Resume examples · For job seekers
Resume Examples by Role
How to write a resume that gets read, with a full worked example for each of 22 roles.
A resume has one job: to get you to the next stage. The first person to read it usually skims, so the page has to show quickly what you can do, at what level, and what evidence there is. This guide covers the parts every resume needs; each role page below adds a full example, summaries for each career stage and the skills that role is judged on.
The sections, in order
Most resumes that work use the same few sections, in roughly this order. Headings readers and software both recognise matter more than an original layout.
- Header: name, city and country, email, and one link to a portfolio, GitHub or LinkedIn.
- Summary: three or four lines on your level, your main tools or skills, and the role you want.
- Skills: grouped, and limited to what you could be tested on tomorrow.
- Experience: most recent first, with three to five bullets per role.
- Projects: essential if your job history does not yet show the work you want to do.
- Education and certifications: qualification, institution and dates.
Bullets that show what changed
A duty says what you were responsible for; an achievement says what happened because you did it. Start each bullet with a verb, name the task and the tool, and end with the result: what was faster, clearer, cheaper or decided because of your work.
Use figures from your own work where you can explain them in an interview. If you are not sure of a number, describe the change in words rather than guess.
Getting past applicant tracking systems
Many employers load applications into software that parses and searches them. A plain single-column layout with standard headings is read reliably; skills inside images, tables, text boxes or rating bars often are not. Use the same names for tools and skills as the job advert, where they are true for you.
Resume or CV?
In the UK a CV usually means the same short document Americans call a resume. In academic and some international applications a CV is a longer record of research and publications. Use whichever word the advert uses, and keep to its length.
All roles
22 pages, A to Z
- Accountant
- Administrative Assistant
- Architect
- Business Analyst
- Civil Engineer
- Consultant
- Customer Service Representative
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- Data Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Electrical Engineer
- Graphic Designer
- Illustrator
- Information Technology
- Investment Banker
- Mechanical Engineer
- Product Manager
- Production Manager
- Project Manager
- Sales Executive
- Software Engineer
- Video Editor
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