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Free Resume Builder — CV Maker With Guide

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Jobby McJobface

[email protected] | (555) 555-5555 | Denver, CO | Portfolio/GitHub link

WORK EXPERIENCE

SheetsResume.com Aug. 2023 – Present
Co-Founder Remote
  • SheetsResume.com is an online repository of free and paid resume and job seeking resources used by millions.
  • Ideation, product management, & marketing for AI-powered Resume Builder, Cover Letters, & Mock Interviews.
    • Stack: JavaScript (React); PHP (Laravel + Inertia); Linux (Ubuntu); Nginx; OpenAI; Gemini; MySQL
  • Core responsibility #3. Pretend this is where they stop reading your resume. You've got 10 seconds. Use them.
Company Name #2 Oct. 2017 – Jul. 2023
Job Title City, ST
  • Lead with a company overview to borrow validity from the company's numbers to anchor the screener on something super impressive. E.g., sales, market cap, Fortune 500 status, # of users, # of employees, $ raised, etc.
  • As [role], I [core responsibilities that match the job description, including some high-level numbers if impressive].
    • Key Results: Use sub-bullets to list quantifiable key results for specific projects or responsibilities. E.g., revenue, cost savings, man hours saved, partners onboarded, customers/users acquired, review rating, etc.
    • Sub-bullets are for more detail if needed, like KPIs, your tech stack, notable clients, or project examples.
Company Name #3 Month Year – Month Year
Job Title City, ST
  • Core responsibility / achievements / summary of job or company. Abbreviate all month names ("Jul." not "July").
    • Key Result: Nest further context as sub-bullet points to really highlight an important top-level bullet.
  • Core responsibility #2. Bold and italicize words very sparingly: "When everyone is super, no one will be."
Company Name #4 Month Year – Month Year
Current Job Title | Month, Year – Present
  • If you've been promoted / have held multiple titles at one company, put dates in italics next to each title like so.
  • Core responsibility #2. As the jobs get older in your timeline, they're less relevant and need fewer bullet points.
Prior Job Title | Month, Year – Month, Year
  • "Prior to my promotion to [current title], I..." core responsibility #1. Older job, less relevancy, 1 bullet is fine.
Company Name #5 Month Year – Month Year
Job Title City, ST
  • Core responsibility #1. Even older job. For past jobs with zero relevance, save space and skip any bullet points.

EDUCATION

University Name Graduation Month, Year
Degree (e.g., B.S.), Majors (e.g., Computer Science) City, ST
  • GPA: 3.X/4.0 (list only if GPA is over 3.3); list any honors like Summa Cum Laude or Economics Honors Society

CERTIFICATIONS, SKILLS & INTERESTS

  • Certifications: If you have relevant ones; otherwise delete this bullet point + "CERTIFICATIONS" above
  • Technologies: If you have a lot of hard skills vs soft skills, you can break them out into two different bullets.
  • Skills: Strategic Planning; Brand Marketing; Copywriting; Hiring; Consultative Sales; Web Development
  • Interests: Weightlifting; Skiing; Camping; Composting; Yoga; Traveling; Fishing; Cooking; Reddit; Seinfeld

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How to Build the Perfect Resume, For Free!

For a quick crash course on resume writing: the goal of a resume isn't to explain your life story, to describe your experience and skills, or even to share your accomplishments. Rather, the goal of a resume is simply to land an interview.

So, to maximize your interview rate, the pre-filled information in our Free Resume Builder above is cleverly written to take you through a line-by-line guide as you go along. We explain how to think about and write each section, and you can dive even deeper into dozens of specific Resume Advice articles and FAQs to understand how to shape each sentence, choose each word, and make hard calls about what to include and what to cut.

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Good luck out there! If you need anything, contact us anytime at [email protected].