Resume Worksheet (Free Printable PDF)
A planning sheet, not a finished resume: work out your keywords, achievements and numbers here first, then write the real thing.
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This sheet is for the half hour before you open the resume template. It has four sections. The first is a five-row table for words and phrases lifted from the advert, with a second column for where in your own history you can show each one. The second is a six-row table with three columns: what you did, how many or how much or how often, and what changed as a result. That middle column is the one most drafts are missing, and filling it in gives you the numbers your bullets need.
The third section is a printed bank of thirty-six verbs grouped under four headings, for leading and managing, building and improving, numbers and money, and people and service. It is there to be read, not filled in, so you have something to start a bullet with when the obvious word is used up. The fourth is a ruled box for everything you still have to look up: exact dates, an old manager's name, certificate numbers, the figure you half remember.
The top line holds the role you are aiming at and the date, so a worksheet you filled in for one application is not mistaken for another. The two tables and the find-out box are form fields, each with sample rows already filled in to show the level of detail that is useful, and the sheet prints just as well blank for writing on by hand. Choose US Letter or A4. Nothing here is meant to be sent to an employer.
