Campus Recruitment - Resume Preparation - Tips to build an effective Resume

Campus Recruitment – Resume Preparation – Tips to build an effective Resume

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Tips to build an effective Resume

Your resume is the most important document that the employer would refer to. Hence, it is very important to keep your resume professional and up to date. Include your professional details, academic details total work experience, skills, tools and programming languages known. Do not lie about your skills and experience. Resume should be written honestly and carefully. Do not prepare a very long resume. A short but to the point resume should be prepared. Do not copy the resume from other sources. Write it on your own although you may take reference from sample resumes.

Tips to build an effective resume

Choose a good resume format.
Pick up a font that is easy to read. Fonts such as Verdana, Times New Roman and Arial in sizes 10-12 are conducive for reading.
Use the right keywords in your resume.
Use effective titles.
Example:
Bad title: Software development.
Good title: Developing Java API.
Divide your resume into sub sections.
Example: One section for details about your work experience, the second section about your academic qualifications, the third about your skill set, the fourth about your personal profile etc.
The most important points should be placed at the beginning of your resume. This should be uniformly followed in the individual sections as well. The most recent work experience will come first.
Your contact details including your address telephone number and email ID should be clearly mentioned in the resume.
Use bullet points and short sentences in your resume. Do not make the resume boring by giving in depth explanation or being repetitive.
Avoid writing negative sentences.
Write a few sentences about your professional goals.
Use your testimonial references for any skill that you would like to highlight.
Example: winning a technical white paper competition at the national level (testimonials included).
Do not include your age, unless it is specifically asked for.
Do not create a standard resume for all the jobs to be applied to. Restructure your resume depending on the job for which you are applying.
Do a spelling and a grammar check before you send your resume.
Update your resume on a periodic basis.
Mention dates in order.
Do not forget the basics, like your name.
Mention the employers for whom you have worked.
Mention the companies for whom you have interned (done your projects).
Do not use heavy vocabulary or too much of jargon(technical words).
Get your resume reviewed by a professional.

Things to avoid when writing your resume

Lying about past work experience or qualification.
Committing spelling and grammatical errors.
Making the resume colorful in appearance.
Including too much of information.
Not using the right keywords. .
Writing an objective that does not match the job.
Writing old or outdated details.
Sending a handwritten or poorly photocopies resume
Writing long sentences and paragraphs.
Writing about your own goals more than your abilities to match the job expectation.
Using T in the sentences.
Writing information that would make an employer feel that you discriminate (Mentioning your age/ marital status/ number of kids/gender etc).
Writing about hobbies/ Unless your hobby would contribute to your candidature, do not include it).
Writing incomplete information.
Writing negative things (Like failure in delivering a project).
Writing please (“Please give me an opportunity to work for you.”)