Resume Writing Advice » Types of Resume Formats

Any good tips for an acting resume?

Michelle — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:59:55 +0000

I am auditioning for a local theater and need to make a resume. I have done community and high school theater so I have experience I am just not sure how to format everything.
Do you need to put your weight, height, hair color, etc…

I haven’t gone to college but did do choir and theater in high school so what do I put for education or training?

What types of things do you put down as special abilities or talents.

And if you are auditioning for a musical should you put singing as one of your talents.

I will absolutely love if you could answer all these questions.

Yes, you should include your height, weight, hair colour, eye colour. Any special abilities or talents that you have can go under this category, like singing, dancing, gymnastics, writing, ANYTHING! Be creative with this part because if you put down something that may be needed for the production, you may have an advantage. But don’t be too creative and put down stuff you can’t do very well. Only put singing as one of your talents if you can actually sing. Sorry, I can’t answer the training and education question. Hope I helped!

what is the name of the software by which i can type biodatas and resume?please help?

Michelle — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:57:55 +0000

if i type in notepad and try to change format of words each and every word changes.
i want to know software in which i can type and change format of alphabets as i wish.
please help me
thanks a lot

Go for open office it is free to use and have the same ease of use as microsoft office you can download it from here

http://download.openoffice.org/

http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/openoffice/stable/3.2.1/OOo_3.2.1_Win_x86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe

Line Spacing to Single in Word Document?

Michelle — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:15:33 +0000

I am typing a resume on Word 2007 and would like it to be single spaced. I have gone into the paragraph formatting and selected Single, but there is still a lot of space between the lines, looks like double to me. I cannot get the lines to be closer together, I have tried the formatting styles as well. Help!

If you’re hitting the Enter key at the end of each line (which actually signifies the end of a paragraph to Word), you’re probably seeing the After paragraph spacing, which is 1.5 in Word 2007. Do this to fix it:

1.Click in an affected paragraph.
2.Click the Home tab on the Ribbon.
3.Click the arrow in the lower right corner of the Styles section.
4.The style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it. You may have to scroll down to find it.
5.Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.
6.Select Modify from the list box.
7.Click the Format button and select Paragraph.
8.Make sure the value in the After combination box is zero (0).
9.Click OK.
10.If you want this to carry forward to other documents based on the template this one is based on, click the radio button for New Documents Based On This Template.
11.OK out of everything.

All paragraphs in the document with that style should adjust themselves.

When you close your document, you may see a warning message asking if you want to save the changes to Normal.dotx. This is an anti-virus measure, intended to alert you that something has changed in Normal.dotx. In this case, you made the change, so you want to accept it.

That should do it.

Finding a Job with Associates degree in Business Management?

Michelle — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:47:13 +0000

I am 28 and recently got my Associate’s Degree in Business Management, with a little more then 40 credit hours to finish my Bachelor’s Degree. I worked hard on my resume and use multiple formats for various jobs, but still having trouble getting looked at. What types of jobs am I eligible candidate for besides entry level management positions?
I have a good idea and have been applying for these types but would love some feedback from a professional. Thanks in advance.

You can find a lot of decent jobs with this profile. Since you already have the basic education, I am sure that a lot of retail chains would like to employ for a store manager job. Store manager is not just sales but it involves a lot of overseeing the sales performance, monitoring job of sales staff, etc.
You would probably start as an assistant manager and then become a manager.
You can also work in a bank as a customer care agent or teller.
Put an objective line at the beginning of the resume, this will tell people exactly what you are looking for. Have different objectives based on which jobs you will apply to.
Final advice: USE your connections. Ask people you know to recommend you to the companies for which they work, ask your professors in the college where you studied to help you, because this is the most effective way to get an interview. Once you get the interview, really understand the company in and out, and SELL your skills.
Good luck!!

How can I stop a watermark in windows 2007 from pushing the last sentence of the1st page onto the 2nd pg?

Michelle — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:22:26 +0000

i have typed a resume and added the word "sample" as a watermark…it looks perfect except it is moving the last line of the first page onto the 2nd page – my document is formatted in such a way that all of the first page sentences need to stay on the first page…help!

Are you sure it’s the watermark doing that? There’s a "feature" called Widow and Orphan control that tries to prevent lone lines from appearing at the top or bottom of a page. Check out this:

1. Right-click in the last paragraph.
2. Select the Line and Page Breaks tab.
3. Clear the Widow/Orphan Control checkbox.
4. Click OK.

