GLOBAL RESUME
Winning the technical jobs
Resume is a career Profile.Here I would like to explain to you all about the concept of Global Resume.
Means in today situation the globalization rules the world. So, you must prepare a resume which meets global requirements is the first point and the second point is that your resume needs to be global for your career. For E.g. I see many use different resumes for different purposes. One resume for software jobs and other for core jobs.
In means that you yourself don’t have a focus on your career life. So, how can you expect someone to give you a job?
So, all you have to do is first focus your career before you write a resume. You ask me I completed in Non-IT (mech, civil, biotech for eg) and I did not yet get a job in Non-IT. So, I try for IT job. Good that you have taken some decision. So, you need to think about what Mech or Civil have in common to do with IT field. Since every field is inter-related you can get some points. Try thinking that you work on enormous mathematical and logical calculations to bring about a machine design or something and relate something or other to it.
Do maintain a separate mail-id for job and career. Use this job mail id to register any job sites like
Save your resume in “win- word 2003 doc” since most DTP center would have this only. Again it’s not good to have your resume in PDF since you can’t alter it when needed urgently to alter and print out.
GLOBAL RESUME PREPARATION
AVOID IN RESUME: Avoid writing Profile in your Resume. Know that Resume is a career profile. No need for your father’s name, date of birth, hobbies and other such details.
Again avoid repeating the sentences you use. I find some people writing their address in two places. One at the top and another in the profile. Address must be written at the top. That’s enough!!
Avoid writing declaration and signature in resume. Resume is a career profile and not any document of confession you sign with the organization. Just avoid it.
IMPORTANT: your resume should be of one page. Max:2 page. Note that resume is your career profile and it’s a note of indication of your career to show during interview. No need for pages.
Heading: Use Your Name as Resume Heading. I find some people writing “Resume” at top. It’s understood you carry resume during interview.
Beginning of resume: write your name, contact (address, number and mail) at top. It indicates that the resume is yours. Write your permanent address only. Reason: global resume. Note: Resume is a career profile. Anyhow the company will give you separate details to fill in other details of temporary address, passport number details etc to fill in it at the time they ask.
Mission/Objective statement: Important point here is writing your own statement. I find many people just copying some statements. The statements are not templates. Use statements of your mission in your own words. Not at all a problem. The mission statement can be global by having common mission like between you and to the organization.
Education: I find people drawing boxes to fill in with the institution, percentages inside it. Just write your Percentage and institutions in sentences with percentage in bold letters (if really good percentage). Again it’s good if you start from your career. I find people writing B.E first then 12 in backwards.. I ask will time go backwards.. Its good if you start from your career from SSLC, HSC, BE and so on.
Career History: This is very important and you need to update only this field later year after year of your career experience. So, be the best here. I find in many resumes that people used to write Software skills as separate part. Does it not come under your career? Why are you separating it? Again if are applying for core companies do write that under your abilities. Since if you write as software skills or computer skills, interviewer may think that you are not clear and may shift to software job in future. So, summarize everything needed under this career history heading. Note write focused career plan. Reason: Global resume.
Again I find many people giving brief description of their projects, seminars in resumes. Just a heading of project title is enough. When interviewer asks to explain you explain. Don’t give him stress to read by himself. Present it neatly under career history with relevant sub-headings like projects, seminars etc.
Abilities: This is where you can write all your abilities which can never disturb your interviewer and gains points that you have extra abilities too. Write if you have soft skills, communication skills, languages you know and job focusing abilities in here.
Reference: These details are enough for a resume to fetch you a job. If you are attending interview with prior reference (means that reference can help you get that job. Some one close to you and known to company will do) then add reference heading. Otherwise it is not at all needed. Don’t give reference without intimating to concerned persons. Tell you HOD that you have given his name or so to whom you gave as reference.
So what are other important things for global resume.
Unwanted: While writing institution name, write only its city location. No need to go deep interior of its location. For e.g. Good shepherd school, Chennai is enough... No need for pin code and town areas. Reason: global resume. In short avoid unwanted details which are not necessary. Your core company visited details is not necessary for IT company interview.
Punctuation: Avoid using “:” symbol after headings. For E.g. “Career History” is good. Don’t write as “career History:” in resumes. It’s resume heading not some paragraph heading. But you can use in inner cases apart from headings like “HSC: Secured 85%”.
Alignment: Your resume must have good format and alignment. Use heading and sub-headings format with good font of size:12 and important words in bold. Don’t use colors, underlines, shadings inside the resume. Make sure that its look justified with all sentences equal spaced .
Powerful words: use powerful words then and there like competitor, achiever like.
Do have your global resume online or in your mail id.
ALL DONE GOOD. NOW IT’S “ALL THE BEST”