Resume Writing
Resume Writing - How to write a Resume (For freshers)
Purpose of your Resume:
Your resume is your chance to highlight your accomplishments and communicate how you can use your expertise to help someone else. A resume is a self-marketing tool. So you must make sure it's clear, concise and up to date. With some organizations receiving hundreds of thousands of and millions of resume for a job every year, it’s important that your resume should stand out and gets read.
So what is the best way to create your resume? Resume is a self-marketing tool. Your resume should showcase your expertise, your technical skills and your job and project experiences. The HR or the person who is interviewing you for the company will be scanning your resume may for a maximum of 30 seconds only. So it's your duty to prepare your resume in a perfect manner so that all your skills are clearly seen by the recruiters. Let us discuss how to write your resume professionally.
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Steps to follow while writing your resume: |
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There are so many resume building tools in which you can build your own
resume.
(You can choose any available professional template of your choice).
Many people write the heading as resume on the top of the page. You are not
supposed to write it.
Let us see the must have sections of the resume in detail:
Communication details section:
In this section, you have to mention your name and correspondence address. The difference between correspondence address and permanent address is that the correspondence address is where all your communication should happen.
For example if you stay in Bangalore currently and your native place is Chennai. Bangalore will be your correspondence addresses and Chennai will be your permanent address. Your address should be in the top left corner of the page, your email and mobile number should be in the top right corner.
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Communication details section should include: |
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Objective section:
The resume objective in a nutshell is the goal of your resume. It communicates your motivation for getting into a new field. The resume objective should be around 2 to 3 sentences. You have to mention your career goals in your objective.
Sample objective:
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“To work for an organization that provides me the opportunity to improve my skills and knowledge to growth along with the organization’s objective. |
Educational qualification Section:
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Your education details should include: |
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Note: Mention your highest degree first followed by your higher secondary and high school marks. Make sure you round off your percentage of marks to the correct figures. For example if
your percentage of marks is 95.7, then you can convert it into 96
%. Make sure you convert your marks correctly so that when the
company is validating your resume or when the recruiters have a
cut off mark, your resume will be shortlisted correctly. |
Areas of interest:
Mention your areas of interest related to your career. When you are mentioning the areas of interest make sure you have at least 50% of exposure or knowledge of the areas of interest you have mentioned. The recruiters may shoot questions on that. For example if you are interested in digital marketing, you should have least 50% of exposure on it when you mention it on your resume.
Skills section:
There are two types of skills you can mention here
- Hard skills
- Soft skills
Hard skills are nothing but your technical skills. Soft skills are your social skills,leadership skills,problem solving and decision making skills,personality traits,communication skills,critical thinking and career attributes etc.
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Technical Skills (E.g. for a computer science graduate) |
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When you’re listing your skills in your resume you need to follow 3 steps
1. List hard skills with experience level:
For each hardskill, mention your proficiency level like beginner, intermediate, advance and expert. Make sure you never lie about your skill in your resume. Otherwise it is going to be pretty awkward for both of you and your recruiters. Sometimes we will have exposures to some technical skills, but do not have hands on experience on those skills, you can mention those skills also.
2. Tailor your skills to your job:
You may have some awesome skills like accounting or any other extra skills that does not match your job requirements, but if you really want to mention those skills, you can mention those skills also.
3. Mention your Universal skills:
For example if you have some universal skills like softskills or Microsoft office or Photoshop etc. , you can mention those skills in your technical skill section.
Project details:
This is the important section in the resume. You would have done many projects in your college.
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The project details section should include: |
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This section you have to write in the same way as you write your project
details section. The only thing which you are going to change is instead of
Description of the project here it will be Learning outcomes.
In the learning outcomes mention what you have learnt out of the trainings
or workshops attended.
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Trainings/ Workshop Section should include : |
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Certifications/ Awards Section:
Do you have any certifications or awards that make you stand out in your field? For example you would have attended webinars or received certifications from Industries. So as long as it is relevant for the position you are applying for, feel free to include all those in your resume.
For example, if you are a Microsoft cloud engineer specialized in Microsoft Technologies or Azure solution architect, you definitely want to include all these essential certifications. Make sure you mention all the certification details you have completed.
Co-curricular activities:
Co-curricular activities are related to your academics. For example you have done paper presentation in any symposium or you have organized some events in other colleges and would have awarded prizes. These achievements are included in this section.
Extra-curricular activities:
If you are a NSS/ NCC student or a national level football player, you can mention those in few sentences or in few bullet points.
References:
This is an optional section. If you have any references in the company, you can mention that.
Personal details;
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The Personal details section should include |
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Note: Date of birth, marital status and hobbies are optional fields.
You can also mention your nationality if you want. If company
request date of birth, then you need to provide it. In some jobs,
date of birth is required to validate your eligibility. In that case
you need to mention date of birth compulsorily. |
Declaration:
This section is also an optional section. If you want, you can mention it.
After completing all the sections, you need to sign in your resume and below
the signature you have to mention your name in capital letters. You can also
mention date and place in the below left corner of the resume. The date and
place is also an optional section.
To summarize your resume order and mandatory sections are:
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Formatting your Resume:
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Best practices when writing a resume:
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Checklist for Resume:
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When you have tick marks in all the checklists, congrats,your resume is ready.
Sample Resume formats:
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