Resume writing is like a paper interview and has to be as flawless as you want yourself to be seen in your absence

1. Effective writing of Resume
Dr. Anagha R. Soman
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
MMCOE, Pune-52
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3. Sorting of resume submitted:
• Application Tracking System ( ATS) is used by big companies to sort
out the resume submitted.
• Sorting on the basis of skills, job titles, and educational background.
• Two columns template will be rejected by ATS
• In MS Word, find file template named as resume template
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4. The content of resume
• Is a series of choices.
• Employee’s perspective for informed choices
• Avoid common errors
• Create maximum impact
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5. Resume or Bio-data or Curriculum Vitae
• Resume focuses on summary of educational and work experiences with a
perspective of a prospective employer to select an individual for a
particular job
• Bio-data focuses on biographical information with a perspective of
government and matrimonial services.
• Resume is shorter than Curriculum- Vitae
• In south-east Asian countries, it’s a regular practise to use rather misuse
the word as Bio-data and not Resume
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6. Construction of Resume
• Keep a consistent, easily-readable format
• Divide your resume into clear sections
• Choose the right font
• Customize your resume to match a specific job description.
Use buzzwords from the industry.
• Create strong, action-oriented statements about your work.
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7. Font size and style
Don’ts
• Shouldn’t be catchy, childish and
doesn’t fit on a single page
• DO NOT use Comic Sans or any
similar “fun” font on your resume.
It will make you stand out, but not
in a good way.
• Don’t go over two pages
Do’s
Styles normally suitable to be
Classy, neat, professional
• Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma
Trebuchet, Verdana, Garamond
Times New Roman
• Focus on positive results and
accomplishments
• keep the font size above 11 at all
times and try not to go any bigger
than 14 except for headers.
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8. Definition of a Resume:
• Simple tailoring of your resume to a particular job
depicting honesty and genuinity in mentioning skills
and experience
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9. What is more important?
(An error-free, clear, focused, and targeted)
• Name
• Contact number
• Email id
• LinkedIn profile link
• Address
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10. Few other important aspects
• Order in which Name & educational qualifications are to be written
• Order of career graph
• Avoid spelling mistakes or grammatical mistakes
• Simple and lucid words are to be used what are deliverable,
increasable or decreasable
• Avoid giving false / vague information
• The sincerity, punctuality ( time bound), disciplined and logical
behavior should be reflected.
• Acquired skills are to be reflected through projects & trainings done,
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11. Tag lines and interests
• Indicate personal interests of subjects, inclinations or preferable
domain of work cautiously .
• Indicate if you like to generate ideas or to follow and implement them.
• False picture creates bigger expectations ( unrealistic ones)
• Make sure that you understand Organisational goals and priorities.
• Career objective or a tag line . Instead stress upon how you want to
contribute to the best of your abilities
• Hobbies
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12. Behave as a Real person
• Do not pretend to know each and everything
• your learning attitude should be assured by your resume.
• Strictly Don’t mention any topic/ skill that you haven’t learned.
• Projects done, papers published, apps developed, Online learning
courses, languages learned, IEEE Memberships can make you stand
apart from crowd.
• Sports you play
• Credibility is proved if there is a mention about a bug fixing.
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13. Pandemic situation demands:
• Help to society
• Planning, organizing, executing concise report writing of events
• Coaching to youngsters or peers
• Alone or team members
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14. Updating of your knowledge
• Library visits
• Papers published
• Skill development workshops attended
• A constant learner attitude
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15. Communication
• Verbal as well as written.
• Avoid vagueness and be to the point
• Don’t reflect your tensed mental status through your body language/
wrong words
• Time is important so apt words and smaller time to read or hear.
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16. References
• Call them and tell them personally
• Professional behavior is expected by all means
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17. Pay Attention to Items Within Your Control
• can organize data and thoughts.
• can present complex information concisely.
• pay attention to detail.
• communicate in a clear and focused way.
• enthusiastic.
• useful skills.
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18. Situations beyond your control
• Lack of civility ( to call/mail/post the letter)
• Employer idiosyncrasies.
• Timing
• Mismatch
• Sudden changes (reorganizations, budget cuts, hiring freezes, or
layoffs)
• many organizations advertise openings already filled.
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19. Examples of a good and bad resume
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21. A good Resume
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22. References
• “Cliff notes: Writing a great Resume”, by Peter Weddle
• “Writing a Resume”, by Stuart Schwartz and Craig Conley
• “The elements of Resume style”, by Scott Bennett
• “Resumes and cover letters: A Harvard extension school resource
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23. “
Take the first step in faith.
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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