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General Tips To Building a Technical Resume ................
Posted Date: 22 Apr 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Jobs & Interviews
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Posted By: Sheethal Member Level: Gold
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Build Resume for your First Job
How to write that Winning Resume for your Dream job
Important Tips on Emailing Resumes :
Find out how to get more calls from each of your applications.. !!
If you are a new entrant in the job market, you need to perfect your resume before applying for your 1st job
Since you are fresh out of college, use your education as your strong point. Aggregate %, CGPA, accolades, club participation, etc. will be your focus.
"Do I really need a resume? What should I write in my resume?"
These are questions which worry every college graduate looking for his/her first job. Welcome to the real world! Yes you really need to make your resume and how you present yourself in that resume will go a long way towards getting you your first job.
It's a myth that resumes of entry-level graduates are unimportant because they lack the 'pull' of experience. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only is a well-made resume important for every job seeker, it is more critical for entry level graduates. A resume is a mirror of your professional identity. A well-defined resume impresses a recruiter. A sloppy resume immediately proclaims the candidate to be sloppy.
Here are some do's and don'ts on what makes a great resume for graduates seeking entry-level positions in industry.
OBJECTIVE:
One of the most frequently heard complaints made by recruiters about entry-level resumes is that they lack a specific objective. Resumes of fresh graduates have fuzzy, general objectives or no objective at all. Mentioning a specific objective is by far the most important feature of an entry- level resume. Without goal clarity you are bound to drown in the sea of mediocrity.
The only thing worse than the absence of an objective is a vague objective. Something like "My objective is to work with a dynamic company which will fully utilise my talents…" is a complete no-no! This objective is worthless because it gives the potential employer no idea about your goals or your direction.
Your objective should be clear, well-defined and short-not more than 10-12 words.. It should be aimed towards getting a particular position in a specific industry. Thus your objective should talk about the following:
1. Position wanted
2. Functional area
3. Industry wanted
Examples of good objectives:
Example 1: "Junior management position wanted in PROGRAMMING/ engineering field in IT industry.'
Example 2: GET in position in the manufacturing field.
Example 3: Entry level programmer in a software development company.
Example 4: Marketing position in the FMCG segment of a Multinational Company.
Example 5: Multimedia software development position. Open to Relocation.
Example 6: "A position as a Production supervisor with a petro-chemical company."
SUMMARY
Summary is the second most important factor that is conspicuous by its absence in resumes of entry-level graduates. It is a good idea to include a summary of your resume after having mentioned your objective. This sums up your resume in a nutshell and gives you an opportunity to highlight your strengths. It invites the recruiter to read your detailed resume. The summary should consist of 4-5 specific points-either bulleted or in one paragraph.
Sample Summary 1:
B.E (Computer Science) from IIT-Delhi, in 2000.
Course in Computers Database programmes Oracle 8I & VB6 from PENTASOFT in 2005.
Consistently good academic record.
Good analytical and communication skills.
Have worked on a curriculum project "XXX XXXXX XXXX"
Sample Summary 2:
"Masters in Computer Application with specialisation in J2EE/Web Technologies. Great operational, communication and computer skills. Good academic record throughout. Among the top three students out of a batch of 120 students. Undergone Industrial training in a top petrochemical Company.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Most fresher resume doesn't suffer from space constraint . However it is a good idea to include only those educational and professionals qualifications which are relevant. Put your qualifications in a reverse chronological order. i.e. the recent ones first followed by earlier ones. Entry level resume should also mention the names of their school and college, years in which they passed their board examinations. However, include your marks only you have shown a good academic performance.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
An entry- level resume cannot compete with resumes of experienced workers in the area of work experience. But don't forget to list internships, voluntary work and summer training that you have undertaken. How you present these is very important. Make sure you clearly define your duty and responsibilities during this training.
E.g.: "Worked as a summer trainee in India's largest Oil Refinery. I was working for the system control department. Wrote quality reports as well as ISO features for the company." Any projects done for your school or your college should also be mentioned.
