I'm assuming you're talking about a PDF-style resume, right? If you're talking about building a web-based resume, then the list should point to concrete things that you've built, and where possible, links to Github -- even to actual files. I'm not saying this as an expert in recruiting, just saying that <i>show, don't tell</i> applies to resumes as it does to any other form of salesmenship...and web devs have a very special advantage in this area and should exploit it to the full.<p>But PDF resumes are often necessary for corporate jobs that have a defined process...either a literal one-pager PDF, or something that is basically arranged like one (i.e. you fill out an online form with text fields)...Looking at my Word.doc resume, which I haven't touched in a year...here's what I wrote under the subhead of "Programming"<p>> <i>Programming: Proficient in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Javascript, ActionScript (Flash), and relational databases (MySQL)</i><p>Uh, OK, that's obviously not <i>great</i>, but I was applying for a general-purpose type of job in which the resume-reader was <i>not</i> a tech person.<p>However, the "show-don't-tell" parts of the resume were written like this...I don't talk about years of experience, or even how much time I spent on a project...I like to focus on what was actually deployed (and what reaction I got, if any)...in the example below, it should be obvious that my back-end work was more involved than the front-end part, because I don't have much to say other than "I used jQuery"...<p>--<p><i>SOPA Opera (<a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa" rel="nofollow">http://projects.propublica.org/sopa</a>): This was a Ruby on Rails 3.x site I built to serve as an clearinghouse of information on the proposed "Stop Online Piracy Act" legislation, with landing pages for every state and every Congressmember.</i><p><i>I wrote Ruby scripts to gather and process legislative data from numerous sources, including Congress.gov, campaign finance data from OpenSecrets, and the New York Times' Congress API and designed the site architecture so that I could singlehandedly administer it using Google Spreadsheets, while using MySQL as the database.</i><p><i>I also did virtually all of the front-end coding and design, including the use of jQuery plugins to allow users to interactively sort and filter the data.</i><p><i>I initially launched the site as a side project, deploying it as a flat-file site on Amazon S3, where through word-of-mouth alone, it received about 150,000 page views (and emails from Congressional staff) in its first week. When we re-launched it from ProPublica, it received as many as a million pageviews in a single day. The Google Spreadsheets-backed CMS allowed me to easily update legislators' positions on SOPA from the hundreds of constituents who emailed and called me.</i><p>---<p>(This was on the supplementary section of the resume...so for a situation in which you have to compress onto one page, obviously, bullet-point the most important and most concrete sentences)