写英文简历，需要注意哪些问题？ 第1页

You can download Sheldon Cooper's Resume as a .doc file and use it as a template: Link.

(中文翻译 http://zhi.hu/UMeH. Thank you, @hint, for an awesome translation! )

Some details to consider,

• Use your school (name@school.edu) or professional (firstname.lastname@gmail.com) email as a sign of professionalism. At the very least, Gmail is seen as more trustworthy than Hotmail, Yahoo, QQ, etc. If you want to actually correspond with a different email, then tell the recruiter, "Here, it's more convenient for me to use this email - I check it more often" and then write your personal email at the top of the resume.
• Do not include your age or birthdate.
• Use active verbs in describing your work experience. For example, "organized", "researched", "designed", "implemented". Here's a good list. If you are describing your current position, use the present tense; past positions, past tense.
• If you have relevant work experience, put that above your education. Employers are more interested in what you're capable of doing, rather than what you've learned. Companies will always retrain you and teach you what you need to know for your position.
• Use correct spacing after punctuation. This isn't a big deal in Chinese, but in English, it's the difference between readable text and gibberish.
• No typos. Not a single typo. Have all your friends carefully proofread every line for typos.
• When you print your resume, do not use special paper sizes or weights. Print it on normal 8.5"x11" printer paper. Recruiters no longer care about resume paper. The different sizes actually make it harder for a recruiter to fit your resume in their folders.
• It's preferable to keep the resume to one page. Recruiters get hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes and they won't have to time to read anything beyond the first page. The common exceptions are academic resumes, such as PhD graduates, because the resume should list all the notable research and publications.
• If you are in college or have graduated from college, do not include anything from before college.
• Do not include hobbies and interests.
• Update your resume every 6 months.

If you're a student, then definitely go to your school's career center and ask somebody to help you edit your resume.

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Disclaimer: Sheldon Cooper is a fictional character from The Big Bang Theory. All rights for the use of this character belong to CBS Broadcasting Inc. The research articles cited also belong to their respective authors, not Sheldon Cooper.

p.s. I am nothing close to a theoretical physicist. If I've used any physics terms in ways that make no sense, please let me know in the comments and I'll try to fix them.

p.p.s. I also don't watch The Big Bang Theory. I picked Sheldon because I know the show is popular in China. If I've gotten any of his personal details wrong (like those dates), please let me know in the comments and I'll try to fix them. (Although, I did a lot of research to calculate those months and years, so if you think a date is wrong, then you'd better cite your sources =P )

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