Job Search and Effective Resume-1

Searching a job day and night, applying here and there, asking for the references, almost tried everything but not able to catch our dream job Why?

Most of the job seekers come and ask this question

One of my friend (Job consultant in Delhi) dropped a very good suggestion in my first post and asked me to emphasis more on resume writing. Ya true, if looking for a good job then Effective Resume is your Gate Pass.

Today my job search tips will give you few ideas to make your resume effective to get a Gate Pass or a chance to tell Why you !! Though these points you might have read some where in any website or any blog but I tried to summarize them and serve in a simpler way spiced with My experiences (to add taste in it)

From where to start, some talk about cover letter, some about objective, what is the first thing we noticed……..hmmmm!

Ok lets start with Paper and Fonts

Job application, resume should be on white or off white don’t try to show your hidden lover by choosing a scented or colored paper.

Try to catch employer’s attraction by the content of the resume not by the fonts, or use of different colors to show your creativity,

Try to be as simple as you can and emphasis by Bold or Italics to the essentials like your Designation, your Achievements or any special point need to be High lighted.

Career or Carrier Is like Cancer

Before making the final print have a spell check or typo error. Let me give you a very frequent example I come across especially just passed out, I have seen so many resume with career written as carier or carrier??? uuffff nothing less then a suicide, also responsibility as responsiblity and many more

One more example you will really like to read, I received a profile from a candidate, working but looking for a switch over, in his mail, he wrote ”I m IIT pass out having 3yrs of experience now you will really like to have a loo” I instantly called that guy and took him properly for his words. He was as shocked as I was, oh God! He wanted to write “You will like to have a look” so just one alphabet changed the whole meaning

I m not asking you to go through books and go for a crash classes for Grammar at least do MS Word spell check.

Oh yeah! I have also seen some persons who are least bothered about it , ok no issues but have you ever imagine a single letter mistake can change a medicine name so as to kill a person, same will happen here.

(May be you can find some spell or typo errors, even some grammatical mistakes in the articles posted here but you can not give an excuse in your resume, here i can)

Job Seeker or a Copy Cat

Sounds odd to read, ya but true again I have seen so many resume perfectly copied other then name of the job seeker.

It is so remarkable that the consultant points it out just in a while, especially when group of friends sitting together and thinking about the interview next day, one of them went to some cyber café get a cv prepared for them all.

Do you think it’s a joke no, never mention any thing in your resume which is not applicable on you though you all are not going together but consultant can ask any thing from your resume which is nothing but you on paper, ghosshhh! again suicide in job search.

Not even copying a resume I have seen many job applications or emails or cover letters sent to different positions without even noticing that they are applicable or not. For example in a Lift you are pressing the same level button to reach the different levels, like this never send the same application for the position it is not applicable, read the job details very well otherwise result will be ‘Delete’ and you are moved to trash within seconds.

Job resume is not a Dictionary

Ya all know this, resume can never be a Dictionary, even no relation can be there.

Ohk let me explain some candidates prepare their resume which is not less then a dictionary for them. If you keep the sentences aside, few even don’t know the exact meaning of the words they have used in their Career Objective or KRA or Summary

Please make your resume simple (under your grip), you can explain it well and make it presentable with the facts you have with you.

Resume-Love at first sight

You might be smiling with the heading, but it says all what I m going to discuss in this topic. Any Consultant or Employer will take your resume, go through it in few seconds like not view, just review. Resume need to be so attractive in the first shot to make interviewer read, think and ask you about it.

Before moving ahead I want to share few lines related and also not related to this topic

A boy asked a girl ‘Do you believe in the first sight love’

Girl-?????? (surprisingly looking at him)

Boy- or I should pass from here again

But we cant ask interviewer, if you are not getting the skills you want,I can go and make other resume. If your resume doesn’t spark interest, you may never get the opportunity to show your worth. If there is nothing in the showroom who will like to enter in the shop.

I mean by all these examples to highlight the points in resume which are useful to the Employer, know those points better by going through the ‘must’, ‘mandatory’ or ‘required’ skills in the job postings to flash those traits in your resume and make yourself the best option for that job.

You can highlight such points in Career objectives, Profile Summary and Achievements, best way to catch the curiosity of the interviewer is to provide figures in your resume

So we finished talking about few things which are not related to whatever you have mentioned in the resume, still speak loud about you.

Be Ready for- Talking about the core Resume from the very first line

You can send your video resume to the companies and consultants so as to clear your first round with your resume only.

