As different people have different biography, experience and skills, so the order and content of resume may differ. Resume formats is only one standardized thing. It helps employers to find the information they seek easily. The main rule is to sequence the information on your resume from most important to least important with regard to supporting your career objective.
 Obligatory Information
Include the following information in your resume:
1. Your full name. Write the same name as it appears on your documents, attached to the resume. It is required to avoid the confusion that documents belong to the same person. If there is mentioned a middle name or nickname, you can emphasize or insert this, as Kathryn (Kate) E. Winthrop.
2. Your address and phone number, where an employer will be able to find you.
3. Email address.
4. You can include a URL for a personal web site only if it has severely professional or academic content. Otherwise an employer will decide you don't have the judgment or maturity to be hired.
5. Usually people do not write the word 'resume' at the top of their resume sheet.
Goal
A prospective employer judges the type of work you are seeking from your objective. Design your resume in such a way as to support your goal. It preferred to state your objective simply and concisely and avoid long-winded statements.
An employer will never guess what you want to do. The only way is to say. So:
1. Specify the industry you want to work in, the type of work you want to do, the skills you want to apply, or some combination.
2. If you are interested in an internship or summer employment, a co-op position or other non-permanent position, point out this in your goal, so the employer will be able to construe your resume in a right way.
3. If you have several different areas of interest or different objectives, it would be better to create the same number of resume, which may differ from each other to support your goal.
4. Be specific and avoid objectives like, "position which utilizes my skills and abilities" without specifying your skills and abilities or "position related to (name of your major)," when your major does not describe a job or career field or is too broad to be meaningful.
Education and Degrees
The goal statement should almost always be followed by education section. Presence of completed college degrees in your resume will give you additional advantages. You can describe in this section:
1. Obtained degree(s) in the reverse chronological order (the most recent are the first). Supplement each degree with date of completion or anticipated completion by month and year.
2. Attended institutions and their location by city and state. It is preferred to use the university's full name as a prospective employer may not be familiar with the universities nicknames.
3. Depending on whether you want to highlight your institution or your degree either the degree or the university name can be first and bold.
4. If you have any additional degrees you may list them in the same reverse order.
5. You can also include study abroad.
You may include in your Education section the following:
1. Technical or continuing education experience that concerns your career aim.
2. Any considerable academic awards, scholarships or scholastic achievement.
3. Any course work related to your career
4. Significant publications.
There is no necessity to list your high school degree. Obviously if you graduated from college, you were in school too.
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