What to include in a Resume

Your personal details

Full name
Residential and postal address
Phone numbers (home and mobile)
Email address
 

Career History

Past employers and job descriptions (this included paid and unpaid work). For example:

Part time jobs
Work experience
Sports coaching
Sports refereeing
Community work

Skills and Abilities

Any skills that you have that may be work related. This includes things like teamwork, computer skills, reliability, customer service, communication skills. You will be surprised at the skills you have - make sure you think hard about what you can do.

Awards and Achievements

This is a selling point for you so mention any sports awards, school awards, work awards - these show others have recognised your good qualities.

Personal Interests

These help demonstrate things like teamwork, leaderships and organisational ability. You may also find that some of your interests are the same as the interviewer.

Referees

You need to have between 2 and 4 adults who can be contacted to give information about you. These can be work related or personal. You need to include the person's
Full name
Job title
Organisation; and
Phone number.

Educational Qualifications

Your School
Your year
Your subjects

Vocational Education Qualifications

TAFE courses, first aid courses, green card, etc.

  

Sample Resumes

Click on the links below to see different ways of organising your resume.

Sample Resume 1

Sample Resume 2

Sample Resume 3

Sample Resume 4

Sample Resume 5

Sample Resume 6