Preparing your resume

Freshers

They should highlght the education portion in their resume. They should incorporate rank, grade and other achievements during school, college and univesity days. Any professional course done should not only be included but also highlighted. The resume should be short-not more than two pages.

Experienced Persons

They should keep the education portion relatively brief, Degrees are important for certian jobs, but applications which give lenghty descriptions of education are considered to be trying to cover for a lack of background or experience. The experience part should be duly highlighted giving quantified data to support the candidate's record of achievement. The resume should never exceed three pages. It would be better to condensse it into two pages wihtout typeing it in small size requiring the use of microscope to reat it.

Writing resumes is not a task to be taken lightly. Following are the guidliens which will help you writting a resume your prospective employers would like.

Guidelines for Tailoring CV as per job requirement

Unless there's one perfect job for you in the world which is very unlikely, there is no harm in fine tuning your CV to each application, in order to do this you need to find out as exactly as you can, what will be required before tailoring the CV.

The CV Story of your life

Times are changing, the presentation lay out of CVs is even changing faster, what has not changed dramatically is the way the CVs are drafted. I find a lot of similarity between mistakes people used to commit during eighties and mistakes of today's prospective managers commit. May be they still believe "so what if m CV is not perfect, I can alwasy explain in detail during the interview'

Your CV is your most critical selling document. If you get it right it will land you the interview you want, get it wrong you will have to blame your luck for "apply-apply no - reply syndrome". And perhaps you hard earned work experience will probably be consigned to waste bin.

It is vital that your CV puts across everything you want to say about yourself in most impressive way. It must highlight your value to your potential employer as well as leaving the interviewer with a clear reminder of what you could do for them.