The document provides tips for structuring and formatting a resume. It recommends: 1) Rank ordering your information such as academic qualifications, skills, interests, and references under relevant headings. 2) Formatting your resume concisely in no more than 2 pages and adding a cover letter. 3) Saving your resume in PDF format to maintain formatting across devices and applications.

1. RESUME PREPARATION
an
ACTIVITY

2. Structuring & rank ordering
YOUR INFORMATION Possible heading Rank order
Your Academic Qualification &
Track Record
The skills knowledge and
personal qualities you will
bring to the position.
Your Interest and Personal
Details
Reference Details

3. YOUR INFORMATION Possible heading Rank order
Your Principal
achievements,workshop,Confe
rence
Course Certification
Your employment & work
experience
Adress,email,mobbile
Structuring & rank ordering

4. Structuring & rank ordering
YOUR INFORMATION Possible heading Rank order
Membership in Club
Internship in Industry
Your Name
Font size & style
Career Objective

5. Bird’s View
• Recruiter spends just
6
To
7
seconds

6. Do’s
• Check once or twice for Grammar error, spelling
mistake.
• Not more than 2 page
• Add a cover letter

7. Do’s

8. Do’s

9. GOLDEN RULES
• Keep resume up to date
• Dynamic & snapshot
skills
• Skills vs skill set – core
strength

10. PDF Format
You have worked hard to make a clean cut and
meticulously formatted resume for international
internships and jobs alike.
The recruiter pulls it up on their computer and can
only see a jumbled mess of words and shapes. It
happens too often that the different configurations of
writing applications change the formatting to make
your resume unreadable.
Make sure this doesn’t happen to you by converting
your resume to PDF format.

11. Keep The Reader In Mind
Remember that a real person is
looking at these resumes. They are
looking for awesome candidates to
integrate into the team.
You want to make this process as
simple and easy as possible by
making your resume the best fit for
the international internship
position.
It is not their job to do you any
favors. Let them know that you will
be a seamless addition to the team.
•

12. LinkedIn profile can help:
• In this age of social media, it is not
surprising that the new rule of
resume writing is to include your
LinkedIn profile.
• But, before you do so, ensure that
you have a great profile and you
have listed all that you have
meticulously and you have good
connections and recommendations.
• This profile should support your
resume, remember that.

13. The print version too should be neat:
• Even if you are sending your resume via e-mail,
keep a print version ready because you may be
asked to carry a copy with you for the interview.
Hence, ensure that you are using a good printer,
that’s an evergreen rule.

14. Read the book by Bolles