This document provides guidance on resume writing and interview techniques. It discusses the basic structure of a resume, including contact information, career objective, experience, education, and skills sections. It also provides tips for what to include in each section. For interviews, it describes the purpose of an interview and how to prepare, including researching the employer, knowing your own strengths, and practicing responses. It also outlines different types of interviews and provides advice for participating, such as being honest, giving examples, and wrapping up professionally.

1. Topic:
Resume Writing And Interview
Techniques
Zoya Shaheen
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2. Section 1
Resume Writing
 Contents:
 What is Resume/Purpose
 Basic structure of Resume/How to write a Resume
 Some Do’s for resume writing
 Some Don’ts for Resume writing
 What is Interview/Purpose
 Before Interview/Interview Preparation
 How to Introduce yourself in interview
 Interview Types
 How to participate interview

3. What is a Resume/purpose?
A resume is a formal document that provides an overview of your professional qualifications,
including your relevant work experience, skills, education, and notable accomplishments.
Purpose:
 Good Resume gets you a foot in the door, its up to you to sell yourself in person
 An opportunity to show an employer why you are an ideal candidate for the job.
 Draw attention to your relevant skills, experience, achievements and potential

4. Basic Structure Of Resume
 Step1:Contact Information
 Step2: Career Objective/professional profile/resume summary
 Step3:Education
 Step4:Experience
 Step5:Skills( Hard skills , soft skills , Technical skills)
 step6:Additional Sections( Certification, Publications, Awards/Honors)

5. Contact Information
 The top of your resume should include the following information:
 Name
 Phone number
 Email Address
 Address
 LinkedIn profile URL

6. Career Objective
 Objective shows your sense of direction. Your career objective is short summary in
one or two lines about –
 “the position you are applying for
 relevant experience
 how will I make your company successful
 For Example:
To obtain a position of graphic designer in advertising where I can utilize my
knowledge of design and time management skills in order to make industry successful.

7. Experience
 list any relevant work experience you have.
 Include your title, the company you worked for, years worked, and a bulleted list of
your key responsibilities and notable successes.
o Company
o Job location
o Your job title
o Start and end dates
 For example:
ABC Corporation, Seattle, WA
Distribution Manager (01/2017-Present)

8. Education
 Education Include in your education section:
• The names of your university, community college, or technical school
• Location of the schools (city, state)
• Date of graduation (month, year)
• Degree(s)
• GPA
 If you’re a few years into your career, your resume’s education section can be
minimized at the bottom of your resume
 If you’ve recently graduated college, your education section goes above your work
experience

9. skills
 Hard Skills
Related to your job.
If you are programmer ,coding is your hard skill
Soft Skills
• Communication Skills
• teamwork
 Technical Skills:
• Helpful in showcasing your knowledge of specific systems
• breaking up this section into categories and list your skills within each
(Software: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, and Oracle Programming
Languages: Excel at HTML, C++, and Python)

10. Additional Section
 Publications
Pertinent for graduate students who have published articles that are relevant to the
job they are applying
 Awards/Honors:
• Helps you stand out from your competition • break them up into smaller sections
(Academic, Volunteer positions, Scholarships etc.)
 Certifications

11. Do’s
 Use right keywords.
 Avoid paragraphs, try using bullet points
 Font Type/size
 Printing
 Look at other resumes to see how they are written
 Proof-read for spelling, punctuation, grammar and meaning.
 Keep the content concise and focused
 - Put the most important thing first. For Fresher – Academics.

12. Don’ts
 Don’t use jargons or slangs in your resume.
 Do not include information that might sound negative in the eyes of the employer
 Don’t include irrelevant information.
 Don’t copy paste matter from net, prefer retyping.
 Don’t fold your Resume, esp. over the text line.

15. Job Interview/purpose
 The most crucial 20- 40 minutes opportunity you have in your job seeking efforts
 The culmination of all your preparation, including education, and the key to
opening the door to your career.
Purpose;
 The Candidate’s role is to evaluate the position for fit with their personality and
career goals.
 The Selection Committee’s role is to evaluate the candidate’s fit for the position.

16. Before Interview
 Know the Employer:
• Prepare to demonstrate your knowledge of the profession and the company • Prepare to
give reasons for your interest in working in that profession/company
• Develop questions in advance to ask about the job/organization
• Refer to company website for more details…
 Know Yourself: •
Skills that will make you most suitable candidate for this JOB/POSITION
• Educational background and how it relates to the position and the employer
• Work experience
• Abilities

17. Interview Preparation
 Situational Knowledge
o Where/When the interview takes place
o Arrive minimum 20 minutes
 Physical Preparation
o Get plenty of rest and look pleasant
o Dress for success (normally wear formals)
 Mental Preparation
o Knowledge of company
 Written Preparation
o Take extra resumes, photographs & references, etc.
o Ask questions

18. How To introduce Your Self in interview
 Be Yourself
 Duration of Introduction
 Prepare In Advance
 Lead The interview
 Practice

19. STAR interview Technique

20. Types Of Interviews
 Telephone Interview
 Video Interview

21.  Individual interview (face to face)
 Panel Interview
 Group Interview

22. Participate in interview
 Be honest and give complete answers
 Avoid one or two word responses
 Give concrete examples
 Listen properly to the questions to avoid misunderstanding
 Limit responses to 30 seconds
 Be Confident but not over confident
 Wrapping up the interview

23. Thankyou