Make a resume
Tick what you have actually done, fill in where you did it, and download a Word file you can change yourself. It is free, and Sefer never sees it.
The resume itself is in English. The questions come in Amharic and English, but write your answers in English — this is the document an employer here will open.
Nothing is saved. Your answers stay in this browser tab, and the file is built on your own phone or computer. Sefer never receives it, never stores it, and cannot read it. It also means that if you close this tab, you start again.
About you
This is the block at the very top of the page. It is how an employer reaches you, so it has to be right.
City and state only. Never put your street address on a resume.
Leave it empty if you do not have one. A blank line is better than a broken one.
Four things worth knowing
Next: write the message that goes with it →
Where to apply, and what happens in the interview
A machine reads it before a person does
Most employers run resumes through software that pulls the text out. It cannot read columns, tables, logos or photographs, and a resume it cannot read is never seen by anybody. That is why this template is plain. Keep it plain.
Work you did back home still counts
Put it on. Name the country beside the city so an employer understands a company they have never heard of, and describe the job by what you actually did rather than by its title. Fifteen years is fifteen years.
A gap is not a problem
Years spent moving country, waiting on papers or raising children are ordinary and common. Use years rather than months so a short gap does not show, and never invent a job to cover one.
Only put down what you can defend
Everything on this page is a sentence you tick rather than one written for you, because you will be asked about it in the interview. A line you cannot explain costs you the job — and a job lost later over an untrue resume costs much more.