Resume Tips For New College Graduates

You’ve put in your time, you’ve earned your degree, and now, what is the next step? Well writing a resume of course. A resume, to highlight your accomplishments, your skills, your amazing education and forward thinking in order to find a job; a wonderful resume, which will show a potential employer that they need you in their company is needed. What? You don’t have any experience in your career field? Oh my, well that does put a damper on things doesn’t it? Surely you can’t write a resume that says you have no clue how your fine education applies to the real world. Oh yes you can, and you can not only write that resume but you can also find your first job in your chosen field with just such a resume.

You may not have experience in your career field, but somewhere along the way you have probably worked for someone, somewhere. Even if you flipped burgers while you were in high school that is a job, and you more than likely learned something there even if it was how to work a fryer. That is experience that is dealing with customers, that is providing a service, and that is learning how to work with others. It’s all about learning how to successfully market yourself.

Your point of view when looking at the experiences you’ve had in your life will have a big impact on the effect your resume has on a potential employer. Even with no experience in the field you received your education for, you do have skills, you have organization, you are educated and you have goals. Goals and objectives are what potential employers are looking for a new college graduate. They see a new college grad as someone who has fresh new thoughts, innovative strategies and a desire to succeed. If you can relate those things in your resume then you will have no problem getting your career started even with no experience.

So stop, don’t even begin writing yet, just stop and think about all the things you have to offer to a company and compile a list of your expectations, goals and plans. Then use that list to help you write an excellent resume to get your foot in the door. Keep your resume streamlined and to the point, play up your strengths and allow that you may not have experience and that is a shortcoming but that you are willing to learn and want to succeed. An earnest and honest resume goes a long way toward getting a chance, even as a new college grad with no experience with anything but going to school and flipping burgers.