Welcome to writing effective résumés
(英文简历制作技巧 中英对照)
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We will cover the purpose of résumé, when to use one, how to format effectively and how to write content that promote your qualifications.
我们将讲述简历的制作目的,使用日期,怎样制作有效简历以及如何编辑简历以提升职业匹配度。
Résumé is not your autobiography they need to be brief and concise,
简历不是你的自传,所以要简洁明了。
yet also compelling to the employer forming the connection between their need and your qualifications within the matter for seconds.
同时它能够帮助HR在短时间内判断你与应聘职位的匹配度。
It’s never too early to get started on this document, and your résumé will evolve overtime as you continue to gain experience and skills and apply for different jobs.
简历的准备越早越好,还要随着经历的丰富和技能的提高而更新,并且要针对不同职位进行调整。
Résumé Purpose and Function 简历的目的和功能
Your résumé summarize your skills and background and shows how you are qualified for a particular position.
简历概括了你的技能和背景,同时展现了你是否满足某一职位的需求。
in addition to sending it to employer in response to advertise jobs that interest in, you can use it in networking and career fair to introduce you to employers.
你将简历递交给HR不仅是为了申请职位,还要用它在网上或招聘会上向HR介绍自己。
The main purpose of the résumé is to get you an interview, and it’s good to have one on hand on events may ask for.
简历的主要目的是帮助你获得面试机会,在可能需要简历时准备一份是很不错的。
Résumé Section 简历结构
You have some flexibility with the section on your résumé. There are 3 sections that you must have: your contact information your education and some kind of experience.
简历的结构设置有一定的灵活性,但是联系方式,教育背景以及实践经历这三个模块是必不可少的。
Other sections are optional. Your choice to use will depend on how well they would convey your fit for the position. These optional sections include the objective, the skill summary, or summaries of qualifications, relevant course work, projects, extracurricular activities, honors and awards, and interests.
其它模块是选择性的。你的使用选择取决于模块将传达你和职位很高的匹配度。这些模块包括求职意向,技能综述,资历综述,相关课程,项目以及课外实践活动,荣誉奖项,以及兴趣爱好。
Developing Résumé Content 简历内容的编写
For contact information at the top of your résumé, put your name, address and phone number and e-mail. If you are still in school, you can include both your current address, and your permanent address.
简历最上方的联系信息需要包括姓名,联系地址,电话号码以及电子邮件地址。如果你还是在校学生,你可以在联系地址这一栏写上你的暂住址以及籍贯。
If you include objective on your résumé which should come next, it can simply be what you want to do for your next job.
如果你要在简历上写求职意向,它应该写在联系信息模块后,而且只需简短描述意向的工作行业、职位。
Everything include below the objective should help show that you have the qualification and experience to support your objective.
求职目标以下的内容都应该帮助证明你有足够的资质和经验支撑你的求职意向。
If you applying for a position you found on advertise. You can just list the job title.
如果你申请的职位是在招聘广告上看到的,你可以列明职位名称。
If you give your résumé to networking contact or representative at the career fair, you can just name the type of position you want.
如果你通过网上或招聘会递交简历,你仅需列出应聘职位的类型。
You can also include the type of organization where you’d like to work. It would be obvious to an employer which position you are applying for.
你还可以说明你的意向企业,这可以使HR明白你申请的职位。
You do not need to include the objective.
这就你就不用写求职意向了。
If you are still in school or recently graduated, the education section goes near the top of the page. They need to fit the objective.
如果你是在校生或应届毕业的学生,教育背景应该被放在简历的前面,教育背景应该匹配你的求职意向。
If it has been a year or more since you graduated put this or add near in your résumé unless you want to bring it to the employers’ attention right on front.
如果你毕业已经有一年以上了,教育背景可以被搁置在后面,除非你要利用这点吸引HR的注意力,则可以提前。
In the education section you usually list the education institution you graduated or will graduate from. Degree or degree is earned, and the month and year of graduation. 在教育背景这一栏,通常你应该列明你毕业学校或者即将毕业的学校,已获得学位以及即将获得的学位,以及毕业的年月。
You can also include your GPA, the title of your subject to be honored thesis.
你也可以在教育背景这一栏列出你的GPA,获奖毕业论文题目 。
And in the education abroad you participated in. Remember the name of the school you attended, where and when, and in the coursework related to the objective. 至于你的海外学习,应该列明学校名称,时间地点,以及参加的与求职目标相关的课程。
You don’t need to include your junior or community college education unless it would help mark you from the place you are seeking or if omitting it would be confusing. 你不需要写出你的初中以及社区大学的教育经历,除非这些经历使你非常出彩或略去这些经历会让HR产生疑惑。
If you want to highlight your transfer GPA, list the institution and include your GPA. 如果你想要突出你的交流成绩,你可以在学院旁注明。
Don’t recalculating in combining GPA from the community college.
