Writing An Effective Resume

1. WritingAn Effective Resume Prof. BattuSreenivasaRao Training & Placement Officer Gharda Institute of Technology (GIT)

2. Writing An Effective Resume • What information should be in a resume? • Characteristics of a successful resume.

3. Objective Academic Profile Technical Skills Academic Project Strengths Co-curricular & Extra curricular Activities Professional Associations Achievements & Awards Personal Profile References Declaration What Information Should Be In A Resume?

4. Purpose of the resume • To present a total picture of your skills as they relate to a specific job • To entice the employer enough to grant you an interview

5. Characteristics Of A Successful Resume • Must always be 100% truthful. • Contains no inappropriate personal information. • Produced on a computer.

6. Resume Essentials • Before you write, take time to do a self-assessment on paper. • Outline your skills and abilities as well as your work experience and extracurricular activities. • This will make it easier to prepare a thorough resume.

7. General Guidelines: • Appearance: • Create a well-organized, readable layout to Increase the chances that your resume is read • Do not use resume formatting programs such as Resume Wizard • Be concise: • Avoid dense text that is difficult and time consuming to read • Use bullet statements instead of paragraphs

8. More Guidelines… • Fonts - use traditional fonts that are easy to read (e.g. Arial & New Times Roman) • Make sure there are no typographical, spelling or grammatical errors • Have multiple people critique your resume • Revise, revise, revise • Paper and printing • Use high-quality white or off-white paper • avoid bond paper that smears the type • Use a laser printer

9. Content • Be selective about what you include: • Limit information to what is relevant to the job description • Never falsify information • Concentrate on the positive and use action verbs to describe your background • Buzz words - label your past experience with language that fits your industry • Provide depth of information and quantify your accomplishments, when possible and appropriate

10. Hottest Skills Employers are Seeking: Do you have them? • Oral Communication Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Analytical Skills • Teamwork Skills • Flexibility

11. Your resume • Let’s spend some time working on YOUR resume

12. Objective • Consists of Designation Why & How Ex : • A Position as an “Editor” at a growth oriented publishing company or at a largely circulated newspaper or magazine which can benefit from my command of writing and Editing skills in English language.

13. Contd… • To exhibit my skills and enabling me to contribute immensely to the company’s growth. Eager to get acquaint with new concepts and solve problems speedily and efficiently. • To achieve excellence in technologies and use my skills to the utmost benefit of the organization. Be a good team player with high levels of motivation and sincerity.

14. Contd… • To achieve excellence in teaching and use my skills to the utmost benefit of the students & organization. Be a good team facilitator with high levels of motivation and heartfelt working nature.

15. Academic Profile

16. Technical Skills • Ex : Operating Systems : Windows 98/2000/XP Languages : Programming in C & C++, Embedded C(Learning). Tools : MATLAB, KEIL Software , PSPICE& LT-SPICE. Assembly level Languages : Microcontrollers- 8051,Microprocessors-8085 Or • Operating Systems : Windows 2000/XP. • Languages C, Java, PHP. • J2EE Technologies :Servlets, JSP. • Web Server Jakarta-Tomcat. • Web Technologies : HTML. • RDBMS :MySql.

17. Academic Project Description: CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management and this project aims to the automotive industry, global consolidation, vehicle demand declining loyalty, and this result in lower prices and eroding profit to fierce margins. The automotive industry maintains customer(s) by providing services on time by storing the details of the customer and the industry in the database. Responsibilities: Involved in the development. Generating web pages by using HTML with CSS.

18. Personal Strengths • Ex : Ability to deal with people diplomatically. Hard working and willingness to learn. Or • Adaptive and willing to learn. • Comprehensive problem solving abilities. • Ability to deal with people and handle situations in a diplomatic manner. • Good team player. • Reading technical related Magazines like EFY, Chip, Electronics Today etc.

19. Co-curricular & Extra curricular Activities • Attended One day workshop in “KAYTEE SWITCH GEAR LTD” NelamangalaTaluk , BANGLORE • Attended three day workshop on “ EMC ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM ON DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS ” at NAMIT • Presented SMART SURVEILLANCE OF VEHICLES project in Karnataka State level project exhibition in SHRISTI-07 in Bagalkot. • Presented Paper in National level competitions.  • Represented under 19 Cricket team in Sri Lanka.  • Represented College cricket team and played state level cricket matches.

20. Professional Associations • ISTE, IEEE… etc memberships

21. Achievements & Awards • Gave speech on Ashok Teja (National Award Winner for Telugu movie Tagore) and received memento. • Gave speech in Rama Krishna Math on Swami Vivekananda jayanti and received applauds.  • Participated in college and school level essay writing and elocution competitions and got prizes. • Runner up in zonal level Ball-Badminton championship.   • Winners in college level Ball-Badminton championship.

22. Personal Profile • Date of Birth : 01-07-1979. • Gender : Male • Marital Status : Married. • Languages Known : English, Hindi and Telugu. • Permanent address :

23. References • Prof. HansrajGuhilotProfessor & H.O.D.,Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering,KLE college of Engineering and Technology, Belgauam.

24. Declaration • I hereby declare that, all the above mentioned details given by me are true to the best of my knowledge & belief. • Place: Belguam • Date: 10th April 2009 (PRAMOD KUMAR)

25. Basic Checklist • No spelling or grammar errors. • Neat, clean, and professional looking. • Length should be 1-2 pages. • Margins at sides and bottom. • Layout makes reading easy. Use of white space is effective.

26. Basic Checklist • Important titles should be emphasized. Experiment with fonts & styles; bold, italic, and underlines. No more than 2 or 3 different sizes. • Information is logically recorded. • Use Action Verbs for accomplishments & results.

27. Basic Checklist • Bullet points when possible for accomplishments.

28. Writing An Effective Cover Letter • How to write a cover letter. • Rules • Contents

29. How To Write A CoverLetter - Rules • Give enough information to interest the reader, don’t overwhelm. • Research the company. Address the letter to a specific person. • Answer an ad if you have 50% of the skills or background that the ad requires. • Mention the person who referred you if appropriate.

30. How To Write A CoverLetter - Contents • Your address, city, state, zip, and telephone number. • Date • Name, title, company, address, city, state, and zip of person you’re writing to. • Greeting, followed by a colon.

31. How To Write A CoverLetter - Contents • Paragraph 1: • What you want. • How you know about the organization. • Mention enclosure of your resume. • Paragraph 2: • Concise overview of work history and skills that will help you perform the job. • Paragraph 3: • State confidence in your ability. • Give information on how you can be contacted.

32. How To Write A CoverLetter - Contents • Paragraph 4: • Express appreciation • Closing, signature, and typed name

33. Electronic resume submission • 47.8% indicated they prefer to receive resumes that are submitted electronically through their web sites • Another 42.1% favor receiving resumes via e-mail • Just 8.2% of the respondents prefer to receive hard copies of resumes, while 1.9% like to receive resumes by other means

34. Contact information • E-mail : tpo@git-india.edu.in

35. Questions?