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-
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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