Hi everyone,

I am looking to move back to Malaysia from the U.S. for a couple of years, and wanted to find out what information are usually included in a typical resume in Malaysia? U.S. resumes for my role only requires Education, Experience, and Technical Skills. From what I heard, we do need to include languages known, headshot, and more.

Please advice, thank you!

just use ChatGPT to help you give an example. It's pretty similar. Your resume upon application will mostly be assessed on your experience, certificates (of skills - ie. a cert for certain technical skills/ IT, language etc), job scope (in past companies), education, language that you're able to speak/ read/ write (ie. English, BM, and whether Chinese - some companies may be dealing with China, for example, hence there could be a need for candidate who can read, write & speak in Chinese).

Other basic info such as where do you reside, age/ DOB, university & high school (also your result) is usually necessary as well. Headshot well... get you brownie points if you include it in. Some candidates exclude it as well, not a major issue.

Whatever you didn't provide, could be requested in the company's application form when you land an interview with them.

This post has been edited by sweet_pez: Jul 17 2025, 10:08 AM

register in https://my.jobstreet.com/ .. fill the digital resume requirements there and download as PDF

Noted, thanks for the feedback!