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Resume writing
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December 20, 2007
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In all my discussions on job preparedness with students, I am always asked this million dollar question – “How can I write the best resume?”
This one line question demands a million line to answer. To find an answer these days, the easiest one is to “Google” your query, so I googled “Write best resume”
 The search result showed me over “3,81,000” results…. I was confused!
If you had taken my route, you would have been confused too! But have patience, I am presenting you in a nutshell how to write a Good resume, so that you can take off on your journey immediately! Once you make your first resume, you can always improve upon it. If you are already a pro in making resume, click here to discover more resources in the “Discover Yourself” section.
What is a resume?
A resume is a document containing a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education (with or without an accompanying cover letter), naturally for the purpose of IMPRESSING someone (in your case, a recruiter!). It is akin to the leaflet of a seminar… if the leaflet is presented well, you are tempted to go and attend the seminar. Similarly, if the resume is written well, employer is tempted to call you for selection process.
It is in short form – a document to show the “Best that you are” in the “Best possible way” so that you can get that “Best Job”.
If you are a fresher (wanting that always elusive first job), to show the “Best that you are” is the most difficult one and is the core problem, the solution of which you want by that question “How can I write the best resume?”
But its answer is very simple:
To write a good resume, if you have time still, than build up the best in you, even before the time to present your resume:
Study properly to get good grade to show off, do at least one good project based on which maximum questions are asked to a fresher in during interview, be members of student forums - which shows the social animal in you and participate in contest among students - quiz, debate, sports & games etc., to show how talented and energetic you were while studying … all of this would actually form the content of your resume later when time comes to prepare it!
But what if you have already passed out or on the threshold of passing out, without having the time to develop those resume contents? Well, you need to mask yourself intelligently….say, if you have never played sports and games and you state in your resume that you were the best athlete in your college, you must naturally know at what time you ran that 100 meters! Mind it, I am not teaching you here how to lie…but….
With these inputs, lets go ahead to see what is a “Good Resume”… it is a resume sent by one of the student for my comments – his name is Sanjay Majumder. We would learn by examples by going through this resume. So click here to proceed to learn.Labels: Freshers Job Tools |
posted by
Prasanta Bora on
December 20, 2007
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Text resumes will be around for a long time. Because everyone can type.
But everyone cannot write a story or a poem.
So, there will also be a demand for expert / professional resume – writers, for a long time to come.
But an ever-increasing number of recruiters feel that graphical / visual / audio resumes have an edge over plain text resumes – prompting emergence of path-breaking job-portals such as
www.VisualCV.com
which inspired me to come-up with my own
www.CustomizeResume.com
( it is easy to be inspired, but , at the age of 77 , difficult to implement ! )
With regards
hemen parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Mumbai -- India
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As compared to a jobseeker writing her own resume, a resume written by a professional expert resume-writer would any day prove better.
But
Before sending that well-written resume to a recruiter, can a jobseeker figure-out in advance what would happen if that resume
gets " rated / ranked / scored " by recruiter ?
gets compared automatically with resumes of other applicants ?
Will she get an interview-call ?
To know what is likely to happen , she has to just type "Resume Rater" in Google / Yahoo / Bing , and download this software tool ( free and without even login ) from any of the 35+ websites. Then rate her resume.
Resume Rater mimics the " resume-evaluation " process of recruiters’ minds but does it in an unbiased / objective way.
Resume Rater is absolutely non – discriminatory.
Regards
hemen parekh
Jobs for All = Peace on Earth
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I must say that overall I am really impressed with this blog.It is easy to see that you are passionate about your writing. If only I had your writing ability I look forward to more updates and will be returning.
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Text resumes will be around for a long time. Because everyone can type.
But everyone cannot write a story or a poem.
So, there will also be a demand for expert / professional resume – writers, for a long time to come.
But an ever-increasing number of recruiters feel that graphical / visual / audio resumes have an edge over plain text resumes – prompting emergence of path-breaking job-portals such as
www.VisualCV.com
which inspired me to come-up with my own
www.CustomizeResume.com
( it is easy to be inspired, but , at the age of 77 , difficult to implement ! )
With regards
hemen parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Mumbai -- India