Hope that helps.

How do i email a resume?

Michelle — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:09:25 +0000

So i called this boutique to see if they were hiring and she said yes…She asked me if i could email my resume and without thinking i just said yes…How the heck do i make a resume online can u like give me a format like bullets of things to include…do i just type it normally? HELP! im 16

you are f.u.c.k.ing retarded, like i can’t even begin to explain how stupid you are.
so,
step 1: open up hotmail and sign in
step 2: f.u.c.k. yourself
step 3: move out of your mothers basement
step 4: print out your resume and shove it up ur a.n.u.s
step 5: get off yahoo
step 6: get a girlfriend… but get a life first
step 7: f.u.c.k. yourself again
.

How do you write your references on a resume?

Michelle — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:33:48 +0000

My interviewer told me I needed a reference sheet with at least two references. I got the references, but what format do I put them in? Do I type it, do I need to put the time they’re available, so I add the place where they work, do I need to double space, do I have to indent each reference, etc.

The questions above are just a few of the many I have, but to put it short, what format do I put my references in?

I personally have my references typed on a new piece of paper, not with the resume because I feel that it should be private, until an employer actually asks for them. I’m not willingly going to show other people’s phone numbers out there.. it just doesn’t feel right.

There’s no special formatting that I do, just normal with one spacing from each info, like this:

Name of reference
Job title, place of employment
phone #
best time to call

I think it’s important to mention a best time to call so that they know approximately what time to reach each person

Good luck.

I am not extremely computer literate and need help with sending Reumes How to?

Michelle — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:31:01 +0000

I would lke to know how to attach a Resume or any type of document to send VIA email,PDF(acrobat reader), once I have a document typed what is the proper procedure to format it to send in the methods described, I honestly have NO clue, trying to learn how to do this but frustrated, especially with getting a document prepared even in PDF format someone please help Thanks

Once you write up your email. You click on the "Attach" button in your yahoo email. This will bring up a dialog box and there you do "browse" and locate the file you want to attach. (This is in the old Yahoo Version). In the Beta it will just open up the location of the document and you click and it will attach itself.

To create PDF you must have a PDF maker license, then you can type it in MS Word and click on the icon that shows make PDF file and it will convert.

When emailing a resume what format should it be, and other questions…?

Michelle — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:12:08 +0000

My word document has grid lines on it, how do I get rid of this? Will the company see the grid lines when they open it?

It was originally made on a Mac, but now I have a PC and I can’t get rid of the grid on the first page. Should I save it as a different file type, or just send the word doc?

Thanks!

If the employer doesn’t specify what file type they prefer, then send your resume as plain text within the body of the e-mail message (rather than as an attachment). Then you don’t have to worry about file formats and you also don’t have to worry about your e-mail being falsely flagged as carrying a virus.

How do you make a job resume?

Michelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:14:52 +0000

What’s the format? What type of information do I need to put in it? What do you need to tell them, What would be the wrong things to tell them etc. etc. This is my 1st time applying for a job
Oops, Just got out of high school, Don’t plan on going to college too soon.

Anything else you need to know? =P

There are lots of formats on the web as samples, and a few included in every copy of Microsoft Word. Basically though, for your first resume, I’d tell them the following:

Contact info (name, address phone number email address). DO NOT USE an email address that is cute, naughty, or otherwise controversial. Set up a new one if you must that contains just your first and last name, or something similar.
Skills summary: Include any relevant skills for the job you are applying for. You may have to modify this on different versions, so that employers can see the skills they are looking for. A drugstore doesn’t care about your skills at lawnmower maintenance, for example.
Education, including high school and any college/vocational courses.
Volunteer work.
Any employment history – even if it’s just casual babysitting, lawn mowing or something like that..

What you do not say: Anything to do with your age, race, relgion, political views, or opinions on social issues. Do not use more than two font faces, multiple sizes, bold, underlining, smiley faces, or other "alternative" formatting.

Spell check everything, and then have someone who’s done one before look it over. This person should also be good at spelling and grammar, and more than willing to correct any errors you may have missed. This final step is really important; we all tend to miss our own mistakes, and find those that other people make.

Good luck!