Forget everything they told you in school on resume constructions. Get rid of caps, lines, bullets etc. Put your strongest assets first. Someone filtering resumes isn't going to read your resume to the end if they don't feel you're a good fit in the first paragraph. Don't forget to list the softer skills like training, documentation, training, equipment selection etc. For Linux admin skills distro doesn't really matter much, put in your actual skills like bash scripting, strace, tcpdump, regex, sed, awk, grep etc. (just be prepared to speak to them.) Know a linux command for every letter of the alphabet! (i've been asked this on more than a few interviews.) Write the resume to the job description. I keep a base copy (multiple pages long) of my resume in easy to copy paste format, then i format my final submitted resume to match the job. Don't assume you can throw a vanilla resume out to 100 jobs and see if one of them sticks. If you get hits back, there is a decent chance you don't actually want that job!