Question

I am a biotechnology research student i am supposed to submit a resume so that i will get grants i am not able to figure out how to make my resume more attractive and impressive. if anybody can help?

Answer 1

hi nazima once again

Answer 2

Guidelines:Chronological resume. The focus in this format is on experience. A chronological resume is best for those who have mostly worked in the same field and can show a steady progression up the ladder, with each job being a step-up from the last. For example, someone who has worked as a receptionist, then as a legal secretary, and now as a paralegal may want to use a chronological resume.
Functional resume. The focus of this type of resume is skills and experience, not job history. A functional resume is best suited for those who cannot show a steady career progression. This type of resume is designed to highlight specific skills rather than job titles. For example, a functional resume is best for people who have changed jobs frequently, or who have gaps in their work history. A mother who took time off to raise a family would likely benefit from a functional resume. A photographer who has won awards for their photographs, but who has only had one job working as a photographer would also benefit from the format of a functional resume.
Combination resume. A combination resume is best for those who have specific skills and wish to highlight how they were acquired. If you’ve developed a special skill set from a wide variety of activities, and an evolving work history where you acquired them, a combination resume is likely the best style of resume for you.
2Make it look professional. Use a classical, clean look for your resume, and proofread it several times. More information is available in the "Formatting Your Resume" section below.
3Compare your resume against samples. Near the bottom of the page, you'll find thumbnails of sample resumes. Click them to enlarge, and see how your resume stacks up.
Chronological Resume

1List your employment history. Your jobs should be listed in order with the most recent one first.
Include the name of the company, the city in which the company is located, your title, your duties and responsibilities, and the dates of employment for each employer.
Under each job description include a bold heading, which reads “major accomplishment” or “achievements”, and list two or three achievements or a major accomplishment for that position. For instance, you could list ways you saved the company money, made the office run more efficiently, or brought in new clients or customers. For example, you could include information on how you, “implemented a new filing system that saved $1.50 per client in supply and labor costs.”
2Provide information on your education.
If you attended more than one college, university, or training program, list the most recent one first.
For each institution, include the name, city and state, and the degree or certificate you received.
If you had a cumulative grade point average (“GPA”) of 3.5 or better, list it as well.
If you did not attend college or trade school, do not include your high school education; including high school information on your resume doesn’t look professional.
3Add additional sections as needed. Because a resume is unique to each person, you may want to add additional sections in order to highlight something that makes you stand out as the right candidate for the particular job. For example:
If you have job specific skills, list them in a section titled ‘Special Skills.’
If you are bi-lingual and the job favors those who speak more than one language, list the languages in which you are fluent under “Other Languages”.
If being computer literature is important to perform the job well, create a ‘Computer Skills’ section and list all of the programs, applications, and programming languages you know how to use.
Functional Resume

1Determine whether to list your ‘Education’ or ‘Skills, Awards, and Achievements’ first. Choose whichever best sells you as the best candidate for the job.
If you have a bachelor or graduate degree, you likely want to put your education first.
If you have job specific skills, or a large number of awards, you may want to list those first.
For example, if you don’t have any paid job experience but you just graduated from college, listing your education first will highlight your most impressive accomplishment first.
If, on the other hand, you did have not completed your undergraduate studies yet but you have worked at 2 volunteer jobs and 2 internships, listing those accomplishments first will showcase how industrious you are.
2Provide details of your education. Regardless of whether you list your education first or second, it’s important to give recruiters details of what you studied.
If you attended more than one college, university, or training program, list them with the most recent one first.
For each institution, include the name, city and state, and the degree or certificate you received.
If you had a cumulative grade point average (“GPA”) of 3.5 or better, list it as well.
If you did not attend college or trade school, do not include your high school education; including high school information on your resume doesn’t look professional.
3Decide how to present your skills, awards, and achievements. You may divide these into three individual sections in your functional resume, or you can consolidate the information into one section.
Label each section something like “Special Skills,” “Awards & Achievements,” or “Major Achievements.”
This section, or these sections, could be presented as a list of the skills you have that are related to the particular job, a bullet point list of awards, a chronological description of your achievements, or some combination of the three.
4List your employment history. Since this isn’t the strongest part of your resume, you’ll want to list it at the end so that the recruiter reads through your more impressive accomplishments first.
You should include sub-headings for the type of experience each job provided you with, such as “Management Experience,” “Legal Experience,” or “Financial Experience.”
For each job, be sure to include the name of the company, the city in which the company is located, your title, your duties and responsibilities, and the dates of employment for each employer.
Optionally, under each job description you can include a bold heading, which reads “Major Accomplishment” or “Achievements,” and list two or three achievements or a major accomplishment for that position.
You may want to outline how you took the initiative to make the office run more efficiently by, “establishing office procedures to improve workflow and reduce paper costs.”
Combination Resume

