By Vikas Agarwal
This is to catch attention of all the professionals around,regarding their attempts to career advances. I felt the need forwriting such an article because:
Yesterday, I sent a mail seeking resumes of all of interestedguys for a technical job opening at the organization, where I amworking. I received responses from 4-5 people by the time ofwriting this article and was really disappointed to see theresumes attached therein. In my view, your resume is your firstimpression upon your employer, and I am sure, no one intends tospoil his/her first impression. I saw a number of blunders inthose resume, which could be sufficient reasons for an employerto reject your profile into the trash. I am trying to articulatethem, and requesting you all to first look at the body ofanything you write before you send it to anyone else, be it yourresume.
* Run a thorough spell-check on your resume. [veryimportant, and I found many mistakes]
* Read it completely and let any one else with good semanticknowledge of English read it, to check the flow in it. [Ifound titles of projects and trainings, not matching thedescription.]
* Don't write much (don't create fuss over) about thesmall and irrelevant details, because you need to be packed withthe explanation for those things at the time of personal ortechnical discussion.
* Elaborate on the projects, which seem relevant to theparticular opening. They increase chances of your profileselection.
* Don't repeat the description of the projects with each projectbeing added in your profile. They have to differentsomehow! I saw this peculiar thing is the resume, I am attachingherewith.
* Highlight those skills, which you really have!Otherwise, interviewer having better knowledge on the subjectmay screw you anytime during your interview. For example,writing, Reading, as your hobby may attract a good discussionbetween you and interview. That may end up exasperating you ifyou don't have guts or wits to justify all that.
* Have a specific career objective, which really showsyour interest in joining that particular company and highlightyour some particular skills matching their requirements, ifpossible.
* Write a cover letter, especially for a particular opening, ifpossible. More importantly, don't let your friend copyyour cover letter, if he is going to apply for the same post insame company
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