HOW TO WRITE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN YOUR RESUME
Your responsibilities and accomplishments.
 In a chronological format, information about your work experience typically makes up about 70 percent of the resume. This section usually appears after the Job Objective or Skills Summary, if you’ve included either. However, if your educational background is the most important qualification for the position you’re seeking, you may want to put the Education section first and then list your work experience.
 You also can use this format to profile your volunteer experience. Just list volunteer positions the same way you would paid positions, including the name of the organization, the year(s) of involvement, your position, and your responsibilities and accomplishments.
 The chronological format aims to clearly identify where you’ve been and what you’ve done that qualifies you for the job. It works best when:
  You have a stable history of paid employment or volunteer work.
  You’ve worked in the same general field for several years and are pursuing employment in that area.
  You have advanced steadily throughout your career and can show a consistent increase in level and responsibility.
  You have had few career changes and have spent a year or more at each of your jobs.
 Here’s how to create your perfect chronological resume, element by element:
 Name header
 The name header, which tells employers who you are and how to reach you, is always at the top of your resume. If you want to make it especially noticeable, set the header—or just your name—in bold face. There is no particular formatting “standard”—feel free to center, right- or left-justify this information.
 Include your full name (first and last names and middle initial), your street address and phone number. Whatever phone number you include must be answered 24/7. Buy an answering machine or hire an answering service if necessary, but do not expect an employer to try to reach you more than once. The easier you make it for the employer to contact you, the better, so feel free to include your cell-phone number, pager, personal fax, e-mail address, and/or Website address.
 I personally recommend including an e-mail address. More and more executives in the last few years have replaced phone calls with e-mail, since they can get a lot of information out (and leave a lot of messages) without dealing with busy signals and long answering-machine introductions. If it’s their preferred mode of communication, make it yours. If you don’t have an e-mail address, you can get one—free—from virtually any Internet Service Provider (ISP) or major site (AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, etc.).
 If you feel comfortable receiving calls at work, list your work phone number. (Keep in mind that many recruiters will frown on your use of work time to land a new job, unless your current employer is aware of your search. They assume you’ll eventually treat them the same way, and they don’t like it.) If not, use your home number and make sure an answering machine or voice-mail service is ready to capture any and every call. Prospective employers will usually call during business hours, the same time you’ll be working. So make sure you don’t miss their calls.
 If you decide to use an answering machine, record a professional outgoing message and state your full name so employers know they’ve reached the right number. (Now is not the time to show off your incredible sense of humour with a phone message featuring your animal impressions.) Otherwise, they may not leave a message. Return any calls immediately.
 If you are a college student with a temporary campus address (or, for that matter, anyone with a temporary address), list temporary and future addresses, phone numbers, and dates you can be reached at each address and/or number.