So you are going to sit down and write your own resume what should go into it? Well of course your contact details how will they find you if not? There are three other important features that are needed in your resume they are:

Experience

If you're a recent college graduate without any or much work experience your education should be listed first and given emphasis. If you have a fair amount of business or career experience then you need to detail them on your resume. You should list your past job experience in reverse chronological order your current job first.

If you are more experienced include from about 5 7 years experience. If you are at management level then you need to include team sizes, budgetary levels and type of responsibility.

Avoid putting down your job description just stick to what you have done.

Skills

Your skills are very important, many job agencies and HR people are searching your resume for certain skills make it easy for them! If you are in a highly technical career such as engineering or IT then group your skills together at the top of your resume.

Potential

Now here is a fact that few people remember. When a potential employer is looking at your resume they are asking themselves a number of questions:

* Does this person have the skills and experience that I am seeking? Hopefully you have answered these questions already.

* What will this person bring to my company? Well you have told them about your responsibilities in your experience and your abilities under your skills. Now tell them about your potential. Tell them of one or two professional successes you have had. Have you made your last company more profitable, successful, marketable, efficient etc.? Did you complete a project quickly, identify some improvements etc? Well you get the idea. Answer the question: Whats in it for me if I employ this person? and you will be well on the way to your job interview.

* How will this person develop in the future? Put on your resume any professional training that you have undertaken, any out of work responsibilities that you have. Travel, charity and sport are always popular. Make them achievements not hobbies and be careful not to give the impression that you hardly have time for work!

Good luck in finding the job that you deserve!

Lee Lister

Lee Lister is Management Consultant and Program Manager with more than 25 year's management and consultancy experience and more than 20 year's program and project management experience in projects for Banking, Finance, Insurance, Leisure and Government bodies. She also have more than 10 years bid management experience ranging from bids for medium companies to large international and infrastructure bids.

British born, Lee received her BA(Hons) Financial Economics from the University of Essex. She went on to work in or for a considerable number of countries within Asia and Europe as well as Australia and the United States. While building a name for herself through helping company restructure, change management and project management consultancy, Lee became a well-known figure for her skills in analyzing, problem solving and trouble-shooting. She has consulted for many major industries, including banking, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, leisure and governments from many different countries. Some of the companies who have benefited from Lee?s expertise are Hewlett Packard, Siemans Nixdorf, Electrolux and the Philippines government.

Whilst working in the Far East she became a recognized expert on preparing and evaluating large World Bank Proposals (infrastructure projects within developing countries). These accomplishments called upon the skills of bid and project management, risk assessment, contract negotiation and supplier management and required dedicated work to very tight time scales. This expertise was acknowledged by an invitation to be the principle speaker at an International Business Development Conference in Washington, USA. She has also consulted at very senior level in several countries.

She owns and manages two companies, Biz Guru LLC in the USA and Biz Guru Services Ltd in the UK as well a considerable number of profitable web sites. She works almost entirely via the internet, visiting clients on site during major consultancies and training. Her Internet skills span from when major companies first started to consider obtaining their own web sites. During these years, she has kept up to date with the rapid changes on the internet, including the dot com boom and the resulting bust ? which her own web based companies survived.

She regularly consults, writes and lectures on business, bid management and marketing and has published numerous courses and books.