Best Plan to follow while making a resume

Although the title is quite generic, most tips and overall content is best suited to

Every employee is a Human Resource, and HR recruiters & existing employees together work to recruit new employees. To oversimplify how the job market works, demand is when a business needs to scale and needs more human resources and supply is the pool of people/candidates interested in working with said business.

Around the early 90s, for core-software roles there were lesser number of skilled candidates and more job opportunities so nearly everyone who applied got a chance to interview. This is a simple effect of the supply & demand concept as there was less supply of skilled resources but a growing demand in the IT field.

Now, things are different. There are a vast number of established companies across the world with huge number of employees under them already. In particular, if you are in a over-populated country like India there is a churn of new grads every year with a large majority aiming for a software/tech based role with suitable compensation. Note that the over-abundance of supply now is only for core-software roles based on frameworks which are established for a over a decade. There is still a deficit in the supply for emerging fields like ML, Cyber security, and some others. While it does seem like an opportunity to some, these are emerging and candidates for such roles in big firms are usually expected to have extensive studies such as PhD for them.

With an over-abundance of applicants for every opening, there are 2 side-effects

So the above leads to a still underrated document as of today called the résumé which in my opinion is nearly as important as your offer letter in the recruitment process. To make the best pitch about yourself in a brief and organized manner is the purpose of résumé, or to put it more bluntly to improve your chance of securing job opportunities if you’re a job seeker.

If we walk through the above résumé, we will find a number of faults. To mention a few

Overall we could assess a résumé quality with 2 simple factors

Simply put, lack of the above essentially implies a poor quality of the résumé. Writing great content per section and then ordering the section in itself encapsulates organizing and structuring your résumé (both are inter-dependent). There are finer grained factors like grammatical correctness, reverse chronological ordering, priority of sections, unnecessary graphics/fonts, and so on.

If we walk through the above résumé, we will find a few improvements. This also looks better aesthetically, and has better organized content. To mention a few

Education still does not have grade/percentile which is required for new grads and would be good to have for up to 1–2 years of experience at least.

The pre-requisite would be to build a well balanced profile by

Author’s note: The second point is slightly controversial, I’m aware. But the overall topic is referring to a full-time job, and this in particular is referring to part-time internships, student programs, freelancing contracts and other intermediary forms of work experience.

That’s it, good luck and happy job hunting to the reader! For more information and resources go through below links.

Apart from above, keep these points in my mind :

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