Personal Development Career Development Resume and CV Writing

HOW TO WRITE A RESUME

with example resume
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (177 ratings)
7,633 students
Created by Jim Duhovny
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Be able to create a good resume by recruiter standards.

Requirements

  • Basic English language is required.

Description

In this course you learn how to format resume, what sections need to be present, what is the best way to write each section of your resume. Most importantly you learn that it will not be a human who is the most important reader of your resume, but a computer, and thus, if you want someone to look at your resume, you must write it a certain way.

Each class is very short (2-3 minutes) and has guides and examples which you can follow and have a good, solid resume by the end of the class.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone looking for a job.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 34m total length

  • Introduction
    05:07
  • Red Flags on your resume
    06:21
  • Section 1: Name, Address, Phone, Email
    03:40
  • Section 2: Summary (the most important 2 sentences)
    04:43
  • Section 3: Skills (you know more than you think)
    04:02
  • Experience (biggest, most difficult, least looked section)
    04:38
  • Education (what to show, what to hide)
    03:11
  • Awards, Associations, Fun Facts (this is why they might hire you)
    02:23

Instructor

Jim Duhovny
Entrepreneur, Lecturer, CEO, Software Eningeer
Jim Duhovny
  • 4.0 Instructor Rating
  • 177 Reviews
  • 7,633 Students
  • 1 Course

Jim currently is working full time as a CEO of a high tech company in Silicon Valley.

He also lectures and hosts a series of talks at Stanford.

Before that he worked for ~20 years as a software engineer in companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, SAP, Walmart online stores, Nortel and others.