Your résumé is your public relations manager. An effective resume acts as a highway that leads to your dream job. An effective resume is the first step in getting the right job.

Resume-preparation varies from person to person depending on his/her experience, qualifications, post applied and the position applied for.

To narrow your search, we have included the following types of resumes.

1. Entry-level resumes
2. Middle-level resumes
3. Senior-level resumes

The following points are however, common to all resumes:

• Your resume should be a précis about yourself.
• Your resume should tell everything about yourself in the right words.
• Your resume should be sincere, and
• Your resume should have absolute clarity of thoughts.

Entry-Level Resumes:

An entry-level resume is one of the most intriguing ones to prepare. This is because; a fresher generally has little or no experience and hence has the difficulty of convincing his/her prospective employer to consider him/her. Hence the importance of preparing an effective entry-level resume.

A few tips for preparing an entry-level resume:

1.      Be simple, ideally, an entry-0level resume should not exceed a page.

2.      Project your personality (your strengths, aptitudes, interests, goals etc.), in a simple point-wise manner.

3.      Be very clear. Your resume should not giver the impression that you are undecided and confused.

4.      Mention clearly your training/summer jobs, if any, and the nature of workyopu were assigned and the responsibilities if any.

5.      Do not forget to mention your major achievements. Be confident and never underestimate the value of your achievements. Again, this has to be done in a point-wise and lucid fashion.

6.      Be specific while mentioning your interests. Merely saying reading (to take an example) will not suffice. You might read anything but there surely is a certain king books that interest you. Example: Reading Philosophy.

7.      Finally, be sincere. You might land in a soup for projecting untrue things about yourself. Never underestimate interviewers. Remember, when it comes to grilling others, people get smarter.

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Middle-level resumes

These are resumes of job seekers with a few years of experience, between 2 and 8 years. The problem in applying for middle level jobs is, intense competition. Generally, there is stiff competition for middle level jobs, and this makes middle-level resume-preparation a challenge. Thorough professionalism, while being different is very important. Try the following tips.

1. Understand the requirements: A middle level job seeker has to know  exactly the post he is applying for and the responsibilities attached to it. In other words, a middle level job seeker has to do his homework thoroughly before preparing a resume. He should have a good knowledge of the company he is applying for, their needs, and the responsibilities attached to the job he is applying for.
2. Pick up key words: Prospective employers generally use some key words to tell what type of candidates they are looking for. Identify those key words and incorporate them intelligently in your resume. ‘Good communications skills’, ‘team building abilities’, ‘out-of-the box-thinking’ etc. are some of the general key words. Remember, key words pertain to personality, not skills. Skills could differ from subject to subject. Write down the key words, if necessary, and incorporate them intelligently in your re4sume. Again, be sincere. If you feel, you do not have the necessary personality the job providers are asking for, and then it simply means you are not cut out for the job. But, generally it is not the case as a middle level job seekers is supposed to have developed at least some of the personality traits employers need.
3. Do not copy the key words as they are. Remember, employers don’t just mention key words because they are hip, they surely want such candidates. Give an impression that your resume has been prepared before you saw a particular job opening. For example, if you come across a key word such as team building abilities, change it to something like ‘an excellent team player’, and show how built or led a team in your previous jobs.
4. Have a clear-cut career objective. Merely saying you want to be in a senior management level or lead a team is no enough. Have clarity of thought. Sincerely, ask yourself what is your career objective and write it in a very lucid manner. It is important to say how you aim to reach your career objective. For example merely saying ‘I want to rise to the decision-taking level in an organization’ is not enough. You’ve got to say something like ‘To rise to the decision-taking level in an organization by contributing effectively to its growth’. Remember; always show what you are willing to give in return to achieve what you want. Only projecting what you want to achieve will give the impression, even if you are not so, that you are self-centered and want to take the easy route to success.
   
   The last but perhaps the most important aspect of a middle-level resume is projecting experience. All your experience is of no use if you do not projective it effectively. While keeping it lucid, it is very important to cover all aspects of our experience.
   
   Your projection of your experience starts, of course by your previous organizations. You can start either from your first job or your latest job. Remember to include the responsibilities you were assigned, the targets you achieved, the achievements you made, and any promotions/awards you got.
   
   While mentioning the responsibilities you had, be short but include everything about the team strength you led, to whom you reported and the area of work assigned to you.

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Senior-level Resume

People applying for senior level jobs need not worry much as much as freshers/middle level job seekers, about preparing a resume. Organizations generally look for people with more than 8 years of experience for senior level positions. However, there are a few tips in preparing a senior level resume can help you project yourself in a better way.

1.      Highlight your experience. Reserve most of the space in your resume for your experience. Mention as clearly as possible, in a point-wise manner, your various job profiles, your responsibilities and achievements.

2.      Be careful while mentioning your objectives/goals. Concentrate on what difference you would like to get into the organization. Your objectives should show how you would like to contribute to an organization’s growth with your experience/knowledge. Let your objective address macro issues rather than micro one. This is because, senior level positions demand people who can make a difference to the entire organization and not just at a few levels.

Do not write too much about your strengths. Your experience reflects them. Just mention them. Organizations interview people for senior level positions based, not on their resume, but on their experience.
 

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