Making the right Curriculum Vitae....(Yeah that's the full form of CV....!!! )
Well CV indeed plays a very important part in your placement. The right CV could make all the difference.
All it takes to make the right CV is a few tips ( which we will give you right here) and a lot of knowledge about your own self.
The Length of the CV
Two pages at maximum, which means two sides of a single page. Keep it short and simple. There was this interesting question asked by a company in it's pre-placement talk last year. And I'm going to ask the same question to you guys.
How much time do you think the interviewer gives to a single CV?
1 min? 2 mins ? 30 secs? 10 secs?
Try answering it....before you check the ans....
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30 secs....!!!
Are you surprised ?
Don't be because with hundreds of CV's to scan interviewers are left with no other choice. So what do you do? How to stand out among the crowd ?
Well it's simple, make your CV in bullets. When reading a long article isn't it easier when it is in a list form? So you do the same with you CV...
Break it down in a manner that highlights your key areas in just 30 secs.
After you're done try glancing through you CV for 15 secs and if you can read what you want the interviewer to read you have reached your goal....!!!
Format of the CV
Well there are plethora of formats available on the internet. You can simply download anyone that suits your need, but keep in mind...the bullet reading concept. We no longer read FB statuses that are more than four lines, but we read the scoop whoop articles that are as long as one full page. The conclusion ?
Break it down to list format. This not only makes your CV easier to read but also prevents you from too much description of a single thing.
Keep the font size to 11 and 12, the font style plain and simple, preferable Times New Roman and such.
Don't try to make it too compact to fit in more information or give too much space in between the sub headings.
So I guess by now you know which formats to prefer...!!!
Content of the CV
Now we come to the final thing, what really matters, the content.
1) First and foremost thing is to keep in mind that more than 50% of the CV's are fake...!!! Do not write things you just have heard or used once in your entire engineering course.
For eg: "Good knowledge of Computer Graphics" only because you made a simple project in your first semester.
Because Computer Graphics is a field much more than that. Once you are asked something that is mentioned in you CV you cannot say you do not know it. It's a complete no no....!!!
So you must know what you really have knowledge about and what you just have an idea about. Because "Having an Idea" doesn't make it good enough to be mentioned in your CV.
2) The second most important thing is that keeping in mind the job profile you are applying for. Yes, you need to have Different CV's for Different Companies...!!! You cannot mention about your programming skills when applying for the post of an Analyst and about you debating skills when applying for Developer profile. By now you would have guessed that an Analyst job profile is a non-technical one and the Developer job profile is the technical profile.
So the key here is to read the job description and the job expectations that would be mailed to you before you sit for the interview.
Well CV indeed plays a very important part in your placement. The right CV could make all the difference.
All it takes to make the right CV is a few tips ( which we will give you right here) and a lot of knowledge about your own self.
The Length of the CV
Two pages at maximum, which means two sides of a single page. Keep it short and simple. There was this interesting question asked by a company in it's pre-placement talk last year. And I'm going to ask the same question to you guys.
How much time do you think the interviewer gives to a single CV?
1 min? 2 mins ? 30 secs? 10 secs?
Try answering it....before you check the ans....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
30 secs....!!!
Are you surprised ?
Don't be because with hundreds of CV's to scan interviewers are left with no other choice. So what do you do? How to stand out among the crowd ?
Well it's simple, make your CV in bullets. When reading a long article isn't it easier when it is in a list form? So you do the same with you CV...
Break it down in a manner that highlights your key areas in just 30 secs.
After you're done try glancing through you CV for 15 secs and if you can read what you want the interviewer to read you have reached your goal....!!!
Format of the CV
Well there are plethora of formats available on the internet. You can simply download anyone that suits your need, but keep in mind...the bullet reading concept. We no longer read FB statuses that are more than four lines, but we read the scoop whoop articles that are as long as one full page. The conclusion ?
Break it down to list format. This not only makes your CV easier to read but also prevents you from too much description of a single thing.
Keep the font size to 11 and 12, the font style plain and simple, preferable Times New Roman and such.
Don't try to make it too compact to fit in more information or give too much space in between the sub headings.
So I guess by now you know which formats to prefer...!!!
Content of the CV
Now we come to the final thing, what really matters, the content.
1) First and foremost thing is to keep in mind that more than 50% of the CV's are fake...!!! Do not write things you just have heard or used once in your entire engineering course.
For eg: "Good knowledge of Computer Graphics" only because you made a simple project in your first semester.
Because Computer Graphics is a field much more than that. Once you are asked something that is mentioned in you CV you cannot say you do not know it. It's a complete no no....!!!
So you must know what you really have knowledge about and what you just have an idea about. Because "Having an Idea" doesn't make it good enough to be mentioned in your CV.
2) The second most important thing is that keeping in mind the job profile you are applying for. Yes, you need to have Different CV's for Different Companies...!!! You cannot mention about your programming skills when applying for the post of an Analyst and about you debating skills when applying for Developer profile. By now you would have guessed that an Analyst job profile is a non-technical one and the Developer job profile is the technical profile.
So the key here is to read the job description and the job expectations that would be mailed to you before you sit for the interview.