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Being worked in IT MNCs and managed to crack most of the interviews, I have learned and noticed what should go in a Professional Resume. Make your Resume look simple and readable.No IT interview is difficult to get through, an answer to-the-point makes your job done.
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Here is my sample Resume...
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(Header section your name, email and contact number.)
This section can be specified in center too, but I prefer on left hand side. If it is in center, reader has to move his eyes from center to left to read the next section.
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Prakash Punekar
Email: info@SimplyITJob.com
Daytime phone: 91 0 000-000-0000(Specify Country code/area code along with your number)
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| Professional Summary:(This should be most impressive. 90% of Resumes gets short listed after reading this section. You can also specify your achievements as an added advantage.) |
Over 09 years of progressive IT industry experience in various positions and skills that includes
JAVA, JSP, SERVLETS, EJB, JDBC, STRUTS, Hibernate, Spring, XML, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL,
SQL loader, UNIX shell Scripting, WSAD, Sun Java Studio, Eclipse, RAD, TOAD. |
| Extensively used Oracle triggers, packages, stored procedures, and functions. |
Have been involved in mentoring team members in the areas of Java, JSP, Struts and web servers
and Application servers. |
Business verticals mostly worked on financial services / Banking / CRM / Mutual Funds
and Brokerage / Manufacturing and conversant with finance industry terminology and protocols. |
In-depth understanding of requirements analysis, system/module design, coding, peer-reviews,
testing, and documentation activities of software development life cycle (SDLC). |
| A self-starter with excellent Communication, Interpersonal, and Analytical skills. |
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| Education:(Specify your recent qualification) |
| B.E(Computer Science) |
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| Technical Skills:(Specify your technical skills in a table without border) |
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| Professional Experience:(Specify the Projects you have worked starting with recent project) |
| Employer Name and location (duration, from-to) |
| Your position/role |
| Project title/name/URL |
| Brief description about the project, avoid un-necessary details |
| Responsibilities: |
Specify your actual responsibilities, dont write something you know but not have done.
Arrange each item with bullet. |
| Environment:(Specify the technologies used in the project) |
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| Follow the next Project |
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| Avoid things in your Resume
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Your Picture/Photo
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It appear unprofessional to include your photo/picture in your Resume for an IT job (unless you are an actor).
Your photo might invite a discrimination before the HR/Hiring Manager has taken a look at your entire Resume.
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Your age, religion or political affiliation
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Your age, religion or political affiliation has no relation to the job(IT) you are seeking to.
No HR/Hiring Manager has any business to do with these things.Unless you have done some social activities and
have a proper achievements that could add an advantage to your inter-personal skills, it would be totally irrelevant to
include it in your Resume.
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Your Hobbies/Interests
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Including hobbies in your Resume will leave an impression of an inexperience.No where in the IT environment,
you will be allocated work related to your hobbies.
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All educational details
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In an IT job, what matters more is the valid experience and skills. If you are an experienced Software Professional,
include your highest earned qualification in your Resume,and provide rest of the educational details at the time of
interview if asked. It makes more relevant for a new Job Seeker to include all the educational details with
percentage/grade achieved.
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Salary
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Do not include your current/expected Salary on your Resume, if you have not done enough research on the
job/post you are applying to.There are two things,
A Job/post might offer more Salary than what you have specified in your Resume. You might get hired for less Salary.
A Job/post might offer less Salary than what you have specified in your Resume. Your Resume may not get shortlisted.
Remember, getting shortlisted is the first step in your Job hunt, Salary can be negotiated later.
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