This post is dedicated to Mac users who wants to make their own resume with Apple’s word processing software – Pages.
May 12, 2009 Dave, you've said in a different article (see Download managers that allow resumption of interrupted downloads) that Apple's Safari browser has that as an option for its download manager. Just right-click on an interrupted download in the 'Download Window'. I'm a bit confused, because I have Safari on a Mac with OSX tiger. When I control-click there is NO option in the window to resume.
- In the Safari app on your Mac, click the Show Downloads button near the top-right corner of the Safari window. The button isn’t shown if the downloads list is empty. Do any of the following: Pause a download: Click the Stop button to the right of the filename in the downloads list. To resume, click the Resume.
- Go to the Downloads button in the Safari browser toolbar — it always looks like an arrow pointing downwards — and click on that. Now this will show a list of recent downloads, and any that have been paused will indicate the download has failed: Click on the orange circular arrow to restart the download.
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Requirements: Any Mac operating system with Apple Pages installed
Requirements: Any Mac operating system with Apple Pages installed
Before we begin, we would like you to know that this tutorial is made on a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.6), with the assistance of Apple Pages (version 5.0.1). If you are using the latest Mac OS – High Sierra, there would be slight difference in terms of user interface, but in general most features in Pages would work the same way.
Step 1: Launch Pages from Applications
Open the Apple Pages app located in your Applications folder. You will be greeted with the following window. If you don’t see this window, go to your top menu bar and select File > New… (or use the shortcut Cmd+N).
At the left sidebar, navigate to the Stationery tab, scroll down to the Resume section at the main column, then pick a resume template that you like. We selected the Modern Resume template for this guide.
Step 2: Replace the Resume with Your Details
By default, the Pages template is pre-populated with dummy info. Go ahead and replace all the dummy details with your own information. If you need help with your resume’s content, check out the resume writing service offered by our professional resume writers.
For starters, you can remove categories you don’t need by selecting it and hit on the Delete key. To add more categories such as Awards (or Accomplishments), the best way is to copy and paste from another category to retain its formatting.
One downside to this template is that it lists out your work experience as a chunk of long-winding paragraphs. Ideally you would want to avoid doing this as recruiters can be put off by it.
If you had an extensive job scope for your previous job, split them up using bullet points. To add bullet points in Pages, go to the Bullets & Lists feature located at the right sidebar, then click on the dropdown option next to it and select Bullet.
You can also adjust the spacing between lines and paragraphs by changing the values here:
Here’s how our sample resume looks like after replacing the contents with that of a fictional person:
Step 3 (optional): Change fonts and colors to match your style
This modern resume template from Apple Pages uses Avenir Next as the default font. If you are feeling adventurous, you could also play around with different font styles.
We switched up the Headings and Subheadings with a serif font – Baskerville. We also removed the squares next to the name as it do not add any real value to the resume.
Here’s how our final sample resume looks in Pages:
Step 4: Save and Export Resume
Done? Double check your resume for spelling and grammatical errors. Pro tip: read your resume out loud to spot obvious mistakes such as the misuse of “then” or “than”, “your” or “you’re” etc.
If everything is correct, click on Command+S (shortcut for Save) on your keyboard to save your Pages file or go to File > Save… .
Since you might be using this resume to apply for jobs (we hope), go to top menu again and select File > Export to > PDF… in order to export the Pages file as PDF.
In the pop-up window, you can choose to have Good, Better, or Best image quality for your PDF export. We always go with the Best option so that the PDF looks good on print too.
Congratulations! You are all set to deliver your homemade PDF resume to interviewers and hiring managers. We hope that you learned how to make your first resume on Mac using Apple Pages after reading this tutorial.
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I have had this issue with my Macbook Pro ever since I bought it in November. If I start downloading a file with Safari, and the download gets interrupted, I am unable to resume downloading from the point where it was interrupted. Clicking on 'resume downloading' button in the downloads list works fine it I do it immediately after the download is interrupted, but if a little time has elapsed (as little as a few minutes) since the interruption it will not let me resume the download, and I get the message in the downloads list 'You do not have permission to access the requested resource.' I have repaired my permissions...I don't know what else to do. Here's my system configuration:
Macbook Pro Mid-2012 Retina Display
Apple Safari For Mac
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB RAM
Mac Safari Browser
System 10.8.2
I just have to editorialize for a moment: My old Macbook Pro and my Mac Pro both worked great with Snow Leopard, but since upgrading the Mac Pro to Mountain Lion and buying the new Macbook I have had all kinds of issues like this. Tech support at Panic software, that I contacted because of issues with some of their software, told me that I was only one of many with Mountain Lion issues, but here we're over half a year since the release of 10.8 and we're only on system 10.8.2. Is anybody at Apple actually trying to fix the issues?
Thanks for anything you can tell me!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
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