It highlights your accomplishments to show a potential employer that you are qualified for the work you want. It is not a biography of everything you have done. Its purpose is to get you an interview. Current students, in particular, should consider including the details of your more important extracurricular, volunteer and leadership experiences. Tailor separate resumes to fit each career field in which you are job searching.
Some people create slightly different resumes tailored to each job opening.
STEP 1 - Make a list of your various activities over the years. Students should go as far back as four or five years. Even graduating seniors will often have one or, occasionally, two items from high school on their resume. Alumni may also list volunteer, leadership and civic activities, especially those in which you had a leadership role or those that indicate skills relevant to the career field you are pursuing. STEP 2 - Write a paragraph about each important item in your list.