Bulleted sentences help the flow of your resume and they also add emphasis to your points. No one wants to read a long paragraph that seems to go on and on. With bulleted points and short, emphasized points, you can highlight certain characteristics to your potential employer. That person will be much more likely to take in the information in small amounts than if you leave them with a giant block of text. Remember that a lot of managers scan over resumes before they actually give the resume a good analysis, so you want to catch their eye the first time.

If you really want to draw your potential employer’s eye, then fill your resume up with plenty of PAR. Problem-Action-Results scenarios show that you are a good problem solver who brought something valuable to the companies who employed you in the past. For example, if you were the manager of a restaurant and they were having inventory problems, put on your resume that you “Helped fix a problem in inventory that yielded an extra $50,000 in revenue for the company.” You can probably think of many of these from your old job and even if they aren’t of that magnitude, list them. This will show your willingness to be a problem solver.

Employers are interested in knowing what you were up to when you weren’t working. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to have some time gaps between a couple of your jobs. Don’t just leave that space blank, though. Let the employer know what you did with that time. Even if what you did was not related to this job or any job, it will look better if there is at least something there. Perhaps you went to school. Maybe you did some charity work. Those things are much more valuable than a bunch of empty space that will leave the potential employer to speculate and wonder about what you were doing all that time.

Though potential employers like to see who you have worked for and what positions you have held, the resume should not read like a history textbook. Since this is your primary marketing tool that will hopefully land you an interview, it is important to keep the content of the resume primarily focused on what you can bring to a company. Your past jobs might help you do this, so let them know that experience is a huge part of why you will be successful and include mention of experience that may be relevant to your new position.