Resume Building Tips

Resume Building Tips

Your Resume is Nothing but Putting youself on a peice of paper to sell in employement market
While making resume always keep in mind that you are going to sell yourself with this peice of paper called RESUME. So don’t fill it with the information which are not related to you or create confusion about you. Leave off irrelevant personal information like your Nationality, weight, and height etc. Always be very specific about what you are doing and what is your objective. If your Extra Qualification doesn’t related to your current profile and the post you are appling for. Just keep it away. If you Graduation/PG percentages are not a plus point, don’t mention percentage. No-one is going to ask for your percentage.

How to Make My Resume
Do and Don’t in Resume Writing
Resume Blunders

How to Make My Resume –

1. Objective – Don’t Copy/Paste an Impressive Objective, Even-if you find a Free Resume Template with a most appealing Objective. Your Objective should be different from any other resume because you are different from other job-applicant. You are not next to Tom, Dick and Harry. Are You?
2. Resume Summary – HR have just 30 seconds for one resume. Give him what he wants. Summarize your resume with all necessary details and skills. It will save HR time and your time as well.
3. Be with Basics – Never forget the Basics, Your Resume Should start with your Name. And its should be in Bold. You can use Bigger font also. Second important thing is your contact details – these should be easy available. You can use them in header and footer also on every page.
4. Eliminate “responsibility” related words – Dont add a lot of responsibilities in your cerriculam which you could not perform actually, You resume should be Achievement oriented, not responsibility oriented. Your Achievement help you to sell yourself not your responsibilities, even mentioning extra responsibilities (which you don’t perform regularly or you have a limited knowledge about them) can leave you in trouble during interview.
5. Give your Resume the KEYWORD Power – Taday, Most of the organisations use Electronic Database. Finding the right candidates start by running a query (search) with Keyword. Make sure your resume have all the right keyword otherwise you would be disqualified before the race. These keywords are specific NOUN related to the job requirement. For Example – A Relationship Manager – Mutual fund must be having AMFI certified, so “AMFI” would be the keyword for him. Similarly Software tester who works on Automated tools like Win-runner, load runner. Must add these KEYWORDS to his resume.

Normally these keywords comes simantinously in resume, but if you find though to fit some of the keywords in your resume, add an heading KeyStrength in your resume and mention these keywords there.

Leave off Past Experience Details – If you have 15 plus of experience, then no need to add all the experience in details. Keep your last 3-4 years in details and past 10 years experience in brief because if you have not changed your line you have done the same in past. For example if you are now a Sales Head of an organisation and 10 years before you were sales officer. You would not had done other than Sales.

And if you have changed you line, then also you don’t need to mention your past in details. Doing this will give the HR more space to discuss your past and reason for changing the line.

Review your resume – Once you are finished with your resume, review it and if possible try to get review it by anyother experience person or professional.

Do and Don’t of Resume Writing –

1. Dont use Tiny Font Size – Sometime to keep resume in one page, people use tiny font size. It can irritate the HR. Always use font size between 10 to 12.
2. Check you hobbies – Don’t use your hobbies in your resume until/unless you are 100% sure that you hobbies are helpful to your current job profile.and don’t be over-smart by mentioning hobbies related to the job profile but not related to you. You will be caught.
3. Don’t give False Informations – Never give False informations in your resume, it is the written proof and you can lose your job along with your credibility.
4. Don’t Stand on two stools - Evenif you have kept the other door open, don’t mention it in your resume, always make a resume completly focused on sigle job profile. For other job ( or job profile ) use separate resume.

Resume Blunders

1. Funky Email id – Beware !!! if you have a funky email id ( like – playboy_007@xyz.com, or crazygirl_247@xyz.com etc. ) It can very dangerous to your career. HR Manager always notice your email id. It should create a positive impression on him about you. Use decent email id instead.
2. EXTRA Formatting – Always make your resume simple and sober. Avoid extra colors and big font size. Your Resume has 20-30 Secs to review by the HR person, so highlight only the things which are related to the job ( you are appling for )
3. Non-Related Achievement – To make a Resume full of achievement, people add non-related achievement. For Example - B.Tech Engineer with 14 years of Experience mentions that he got 1st prize in Drawing competition when he was in 10th Standard. These type of resume leave the HR full of amusement nothing else. Always be specific about your achievement before adding any achievement to your resume think what you have achieved how it benefited your Employer.