(i)Targeting of Your Career and Audience
1 You must have a clear idea of what you want to bring about in your professional life in order to maximize the impact of your resume for your targeted hiring managers/directors or prospective employer.
2 Before you start writing your resume interact with your close Friends, Relatives and Parent ask them about your most perfect and attractive skill personal trait like communication skill, professionalism, honesty, integrity, loyalty, dedication towards your job, relationship with other co-partner, planning and strategic skill etc. You must ask your boss (of present job) about your most efficient job skill. Evaluate your past experience, achievement, qualifications. Make a creative move on what you actually want in your career promotion, change of job. Include all your above merits in your resume attractively. Resumes must provide your skills, professional experience, accomplishments, and academic history in the minimum words with maximum impact.
3 Some words which include Multi-language, integrity, reliability, loyalty, honesty, professionalism, integrity, you must use in your resume. Do not mention the qualification which you does not having. Key words include industry-specific terminology i.e. "generally accepted accounting principles" for accountants. "triage" for nurses; and nouns or noun phrases indicating qualifications or required tasks i.e. general ledger, word processing, contract negotiations, benefits, payroll, closing (for sales people); catering services, new menu items logistics, quality assurance, advertising campaigns, product launches, staffing, training, orientations. Companies that employ scanners require a set number of hits on key words before the hiring manager will personally review the applicant’s resume. It is always wise to incorporate as many key words as possible into your resume. But key word should be incorporated such a manner that one who read it impressed not bored. Resume writing is an art and it vary person to person as God has created human being such.
(ii) Formatting for Maximum Impact
1. Resume formatting is very important. Resume formatting should be done such way that when one’s resume is opened by a hiring manager, director or your prospective employer, it must appeal to him or her on a visual level, while accurately reflecting your industry or career goal. If formatting is not done properly hiring manger may relegate one’s resume no matter how brilliantly it is written -- to the rejection stack.
Follow basic guides line for formatting of your resume:-
Effective use of one’s data
Effective use of template and correct Font
Your qualification data, your skill and special Skill, your experience Summary, your extra special skill out of your job , Education Data with best terminology words specific to your job should be placed at first page. Candidate to prioritize data such a way in the shortest form that a hiring manager know about him in a glance what the job seeker has to offer the company in terms of achievement, work experience, academic qualification , personality of the individual, certifications, and specialty, such as relocation, ready to travel abroad, fluency in languages.
Effective use of template and correct Font
Font and template in any type of resume should be used as simple as possible so that there should not be any irritation to the hiring manger. Data presented in a disorganised or contradictory manner most likely to be reject at its initial. An effective template will present significant data of a candidate in understandable manner so that a quick glance will impact on the person and tell a person what he want to know. The consistency in format makes the job of hiring manger so easy, which any person like it.
Templates should be chosen such a way that they reflect a candidate’s profession or target quickly. It is a common misunderstanding that jazzing up a resume with some stylistic tricks will get the document read. On the contrary, the resume will get noticed and discarded within seconds. It is not the font or templates that you use, attracts attention, but rather the résumé’s initial appearance and the words crafted within it.
So it is advised that the simple font with 11 or 12 point should be used in the resume. Two good choices on fonts are Times New Roman and Arial in 11 points -- no smaller, or the text will be difficult to read. No hiring manger wants to read a text-heavy document with sentences that run on for four or five lines. In today’s fast-paced life, you must get your point across quickly, with a minimum of words presented as bulleted sentences within special sections (i.e. Profession, Professional Experience, Education and Qualifications Summary), and separated by well-placed white space.
(iii) Qualification Summary & Skill Set
It is very crucial for a resume writer to know how to show case one’s skill in the resume as per his or her qualification and experience. Some resume writer use fixed set of skill for particular job which is not correct. We should show the actual skill which he/she possess.
So compel the hiring manager to keep reading
Write resume specially indicating his/her skill of cost effective with example of how he/she had saved the monthly amount of company, result- oriented , comprehensive experience, multiple job skill etc. On the other hand, the Qualifications Summary proactively declares what the candidate can do for the targeted company, which places the hiring manager’s needs first.
Skill Set
A wise applicant always uses a Qualifications Summary, with a quantified Skill Set in Rupees term or dollar either by itself or combined. Skill set is the list of your interior competencies as they relate to your prospective career goal. Rather than presenting all of that data in the qualifications summary, a portion of it would be showcased as a tag line and skill set.
(iv)Awards /Accomplishments and Special Skills
Awards /Accomplishments
Accomplishments are the most important data in the resume. Accomplishments should be placed at the first page of the resume. If required the accomplishments must be quantified. So many persons are there who seeking job with basic education and professional background but the person who perform in the past outstanding will be selected. Because every one want to hire a person who have proven talent. So the accomplishment only that separate one from other equally qualified applicants. So while writing accomplishments one should be carefully considers the candidate’s talents and past experience.
What can be include in your Accomplishments
1.Project successfully completed
2.Cost effective and decreasing costs
3.Promotions and annual assessment with appreciation letter from Higher Management
4.Increasing the company’s bottom line and growth within specified time period
5.Procedures streamlining 6.Awards and honours
7.Multiple management skill of various projects with in time.
8.Scholarship and academic award
9.Other special quality which differ one from others
Accomplishment should not include
· Regular working
· Job description
· Day to day responsibilities
· Part time job while going to management classes
· Community volunteer jobs
· Working with the company which is closed
Accomplishment which is most important must be quantified with rupees figures and appropriate percentages clearly mentioning of specified time period
How to Quantified Accomplishment
Take an example of bank executive who raise the income of bank from 0 to 20 lacs for a new business startup in Delhi by lunching of new revenue–generating products and services. Explain how did he did it all by showing ones actual products. .
Saved Rs 150000/- monthly for ABC Company by streamlining plan and procedures.
(v)Other Skills Special
Special skills of a person should be highlighted properly so that selector or hiring manager know what one can do better. Showcase these special skills and quality of a person in a special paragraph.
It must include
Multiple-Language (i.e. fluency in a foreign language, ability to translate) Computer proficiencies
Office working procedures with experience (typing with speed, 10 key etc. )
Any job specific skill
(vi)How to write Professional Experience
Show case your job experience in the perfectly for maximum impact .Write down your professional Experience by listing your employers, yours company, job titles with date in a reverse-order; that is, your most recent job comes first, followed by your next most recent job, and so on with month and year ( i.e. May 2008-Aug2006, Sep 2006- Dec 2004. )
IN Experience summary you should include daily tasks and responsibilities. Don’t include and repeat, if you have already included your job experience data in qualification or Accomplishments section of your resume. Present in an interesting and easy to ready manner. For current job write present tense and for past job write your responsibilities in past tense.
(vii)Education:
Write down your education qualification with university, school and College, Board and year of passing. Start from highest to matriculate level. School, College awards and scholarship, if any to be clearly mentioned here. Include all specialized training and certificate that are transferable to your new job goal. If you have not attended college, include all specialized training in your target field. On job training, management courses also to be included here. Your Hobbies and sports achievement also to be mentioned in Separate paragraph.
(viii)Personal Profile
Write your full name, Father’s name, date of birth, place of Birth, permanent Home Address. Give your permanent as well as Mailing address clearly.
(ix) Other basic norms to follow
(a) Read the resume four to six times after its completion.
(b) Checks properly spelling and word meaning.
(c) Checks formatting and templates.
(d) Show your resume to your friend or any well qualified person for spell checks and correct meaning of word used by you in the resume.
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Om & Kaltar - India Delhi
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