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Resumes from a historical perspective

A resume is your first contact with a potential employer, and therefore requires a lot of attention.  The resume traditionally tells your prospective employer what you have accomplished professionally to date.
The need or creation of a resume to the best of my knowledge came about quite recently. In the years past,  if someone applied for a job, preference may have been given based on the grounds of  religious affiliation,creed, nationality, secret society members etc.; regardless of the capability for the job. Between the favoritism, prejudice, and gracelessness that hiring manager (or in most cases) the foremen, employee turn over right skyrocketed.
The concept of a centralized employment department was first written down in 1920's.  The "blue print" or goal of this department was to elicit information from prospective employees, while making it as pleasureable an experience as possible. The person running that department would in turn became the manager of the employment department or hiring manager.
With  an emerging concept of a centralized department, came the concept or need for an efficient  paperwork system; thus the birth of the concept for "employment form" currently called a n application.  The forms or applications as they are currently called became a tool that told the employment manager all that can be learned of that individual's experience, education, aptitude, physical condition and everything else that may have a relation to the position applied for. In addition, the form, contained the interviewer's impression of the interviewee.
The response to questions such as 'marital status', and "children' would indicate what type of worker someone would be.  A married man would be considered as "dependable" because they already possessed a lot  of responsibilities versus the single male employee who would be percieved as 'less dependable' due to the fact that his responsibilities were social.  The application also allowed the applicant an opportunity to mention any job that they had knowledge off, how long the position was held,an "analysis"or in depth description of actal work done. So, in theory the questions were created to furnish a person who is reading about another individual's (without actually meeting them)  likes and  dislikes, and then by using this information to determine that applicants capacity for holding a job. 
An interview (to be discussed later) or a "conversation" was a tool used to determine an applicants sincerity, integrity, and mental capacity. Again, the answers to a question such as "Why did you leave your other job?"  would indicate that an applicant was justified in leaving or just not capable of holding down a job. The aplicants information would then be reviewed, a "job description" would be obtained from the supervisor, the two wer then compared, and thus a candidates qualifications were determined. 
Today, we no longer answer nor ask questions about marital status, children, religious denomination, and secret society memebership. However,the philosophy is more or less the same for attaining  reliable, honest, and maybe even talented employees. When creating your resume, you need to have an understanding of what this permanent written record holds.The resume in theory reflects the questions that would be asked on an employment form/application, but with greater flexibility and format.  The answers you have prepared for the "application" or upcoming questions(as in an interview) will in turn make sure that you  obtain the job you seek, but more than that,  you'll enjoy the job you seek. With the proper  preparation, you will better understand the job's requirements before your interview, and "ace it".

"résumé (often spelled resumé or resume) is a document containing a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education, usually for the purpose of obtaining an interview when seeking employment. The word résumé is used especially in the United States and in English Canada; the Latin term curriculum vitae (often abbreviated CV) is used in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in the academic fields in North America, and the Netherlands." (wikipedia)

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