The first tool you own if you are trying to get a job is, without a doubt, your Resume, if your Resume success then you will get a personal interview and after that it will depend on your skills and development, but the first contact the employers will have with you is through your resume, this is reason you need to be careful and professional when doing it, you have to consider some important facts.
How to write a Resume?
List all your technical skills, you should highlight placing them at the top of your resume, if you think you know some special software or tool that few other competitors know, then you should take advantage of that and place that skill at the top of your list.
If you have special skills with computers then it's also important to describe them, it's preferably you consider the computer skills related to the job you are applying for, if you use some special software or if you have attended some training course about accounting, law, education, management or whatever your area of work is.
Education profile is also very important, if you had some student achievement related to the job you are applying for then describe it in your Resume.
Work experience is the next important section in your Resume, generally it works placing the jobs you had in chronological order, but if you had some job experience relevant to the new job you want to get then you should place it at the top of the list.
If you need some more specified advice about how to make the correct and successful Resume you should visit the Resume Templates page, there you will find many resume samples of Resumes for accounting, medicine, education, marketing, software and other professional areas.