Examples of Resume Bullet Statements
Did you know that most online text forms support bullets and underlines? It is commonly assumed that text resumes must use the ascii character set which essentially is what you see on your keyboard, but this is not the case. Nearly all online forms--for instance Monster.com's submission form--support Unicode 2.0 text which includes many more characters.
As an example, let's create some text with bullets and underlines using Microsoft Notepad (I'm assuming that if you don't use Windows you can figure out the equivalent):
Open the Microsoft Character Map by selecting Start » All Programs » Accessories » System Tools » Character Map. From the "Font:" menu, select Lucidia Console. Scroll down to the bottom and Select the bullet icon [•] that has a unicode of U+2022 in the bottom-left corner. Click Copy on the character map and then Edit » Paste in Notepad.
To underline text, you can use character U+00AF [¯] which is referred to as an overline.
Utilizing these extra characters in a college resume can make a significant difference. As an example, consider this college graduate resume which illustrates examples of resume bullet statements (select picture to enlarge):
As an example, let's create some text with bullets and underlines using Microsoft Notepad (I'm assuming that if you don't use Windows you can figure out the equivalent):
Open the Microsoft Character Map by selecting Start » All Programs » Accessories » System Tools » Character Map. From the "Font:" menu, select Lucidia Console. Scroll down to the bottom and Select the bullet icon [•] that has a unicode of U+2022 in the bottom-left corner. Click Copy on the character map and then Edit » Paste in Notepad.
To underline text, you can use character U+00AF [¯] which is referred to as an overline.
Utilizing these extra characters in a college resume can make a significant difference. As an example, consider this college graduate resume which illustrates examples of resume bullet statements (select picture to enlarge):
posted by Robert R. Peterson at 8:53 PM
1 Comments:
I speak from experience: The danger with this technique is you don't know what text processing tools these web sites use on the back-end. A resume that looks great on the submisson form with all of those extended characters could look garbled and unreadable when the hiring manager finally reads it.
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