Taken from http://www.iwantscholarship.net/2009/06/ho...omising-resume/
Imagine this, you do not know this person at all, and you want to find out everything about this person in 2 page of papers. This is RESUME. A resume can is the first impressions you gave to a potential reader be it recruiter, potential employer or a professor.

There are a few types of resume that a student might need to write, another name for resume is CV.

1. Resume to apply for internship

2. Resume to apply for scholarship

3. Resume to apply for job (part-time or full-time job)

The method to write these kind of resume could differ from one another.

1. Resume Internship

- It should reflect your current results, your active involvement in any kind of activities, your working experience (part time counted too), most importantly write a good cover letter and also a reference letter from your current university/college. Without a reference letter, the company will be doubful if you are really a student or not.

2. Resume scholarship

-It should reflect your good results during your studies, working experience is a plus point and your involvement in extra curricular activities. A good resume should be accompany by 2 reference letter from your university and your manager ( if you are working currently). Also some scholarship do ask for your parent’s combined payslip and essay to supplement the application.

-Another plus point will be your research project during your university time, if you have written some papers and published it somewhere, include a summary of it in your appication

3. Resume career

-If you are a fresh grad, do shine in your results and your involvement in your university time, strongly suggest to hold any position clubs/society, or you have volunteered in any NGO or NPO. Or you during your internship you might involved in any project that you can write something something about it.

In general, a good resume should follow the following guidelines

-Maximum 2 page, if is longer, the recruiter get bored and will set it aside
-Contact details, if you want to be contacted right away make sure you write a valid contact phone numbers and email address, make sure your email address is professional. If your name is Jason Tan your might want your email to be jasontan@email.com instead of jason65325@email.com
-Your results, if you are applying to work for an airline, they might require good language skills, so do point out your language ability. Dont think they care so much what you score in your accounting class.
-Education history, write the most recent one on top, if you have master qualification, write down master’s result followed by degree result. Do not think you need your high school result anymore as it seems not important anymore.
Work experience: position : period: responsibility: challenges: achievement
-Language ability – could be pretty useful these days to know multiple languages
-Awards
-Skills- computer skills, personal skills , any other skills
-References- do contact the person before you write down their names, they will be contacted by recruiter

Remember that everyone will submit a resume, whats makes yours more attractive is up to you to sell your good points. And most importantly do not cheat and know what you are writing most likely the interviewer will look at your resume while interviewing you and if you are not able to answer the question and do not remember what you wrote in it. Is not a very good impression isn’t in?

However if you produce a professional resume, had a good interview. You are most likely HIRED.