Before you start your resume writing, You need to take stock of yourself, your skills, your experience and what you have accomplished. Start writing things down that you have done. Use several pages if necessary. While learning how to write a resume, you don't want to leave anything out.

Have you volunteered in your community? Where are you in your education? What jobs have you held? What did you accomplish in those jobs? If you haven't held a job before, then you will want to focus on your schooling and other activities (as a volunteer, in the community, with scouting or service organizations, etc.) in your resume.

Employers don't just want a list, they want to know why they should hire you. So in your resume, take a line or two to tell not only what you did in your previous job, but how you excelled. It is good to use statistics. Numbers and symbols ($ and %) catch the eye.

Brag a little bit (if it is true). I created a sales tracking system that increased back end sales by 25%... or something like that. See how it is quantifiable? That gets people's attention.

Use action verbs. These are words that catch the readers attention and get them interested in you. You can find a great list of action verbs that are perfect to use in your resume at http://writeapowerfulresume.com/material/Resume_Verbs.pdf

Hopefully, you have found a bunch of great stuff to put in your resume, but you need to keep your resume under a page. This might be hard, but it can be done.

If your industry has a certain format for resumes, you will need to do some research to find that format. You can use a resume template of you need an out-of-the-ordinary resume style. For most job hunters, the tried and true format will work great. When resume writing include your contact information, employment history, education history, any certifications or awards you have received and finally any special skills you have.

Be honest. These days, your life is an open book. Many jobs require a background check and references. Many facts about you can be found online. Your facebook page, blogs you keep, everything is there for a potential employer to find out about you. If there are any "problems" in your resume, address them instead of trying to hide them.

When writing a resume, make it clean and concise. There are many fancy resume template s available in word processing software nowadays, but a clean simple design is best. It is more attractive because the reader can read it easily and won't get distracted by fancy doodads on the page.

It is a recent fact that when writing a resume and cover letter, we need to use "keywords" that match the job description. Unfortunately, after all this work of writing a great resume, your resume may never be read by a human being.

Resumes are commonly shuffled through a software program that looks for certain keywords. If there is a match, then the resume might be forwarded to a person to read. A great video about matching your cover letter with these keywords can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLrHvNN9PGw