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Hello team unemployed! I'm having some trouble with my resume and I'd like some help. I've looked at samples all over the Internet and I don't think I can follow any of them since my work experience is quite different from the type of jobs/career I'm looking for

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[hellototheworld]

Somehow you managed to take a shitty economy, with limited job potential, and find yourself not one but several temporary positions. You're willing to dedicate yourself to a particular job, even it it's not your dream job (just imagine how hard you'd work at this job!).

Find examples of how you've excelled. Showcase them. You're fresh out of college and you're not yet expected to have oodles of work experience. How you 'sell' yourself based on what you've got is what's going to win over employers.

[dupled]

Oh, but I don't have several temporary positions?

The thing with my crappy job experience is that all the jobs are pretty robotic if you get down to the nuts and bolts of it. There really weren't that many chances to excel at anything because there wasn't anything out of the ordinary to excel at. :( I don't know how to dress up that part at all!)

Thoughts from a foreign country....

[rustica]

All jobs anywhere are pretty mundane when you get down to the detail of them! I'd say there's a fair amount you could bring out from what you've said already

[sageincave]

I'd say take your resume (prominently featuring your coursework, computer skills, and typing speed) to a temp agency. Get some office experience through them. Then put that experience on your resume.

[dupled]

Do you ever read the cover letters attached to a resume then? Do they make any impact to getting a person's resume being read? (And er, honestly, if there's no hiring person's name posted anywhere and no phone number to call, would you put "Dear Sir or Madam"?)

Suppose my resume's formatting got through the cut, if you were reading a resume for an office or admin type of job, would you discard mine if my work history was mostly just the stuff I listed above?

And er, one last question since you read a ton of resumes. They're only supposed to be one page, right? My friend's resume is 3 pages long and kind of double spaced, but she got into this municipal job with it.