Resume Writing Tips:

There is more to a C.V. than meets the eye. Your C.V. is your first communication with your prospective employer. It serves as a personal advertisement for you and it must be organized in a manner to make it interesting, informative, yet brief, and good enough to take you to the next stage i.e. ‘INTERVIEW’.

There are Two Types of C.V.’s :
• Chronological Format:
Here the experience is given in the reverse chronological order & with specific dates.
• Functional Format:


Experienced group by functions / dept – e.g.- Sales – Mktg, Purchase, Personnel, etc. no specific dates.
We recommend the chronological format as Employers & Personnel Manager are used to it. Based on your experience, make a choice. It can also be a combination of both.
Don’t miss on any essential information that should be there in every C.V. Be factually accurate in your CV. Most critical , do not misrepresent yourself.

Tips
• Always accompany your resume with a cover letter.
• Do not fake your resume.
• Simplicity is the key, Use a clear, simple. Legible font.
• Use good paper; it does not have to be the most expensive kind.
• Check your grammar and spelling.
• Do not write, "Resume" on your resume.
• Do give your full name, address and telephone number, so the employer can contact you.
• Write a strong statement of your goals taking care not to exaggerate.
• Keep your resume concise but informative as far as stating your education goes. List out special skills and highlight any extraordinary job skills you might have. Use bullets if necessary.
• If you are looking for an entry level position, put your educational qualification right after your goal.
• If you have experience, list your jobs first, starting with the most recent one. Indicate how long you were at each job. Mention all projects (however small) you worked on at each job, your role in the project, how you accomplished the assigned tasks.
• Mention awards and honours you may have received, papers you may presented.
• If you are just out of college, and do not have any experience, elaborate on projects you may have worked on. This will give the employer an idea of how you may fare in job atmosphere.
• Mention that references will be available upon request

SOFT SKILL BHILAI: Young India lacks soft skills: Survey

SOFT SKILL BHILAI: Young India lacks soft skills: Survey: White Paper India’s demographic dividend – its young population – is in danger of becoming a liability. By a conservative estimate, ...

Young India lacks soft skills: Survey

White Paper

India’s demographic dividend – its young population – is in danger of becoming a liability. By a conservative estimate, more than one-third of the millions that graduate each year are unemployable.

A survey of 303 employers across the country by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) in 2010 found a majority of graduates lacked adequate “soft skills” to be employed in the industry.

Only about one-third employers were satisfied with the communication ability of their employees and about 26 per cent with their employees’ writing ability. If this trend continues, the prospects for the 1.4 billion youth estimated to enter the work force by 2020, and consequently for the economy, look anything but promising.

An April 6 report in the Wall Street Journal highlighted this growing mismatch between the labour force and the skill set available.

“India graduates millions but too few are fit to hire,” the report says. “Engineering colleges in India now have seats for 1.5 million students, nearly four times the 39,000 available in 2000. But 75 per cent of technical graduates and more than 85 per cent of general students are unemployable”.

Narendra Jadhav, Planning Commission member in-charge of education and former vice-chancellor of Pune University, agrees. “Survey after survey has shown that 33 per cent of our graduates are unemployable,” he said. “The quality of teaching on our campuses is outdated. They do not follow the latest market demands. Added to that is the student’s level of learning, but most crucial is the lack of communication skills,” he added.

The Ficci survey found that only 26 per cent employers are satisfied with their employees’ ability to communicate in English, “the most widely used professionally communicated language”.

According to the survey of decision-makers in the country, which included top CEOs, MDs and human resource directors, the importance of “soft skills” in today’s employment landscape cannot be overemphasised. Though of late, the human resource development ministry appears to have woken up to the fact that ‘skill development’ is an area that needs urgent attention in our education system. But experts say the focus of the programme is still skewed – it still focuses only on vocational education, missing out ‘soft skills’ training.

Source:India Today Article