Resume is your first impression.| First impression is the last impression.

What a resume should contain.?

Before answering this question, let me explain what is a resume? What do recruiters expect from a resume?

Resume:

A resume is a document used by a person to present their qualifications, skills, and experiences. Resumes can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment.

Recruiters or employers expect all the relevant details in the resume. Such as your relevant skills, qualifications, and experiences. So, a perfect resume must contain only the relevant information in it.

There are several articles available on this topic, but I’m writing this to help the people in writing their resume effectively in a precise manner. So, let me start with some key points, a good resume should contain.

1.       Keep in mind that, your resume is your first impression. And you know that the First impression is the last impression. It should be very perfect.

2.       Write all the relevant information very clearly and put the information into separate sections.

3.       Format the document effectively, with proper fonts size, paragraph styles, and line spacing, etc.

4.       Set the page layouts, margins and size properly.

5.       And finally, check the entire document for grammar and spelling mistakes. Rectify the mistakes if any.

The precise and effective resume should contain the following sections.

1.Name and contact details:

This section should contain the Full official name and the basic contact details such as Email Id, Mobile No. and Skype Id etc.

2.Career objective:

A career objective should be very precise and clear. It should be a very realistic and honest statement, showing a positive attitude of self and the company’s growth. A career objective should be a minimum of two lines and the maximum of the four lines. I’ll suggest the optimum of three lines.

3.Professional Summary:

The professional summary section should contain the summary of the work experience and the major skill sets along with the key responsibilities and areas/domains worked on. It’s a showcase of all your professional areas with respect to the technologies worked on.

4. Professional Experience:

This section will contain the list of the companies and the duration of the working periods in the respective companies. Also, mention the No. of years or months worked in that company.

5.Technical skills:

The list of the technical skills having hands-on and also the technologies or skills are known, go here in this section. You can highlight the skills or technologies according to the Job description.

6.Educational qualifications:

This section is basically important for the freshers but the seniors can also showcase their academics if they have good grades. The details of all the educational qualifications will be showcased here. The details should contain the Course name, Board or university, year of passing and Grade/Percentage.

7.Additional Certificates:

All the additional certificates related to the skill sets can be listed out here.

8.Projects /Work done details:

The summarised description of the projects worked on along with the modules and key responsibilities handled and the learning outcomes from the project should be mentioned in this section.

9.Personal details:

Personal details should contain the Father’s name, Mother’s name, date of birth, marital status and Nationality etc.

10.Declaration and closure:

Declaration statement for the correctness and truthfulness of the provided information in the all above the section along with the Signature, Place, and date as the closure of the document.

All these are the important sections a resume should contain. Let me provide you a sample resume to demonstrate all these sections.

 SAMPLE RESUME