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A Comparison of Résumé Content Preferences of Fortune 500 Personnel Administrators and Business Communication Instructors

Murray State University

A.C. Krizan

Murray State University

This study compares the résumé content preferences of Fortune 500 personnel ad ministrators and business communication instructors. There is also a comparison of the current personnel administrators' résumé content preferences to earlier research findings.

Business communication instructor résumé content preference rankings were very similar to the current Fortune 500 personnel administrator rankings. There was agree ment on the relative importance of 60 of the 70 potential résumé content items. Statisti cally significant differences in rankings were found on 10 of the 70 items. For example, personnel administrators ranked job objective, grade point average, and reasons for leaving jobs significantly higher in importance than did the business communication instructors.

The findings show a shifting in personnel administrators'preferences. They now want less personal information and more evidences of achievement and accomplish ments in college and on the job.

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