From the course: Writing a Resume

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Your summary of skills section

Your summary of skills section

From the course: Writing a Resume

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Your summary of skills section

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- Also known as a summary of qualifications or a professional summary, this section has a number of formats that work well depending upon the type of skills and information you need to demonstrate. It's a great place to highlight the particular skills for the job you've applied to. You can use a bulleted list, you could use a column format, or you can use a paragraph form. I do advise you to stay away from using paragraphs on your resume because they're difficult to read. Reading a paragraph requires concentration and focus and someone who is skimming your resume may miss important features. I recommend the single bulleted list or a two or three column format. Each style is shown in the Exercise Files and which one you choose depends upon a couple of things. The first is how many skills or qualifications you plan to list, and the second is whether you plan to use sentence phrases or one to two word comments. For example, I…

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