Make a different approach from other job seekers.

Best part is

no upload or down load-no one can change your content

work as a link only- size is the same as your cv (in kb only)

you can roll back any time or change your vieo resume any time.

If you don't know about video resume, mail me i will prepare your video resume,

hr.jobs102@gmail.com with blog video resume in the subject line.

Job Search and Effective Resume-2

Job Consultant or Interviewer notice the first line ,after all the points we discussed in the earlier post is your Name and Contact Details, now you must be thinking I have gone crazy what are the mistakes you can make in your name and contact details,

Job Seeker’s Details

In my first post I suggested to mention all the necessary details just after your name whatever consultant want to see, give in one’s hand before he searchs in your resume.

Before putting your details keep some points in your mind like-

(a)Your email address- handsomstud@gmail.com, sexy(name)@yahoo.com, how will you react to read such email id holding the resume in your hand, ooppss……! Crash before take off

Please invest some more time to create a new email id for the resume rather then making it more remarkable by using such hot words, it doesn’t make any difference in your experience or your profile but ya makes in Employers mind.

(b)Address/Phone Number- If you are living in a remote area or a location far from your target job location then Provide Local Address of that specific location (at least any correspondence address) and mention your actual address in the personal profile section in the last of the resume

Even if you can have any Local Number of that area for the interview intimation that’s far better, in this case you can mention your Email Address as Contact Preference, if you are not available on that given number .Employers and Consultants generally prefer local candidates, they prefer to call local numbers as compared to other contact numbers of distant locations.

(c)Name- When we are starting our resume with our name it says in itself to whom it belongs there is no need to write it like

Name-XXXXXXX,

Contact-XXXXXX

Career Objective

It’s a rainbow, attracts every one, every one want to see it, grab it but nobody knows the exact address. Some says short and straight like ‘Looking for a challenging position in Sales and Marketing’

Some says it will show your strength or an idea about you like ‘Sales Manager with 4+yrs experience in IT Sales with excellent network in multiple territories seeking for Sr Sales profile to prove my worthy ’

What I think!!!! I think it should be straight, showing your strength and also why you? Again I emphasis on the figure facts like ‘MBA IT sales manager with 4+yrs experience in multiple territories increased sales from 50 lacs to 150 lacs in 1yr, seeking for sr. sales and so on, it attracts the Interviewer to know more about your working and achievements.

Career History

This section has nothing for me to write everyone knows what to write and how to write,

The points I can discuss about are Company Profile and No. of companies you have worked with.

(a)I have seen many resumes full of so many companies and showing wide experience but it can be alarming also, especially within a small span of time. Employer expects a stable candidate, companies you have worked with should be according to your experience. Avoid to add so many companies just to make long list.

You can easily avoid initial stages where you have worked for 3-4 months in 2-3 companies especially in entry level resume.

(b)your current company also shows your potentials, a prospective employer may be aware of the company you are leaving. But don’t assume so. Your objective is to give an idea of the size of the company, what it does, and who its market is so that the hiring company can place your experience in relation to what they are looking for.

To avoid the Lengthy resume, give some information at least about your current company and hardly 2-3 lines about the previous companies, this also shows your exposure in the market.

If the list is long, profile of your current company will also do.

KRA/Achievements

Job Responsibilities and Achievements are like Question Paper and Answer Sheet, all the students in the class have the same question paper but what makes the topper, just How they are Solving.

If you are a Recruiter, cold call, profile search, follow up are few responsibilities every recruiter has to perform ‘the same’ what’s new in it. Why to hire you ? every next candidate coming for the interview is doing the same

If you are a Sales Professional, you have to expand the business and maintain the existing clients, but what makes you different from others, how much revenue you have generated, what is the hike in sales you achieved from the existing clients, how many new clients you introduced.

This section is the dominating part of the resume to take you through the Race and win.

Whatever an Employer is seeking for, you can give through this section only, as my job consultant friend gave an example in his comment I will like to include that as it is.

“Resume is nothing but A-Z summary of a candidate. This is where, we, consultant, get irritated and throw profiles without looking. Sometimes, i have to call 3-4 times to get all info or else i have to spend enough time to gather what info are missing.

Second point is that, candidate knows what kind of job he is looking but don't know what kind of skill is required, even though he possesses that key skills. I mean if i am looking Manager- sourcing...and candidate has not mentioned sourcing but procurement, his resume will not be reflect to me. So profile should be customized according to job.”

