Why do you need Smart Resume?

Imagine this scenario. You have applied for the job of your dreams. Your resume has been painstakingly prepared. Spread over four pages, you have put down full details of your education and experience. You have dispatched your resume and you wait for the interview call with bathed breadth!

At receiving end, the personnel manager wades through 300 other resumes before wearily picking up your 4-page magnum opus. It is already 7 O’ clock in the evening. What do you think will happen to your resume? You guessed it! It will suffer a quick and unceremonious journey to the waste paper basket! Bad! Isn’t it.

• Research has shown that depending on the level of the Job applied for, only one interview is granted for every 300 to 500 resumes received by the average employer.
• Research also tells that your resume will be quickly scanned, rather than read. 10 to 20 seconds is all the time you have to persuade a prospective employer to read further.

Important Points For Making Resume

Contents & Style

• Prepare the resume before the application letter to summarize the facts the letter will be based on.
• Present the strongest qualifications first.
• Use short noun phrases and action verbs.
• Use facts, not opinions.
• Avoid excessive use of personal pronouns.
• Omit the date of preparation.
• Omit mention of your desired salary work schedule or vacation schedule.

Contact information

• Use a title or your name and address, as a heading.
• List your name address, area code and telephone number –for both school or work and home, if appropriate.

Career Objective and Skills Summary (Optional)

• Be as specific as possible about what you want to do.
• State a broad and flexible goal to increase the scope of your job prospects.
• Prepare two different resumes if you can do two unrelated types of work.
• Summarize your key qualifications.
• State the month and if you know it the day on which you will be available to start work.

Education

• List all relevant schooling and training since high school, with the most recent first.
  • List the name and location of every institution you have attended, with the dates you entered and left and the degrees or certificates you obtained.
  • Indicate your major (and minor) fields in college work.
  • State your marks /grades average, if your average is impressive enough.
• List relevant required or elective courses in descending order of importance.
• List any other related educational or training experiences, such as job-related seminars or workshops attended and certificates obtained that show an ability to work with others; and writing or speaking activities, and roles in academic or professional organizations.
• In most circumstances, exclude mention of religious or political affiliations.

Other Relevant Facts

• List other information, such as your proficiency in languages.
• Mention your ability to operate any machines, equipment or computer software used in the job.

Personal data

• Omit personal details that could be regarded negatively or be used to discriminate against you.
• Omit or downplay references to age if it could suggest inexperience or approaching retirement.
• Describe military service (branch of service, where you served, rank attained, and the dates of induction and discharge) here or, if relevant, under “Education, or work Experience.”
• List job–related interests and hobbies especially those indicating stamina, strength, sociability, or other qualities that and desirable in position you seek.

References

• Offer to supply the names of references on request.
  • Supply names of academic, employment, and professional associates- but no relatives.
  • Provide name, a title, an address, and a telephone number for each reference.
  • List no name as a reference until you have that permission to do so.