1Decide in what combination you will list your education, work history, and other achievements. Remember, your resume is an advertisement for you, so your best qualities should be listed first. For example, if you have a graduate degree, you may want to list your education first, or if you have won a prominent award in your field, you may chose to list your skills, awards, and achievements first. On the other hand, if your most recent role is an impressive achievement, make sure you start with that.
2List your employment history. This can be done in one of two ways:
If your work history includes positions in more than one field, you should list your jobs under functional sub-headings, which categorize the skills you used at each particular one (e.g., “Financial Experience,” “Customer Service Experience,” “Research Experience,” etc.). When listing your employment history in this manner, each sub-heading should contain a listing of the positions you’ve held that relate to those functional areas. The listing should include the name and location of the employer, a description of your duties and responsibilities, the dates you were employed, and any accomplishments or achievements at that particular job.
If you can demonstrate that your evolving work history highlights the key skills you want to promote, you may want to list your work history in reverse chronological order, without including any sub-headings. Instead of the subheadings, you could strategically select the way you word your descriptions of your roles and responsibilities to highlight how you honed those skills.
3Provide information about your education. The details you include about your education will be the same as the details you’d include in other resume styles; the difference is in where you present the information on the resume. For each college, university, or trade school you have attended, list the name and location of the institution, the degree or certificate you received, and the years you attended. If your grade point average (“GPA”) was 3.5 or higher, you may want to list it as well.
4Provide information on your skills, awards, and achievements. This can be blocked into one section, or they can be distributed within the sub-headings of your resume that highlight specific skills.
Formatting Your Resume

Regardless of which resume style you choose to use, it should always be formatted in a specific way. Proper formatting ensures that your accomplishment will be noticed instead of the font. By following the guidelines below, you’ll be helping yourself polish your resume so that it makes a strong first impression.
1Format your resume. Some guidelines to follow when formatting your resume:
Set your margins to 1” all the way around.
Use a standard font such as Arial or Times New Roman.
Use font size 16 for your name, 14 for section headings, and 12 for all other text.
Use bold font for your name and section headings.
Use plenty of white space (blank lines). The proper use of white space will make your resume easy to scan quickly and much easier to read.
Always use white paper and black font.
2Create your heading. The heading of your resume should include your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Your name should be in 16-point bold type, and the rest of the heading in regular 12-point font. You may either center the information, or justify it to the left or right of the page.
3Spell check and proofread your resume. This step cannot be overemphasized. Proofread your resume several times. Have someone else proofread it. Then, have another person further removed from you read it. Spelling and grammar errors in a resume will get it discarded regardless of your skills and experience. Some things to look for when proofreading are:
Spelling mistakes.
Grammatical errors.
Incorrect contact information.
Typos.
Misuse of apostrophes, plurals, and possessives.

Answer 3

here's a sample resume

edit it and take a print if needed !!

Answer 4

Thanks @tigerlily25

Answer 5

You can't. The people who read your resume are not idiots, and they almost certainly have way more experience than you, both in the field, and in the business of reading and writing resumes. If you attempt to make yourself "more attractive" (your words), you will just end up looking like a poser and annoy them -- thereby REDUCING yoru chances of getting a grant. Trust me on this -- I have reviewed grant applications myself, as well as written more than one proposal that succeeded.

So your goal must be to present yourself ACCURATELY above all. If what you have done -- your educational and work record -- are enough to win the grant, you'll get it. If not, you won't, and that's that.

That said, there are some thing you can do to make sure your record comes through clearly and quickly. (Quickly is important, because the reviewers do not have very much time to spend on your application, unless it's for a $50 million grant. Remember, they are reading hundreds of applications, and they have many other things to do.)

1. Use a conventional format, style, and typeface. Have you heard that printing it on pink paper or using some curious font will get you noticed? Forget that. It's just a way to get your resume sent to the round file right away. Do not let anything in your presentation get in the way of communicating the facts in your record. Even if you think the conventional format is boring or awkward, use it, because that will allow the evaluators to find what they want to know fast.

2. Spell absolutely everything correctly, including anybody's name or address. Sounds simple, right? But you'd be surprising how many people are careless this way. Write "their" when you mean "there" (an easy mistake to make). Spell one of your reference's name slightly wrong, or get the area code of his phone number wrong. Zap, you're gone. Very little annoys a reviewer more than evidence that the applicant hasn't taken the application seriously enough to spend the time and energy on it to get the details right. Because this means the applicant is wasting his (the reviewer's) time, and that level of disrespect is deeply annoying.

3. Facts, facts, facts. Focus on the facts about you in your resume. Take every statement about what you want to do, how you feel or believe about this or that, et cetera, and put it into your cover letter (or just drop it entirely). What the reviewer's care about are the facts of your career to date. WHAT degree do you have, from WHERE, WHEN, and working with WHOM? WHAT were your grades? HOW LONG have you worked in this field? HOW MANY papers have you written, how many as first author? And so on. Try to make sure the facts about your record are clear and easy to find. Do you worry you have too few facts? Don't let it bother you. Everyone has to start somewhere, and they know that. You're actually better off with being young and having few facts about you on record, but all of them good, than being older with more good facts -- but also some negatives -- jobs from which you were fired, projects you didn't complete, assorted failures.

4. Stick to the point. Don't bother with facts that aren't relevant to the application. You don't need a "hobbies and interests" section, unless one of them is directly relevant to the work. You don't need to (and in fact should not) tell them you are married and have 3 kids, or two dogs you like to walk along the beach. They know you're a human being, and they will assume you have a normal human being's nonwork life. Putting this stuff just wastes time.

5. People. One thing young people often don't realize is how important people who know you are, and what they can say about you. Older reviewers will often rely considerably on knowing people in your field, and what they have to say about you. Personal judgment is weighted far higher than many other measures. That is, if a senior person in your field has a very good opinion of you, that will generally matter much more than how many papers you've published. So be sure to mention all the places you've studied or worked. Have good references from people who know you, the more senior the better (but the first priority should be know you well and like you). Put their names in the resume, with full contact information. Mention any other people with whom you've worked by name, particularly if they're senior and are willing to be a reference for you. (It goes without saying, I hope, that you get permission from any of your references before you list them.)

Good luck!