Internship or early career resumes are best suited for job seekers who are college students, either undergraduate or graduate students, or recent graduates who are looking to gain experience in their career fields.
These resumes should highlight education, education honors and awards, volunteer activities, and student memberships that are related to the career they are seeking.
The LinkedIn Profile Template as a resume template is a great option for Internship/early career job seekers, as linked in the sample here.
Resumes for experienced individual contributors should convey whether the job seeker is a mid-career (5-8 years of experience) or senior (more than 8 years of experience) level professional.
In addition to education, these resumes should highlight job-related accomplishments, relevant industry licenses and certifications, speaking engagements, and professional memberships, as detailed in the sample here.
Resumes for managers or directors should focus on job-related accomplishments as well. However, accomplishments of managers and directors should entail large-scale, quantifiable results, as detailed in the sample here.
For example, a manager who is planning to transition into a senior manager role, or a director looking to make a lateral move to a different industry should highlight cost savings, employee retention rates, business development, injury rate reductions, quality improvements, returns on investments, etc. on their resumes. Doing so provides concrete examples of several leadership characteristics that employers want to see in candidates for their manager and director job openings.
When applying for jobs at any level within the federal government, using their resume generator tool on the USAJOBS.gov careers site is best, as pictured in the example here.
Even though the federal government does not require job seekers to use their resume generator tool when applying for their job openings, they do require specific information from job seekers, and their resume generator tool easily captures that information.