does, of course, but employers rarely believe it).

Get rid of "multicultural competencies." Make your skills in bullet point--you minimize them and they're more important than what you're giving them. Also, you seem to have more skills than that, judging by what you put for tech assistant. You may wish to shift some points from there to skills. At least make your skills list fuller, particularly if you have more.

Good luck!

tsmvengy

Bullet point your skills so they stand out. Flesh out "computer competencies:" what software do you know how to use?

Education at the top is fine - you are a student.

I would change the verbs in your descriptions to be active, so instead of "edit and create technical user manuals..." it would be "editED and creatED technical user manuals..." etc. Makes it much easier to read when someone is looking through. Edited, critiqued, supported, provided, supplied, etc. You have it right on your last job.

Your second draft is better than your original. Objectives are lame - those are for a cover letter.

supabeast

Flesh out the skills, because your job experience is pretty much irrelevant to most jobs.

Don’t use all caps on a resume. Or for that matter, anywhere else.
Bring the size of your name back down. Don’t be ostentatious if nobody is going to recognize your name anyway.
The entire body of your resume is left-justified. The headline is not, and it should be.
Make your margins much, much wider, like your old resume. This will look better, be easier to read, and make the columns of text longer.
For God’s sake, use better fonts. Switch to Georgia, or Verdana, or anything but those nightmare fonts you’re using.

tardcore

Fix the misspelled "Costumer" under the Dominos job.