CCS355 Neural Network & Deep Learning Unit II Notes with Question bank .pdf
Resume Guide: 40+ Tips for an Interview-Worthy Resume
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2. Resume is summary of your educational qualification details
It highlights your skills and experience relevant to the field
It highlights your objective and accomplishments
Its purpose is to get you an Interview call
A resume should reflect more than just work experience
It should consider your extracurricular, and leadership qualities
7. Key notes for Functional Resume
Should include personal details like name address.
Objective describing position you seek.
Profile giving summary of your talents and experience.
Experience listing your position, employer and dates.
Education details and Training Undergone.
Lastly Awards and Recognition received.
8. The hybrid resume balances the functional and
chronological approaches
Itstartswithskills, accomplishments, andqualifications ofthejobapplicant.
Second page isreverse chronological ordering of your work experience.
This format allows the reader to first match your qualification against job
opening.
It showcases your work experiences in the most marketable fashion.
It highlights your both job skills and accomplishments.
10. Acurriculum vitae(CV) provides anoverview of aperson's experience and
other qualifications.
It istypically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview.
an outline of a person's educational and professional history.
A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications.
Itisanapplication formthat isdesigned tobringout theessential
information and personal qualities that the employer requires.
11. Looking for a highly challenging and dynamic work environment,
where I can transform my knowledge to valuable work experience
and which can refine my research, managerial, &learning skills.
Totake achallenging position in an esteemed organization with
devotion and determination, so that it can enhance myskills and
knowledge in the best interests of the organization and for my
personal and professional growth.
Toobtainameaningfulandchallengingposition inahealthy,
friendly and competitive atmosphere that enables metolearn and
excel. Believing that good team leadership and a hands-on
approach to management brings increased standards of services.
12. Personal details
Education and qualifications
Work experience
Interests and achievements
Skills
References
13. Benefits of online resume.
• You cansubmit your resume onany online jobportal website which will
manage your resume and make it visible to employers.
• You can update your resume online anytime and anywhere.
• Add your "resume page address" into your e-mail's signature.
• Attach files such as Certificates, Word documents, PDF, and databases.
• Add up to 5 different photos.
• Very easy-to-use and it is Free.
14. Career Change Resume
Entry Level Experience Resume
Public Information Director Resume
Quality Review Auditor Resume
Writer Resume
Dispatcher Resume
15. List your technical knowledge first, in an organized way.
List your qualifications in order of relevance, from most toleast.
Quantify your experience whereverpossible.
Begin sentences with action verbs.
Highlighting all of your strengths.
Beconcise resumes reflecting fiveyears orless experience should fiton
one page
Omit needlessitems.
Have a trusted friend review your resume.
Proofread. Be sure to catch all spelling errors, grammatical weaknesses.
16. • List your activities
Write aboutactivities
Pick items tohighlight
Create resumesections
Format yourresume
Study ResumeExamples
17. Paintsapositive andfactualpicture of
YOU.
Setsapositive tonefortheinterview.
Guides the interviewer in what to ask.
Influences others who approve the hiring.
18. Chooseajobtarget(alsocalleda“jobobjective”).
Anactualjob title works best.
Find out what skills, knowledge, and experience are
needed to do that target job.
Make a listof your 3 or 4 strongest skills, abilities,
knowledge that make you agood candidate forthat
target job.
Foreach keyskill,think ofseveral accomplishments
fromyourpastworkhistorythatillustratethatskill.
Describe each accomplishment inasimpleaction
statement that emphasizes results
19. Make a list of the primary jobs you’ve held in
chronological order. Includeunpaid workthatfillsagap.
Make a listof your training and education that isrelated
to the new job youwant.
Choose aresume format that fitsyoursituation—either
chronological or functional.
Arrange your action statements on your resume
according to the format you chose.
Summarize your key points at or near the top of your
resume in about five short lines.
20. FOCUS: The people who have the hardest
time finding a job are often the ones who
insist onwriting a“generic” resume that
lists everything they ever did. They
HOPE some employer will figure out what
job will fit them….but employers won’t do
that; they’re looking for people who know
what they want.
21. about it.
Find thatinformation injobads, in
employer’s job descriptions, or from
someone workinginthatfield.