Ya very true, you should go through the job description thoroughly to modify your resume, may be you know the skills but assume, consultant will understand by himself and least bothered to give time to resume modification.

I have always suggested to mention those KRA in your resume which are there in the job posting or required for the job. Even you can copy the same given in the job posting if applicable as per your profile, for the details please read my first article “Ordinary tips to make extra ordinary changes”

Check the website of the company if specific details are not given and try to understand what else I can add in my responsibilities to make myself close to the target job.

It is not necessary to have your achievements in the same skill, mention whatever you have achieved and also let the Employer know you have hand on the skills they require with the confidence you can make remarkable achievements in those skills as well.

Your number of achievements indicates the degree to which you are a go-getter. It also tells how well you know your job by how well you solved the problems. what you’re capable of.

So please put your extra effort to write your extra efforts you made in your current job with target responsibilities your ‘would be’ company desiring for.

Personal Profile

Again nothing much to discuss, don’t mention unnecessary details about your family until unless not required in the job it just adds few more lines in your resume,

We have to provide only that information in our resume which Employer wants and have to read, like the ingredients in any kitchen preparation.

Hobbies

Don’t list your hobbies unless they directly support your qualifications for the position.

Many of us mention playing cricket or any other game, its better to understand the purpose of the hobby section, it can also show how much you are going to devote yourself towards your work, as if your hobby is related to your work, for sure you will not loose your interested in the stretched hours or weekends.Like if you are computer engineer, your hobbies should be related to computers, internet, puzzles etc to show you can sit for a long time in front of the computer, your analyitcal, creative skills. If you are a recruiter are a recruiter so can have the same hobbies with socializing as well but for the sales professionals socializing is a good option but others are really against the nature of their job.

Extras

Here I want to discuss about our non-profit jobs, volunteer or event management kind of stuff, oh! I forgot about fresher and newly wed or mom’s coming in the race again, Ok lets discuss this point in the article especially for fresher and non working woman struggling to be working now.

Career Spice

1. If you are looking for Tech Support/CCE, Outbound UK/US process, Rotational shifts

CHENNAI ONLY – Send your resume to arunsrinivas15@gmail.com also for Sales/ FMCG.

You can send your video resume to the companies and consultants so as to clear your first round with your resume only.

Make a different approach from other job seekers.

Best part is

no upload or down load-no one can change your content

work as a link only- size is the same as your cv (in kb only)

you can roll back any time or change your vieo resume any time.

If you don't know about video resume, mail me i will prepare your video resume,

hr.jobs102@gmail.com with blog video resume in the subject line.

A paper flying in air is due to LUCK but a kite flying in air due to your efforts so don't worry if LUCK doesn't support.

”EFFORT's ARE YOURS”

If you need some sample cv, you can go through so many websites present on the net, i will try to put some links of such sites providing this servise free of cost.

If any of you can provide some email address for currents requirements or of any help for this blog please drop a comment

Career Gear - for Freshers / Career Gaps

Fresher Thought

so what happens if we're just coming out of college, looking for a job and haven't done all these wonderful things 'under each company name?' i.e. the entry-level resume, this will be the thought coming in many minds.

If you've just graduated, no employer is looking for all that stuff on your resume, because you haven't had time to accumulate it, so don't worry too much about that.
At that point what matters is:

Are you Reliable/Stable?

Are you Self Motivated/Self Starter?

Are you Responsible?

Do you have a good head on your shoulders?

Resume Needs

Mention academic achievements or awards. How you think your excellent performance would benefit the employer or enhance your ability to do the job.

List your extracurricular activities, volunteer work or community activities and correlate with your confidence for example if you were in the college team for any sport, you can mention it to show your challenge accepting ability, your die hard attitude and as a team player you learnt to adjust in the team

If you were in authority position explain your responsibilities and how well you handled them

You can spice it up with your positive personality traits or any Professional Training during the college and what were your achievements.

Resume Cautions

Employer never expects a Lengthy entry level resume, don’t try to add any information just to increase the length of the resume

Be who are you! Interviewer is far more experienced, can take out truth from your mouth only. So don’t take risk and be honest.

Career Gaps

This is important for women trying to start their new journey after a break of marriage or baby care or any person gone through some unavoidable circumstances.