不要把社区学院的GPA加在一起来重新计算你的GPA。
Experience Section 经历概述
Your experience can include paid and unpaid work and activities. If you don’t have much job experience, consider what you develop valuable transferable skill doing class projects or participating in the students’ club.
你的个人经历可以包括带薪和不带薪的工作以及活动。如果你没有充足的工作经历,你可以写你在做课程项目或者参与学生社团过程中获得的有价值的可迁移技能。
Some of your experience may fit well in the separate projects and activity sections.
如果你的经历足够丰富,你可以单独列出一个部分写明。
First list all your experience, both paid and unpaid including job internships and volunteer work, work on behalf of the student organization as a member or officer and class projects which could be relevant to your objective. Free chick’s project, activity include your job internship and volunteer title。
首先,列明你所有的经历,无论是带薪还是不带薪;是工作、实习还是志愿者活动;是学生组织或课堂项目中的成员还是领导;只要与你的申请职位有关即可。这些工作经历都需要列明名称。
For each experience, project or activity, include your job, internship, volunteer title, employer or course and dates for employment or time inferred for the course.
对于每一次经历,无论是项目还是活动,要将你工作、实习或志愿者的职务名称、雇主、工作或课程的时间列出。
Describe for what you did in terms of the accomplishments.
通过描述你所做过的事来展示你所获得的成就。
通过罗列成就来展现你做了什么。
Use action words, in past tense lasted on going, to convey the skills reused.
使用动词的过去式来传达你的技能。
Show the scopes of your accomplishments by stating the results of your efforts,using the quantitative or qualitative details.
使用定量或定性的细节,阐述努力的成果来显示自己所获的成就的范围。
Leave a balance of a conciseness and necessary specifics to create clear, basic picture.
为了制作简明扼要的简历,协调好简洁与必要细节。
After you`ve put your experience down on paper, you want to tailor the information of type of job or internship you are seeking.
当把自己的实践经历写在纸上后,你应该针对申请的工作或实习职位来调整相关信息。
Do this by analyzing the job description for the skills and experience being cited.
这需要你针对申请职位来分析与职位相关的技能和经历。
And in cooperate with the language and ideas from the description into your résumé.
并且根据职位描述来调整简历要用的语言及理念。
Skills Section 技能总结
In Skills summary of qualification section should include skills and other qualifications that support your candidacy for the job you want.
技能总结的这一部分,应当包括能够提高简历支撑度的技能和其他资格证书。
You can get ideas from job description and your knowledge of given field or the position usually entails.
你可以从职位描述、自己对于给定行业领域的了解,以及职位要求领会制作简历的理念。
The most common types of skills students included are computer and foreign language proficiencies.
学生普遍使用的技能有计算机技术和精通的外语。
You can also have separate skill sections for specialized skills such as laboratory skills.
你也可以为自己的专业技能如实验室研究技能而单独开设一栏。
Summary Of Qualification Section 资历概述
In summary of qualification sections are more lapped and developed emersion of skills section.
资历概述的内容比技能总结的更加的丰富。
It can include information such as the number of years of related experience, relevant special areas of expertise, technical skills and unique personal qualities based on the past feedback you`ve received.
涵盖的信息包括相关经历的实践年数,相关特殊领域的专业知识,技术技能和独特的个人能力品质。这些都基于你的过去工作的反馈。
Typically, skills sections go to near the bottom or the top of the résumé, while the summary of qualification usually goes near the top follow the objective.
通常,“技能总结”放在简历的顶部或底部。而“资历概述”要靠近顶部,在求职意向的下面。
Résumé Formats and Styles 简历格式和样式
Résumés can be formatted at one of the three ways: reverse chronological, skills based or hybrid, a combination of the other two.
简历可以按照以下三种样式来排版:时间倒序型,技能型或混合性。混合型是前面两种方式的结合。
The style you choose depends on which one best conveys your qualification for the position.
所选择的方式取决于哪一种样式更能体现你与该职位的匹配度。
Reverse chronological format is the most common style used by students and some of the employers prefer it.
时间倒序型是学生普遍采用的样式,有些HR偏喜欢这种形式的简历。
If you have never created a résumé before, start with this format.
