by Marijane Suttor

Created on: October 04, 2007

Writing a great resume even though you have no job experience can be easy, but you will have to examine your life experiences.

1) Emphasize education. Add bullets that include key courses that you have taken that will show the difficulty of your coursework, the variety of your classes and the skills that you have learned through these classes.

2) Emphasize your clubs and organizations. Have you taken any kind of leadership role in these groups? This is a great place to demonstrate that you are a leader, an organizer and the type of person that can get the job done.

3) Internships, field experiences, or other classroom work that will relate to your future career opportunities. Frequently people overlook these experiences and yet they are a beginner's on the job learning opportunity.

4) Volunteer experience and community involvement. If you helped with a food drive, served dinner at a homeless shelter or helped with Habitat for Humanity. It is great to be involved in service organizations, use these to show that you are are selfless worker who puts the needs of others in your community first.

5) Emphasize expertise in foreign languages. More and more employer have the need of people that are bilingual. Emphasize any foreign languages you are trained in. that might be the deciding factor that makes an employer hire you over someone else.

Don't think just because you have no work experience that you don't have the skills that an employer is looking for. Just take a deeper look into your life experiences and emphasize those.

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