In our next video, we’re going to use formatting, well, we’re going to format without a template.Build a Resume with Professional AestheticsĪ professional resume is ideal for job seekers looking for professional aesthetics. I use it a lot for PowerPoint and not as much in Word, but you can set a difference to your resume and just click the one that you want. Themes are a great way to control color, font size, spacing. You can also do that with Themes over here on the far left.

Some of them really don’t look good.īut it’s a quick way to kind of get a different look for your resumes.īecause sometimes we just want a fresh start with a new resume. So click DESIGN and I get all this formatting options here at the top and I can just mouse over and my resume changes, it previews. You can do that really quickly with the DESIGN tab. If you don’t want it, again you can just simply right-click and remove content control and it’ll strip that away.Ī lot of times people just want to update a resume with a different look. That just gives you some structure to the template, you can delete those if you want.Īlso down here in the experience area we have this. If you look up here we have boxes for street address, telephone, email. Templates in general especially in resumes, templates have what we call control content. I want to go over here and Merge Formatting, and there, it keeps the bold and also makes the text look proper for this template. So hyperlinks and everything is striped out so I don’t want to use that. I want to keep that bold text but if I chose the option - Keep text only, it strips out all formatting. Now notice this last line I have some bold text in it. We’re going to grab some of these old skills I have and I’ll update them as I work this new resume. I can use this one called Keep Text Only. And it gives me several options I can use. Some people use Format Painter.īut when you cut and paste, if you don’t touch any other keys, you get this little box here at the end, with a little clipboard that says Ctrl by it.Ĭtrl is the shortcut. There is a couple of different ways to change the formatting. So, here I have the text that I want but, of course, it looks a little different. You want to be specific with your resume. make sure you know each resume has to have a different objective for each company.ĭon’t want to be general. I’m going to open up some text that I have here.Īnd you want to ahh. Now with resumes, most of the time people have older resume, they may cut and paste in, they want to format it so let’s look at that for a few moments here.

And it gives you some instructions of how to use the template if you need that or you can just start typing away with your new objective here for your resume. I’m going to use this one here called the Timeless design. You can also see customer ratings which is Ahh.You know that way you can see what’s populate what people like. Some with categories, occupations… Let me just click on this thumbnail, I can see a little bigger thumbnail, and I can click through these arrows to find one I like. I can get a couple hundred I can look for. If I was offline I get about a dozen or so resumes, here online I can get the full power of. If you have an earlier version of Word, you just want to go to FILE and New and you’ll be able to search for resume or search for templates. I’m going to open up Word 2013 here, and it opens to this new gallery view that shows off templates. So I’m going to show you a couple of different ways of formatting a resume.įirst of all it’s going to be with a template. So they don’t have to scramble to find the copy of theirs or look for on their computer.

You want to come in with copies of your resume so you can hand it to the person. Most people submit resumes online these days, but there are still reasons why you need a paper resume.Ī big one is at the interview.

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