How to have a Perfect Resume

List your qualifications in order of relevance, from most to least 
Only list your degree and educational qualifications first if they are truly relevant to the job for which you are applying. If you’ve already done what you want to do in a new job, by all means, list it first, even if it wasn’t your most recent job. Abandon any strict adherence to a chronological ordering of your experience.

Quantify your experience wherever possible 
Cite numerical figures, such as monetary budgets/funds saved, time periods/efficiency improved, lines of code written/debugged, numbers of machines administered/fixed, etc. which demonstrate progress or accomplishments due directly to your work.

Don’t sell yourself short. 
This is by far the biggest mistake of all resumes, technical and otherwise. Your experiences are worthy for review by hiring managers. Treat your resume as an advertisement for you. Be sure to thoroughly “sell” yourself by highlighting all of your strengths. If you’ve got a valuable asset which doesn’t seem to fit into any existing components of your resume, list it anyway as its own resume segment.

Keep yourself goal-oriented.
Don’t wander off the beaten path in subject matter. If you are trying for an academic position present your academic qualifications. Use trigger words for that field, or that industry. If you don’t know what those words are, then do your research prior to starting your resume.

Write down your strengths and weaknesses.
Consider the industry or field you are approaching and see where your strengths lie. You don’t want to give someone an outline of your life. You want to sell yourself on this thin piece of paper, because here lays the opportunity for advancement.