如果你从未做过简历,可以按这种样式来做。
It works best when you have recent experience that related to your current job objective or the internship objective.
如果你最近从事的工作与你的求职目标或实习目标相关,时间倒序的样式更有用。
And in this format your experience will be listed in reversed chronological order, based on the indeed of each of your experiences.
这样,你的实际的经验经历要按照倒序的时间来进行排列。
Put your most recent experience at the top.
把最新的经历放在最前面。
The skills based are the most beneficial if your work experience isn`t direct related to your career objective.
如果你的工作经历与你的求职目标匹配度不高,那么技能型的简历样式是比较好的。
If you are making a career change, this maybe the best style for you.
如果你要换工作,这种形式是你最好的选择。
In this résumé style, you identify the top 3 or 4 skills that required for your career objective and using these settings within your résumé.
在这种简历样式中,你需要根据你的求职目标确定前3到4项技能,依照这些设定来完成简历。
Put bullet points on your each adding describing what you did and what you accomplished that illustrated you have demonstrated the skill.
运用点句,通过描述你做了什么,完成了什么,表明你提过的技能。
The bullet point can be from you academic, actual career community service experience as well as from jobs.
这些可以从自己的学习、社区服务或工作经历中挖掘得到。
In this style, list your work history in reverse chronological order in the separate section of the bottom of the résumé.
这种模式下,你的职业史以时间倒叙的方式单独在简历底部列出一栏。
A hybrid form at will be best for you, if you have experiences that support your career objective but it isn`t your most recent experience.
当你的经历与你的求职目标相关,但不是最近的经历,混合型简历最合适。
And in this format you will have more than one in experience section with headers that describes the type of the experience.
在此样式中,你的经历概述可以通过列小标题对不同类型的经历进行阐述。
For example, Teaching or Sales Marketing.
如教学经历或市场销售经历。
You can also suggest your related experiences and other experiences in these headers.
你也可以利用标题阐述相关经历或其他经历。
Under each header, you lists your experience in reverse chronological order, similarly, to have what you structure in reverse chronological résumé.
在每一项小标题下面,你可以按照时间倒序的方式来罗列自己的经历,这与时间倒序型的简历结构类似。
This format enables you to put your most relevant experience at the top of your experience section.
这会帮助你把相关度最高的经历列在经历概述这一部分的最前面。
A real benefit of this format is what you want the employer to see is the most relevant experience first.
这种样式简历最大的好处是让HR能够第一眼看到你的相关度最高的经历。
Résumé Tips: Do’s and Don’ts 简历制作技巧
What Employer Says HR的建议
Roger Tsai—McKinsey & Company
罗杰•蔡—麦肯锡公司
I think the best way to represent yourself on the résumé is to identify clearly what situation you faced with, what actions you took, what the results were and how the overall fits into your career path does.
我认为在简历中展现自己最好的方法就是明确地表明自己面临的困难,采取了什么行动,结果怎样,以及这些经历和自己职业规划的匹配度。
I think the employer, with looking for what,especially the consulting,is the evidence of the achievements of leadership,teamwork,communication and altogether results.
我认为HR在招聘时,特别在招聘咨询顾问时,更希望看到与领导力、团队精神、沟通能力、相关成就和所有成果的事例证明。
Wylie Pang—Protiviti
维利•庞—甫瀚公司
I think uh… with a lot of people,they would pack a lot of information in the Résumé
我认为很多人在简历中涵盖过多信息。
So actually I find that be less effective than it was a clear
这样很低效,相对于简洁的简历。
and just board point of a summary of what you’ve done and achieved in that position during that time and just highlight what your responsibilities were
或在简历上列点总结你在那段时间、那个职位的成就并突出你的职责。
Erika Sanchez—Boeing
埃里卡•桑切斯—波音公司
If the résumé is too generic and doesn’t match the position, it is that you are applying for.
如果你的简历过于泛化而且不匹配你的应聘职位。
People just feel like you maybe just apply to a tiny position. Maybe true. But why do you wanna be in that position.
HR 会认为你只是申请一个你不重视的职位。或许是这样,但你应聘这个职位的原因应该明确。
The young the day the manager is hiring for their departments
HR在为他们部门招聘新一代职员。
They wanna understand why you are interested in applying for their jobs and that you are a good candidate, effective for that particular job.
他们想要了解你为什么应聘他们公司,还要测评你的优秀度及与职位的匹配度。
Really I think the biggest task is doing a blink résumé for everything that you apply for.
最重要的是,你应该针对应聘职位制作“一对一”的简历。
and take that time and efforts to tailor and focus on to the position you are applying for.
