This document discusses how to write an effective resume for getting an interview. It notes that the purpose of a resume is to get an interview, not necessarily a job. When targeting resumes at recruiters of new graduates, the focus should be on demonstrating knowledge, skills, and specialties rather than work experience. Employers typically spend only 20 seconds reviewing each resume, so the resume needs to be designed for quick reading and information processing. The document also provides tips on using concise, impactful language to describe experiences and qualifications.

1. By Syed Sohail Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Email:ssoahmed@ssuet.edu.pk

2.  Purpose of your Resume
 The Employer’s perspective
 Targeting your resume to match Employer
Needs
 Resume styles & Formats
 Tips for Resume in the digital age
 Effective Cover letters
 Resources

3.  Myth: “The Purpose of a resume is to get a job”
 Fact: The purpose of a resume is to get an
interview!

4.  The recruiter who is interviewing new graduates
knows that these young people don’t have work
experience yet so they won’t be looking for them.
 What they will be looking for are knowledge,
skills, and specialties.
 Specialties and knowledge are defined by course
subjects and academics
 .

5.  Employers will usually take, at most, only twenty
seconds to look at one-page representation of
yourself before deciding whether to keep or
discard it.
 The 20 second rule To ensure that you will make it
past that initial screening, you should design your
resume in such a way that employers can read the
document easily and process information quickly

6.  Tell it .
 Worked as network
administrator with
responsibility for
administration and
troubleshooting
 Sell it.
 As network administrator,
created in excess of 750 user
scripts, installed 16
workstations, administered
security codes to 350 clients,
supervised installation of
company-wide Microsoft Office
2007 Pro, and regularly solved
stress-causing malfunctions in
operating system and
software.