Resume is a brief, concise document. Its main goal is to present your most relevant and positive credentials for employment, admission to graduate school, consideration for a scholarship or fellowship, or other professional purpose. Actually it is no other than an effective sale of your skills. If you prepare an enough effective resume it will get you an interview, not a job.

The job listing usually contains a description of specific abilities and experiences candidates are required to have. And it doesn’t depend on the industry. To make over your resume for a particular job, check up the job listing for key words and phrases. These same words should be included where applicable in your resume. But be careful and don't overdo it. Padding your resume with experience you don't have is also undesirable.

If you lack some of the employer's preferred experience, you can draw away his/her attention with the help of statement of your career objective. It should a brief description of your primary career goal inserted at the top of your resume. This statement may contain some key words and tell the employer how you want to use your experience and skills to benefit your new career path.

The usual time of resume’s review is 15 to 20 seconds. Therefore you should try to make the content of your resume clear, concise, and targeted to the type of job for which you are applying. If it has a typographical or grammatical errors, it will make a poor impression on an employer, and this is a way to weed you out of a candidate pool.

Curriculum vita is a more extensive document typically used by those with graduate education who are pursuing positions in academia or research.