Resume for Criminal Justice career

The Resume

Step 1: Browsing Samples
Many jobs in the criminal justice field require a resume to be submitted along with your job application. Although it may seem intimidating to create a resume for the first time, you already have all the knowledge you need to do so—it’s all about you, after all! And once you’ve crafted one resume, all of your future resumes can build off of this first iteration.
Whether you ultimately decide to pursue a career in the field of criminal justice or not, most resumes require the same basic information and follow similar formats so honing your resume-writing skills will undoubtedly pay off in the future regardless of what career path you choose.
Before you begin writing, browse a few sample criminal justice resumes to get an idea of common formatting and the types of required information. Search the internet using keywords like “police resume” or “investigator sample resume.”

Step 2: Crafting Your Resume
Keeping in mind the formatting and required information you noticed in the sample resumes, use a word processing program to create your own resume. Many word processing programs will have templates available to help you format your resume if you choose to use them. If you’re not sure where to access these templates, use the Help function within the word processing software.

Your resume must:
Include all six components of a resume discussed in the unit (here is the six components:
Career Objectives
Education
Work Experience.
Professional Associations and Certificates
Other Skills and Experience
References

Be free of spelling and grammatical errors
Look polished and professional
Remember to thoroughly review your completed resume for any errors before submitting it. Although small mistakes may seem insignificant, on a resume they can make the difference between whether you get the job or your resume gets tossed aside.

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