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Resumes

A resume is a summary of your relevant experience and skills. Here are some basic guidelines to follow:

Key Points

  • Build your resume on Word/Google Docs (avoid using websites like Canva)
  • Keep the resume to one page
  • Organize your document so that there’s a balance of text and white space
  • Use a simple, readable font, and set the font color to black
  • Describe your past experiences using strong action verbs
  • Include specific, quantifiable details about your accomplishments and achievements
  • Proofread! Read it to yourself out loud and then have a trusted peer, mentor and/or staff member review your resume
  • Save your final version as a PDF
  • Include your name in the file name, such as Jane-Doe-Resume.pdf

Sample Resumes

Career Path

Experience Level

Resume Guides

Resume Review

A CCPA advisor can provide a review of your resume for a job/internship, fellowship, or graduate/professional school application. Need a quick polishing of your resume? Schedule a 15 minute Resume Review appointment with a CCPA Intern for a peer resume consultation.

Schedule an Appointment

Big Interview

Big Interview is a new online system for Fords that combines training and practice to help students improve their resumes, learn and practice interview techniques, and build confidence. Big Interview provides virtual interview practice for general, behavioral, competency, and industry-specific questions. Big Interview also offers a resume review feature leveraging the power of AI to provide immediate feedback on your resume. Get guidance on readability, credibility, ATS Fit, grammar, power words, and more!

Users self-register with Haverford email.

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Management Consulted

One-stop consulting prep. Provides recruiting, interview prep, and skill-building help with interactive courses on topics like developing an effective resume and cover letter (with templates), networking (including how to write an effective cold networking email that will get opened), interviewing (with example videos, specific case interviews, drills, and 500 practice cases), and Excel and PowerPoint training.

Users self-register with Haverford email.

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Vault

Vault provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work in an industry, company or profession—and how to position yourself to land that job. Search current jobs and internships, research a company, school or industry, get the inside scoop on what it’s really like, and find the career advice you need to launch your career.

Users self-register with Haverford email.

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