Informational interviewing is one of the
BEST ways tofind outexactly what skills
the job requires. Visitsomeone whodoes
that kind of work and ask them to tellyou
22. Examples taken fromresumes:
Target job : Customer Service representative
Relevant skills : verbal skills
problem solving skills
computer skills
customer care skills
Target job: Department Manager
Relevant Skills : Personnel Management
Budgeting/Financial Planning
Supervision andTraining
23. Examples taken fromresumes:
Job Objective: Electronic Sales Representative
Direct Sales and Product Demonstration
Set sales recordfor 3 consecutivemonths.
Exceeded quotas andincreased salesinlargest
territory
Job Objective: Merchandising display
Display
Setupeffectiveretaildisplaysofbeverages i
n
supermarketsand package stores
Inventoriedandreordereddisplaymaterials
25. Increased account base by 50% at two locations.
Developed friendly, supportive relationships with coffee
shop customers, building a loyal base of repeat
customers.
Advised callers on how to make connections.
Designed and presented hour-long weekly orientation
program; doubled membership
Assembled materials and reports.
Developed greatly improved filing system saving time.
Transformed a disorganized warehouse into asmooth-
running organization; saved $250,000 in recovered
stock.
26. • List your most recent job first, then your earlier jobs.
• Include ALL jobs IF you are young and have very
little work experience
• Include ALL jobs that show experience related to
your job objective
• Include unpaid work if ithelps to prove you have
skills and experience or it fills in a gap.
• Omit jobs that were very brief UNLESS they are
needed to show how you developed your skills—or to
fill in a skimpy work history.
• Round all employment dates to years.
27. • Eliminate the earliest jobs; go back only 10-15 years
• If you did roughly the same kind of odd job repeatedly,
you could create your own job title and callyourself self-
employed.
28. If you’ve worked with alot of staffing services, here’s how tohandle
that gracefully. Listtheagencyasthe employerandpickonejob
title that covers most of the temporary work. Then list the specific
assignments, accomplishments, andthe experiencegained.
29. If you are CURRENTLY unemployed, it
would help a LOT to find an immediate short-
term opportunity to get some unpaid
volunteer work experience, preferably in your
line of work, and put that on your resume
now. This will look better than being
unemployed. Don’t use the word “volunteer”.
Rename the category “Work History”.
30. If you have gaps in your work experience, tell
what you WERE doing as gracefully as
possible rather than leave a gap.
Examples:
2007-09 Full-time parent
2009-11 Maternity leave and family
management
2011-13 Full time student
31. Omit high school if you have academic
credentials fromcollege.
Mention your college work even if you
don’t plan to get a degree.
32. Omit this section IF you have no training, no
collegeexperience,andnocoursestolistthatare
in any way related to your new job goal.
If you completed a training class, list thecertificate
you earned.
Ifyouonlycompletedpartofthetraining,listevery
courseyoutookthatisdirectlyrelatedtoyour
current job target.
33. Choose chronological if you’re staying in the
same field and you have an unbroken
employment history
Chronological means your work experience is
arrange in order by dates of the jobs you’ve
held with the most recent first. This one places
more emphasis on your JOB TITLES
34. Functional means your work experience isdescribed by
emphasizing the SKILLS involved. Put the descriptive details
into
skill-group paragraphs.
Example:
RELEVANT SKILL #1
-something I did using that skill
-something Idid using that skill
RELEVANT SKILL #2
-something Idid using that skill
-something Idid using that skill
Job Title, Company, City, province, dates
Job Title, Company, City, province, dates
35. category.
If you chose a chronological format, place
each action statement under the
appropriate job title where the action
happened.
If you chose a functional format, place
eachaction statement under askill
36. Keep each summary statement to one line. Include key
points that a new employer will need to know and those
that will make you look attractive and qualified for the new
job.
Examples:
- How much experience in this line of work
- Training or education in this line of work
- A special accomplishment or recognition
-Your key skills, talents, special knowledge
-Something about your attitude or work ethics
37. Proofread for grammar and
punctuation.
Check the spelling.
Get feedback from someone
experienced.
38. Parker,Yana Damn Good Resume
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Parker, Yana The Resume Catalog :
200 Damn Good Examples, Ten
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