Professional Summary Mb2
Jane Doe[MB1]
(123) 456-7891
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY[MB2]
Pharmaceutical industry professional with eight years of progressive sales experience. Expertise in blood and DNA testing hardware. High-level staff training and budgetary responsibilities.
WORK EXPERIENCE[MB3]
KLT Laboratories, Las Vegas, NV[MB4]
Manager[MB5]2012-Present[MB6]
- Manage all DNA testing hardware sales teams in U.S. and Canada.[MB7]
- Represent KLT at industry conferences.
- Responsible for $23 million dollar budget.[MB8]
Supervisor2008-2012
- Supervised[MB9] 25 sales representatives across 12 states.
- Conducted employee orientation for new sales staff.
- Tracked relevant sales trends for corporate office.
Henderson Medical Supplies, Henderson, NV
Sales Representative2004-2008
- Developed new customer leads for blood-testing equipment.
- Served as point of contact for existing customers in California, Nevada, and Utah.
- Named sales representative of the year in 2006 and 2007.
EDUCATION
B.S., Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 2011[MB10]
VOLUNTEERISM
Forever Futures, Las Vegas, NV2006-2011
Volunteered with an organization dedicated to providing basic socialization and obedience training to shelter dogs to increase their adoptability. Achieved MRG trainer certification in 2008.[MB11]
[MB1]Make it easy for hiring managers to find your resume in a pile by emboldening your name and making it a little larger than the rest of the text on the page. Don't go overboard though. This font is 16pt, as compared to the 12pt used in the rest of the resume. That size difference is enough.
[MB2]Centering your section headings is a way to make your resume a little easier to read since hiring managers won't confuse these headings with your job titles. Many resumes also place section headings in all capital letters. If you do that, be sure to check the spelling carefully since many spelling checkers ignore text in all caps.
[MB3]Place your most important categories in the top third of the page. This generally includes your employment experience or job skills.
[MB4]Make it easy for hiring managers to see your promotions by listing each job separately under the company name. In this case, we opted not to embolden the company names because we want the reader to focus on the job titles.
[MB5]Use emboldening to draw the reader's eye to the most important elements of the resume. In this case, we've chosen to emphasize job titles, but you may emphasize job skill categories or even company names for some industry. Don't overdo it. As you can see, job titles are the only embolden left-justified text on the resume. If you use underlining or emboldening too much, the reader won't know where to look.
[MB6]Work experience and education sections should be in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent entry and working backwards in time.
[MB7]Bullet points are a good way to present information clearly and are often easier to read than a paragraph of complete sentences.
[MB8]As much as possible, make your bulleted lists structurally parallel. If, however, this isn't possible, place any points that are not parallel in the first or last position on the list.
[MB9]List your current job responsibilities in present tense. For past jobs, use past tense.
[MB10]Often, a college degree is a minimum requirement for the job you are applying for. Unless you have a unique degree that sets you apart from your competition, it's not necessary to embolden your degree information.
[MB11]Volunteerism is useful to share in order to demonstrate your commitment and work ethic. However, unless your experience is career relevant, don't embolden elements like your position or the organization. Also, we've described Jane's responsibilities in paragraph form to further deemphasize them. Interested hiring managers will read this passage, but we don't want to distract the reader from more important elements of the resume.