Key to perfect resume

A perfect resume is suppose to be the one getting you to the interviews and for all competitive job-postings advertised, there would be piles of resumes and the recruiter would be very blunt in short-listing based on what catches his eyes.
There is no “One Perfect Resume format” and the only goal of it is to get you to an interview.

Here are few tips that are worth-mentioning and should find some constructs in your resume-dimensioning exerciese:
(It took some of my precious time writing it down, better take some of yours too for the benefits associated).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

>Your complete name (better at the top to get to recruiter’s RAM and catalog)
>Contact info: One telephone number (better be your cell-number; in case of PSTN Home number, recruiter might not bother to leave a message with your mom for you to call him back; He prefer not advertising his contact number at all
>Email address: One professional email address that you have designated for serious business purposes; if you are a macho-man to hold multiple email addresses, better keep it to your social circle, need not to circulate into your professional circle. Also that email address should depict your maturity; your name and not your social adventures like alfa007@…… or your association with your date of birth or enrolement in courses like bita1980@… or gamma1648@….
alpha.beta@…. should be fine.
>If you have your professional profile on-net, like LinkedIn or so with references, drop a referencing to that as well.
>Don’t need to mention your Date of Birth and NIC. Recruiter doesn’t want to update his “Birthday Calender”.
>Your colored passport sized photograph is not required, he’ll judge your personality from the interview.

OBJECTIVE STATEMENT:

Clearly indicating what you are looking for in terms of your intended scope of work. Better it be in-line with the job-description you are applying for. No need for soap-opera dialogues like “i’m looking for a challenging role in a multi-national organization to groom my technical & interpersonal skills” bla bla bla. Its not a plus-point for the professional thought.

SUMMARY OF WORK-EXPERIENCE:

It becomes mandetory when you had worked for several organizations in different roles & technologies for more than 5 years or so.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

>Organization Name (and hyper-link to official site, particularly if its not a globally known ornganization)
>Your designation with start and end of role
>Brief summary of your generalized scope of work (don’t be too explainatory what you do on fridays and on mondays)- Better be in bullets
>Your achievements in a tangible and measurable way with your scope of work.

EARLIER CAREERS:

>All jobs that are too old (5 Years minus) and are not too significant to current role you are applying doesn’t need too much of narration but might be worth-mentioning.
>Some recruitment companies do prefer to know “How long you have been associated with particular industry” and count in over-all years of experience. Particularly when they are hiring for senior roles requiring 7 ~ 10 years of experience)

EDUCATION PROFILE:

>Noone is interested to know about your SSC & HSSC. First degree that should be mentioned should be your professional degree, i.e. BS
>Don’t need to mention your grades or achievements; no-one is practically interested in knowing what you had been doing in university, if you were “CR” or a medalist or a topper. These things does matter when you are finding an association with curriculum related jobs but not in rest of organizations / roles.
>Don’t mention your final year / term projects if you are not applying for the first job after graduation and if your project has not a lot to do with the job you are applying for.
> Degree Title, Insitution Complete Name, Date of start and end of degree confirming 4-years of professional degree; these information are mandetory.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR:

Generally those who want you at work, are least interested in your hobbies and life after work. If you want to include for a casual-conversation in HR Interview, that’s a different thing.

REFERENCES:

References are generally required in second stage of the whole process when the recruiter wants to authenticate your previous jobs and wants a feed-back. (Apart from the cases when you have authoritative references in organization you are applying for)
If / when he asks for it, priortize providing for your line-managers and senior managers references (your colleagues doesn’t matter much in this regard).

On a seperate note, cover-letters become mandetory when you are applying to an organization which has not advertised jobs as yet.
Cover-letter is another debate, i’ll get back on that some other time.

Following above formating, your resume wouldn’t be more than 2 pages and shouldn’t be either.

Just keep in mind that your Resume is your Professional Face.

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