The document provides guidance on creating an effective resume. It emphasizes focusing the resume on the employer's needs by understanding the job description and company. Resumes should be concise, with a maximum glance time of 10-15 seconds. Personal details beyond name and contact information are unnecessary. The objective, layout, formatting, and use of concise and impactful language are important to stand out among hundreds of applications and secure an interview. Fresher resumes should include contact details, objective, education, internships/projects, skills, awards, associations and hobbies without excessive personal details.

2. PURPOSE OF RESUME
Why resume? What‘sthe use?
• We apply for a job  We send our resume prospective employer Plenty of other people too apply for
the job  A few days later, the employer is staring at a pile of several hundredresumes. A job offer often
attracts between 100 and 1000resumes, so you are facing a great deal of competition. This person going
through this pile of dry, boring documents& they dig in. After a few minutes, they are getting sleepy. They
are not really focusing any more.
On an average,
• every resume gets a glance reading for about 10 –15 secs max.
• In this given time, the recruiters decide, whether or not they should read
our resume further,
• should call us for a face – to – face interview or not.

3. Resume Focus
FOCUS ON THE EMPLOYER'S NEEDS, NOT OURS - Try to find
out what the organization is looking for, and match those traits with our
competences and offer the benefit.
HOW???
o Read the JD (job description), Job specification,
o talk to the company employees, recruiters.
o Go through their mission, vision, value statements.

4. Resume Misconceptions
Resume is a professional document and, therefore,
o should not include any personal details except your name and
contact details.
o Our date of birth, father’s occupation, age, marital status etc are
unnecessary.

5.  Include interesting and
unique information
 Attempt best effort to make a
first impression
 No chance to explain if you
do not get an interview
Stand out from the crowd

6. Use the objective to stand out
Do not be needy:
Objective: To obtain a position that will allow me to
advance my potential while seeking new challenges.
Show what you will contribute:
Objective: An entry-level position in mechanical
engineering where strong leadership ability and
good communication skills are needed.
Objective: Vice-president of aerospace engineering
in an agency where extensive knowledge of
thermodynamics and heat transfer are needed.

7. Create an effective layout
Try to interest your reader visually
A clean, professional format with a little style
Extra white space makes it easy to read – set margins

8. Limit font to two choices
For text: a serif font like Times
For headings: Arial or Helvetica are good
choices to add visual interest
Don’t choose non-standard fonts like
or
Font size should be 11 or 12 point

9. Write concisely and vigorously
 A focused, targeted resume is best:
 Avoid the temptation to go more than one page
 Delete obvious information in order to highlight our
unique qualities
 Find specific, dynamic verbs:
 Use present (or past) imperatives
 Include each verb only once
 Consult online lists of “resume action words”

10. Objective dos & don'ts
oBe sure the objective is to the point.
oDo not use fluffy phrases that are obvious or do not mean
anything.
oAn objective may be broad but cannot be undefined.

11. Fresher’s resume Formats/
contents
Since there is no work experience and so no career summary or work
initiatives.. ideally, a fresher’s resume will have the following in its
structure.
o CONTACT INFORMATION
o OBJECTIVE
o EDUCATION

12. o INTERNSHIP/ SUMMER TRAINING/ ON-JOB TRAININGS.
Internship or summer training details should be as precise as possible.
They will only include the following details.
• Company name AND position held.
• Time worked – either in days/ months or from – to format (always
use one specified format through the resume).
• Very brief description of job role/ responsibilities: use power
words like recruitment and selection, automation of engineering
tools, research of microprocessor tools, quality testing of the
electronic division, etc. than story telling.

13. o PROJECT DETAILS
– live projects & desk projects.
• final year project, workshops conducted, researched projects,
demonstrated projects are all live projects.
• Paper presentations, seminars, lectures given and I.V are desk
projects.
o SUMMARY OF SKILLS/ AREA OF EXPERTISE/ COMPUTER
PROFICIENCY
– either soft skills (communication skills, analytical, creative),
technical skills (computer efficiency, other technical knowledge), work
essential skills (focus on details, management skills, team skills,
presentation skills etc.),

14. o AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS.
o ASSOCIATIONS - CIVIC / COMMUNITY/ LEADERSHIP
o HOBBIES AND PERSONAL INTEREST
– Hobbies are not something that we do in our free time. They are things that we
want to do coz we passionate about doing it.
– Please do not write chatting,talking with friends, sleeping,watching TV, roaming
around as hobbies.
– Probably – networking insteadof chatting,travellinginstead of roaming around
etc
– Use power words.
– Please be preparedfor questions – might be asked to explain about our hobbies.
Don’t jus write anything.

15. WHAT NOT TO PUT ON A RESUME
• The word "Resume" at the top of the resume
• Fluffy rambling "objective" statements
• Salary information
• Full addresses of former employers
• Reasons for leaving jobs
• A "Personal" section, or personal statistics (except in special cases)
• Names of supervisors
• References

17. Submitted By:
Rohit kumar Sharma