Employers tend to look for gaps or lapses of time when the applicant has been unemployed, they also tend to focus on the length of service one had rendered for their previous employers

If you have any genuine reason no need to worry, may be its your marriage break or child care or any accident

You can mention the cause in your resume in a single line, employer see your knowledge and activeness towards your career, may be if they are looking for already active person your application can be rejected but here I m giving you few tips to show them your enthusiasm

Go for some crash/ Part time program related to your field during this gap it shows

that this person is proactively working to improve her skills. She/He isn't just sitting around applying for jobs and hoping for the best – She/He is studying in her own time

Do some part time job related to your profile, some home based business involvement or working with small groups may be non profit, to keep u update as per the market requirement

Have some planning & research, some event management related to your work profile

Others

If you are a member of any Multi Level Marketing Company, or Non Profit Organizations you can mention it in your resume, especially where you have to show your openness, socializing nature like sales (Insurance) or Recruiters can also tool it up as they need references to close the job openings as they can’t always rely on the portals

Even it can be in the resume with Gaps to show the activities and networking skills.

Whether times are good or bad, getting that extra edge has always been important. You may have the right experience, degrees and attributes, but when employers have stacks and stacks of resumes sitting on their desk, you need something that’s going to make you stand out, especially these days. Writing great cover letters and resumes are a good start – an essential one, at that. But how can you go beyond that?

You can send your video resume to the companies and consultants so as to clear your first round with your resume only.

Make a different approach from other job seekers.

Best part is

no upload or down load-no one can change your content

work as a link only- size is the same as your cv (in kb only)

you can roll back any time or change your vieo resume any time.

If you don't know about video resume, mail me i will prepare your video resume,

hr.jobs102@gmail.com with blog video resume in the subject line.

If you like to suggest any point please specify in your comment, I will try to add it in my next post

Job Consultant required!! Try these Email Id to send your Resume with precautions-

1.Job Area-Please first check their website to know they deal with your sector/job/field or not, send only if YES

2.Job Mailing-Please must check earlier post "Ordinary Tips For Extraordinary Changes" before mailing to these ids

3.Job Black List-Please Don't send any fake or spam mails or irrelevant resume to these ids, Consultants can mark your name in the black list. Blog writer will not be responsible for it.

4.Job Email Id-Any of the 'Email Id' can be wrong or changed due to any reason, as these email ids are collected from different sources.

hr@tradeindia.com

hr@seventhsense.in

hr@markjobs.com

hr@hopeindia.in

hr@williampenn.net

hr.growskills@yahoo.com

hr7@gowinindia.com

hrd@hindustanpencils.com

hrd@wealthzone.in

hrd@himalyainternational.com

hrd@elbee.in

hrd1@esjobs.co.in

info@ramajha.com

info@tcpjobs.com

info@mobsindia.com

info@cocamsterdam.nl

info@mcgindia.com

info@addpens.com

info@hyperlink-solutions.net

iscresc@microsoft.com

jagadeesh@speedconsult.com

naukri@thepremierconsultants.com

jeelan@hr-one.in

jigneshs@mahindrabt.com

job.jjunction@gmail.com

job.negotiators@gmail.com

jobs@konnectionsindia.com

jobs@needsmail.com

jobs@pmsconsulting.in

jobs@laddernetworks.net

jobs@ambe.com

jobs@deepaindia.com

jobs@jobone4u.com

jobs.newage@gmail.com

jobs4u@naukri.com

jobsatisfaction677@gmail.com

Job Consultant required! Email Id

1.Job Area-Please first check their website to know they deal with your sector/job/field or not, send only if YES

2.Job Mailing-Please must check earlier post "Ordinary Tips For Extraordinary Changes" before mailing to these ids

3.Job Black List-Please Don't send any fake or spam mails or irrelevant resume to these ids, Consultants can mark your name in the black list. Blog writer will not be responsible for it.

4.Job Email Id-Any of the 'Email Id' can be wrong or changed due to any reason, as these email ids are collected from different sources.

