How to make your technical resume attractive to business-focused employers.

Use action words to describe your experience and accomplishments.

The online portfolio, your professional web site, enables you to “show and tell” employers that you have the right mix of skills and qualities for the job by showcasing your work.

Typos or grammatical errors are the most common mistakes on resumes.

A resume needs to communicate education, skills, and experience clearly and be free of glaring grammatical and spelling errors.

Have your resume and cover letter critiqued and proofread. Take it to the career services office for a professional opinion.

How can you best navigate HR screening programs so you can get to the interview? How important are key words? As in the traditional application process, employers using online application processes are looking for students who have the skills, experience, and qualities that best match the requirements for the job opening. To properly target a company requires some in-depth knowledge and proper research techniques.

If you have experience, your resume should be a showcase of your track record, demonstrating to a potential employer what you can “bring to the table.”

Resumes and interview expectations vary greatly around the world. Know how to present yourself on paper and in person.

Use one of the following rubrics to check your work before asking a career counselor to critique you cover letters or resume.

Read about the company, go to the company’s on-campus information session, and ask as many questions as possible of any company employees or interns you know—or who your friends or family know. Savvy students resarch a company’s statistics—its profit margin; products; and number of divisions, locations, and employees—but its culture and values.

Your portfolio holds evidence of your experience—examples and copies—of anything you've worked on and/or accomplished in school, at a job, or in volunteer work. For many students, a portfolio offers a comfortable way of demonstrating ability with "real life" examples.

In the context of interviewing for a job, employers must ask questions—whether on the job application, in the interview, or during the testing process—that are related to the job you are seeking.

What kinds of questions do recruiters ask? Following are 10, with ideas for how to answer with the kinds of skills and qualities the interviewer is seeking.

Doing company research prior to your interview is the key to a successful interview ‘conversation.’

 Interviewers often ask behavior-based questions: questions about your past experiences that may indicate how you would handle tasks and problems in the future. 

What can you say and do in 60 seconds to make a recruiter explore the possibility of hiring you?

A rubric to help you prepare for first impressions: appearance, interviewing skills, and your closing at an interview.