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Part 2 ➤ Six Steps to a Perfect Resume

Adjusting the leading (the space between your lines) is another clever
way to add white space without eating up too much real estate. For
example, you may want to have just a little space (but not a full line
space) between each bullet-point statement to set them apart. Cust-
omizing space before or after lines (which are considered paragraphs for
formatting purposes) is easy:
Terms of Employment 1. Highlight the paragraph (or bullet-point statement) you want to

Leading (rhymes with bedding) add space before or after.
is the space between lines of 2. In your MS Word toolbar, select the Format pull-down menu.
text. Adjust the leading of indi-
3. Select Paragraph.
vidual lines to accent headings
and increase ease of reading. 4. Click Indents and Spacing.
5. Under the heading Spacing, you’ll see boxes next to Before and
After. Insert a number, such as 6, in either the Before or After
box to add space before or after a paragraph. (The smaller the
number, the smaller the space will be.)
6. Click OK to see the results of your work.

Bonus Check

There are standard tabs programmed into a Microsoft Word document. You can change
those tab settings by using the ruler on the screen at the top of your document. Take
time to learn how to use the various types of tabs by consulting your word-processing
manual.

A third white-space technique is to use the Tab key to indent text in
order to create columns or sub–bullet-point statements, as demon-
strated in the Job Objective statement in the following resume by
Francine Ling.

Resume Reality
Terms of Employment
Now that you’ve learned what a good resume design and type style are,
In word-processing jargon, a
it’s time to get your resume printed and out in the real world where it’s
paragraph is any text that
going to work wonders for you. Let’s move on to the nuts and bolts of
begins after a hard return (press-
getting your resume out of the printer and into the hands of your next
ing Return or Enter on your key-
board) and ends with the next employer!
hard return. That means that
technically a bullet-point state-
ment is a paragraph.

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