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Contents What is a resume? Why write a resume? What kind of resume should you write? Tailoring for your audience Developing your content Organizing your sections Designing your page

Your Resume: General Concerns Designing your page After you have developed some content for your resume and begun organizing your sections, you'll want to start experimenting with page design to help draw the eye to the right places and make your resume easy to read. By force of habit, most readers begin reading in the top left corner of a page. So how can you improve the chances that something on your resume will be seen? Simply place it toward the top and/or left of your page (or of a specific section of your page). Using the page design strategies listed below, you can draw the eye to other parts of your page as well: creating a visual hierarchy using the whole page using a consistent format choosing the right paper       back to top

 Written and Designed by Bryan M. Kopp and the Business Writing Consulting/Tutoring Staff with the Assistance of Liz Thelen.

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