DESIGN:
Follow a simple design, which gives maximum information in the minimum number of pages. Use an easy to read and commonly used font like 'Times New Roman' or 'Verdana.' Limit your font size to 10-11. Do not underline heavily.
WORD USAGE:
Simple language, lucid expression with good grammar is the thumb rule. Watch your tenses carefully. Use short and simple sentences. And never-ever make the mistake of using long words just to impress the recruiter. Flowery words are for speeches, keep them away from your resume.
OUCH! THE TRUTH HURTS
There are many things we would rather not write in our resumes. And while writing a resume the strong temptation to stretch the truth (or simply lie through our teeth) can be quite overpowering. But just stomp on the temptation. Most companies opt for a reference check during recruitment. Your resume is considered a legal document and fudging up small details may cause you great embarrassment in your career.
All right! so you've made yor resume. But this is not the time to sit back and relax. There are some important post-resume do's left.
CHECK, AND RE-CHECK!
The most important post resume step: Read and re-read your resume for any mistakes. Check the facts, the grammar, the spellings. After you have checked it, get you parents, friends, teachers to check it for you. One small mistake may cost you your job.
And finally...mom is right you know! Do not procrastinate over anything, specially making your resume. Most fresh graduates prefer to leave the unappealing task of resume making till the last minute i.e the day before their first interview. However, remember that making great resumes take time and effort. And the rewards will last you a lifetime
Check out these sample resumes* to understand the kind of resumes employers are looking for:
EXAMPLE 1
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name & address Email : --------------
Contact no : -------------
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
example:
(Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the Information Technology Industry that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.)
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:
Like:
Ø B.TECH in Electronics and communication engineering (2001-2005) from B.M.S.C.E. with 78% aggregate.
Ø Intermediate:Board of Intermediate Education 73.4% aggregate.
Ø A.I.S.S.E from CBSE board with 76% aggregate.
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:
Like:
¨ Languages : C, C++
¨ DBMS Packages : Oracle 8i
¨ Front End : VB 6.0
¨ Operating Systems : MS DOS,Windows98,NT,2000,XP
¨ Web Designing : JAVA,HTML,XML
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Like:
· Stood First in Inter College Group Discussions.
Topic: The affect of cinema on the present generation
· Participated in Electrosoft-2004, a national level event on paper presentation.
· Participated in college and school level debate and essay competition and received applauds
· Participated in college and school level debate and essay competition and received applauds
PROJECT PROFILE:
Like:
Ø Project: Real Time Clock using Microcontroller AT 89C51,IC DS 1307 and I2C bi-directional bus.
DESCRIPTION:
The DS1307 is a low powerful binary coded decimal(BCD) clock/calendar plus 56 bytes of NV SRAM. Address and data are transferred serially through an I2C birectional bus.The Clock/Calendar provides seconds,minute,hours,day,
date, month,and year information.The end of the month date is automatically adjusted for months fewer than 31days including corrections for leap year.The clock operates in either the 24-clock or 12-hour format with AM/PM indicator.The DS 1307 has a built in power sense circuit that detects power failures and automatically switches to the battery supply.
PERSONAL SKILLS:
example:
(Comprehensive problem solving abilities, excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to deal with people diplomatically, willingness to learn team facilitator hard worker.)
EXTRA CURRICULAR:
Like:
· Badminton Champion in Inter school competitions. (1998)
· Captain of school cricket team.
· Event organizer in all school and college annual day functions and other technical events.
PERSONAL PROFILE:
Name : --------------
Father’s Name : --------------
Mother’s Name : --------------Nationality : --------------
Date Of Birth : --------------
Hobbies : --------------
Languages Known : --------------
Place:
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EXAMPLE 2:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name & address Email : --------------
Contact no : -------------
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Career Objective:
To secure a challenging position where I can effectively contribute my skills as Software Professional, possessing competent Technical Skills.
Educational Qualifications:
Examination :..............
Discipline/Specialization
School/college
Board/ :..............
