Writing a resume for first time job could be a very difficult task. Once you have held several jobs, you can easily fill up a resume with all your job experience. A resume for a first time job often feels empty and lacks content.

In order to create resumes for first time jobs, you need to look at your skills, hobbies, and life experiences.

Follow the steps below to guide you through writing your first time job resume.

Don't look at yourself as having no experience -
When writing a resume for first time jobs, the first step is to believe that you really do have experience. Perhaps you do not have actual job experience but there is a good chance you have some sort of life experience, academic experience, skills or hobbies that could be considered first time experience. Take this mental state with you as you write your first time resume in order to land the first time job of your choice.

Open a blank Excel Spreadsheet. If you are not comfortable in Excel, you can do this in Word or even just in a notebook by hand.

Think about every accomplishment you have done in the past or are doing presently. Include each one of these on a separate line in your spreadsheet or Word document.
These include:
- hobbies
- volunteer work
- college or high school research papers
- college or high school research projects
- computer experience - including writing emails, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- experience with your family (such as helping your mother in the kitchen, babysitting siblings, helping elderly relatives, etc.)
- summer jobs
- experience helping friends (such as helping a friend move to a new apartment, helping friends with a book report, etc.)

* Don't be afraid to write experiences that seem insignificant. This is not your final resume - you will remove entries as you go along.

Think of all skills, education, and positive personality traits you have and do the same as step 3.

For each entry, create a second column and write down details that highlight what you accomplished.
For example, if you were on the swim team, you can write down that you swam 3 hours straight, you ordered matching bathing suits for the team, you throught of the team name and slogan, etc.

Save the spreadsheet or document before you forget so you don't lose information.

Write a separate resume for each job you are applying for -
If possible, you should write a different resume for each job you apply for so that each one will be personalized with experiences and skills relevant to that job. This is true especially during the recession when jobs are hard to come by. So repeat the following steps for each job you apply for.

Go to your spreadsheet or document of experiences, skills and personality traits and highlight all the entries that can be related - even mildly - to the job you are looking for.
Use 2 colors of highlighters - one for experiences/skills that are very related and one for experiences/skills that are mildly related.

If you do not have enough entries highlighted, look over the list again and get creative. Think of details for each entry that could be related to the job you are applying for.
Using the example of the swim team above, let us say you are applying for a waiter job. On the surface maybe there isn't much in common between being a waiter and swimming, but, if you think about it, swimming for 3 hours straight shows you are physically fit and will not tire out during long hours of waiting on tables. If you are applying for a secretarial job, your experience of ordering matching bathing suits for all team members can be relevant - after all, you had to collect money, get everyone's size, place the order, etc. Use this method of thinking and see that you actually do have experience that you can use on the resume for first job.

Create a new document or spreadsheet. For each highlighted entry, write an action phrase to be used for the first time resume. Write each entry on a separate line.

Pick out the most phrases that show your strongest points and are most relevant to the job you are applying for.

Take the phrases from step 9 and break them up into standard resume sections (experience, skills, education, etc.)

Polish the resume off with a focussed objective sentence with mentions the specific job you are looking for and specific skill, experience or personality trait that you have.