There are many ways of organizing a resume. Our experience has proved that the chronological resume outlined below is the best suitable for presentation to the companies we work with and it is the format the majority of our clients request. View a sample resume.

Chronological Resume
A functional resume provides a general overview of the applicant’s expertise, and separately, a brief listing of the companies the person has worked for. This resume highlights your skills but does not provide the level of detail required by our clients. All of our clients want to review a candidate's work history chronologically. Therefore, we ask that you send us a resume outlining your work history in a chronological fashion with details of your skills and achievements under each place of employment.

Cover Letter
A cover letter is not required to apply to BlackShire. It is more important to have all relevant information within the resume itself. It is the resume that travels directly to your potential employer, not the cover letter. However, if there is important information that could affect your application such as travel restrictions, relocation, or salary requirements, please include that information in a brief covering letter.

Professional History
Without making your resume excessively lengthy, make sure to provide sufficient details about your professional history, particularly what relates to the job you are applying for. Target your resume for the given position. In your resume, answer the questions set by the job description and requirements.

Layout
We prefer resumes in RTF or TXT formats, since this facilitates their review and storage and prevents from spreading macro viruses. The simpler the layout, the better. Please avoid headers, footers and tables. It is most convenient for us when your resume starts with your name without a header.

Contact Information
Please make sure your legal name, address and contact details, such as phone numbers and email addresses where you can be reached confidentially, are listed at the top of your resume.

Job Search Objective
It is helpful to have a job search objective, but it is not a must.

Skills
You may provide a brief summary of your skills, however, it is more important that each skill set is mentioned within the context of the employment place where you used it, in other words, within the chronological description of your work history.

Work History
Please list specific positions with previous employers and/or a project summary. Your resume should comprise your work history, including the names of the companies you have worked for, periods of work, titles of the jobs you’ve held, and most importantly, a description of your responsibilities at each work place. Be precise about the dates and avoid chronological gaps. Please provide details on your direct responsibilities, achievements, technologies you worked with, and management duties, if any. When describing each of the places of your employment, please be specific about experiences directly relevant to the job you are applying for. Also, it would help the potential employer to understand the environment you are coming from, if you provide a one or two sentence description for each company you have worked for, such as their product, industry, direction, technical environment and/or size.

Education & Achievements
Provide details of your education with dates, professional achievements/awards and additional skills, such as knowledge of foreign languages.

Personal Interests & Hobbies
It is not required to add information about your personal interests or hobbies, but it illustrates to the employer that you are a well-rounded person who has interests outside of work.


This layout not only helps our clients, but also ensures a fair assessment of your skills and experience allowing us to screen and qualify you as a potential candidate for our client.

After receiving your chronological resume, we will review it for the position you applied for and will contact you for further discussion, if your skills match the opportunity. If there is no immediate match, we will keep your resume, in confidence, for consideration in future positions.