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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Centering your section headings is a way to make your resume a little easier to read since hiring managers won't confuse these headings with your job titles. Many resumes also place section headings in all capital letters. If you do that, be sure to check the spelling carefully since many spelling checkers ignore text in all caps.

Pharmaceutical industry professional with eight years of progressive sales experience. Expertise in blood and DNA testing hardware. High-level staff training and budgetary responsibilities.

WORK EXPERIENCE Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Place your most important categories in the top third of the page. This generally includes your employment experience or job skills.

KLT Laboratories, Las Vegas, NV Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Make it easy for hiring managers to see your promotions by listing each job separately under the company name. In this case, we opted not to embolden the company names because we want the reader to focus on the job titles.

Manager 2012-Present Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Use emboldening to draw the reader's eye to the most important elements of the resume. In this case, we've chosen to emphasize job titles, but you may emphasize job skill categories or even company names for some industry. Don't overdo it. As you can see, job titles are the only embolden left-justified text on the resume. If you use underlining or emboldening too much, the reader won't know where to look. Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Work experience and education sections should be in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent entry and working backwards in time.

· Manage all DNA testing hardware sales teams in U.S. and Canada. Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Bullet points are a good way to present information clearly and are often easier to read than a paragraph of complete sentences.

· Represent KLT at industry conferences.

· Responsible for $23 million dollar budget. Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: As much as possible, make your bulleted lists structurally parallel. If, however, this isn't possible, place any points that are not parallel in the first or last position on the list.

Supervisor 2008-2012

· Supervised 25 sales representatives across 12 states. Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: List your current job responsibilities in present tense. For past jobs, use past tense.

· Conducted employee orientation for new sales staff.

· Tracked relevant sales trends for corporate office.

Henderson Medical Supplies, Henderson, NV

Sales Representative 2004-2008

· Developed new customer leads for blood-testing equipment.

· Served as point of contact for existing customers in California, Nevada, and Utah.

· Named sales representative of the year in 2006 and 2007.

EDUCATION

B.S., Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 2011 Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Often, a college degree is a minimum requirement for the job you are applying for. Unless you have a unique degree that sets you apart from your competition, it's not necessary to embolden your degree information.

VOLUNTEERISM

Forever Futures, Las Vegas, NV 2006-2011 Comment by Mary-Beth Brophy: Volunteerism is useful to share in order to demonstrate your commitment and work ethic. However, unless your experience is career relevant, don't embolden elements like your position or the organization. Also, we've described Jane's responsibilities in paragraph form to further deemphasize them. Interested hiring managers will read this passage, but we don't want to distract the reader from more important elements of the resume.

Volunteered with an organization dedicated to providing basic socialization and obedience training to shelter dogs to increase their adoptability. Achieved MRG trainer certification in 2008.