Resume guidelines

If you already have prepared a resume, please don’t spend time modifying it to fit Esconnet’s or any other particular format.

We view receipt of your resume or career synopsis as a starting point for our confidential discussions.

If you have not yet made a resume, below are some standard guidelines in template blocks that may assist you.

Underneath the “Career History” section are some alternative paragraphs that may or may not be included, depending on your objective and career background.

Your identity will be protected after we receive your resume. We may modify or stylize it in accordance with the interests of any client we may then pass it on to.

For that reason it is alright to state your objective and perhaps the listed position that you may be interested in, in the covering email or letter rather than near the top of the resume itself.



Name
Address
Contact details


Objective:

To obtain a (for example: marketing executive) position that allows me to (state what you’d like to develop, or leverage, or exercise, or learn, et cetera) while utilizing my (skills, or experience, or knowledge, or abilities et cetera).


Technical Skills (and/or) Professional Summary:

If you are an engineer or a technical professional, you might list technical skills – often near the top of the resume - in one block or in appropriate categories, such as:
IT Cert.: CCNE, MCSE
O/S: UNIX, Linux, Windows NT
Databases: Oracle DB, Sybase, SQL Server,
Software: SAP ERP, CAD/CAM,
Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, VB Script, JavaScript, ASP, XML
Network: WAN, LAN, Cisco, ipPBX, Firewall, TCP/IP
Et cetera

A professional summary should expand – in no more than a paragraph - on your objective and provide relevant details about your experience, skills and career objectives. It might highlight management experience, like handling P/L and budget, and hiring and training staff – whatever highlights from your career background that you would like a future employer to look at.


Professional Qualifications & Affiliations:

If you are a professional in a non-computer-related field, instead of grouping certifications with technical skills (as above), you might highlight them is a separate block like this:

Obtained CPA, New York, 1989

Or

Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1995
Member, Law Society of Victoria

Et cetera



Career History:

Year Started - Current Company Name
Present Current Position

If your company is not very well known, you may consider briefly describing its activities and type in italicized lettering, like this, before describing details about your job.

 List job details in point form
 Start with current job details, including details of responsibilities, reporting structure, number of subordinates, performance and client interaction details, information about working environment
 List other positions you have held at the same firm, concomitant responsibilities and details of your progression; alternatively you could list each position at this company as a separate “block” (styled like this one, with dates of employment and emboldened company name and position highlighted at the beginning)

Year Started - Previous Company Name
Year Finished Last Position Held

 List job details, as described above
 Put a new career “block” for each company you have worked at, in descending order. – the first company you worked at should appear at the bottom. Normally, the date you started at your first company should sequentially follow the date you graduated from university.



 Alternatively if, for example, you have worked for a number of years on a per project basis as, for example, a consultant, start with an overview of your activities – including number of projects completed, average length of time of each and typical project overlapping (if any), details about the type of projects and clientele, and about the number of assigned consultants per project and your position and responsibilities within the consulting structure et cetera, as seems relevant and informative, followed by a selection of detailed examples of particular (or ranges of) projects such as:
 Software project (I was project leader of team of 4 consultants) for a major Japanese trading company, of 6 months duration, involving recommending, costing, facilitating and then overseeing implementation of business to business application to supplant the one used by all domestic and overseas branches of the company. Recommendations were accepted by the client, and all estimated price, timing and performance targets were achieved. I managed a total of 30 software development engineers over the course of the 6 months. We monitored the success of implementation after project completion, and client satisfaction and expectations were realized 100%.
 Marketing project(s)
 Financial restructuring project(s)


Education:

Nameof University
Bachelor of Coursename, Major
Graduated 19(Year completed)
(If you have multiple degrees, start with the highest qualification)


Other paragraphs:

We don’t recommend that you go overboard in providing too much information to busy prospective employers. You may consider including details under the heading, for example, of Interests or Other Relevant Experience or Professional Development if you feel it strengthens your case for obtaining a given position.