In case you have been working for quite a time and it is best to keep your resume short and sweet. Suppose you have been working for 6 years or more so it doesn’t make sense to mention your 10th and 12th percentage.
Mentioning the details of your last degrees beneath it, the period, and 3-4 bullet points to highlight the CGPA, any relevant coursework or honors and that’s it! That’s enough!
But if you are a student, you will have a lot more to add to the education section.
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1. Mention your education before your experience, list down your institution name, degree, and the period in reverse chronological order up to the 10th standard, and then forget to have a separate column for your CGPA.
2. Next is the experience, of course, you are a fresher you can write much but there are few things which can mention if you are an engineer you would have done mini projects in every semester this is the perfect place to mention it all write the name of the project and in 1-2 line describes what is the project for mention any internship you have done mention any paper you have worked on, with your faculty.
3. Even if you used to take tuition for kids or worked in McDonald’s part-time to pay your college fees because it tells the hiring manager that you are committed and have developed a sense of professionalism early in your life.
4. The final change would be, in case you are a student, there are a lot of things that you can mention under the additional sections
5. The best thing is to bring your competitive exam score like IIT/JEE, CAT rank, you can also mention the name of the college fest you have participated in like hackathons, coding contests, paper presentation contests.
6. You can even write about the initiatives you took while you were at college like taking care of your college website or newsletter or even maintaining your blog.
Skills
Typically for a software job, you can mention the languages and technologies and rate them according to the knowledge and make sure to work and enhance the skills which have been mentioned in the requirement section of the job description.
If you are not from the software field then you mention your communication skills, leadership skills, managerial skills, critical thinking skills, social media skills, project management skills do not mention the skills that have been included in the job description
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Additional Sections
This is the best part to brag about any awards, certifications, publications, patents, volunteer work, languages that you know, extracurricular activities, any online courses attended any other hobbies that are relevant to the position you are applying for just pick up the best two sections and write.
Now the Most Important Points
1. Keep your resume to 1-page maximum if you information that is relevant to the position you apply to then go ahead and add an extra page but if you are adding fluffs just for the sake of adding pages then your resume will suffer
2. Always proofread and double-check your resume because nothing hurts a resume more than a grammatical error
3. Th most important point never lie in your resume if you don’t have skills you might not get that job but if you lie then you might not be called for any future jobs the company might have. Sometimes it’s okay to not have skills most companies would be ready to train you.
Honesty is a skill no company compromises for.