University :..............
Year of Passing ;...............
Computer Skills:
Like:
Languages : C, C++.
Database : SQL, ORACLE.
Operating Systems : Windows 9X/2000/XP, DOS 6.0.
Achievements:
Ø Participated in National Level Annual NCC Republic day Camp and the Prime Minister’s Rally held at New Delhi and received NCC ‘A’ certificate.
Ø Received best cadet award in NCC from Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Ø Got best student award in SSC.
Academic Project
Project1: Portable Compiler
Language of Implementation: C
Operating System: Windows95/98.
DESCRIPTION:
In this project p-compiler (Portable Complier) reads the Pascal program and produces the Abstract stack machine code. It is one pass complier i.e. source program reads only once and front end of compiler. Because of intermediate program we port the compiler easily, it only requires the chance the back end of the compiler to port different machines. The P-compiler consists of the following different phases: - Lexical Analysis, Parsing, Semantic checking and Code generation.
Project2: Code generator for menu based interface
Language of Implementation: C
Operating System: Windows95/98.
DESCRIPTION:
The objective of this project is to generate the required code in ‘C’, needed to create menu-based interfaces. It automates the code generation. The project accepts the input from the user in the prescribed format and generates the required output code. The project is useful to develop menu-based interfaces in the text mode.
Personal Profile:
Name : -----------
Father’s Name : ---------------------Sex : -----------
Marital Status : ---------Nationality : -------------
Hobbies : --------------
Permanent Address : ---------
Phone No :
Date of Birth : -----------
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
Place:
Date:
signature:
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EXAMPLE 3:
Name :..........
Address :..........
Email id:.............
Contact no : -------------
________________________________________________________________________________
EDUCATION :
Like:
(B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (2001-2005)
Thesis Title: Efficient Algorithm for Terrain Simplification for Fast Rendering
Advisor: Janaki Rajagopalan
Summary: Improves the state of the art in occlusion plane detection given terrain data. My implementation showed a user controlled drive-through of a complex scene with real-time rendering of 3 million polygons using a 16 node Beowulf cluster. A paper was published in Graphics Interface '04.
St. Xavier's School, New Delhi (Graduated 2000)
Ranked 1st in school in 12th C.B.S.E. Board Examination. )
PROJECT WORK (B. Tech)
Built an optimizing compiler for mC++, a C++ subset with support for dynamic object migration over the network between compatible type-spaces.
Built a user-level distributed file system based on NFS with write-through caching, fault tolerance and consistency guarantees.
WORK EXPERIENCE :
Like:
Research Assistant, TIFR, Mumbai (Aug - Dec 2004): Implemented a library of image processing functions for edge detection and de-skewing on scanned images. Adapted an off-the-shelf OCR package to operate on scanned mail images with 99% address recognition accuracy at the city/pin-code level and 85% at the street level.
Project Trainee, Kreativ Networks, Bangalore: (Jan 2005-present): Joined a 7 person startup implementing campus-wide video-on-demand system for corporate training. Implemented the streaming video component with buffering for jitter reduction. Also, bit-rate reduction in the event of congestion to meet frame-rate guarantees. Extensive performance testing was conducted.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Like:
Software: SQL Server, Apache, CVS, Mathematica, Latex. Also, audio/video formats and codecs. Languages: C/C++, STL, Python, Javascript/C#
Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000.
PUBLICATIONS
Occlusion Culling using Hyperplane Projection and Frequency Domain Splicing. Pavan Pleasant, Amit Ganguly, and Janaki Rajagopalan. Graphics Interface '01(2004) pp. 323-333.
AWARDS
Best B.Tech thesis - 2004. Dept of Computer Science. IIT Chennai Silver Medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), 2003. Seoul, S. Korea.
Ranked 18th in IIT Joint Entrance Examination - 2001.
REFERENCES :
Prof. R. K. Ravindranath, Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Chennai Prof. Janaki Rajagopalan, Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Chennai
Dr. B. Sanghal, TIFR, Mumbai
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