Resume – Objective, Content, Tips, Common Mistakes, Action
& Power Words
RESUME - your advertisement.
An effective resume tries to match the employer’s requirements with what
candidate has to offer.
Objective of A Resume - to market your skills, knowledge and
experience; to get an interview call.
Resume Content:
Your resume should answer the following questions:
- Contact Details - name and where
you can be reached?
- Objective –What is your goal
? What do you want to do?
- Summary – Why should
reader read your resume?
- Education Details –What
are your qualifications?
- Experience Details-What can
you do? What are your learnings?
- Achievements –What
have you done so far ?
- Any other – Any other
information to make you suitable for the job.
- References
– To cross check with your previous employers.
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Contact Information Includes – where you can be contacted.
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Your full name - Do not use abbreviated names-I.P.Pandey.-say Inder Prakash Pandey
- Do not use title (Mr /Miss etc.)
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Address-Give your home address, give pin code.
- List
telephone numbers with STD code.
E-Mail id. -
Objective - should be specific, clear and customized and includes:
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Position wanted
- Functional area
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Industry
- Summary - a brief summary highlighting your
qualification /experience and strengths to match the job requirement.
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Educational Details – is in reverse chronological order and includes:
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Your degree
- Name of the college
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Date of graduation
- Specialisation
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Electives
- Seminar
- Project
and Marks / grades obtained
- Experience Details –
any work experience (such as: internship, summer training, any volunteer work
etc.) and includes:
- The title of your position
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The full name of the organization
- The location of work
- The period of the jobs held ( month and year)
6. Acti vities and Accomplishment - Use action words to list your achievements
and skills like created, organised, achieved, made, designed etc. List the most
important and relevant responsibility first. -
Any Other Interests – Mention Interests if it gives some information about
your qualities/traits. (such as: writing articles, etc).
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References – are given if specifically asked for Alternatively you can mention
“References furnished upon request”. R eference detail includes:
Name, title, employer address, business and home telephone number
Tips For Writing A Effective Resume
- Determine the job search objective and structure the
content of the resume according the objective.
- Advertise
yourself.
- Mention your important features / benefits
relevant to the customer (employers).
- Use bulleted
points instead of paragraph.
- Do not be vague.
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Use action and power words.
- Use Rs., numbers and percentage
in your resume (such as: Increased sales by 35 % in 5 months).
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Lead with your strength. Put them first.
- Use Bold,
Capital and Underline to high light important points.
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Use Buzzwords like Out of the box thinking, market mapping
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Show what you know. (Leave the details for the interview).
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Do not overcrowd your resume, Leave white spaces, Do proper alignment
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A fresher resume - should not be more than a page, working person resume - not
more than 3 pages.
- Use a good quality paper and Print
on one side of the paper.
- Never send a bad photocopy.
- Select a simple Font, Type and Size.
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If applying through e mail always send the resume as the attached file.
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Give your contact details at the top.
Some Common Mistakes In The Resume
- Spelling mistakes
- Use dictionary
- Run spell check
- Carefully
read your resume number of times
- Get somebody else
to proof read your resume
- Punctuation mistakes
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Use coma, semicolon ,full stop appropriately
- Grammatical
mistakes
- Maintain same tense in a resume
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For current job use present tense
- For past experience
use past tense
- Use words for number one to nine (one,
five ten )while for numbers ten and above use numerals.
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For sentences starting with number do not use numeral
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Use consistent date format
- Use active voice.
Some action and power words used
in your Resume are: Accelerated,
Accomplished, Achieved, Adopted, Analysed, Coordinated, Conducted, Conceived,
Created, Designed, Developed, Established,
Evaluated, Facilitated, Generated, Implemented, Improved, Initiated, Launched,
Led, Managed, Mastered, Motivated, Made, Modernised, Organised, Planned, Proposed,
Proved, Recommended, Revised, Reduced, Reviewed, Solved, Streamlined, Supervised,
Surpassed, Used, Utilized.
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