Suggestions on Creating a Social Resume that Reflects Your Specialness

To Consider When Creating Your Social Resume

Formatting

• You can adapt the margins to make your resume look bigger (if you have fewer activities) or to accommodate lots of information (if you want to include a great deal of information.)
• Make sure you insert a header with your name and contact information. This information will then be included on both pages of your resume.
• Use tabs to line up text. You can find the tab function on the ribbon bar under Page Layout > Paragraph > Tabs. Notice you can set a left or right tab. Right tabs are great at lining up copy on the far right of the word doc. These tabs are also visible at the top left of your page. See the little box with the L. You can click on that box and it will walk you through all the tabs available. (Who would have known?)
• You know how to use the center formatting option.
• You do not have to bold, underline, and use all caps for headers. This is what you used to have to do. You can make the headers a few points larger, use a different font, or use small caps when formatting. Go to Font > Small Caps. (I used small caps for the header on this paragraph.)
• Learn to use styles. Makes life much easier if you want to change the headers. You modify the style, apply the modification and shazam – all the headers are changed.
• You may use a fun font for your headers – something that shows your personality. Just make sure it is easily readable AND most importantly that you export your word doc to a pdf before forwarding to anyone as they might have have that font on their computer and then the resume looks bad.
• I would not suggest including a picture on your resume. Again, if someone prints the resume out on a black & white printer, the picture will not be good. Include awesome 4x6 photos. (And remember to include a label with your name and high school on the back.)

The Resume

• If is okay to have two pages if you have many experiences to share.
• Make sure you include a section on About Me that shares information not covered under any of the sections. This is a way for the members of a sorority to remember you in a positive way.