Entry Level IT Resume

Everyone needs a resume. Even people who are still in High School. An entry-level resume outlines your skills, accomplishments, and past work experience (if applicable) at the beginning of your career. Early career professionals and recent graduates use this type of resume when applying to entry-level jobs.

How to write an Entry-level IT resume?

Tips on how to write the best entry-level resume for jobs in the Information Technology industry:

1. Keep it to one page: 
The multi-page resumes are for working professionals with more than a decade of experience. Now that it’s graduation season, HR departments are getting tons and tons of entry-level applicants, and only have the time to quickly skim your resume, if that. So keep it to one page.

2. Customize your resume for each job: 
This may be time-consuming, but it’s worth it. For example, if you’re applying for a research position at a pharmaceutical company, you might want to leave out the experience you had as a graphic design intern one summer. It’s irrelevant, and a waste of space on the only page you have to work with. However, if the job description calls for you to make brochures using InDesign, it would make sense to include your design experience.

3. Keep it chronological: 
There are two main resume formats. Chronological is when you list your work experience in reverse order, so that’s from the most recent backward. Functional is when you list your experience by relevance to the job you’re applying to. It’s best for college grads to list their internships/jobs in reverse order of dates because it’s easier for the HR recruiter to follow your work timeline. You may not have developed specific skill sets yet, such as sales AND marketing AND account management, so a functional format wouldn’t work unless you’ve been working for years.

4. Highlight your accomplishments, rather than day-to-day tasks: 
This one’s important. Let’s face it: you thought answering phones and filing were the most boring tasks imaginable. Well so do the HR recruiters, if you write it that way. Instead, say something like “Created a filing system that increased the company’s research efficiency.” Never lie, but think big picture. Even though you didn’t realize it at the time, all that filing and organizing you did made it easier for your superiors to access files and get their jobs done more quickly. But you probably never thought of it that way.

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