所以,你要集中时间和精力针对应聘职位定制简历。
Justin Proulx—Yahoo!
贾斯汀•普罗克斯—雅虎
Too much or too little information.
过多或过少的信息。
List everything in a course and every project you’ve done in the course.
如果你列出了与你某一课程相关的所有信息和成果。
It can be a little daunting unless it is specifically relevant to the company you apply for.
你的简历会令HR望而却步,除非它与你的应聘职位明确相关。
So if you look for a work as C++ is one of those core languages you need to use,
如果C++是你的应聘职位的核心语言之一,
you list the projects you’ve done using the C++ would be helpful.
列举你曾通过C++获得的成绩对你有利。
Listing every course can be a little daunting.
罗列过多课程也很让人恼火。
Also going overboard and list every award recognitions that you’ve received since the time you were in the elementary school can be a little much.
过分列举你从小学至今所获得的奖项是多余的。
It should be… again… to go back to the whole relevant content for relevant information.
简历应该回归与应聘职位相关内容的相关信息。
Richard Lo —Wells &Fargo
理查德•罗—富国银行
One thing that really gonna stand out is that, you know, if you just be honest.
很明显的是,如果你过于直率,
You know, if put out all these fluff on your résumé, you know
如果你把很琐碎的事情也写在简历上,
and they start asking about you but they don’t know what you are really talking about.
HR会有疑问甚至他们都不懂你在说些什么。
It’s very hard to add hide behind the résumé.
那么你要在简历上进一步解释是不可能的。
Nicole Felix—Ernst &Young
妮可•费利克斯—安永会计师事务所
Grammatical errors, including spelling errors, particularly our firm,
语法错误,包括拼写错误,甚至拼错公司的名字,
Individual’s disable check and even changes it Earnst &Young,
没有仔细检查甚至拼错写成Earnst &Young,
so simply adding Ernst & Young to your edit dictionary featuring Micro software can help correct that problem.
把Ernst & Young添加到你的编辑字典中,Office软件会帮助你改正。
Joaquin Feliciano—UC Center Sacramento
华金•费利西亚诺—加州大学萨克曼多中心
It was common Résumé, I see, is the unprofessional Email address, things like party girl, party boy.
一个普遍问题是简历上写着非常不正式的邮箱地址,比如说交际花、花花公子这些随意的地址域名。
There are several basic principles to follow to ensure your Résumé effective:
为保证简历的有效性,你应该遵循以下几条基本原则:
Do tailor your Résumé it each specific position
针对应聘职位做简历。
Do omit experiences that you would not want to repeat in future positions and last there the necessary for specific job opportunity
留下对应聘职位有用的工作经验,略去与应聘职位不相关的。
Do use “bullet points” to help make it easy to visually scan your Résumé
利用“点句”提高简历的阅读性(以一句话概括你曾经的职位及职责)。
Do make a reasonable effort to fit your Résumé on one page but don’t cram information in this base or miss essential information for the sake of page length
尽量合理地把简历控制在一页,但切忌为了拼凑篇幅填塞信息或略去重要信息。
Do proofread your résumé and have least a couple of other people, including a career counselor review it to make sure that it has no typos, make sense and highlight the most important information
校对简历,请至少两个人包括就业指导老师审查,保证简历拼写正确,语义通顺,重点信息突出。
Don’t write long objectives or include unnecessary or vague information in your Résumé, such as your desire for challenging, growth opportunity, or a fast paced environment
求职意向简明扼要,不要过长,切忌空泛,如:期望富有挑战性,具有发展前景的工作或喜欢快节奏的工作环境。
Don’t list high school education and don’t include high school experiences unless you’re first or second student or accomplish something uniquely significant during high school
不需介绍高中教育背景和实践经历。如果在高中时期你名列前茅或经历独特,可以列出。
Don’t use phrases such as duties included or responsibilities included
切忌以下短语如“职责包括……”
Don’t use long complex sentences in you paragraphs
切忌复合长句。
Don’t rely on résumé templates included your word processor in software
不要过于依赖简历模板及文字处理软件。
Don’t use pronouns as subjects, for example, “I” or “our”
切忌代词做主语,例如:我、我们。
Don’t put “references available upon request” at the bottom of your
résumé. This is assumed to be in case. Instead, create separation for references as shown your job and Internship guide
不要把“如需证明,可提供见证人”放在简历底部,HR会认为任何人都能随便抓来一两个见证人应急。如果你要提供实习和工作见证人,可以单独列出。