karamjeet@firstselectindia.com

kli.tasneem.rangwala@kotak.com

laabahr@yahoo.co.in

latha@auroace.com

magesh@emveetech.com

mamta@careercare.biz

manpower@gmail.com

meenakshi.raina@aspireplacements.com

megha.verma@jobsinfoline.com

migrate@wwicsgroup.com

mjoseph@vbeyond.com

mlink.hr@gmail.com

md_alshwabkeh@yahoo.com

mohini@redwoodhorizon.com

atoz_jobconsultants@rediffmail.com

monster@route.monster.com

naukri@addrecsolutions.com

info@naukri.com

neha@omamservices.com

newageconsultants@gmail.com

nirmala@brainsnskills.com

north@pmsconsulting.in

northhr@way2wealth.com

onlinejobfair@naukri.com

opportunitiespp@sify.com

optimaresources10@gmail.com

oxfordjobs@gmail.com

perfectpeoples@eth.net

praveen.gv@ujjivan.com

preeti@hrdsolutions.in

rajendra@careeravenues.net

raointl1@yahoo.com

rashi.j@vitasta.com

ravindra.mishra2@tatatel.co.in

resume@aayushmc.com

resume.smartvalue@gmail.com

roshan@jobtune.com

rpushpa@radiantinfo.com

itstaffing.official@gmail.com

sales@alfauv.com

sales@datawiseindia.com

sameer.grover@credence.co.in

sapna.kohli@manpower.co.in

sarita@perfectpeoples.com

sathya@ceotalentsearch.com

satyabhamahr@yahoo.com

scaling3@gmail.com

seekersmangalore@yahoo.com

shakuntala@executivesearchindia.com

shelly@signjobs.com

shipra@talentalliance.in

aarti.amazingjob@gmail.com

adhilakshmi@branch.sharekhan.com

adhyaconsultants@rediffmail.com

affiliate.delhi@gmail.com

ajayavs@rediffmail.com

ajit.unidus@gmail.com

akansha_hr@shikharjobs.com

credentials2006@gmail.com

alok@planet9international.com

amerinfocorp@gmail.com

sales@venusindia.co.in

anita.r@newagesolutions.co.in

ankurwadwa@sriramfortune.in

ans.consultancy@yahoo.com

anurag@hrnext.in

apply@indiainfoline.com

ashish.bhasin@opportunity-india.com

asklko0522@rediffmail.com

atishai.kumarsaxena@vertex.co.uk

You can send your video resume to the companies and consultants so as to clear your first round with your resume only.

Make a different approach from other job seekers.

Best part is

no upload or down load-no one can change your content

work as a link only- size is the same as your cv (in kb only)

you can roll back any time or change your vieo resume any time.

If you don't know about video resume, mail me i will prepare your video resume,

hr.jobs102@gmail.com with blog video resume in the subject line.

Job Consultant required!!

1.Job Area-Please first check their website to know they deal with your sector/job/field or not, send only if YES

2.Job Mailing-Please must check earlier post "Ordinary Tips For Extraordinary Changes" before mailing to these ids

3.Job Black List-Please Don't send any fake or spam mails or irrelevant resume to these ids, Consultants can mark your name in the black list. Blog writer will not be responsible for it.

4.Job Email Id-Any of the 'Email Id' can be wrong or changed due to any reason, as these email ids are collected from different sources.

c2csolutions@gmail.com

c_skc123@yahoo.co.in

career@shikharjobs.com

career@caretelindia.com

career@aslindia.com

career@canon.co.in

careercare_consultants@yahoo.co.in

careermirchi@yahoo.com

careerpointonline@gmail.com

careers@myloan24x7.com

careers@targetconsultants.biz

careers@classicsearchplc.com

careerswithabn@in.abnamro.com

carees@myloan24x7.com

chaitali_d@sharekhan.com

cheema@scalepeak.com

corporatemanpower@gmail.com

crdjobs@gmail.com

credentialsmgmt@yahoo.co.in

bharti@thepremierconsultants.com

bhavna_das@rediffmail.com

deepti.singh@neweraindia.com

dinesh@demosindia.com

dishahrd@ricmail.com

durga.devis@wipro.com

endsearch@rediffmail.com

rajeni.varghese@db.com

enquiry@falconcell.com

excelsoftnet@gmail.com

exult.solutions@gmail.com

followup@uklgig.org.uk

fortunehr123@gmail.com

friendsplacement_ahm@rediffmail.com

gasplacements@rediffmail.com

gaurav@shirlynindia.com

gcsjobs@rediffmail.com

glossy@vsnl.com

You can send your video resume to the companies and consultants so as to clear your first round with your resume only.

Make a different approach from other job seekers.

Best part is

no upload or down load-no one can change your content

work as a link only- size is the same as your cv (in kb only)

you can roll back any time or change your vieo resume any time.

If you don't know about video resume, mail me i will prepare your video resume,

hr.jobs102@gmail.com with blog video resume in the subject line.