How to Write a Resume

"Whether you’re networking, applying for an internal position, or searching for jobs online, you won’t get far without a professional resume. This step-by-step resume writing guide is designed to help you build a resume that stands out to recruiters and adequately communicates your skills and experience." Click the highlighted titles below to get started.

How to Write a Resume: A Step-by-Step Guide

Cover Letter Writing Guide: What to Include in your Cover Letter

How to Write Emails, Memos, and Business Letters

Click on the four titles below to review:

1. Re: Your Recent Email to Your Professor

2. Wellesley College Project on Social Computing: Netiquette Guidelines

3. How to write a clear business memo

4. How to write a formal business letter

Writing in the Disciplines: Business

The resources linked above cover the basic traits of writing in business and several types of business writing.

Consider Your Format

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Using Fonts with Purpose: Does Type Font Matter?
"Fonts can create mood and atmosphere. Fonts can give visual clues about the order a document should be read in and which parts are more important than others. Fonts can even be used to control how long it takes someone to read a document."
Do Typefaces Really Matter?
"Selecting a font is like getting dressed, Ms Strawson says. Just as one chooses an outfit according to the occasion, one decides on a font according to the kind of message you are seeking to convey."
The Power of White Space
"Many elements form the layout and structure of an interactive design. Often neglected, one of the most vital is white space (or negative space), the space found inside and surrounding the other design elements."
What is Whitespace?
"The key to getting your visitors' undivided attention is simplicity -- and that starts with an effective use of whitespace."
Headings: Make Your Text Scannable
"Headings are an important feature of professional technical writing: they alert readers to upcoming topics and subtopics, help readers find their way around in long reports and skip what they are not interested in, and break up long stretches of straight text."
Text Alignment Definition - Tech Terms
"Most word processing programs give you the capability to change the text alignment of a block of text. This setting determines how the text is displayed horizontally on the page. The four primary types of text alignment include left aligned, right aligned, centered, and justified."
Justified Text Versus Ragged-Right Text
To justify or not to justify...

Career Services

If you’d like more hands-on help with your resume, cover letter, or other professional writing, our Career Services Center can help you for free.

The purpose of Forsyth Tech's Career Services is to "create a transformative college-to-career experience for Forsyth Tech students" and to obtain assistance with:

Taking a self-assessment

Exploring career options

Writing a resume or cover letter

Practicing for an interview

Searching for jobs

Landing a Work-Based Learning internship

Creating, strengthening and expanding your network

Figuring out life after Forsyth Tech

Navigating times of uncertainty

ENG 112: Business

Business Writing