What are your best resume tips?
cwinters: 1) Languages and tools should be highlighted if they're exceptional -- e.g., I probably don't need to hear that you used SQL to interact with a database, but if you implemented a set of complex views in T-SQL that's useful.2) ...which means you need to list your skills somewhere. I tend to categorize mine for easier scanning (languages, databases, frameworks, build infrastructure) but YMMV. If something sticks out there I'll ask about it -- "how did you find the experience of implementing a maven plugin?"3) In the vein of not annoying people who read your resume, name the file you send "FirstName_LastName_resume.pdf" rather than "resume.pdf". Attention to detail matters, and people wind up dumping resumes into a directory with others.