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‘Hi, I wished to use to a position at your organization.’! Forward me your resume and I’ll get back to you.’
4 days later, you are still wondering why you didn’t get a callback. Don’t be alarmed; this is because your resume didn’t demonstrate how you would meet the requirements of the employer effectively.
What? But I copy-pasted my best friend’s resume format. Well, it wasn’t enough to grab the employer’s attention. Before I tell you how to write a resume to make the recruiters’ heads turn, let’s have a look at what a resume exactly is.
A resume is a document, required as a part of an internship application, that summarizes your education, skills, achievements, and internship/training experiences if any. A student resume contains essential details that associate degree leader must comprehend you before giving you an edge in her organization.
Now, I know you have already googled how to create a resume a hundred times and seen all professional resume formats, but if you still don’t have the answer to what to include in a resume and how to do it, here is a detailed insight into how to make a resume that will catch the eye of your recruiter.
These form the heading of your resume and include your name, email id, phone number, and address. You can either use a large font for your name and list your contact details underneath it or use the same font for all the details.
A few points to keep in mind while adding these details –
a. Ensure that you’re available on the phone number and email if you’re putting on your resume. Put a professional email id on the resume like ajay12@gmail.com or priya.jain@gmail.com and not hunk_ajay@gmail.com or priya_angel@hotmail.com.
b. You needn’t write your complete postal address; mention the locality and city.
Also, don’t write each your permanent and temporary address – your current address can suffice!
Most of the students use the common template for ‘career objective’ which states things that half of us even don’t understand the meaning of. Before you copy-paste the same statement again, let me say it – you know you don’t mean it and the employer knows it better.
So, should you skip it? Of course, not! If written properly, it could grab the attention of an employer to your application in the first 2 seconds. Include the skills you have that are required for the internship, mention your interest in the resume field, and what you can bring to the table.
Tips:
a. Don’t use more than three lines
b. Do not use a personal pronoun.
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This section includes your educational degrees along with your institution, your aggregate percentage, and the (expected) year of graduation.
Tips:
a. Always follow the reverse chronological order, i.e. the most recent ones first.
b. Do not mention the percentage/CGPA obtained in all the semesters, rather write the aggregate.
When you are applying for an engineering internship, your technical skills are tantamount to your role. You can categorize your skills and use bullets to list them. For instance, if you’re applying to a web development internship, you can categorize your skills like programming languages, web technologies, etc.
Management students can list their interpersonal skills like leadership qualities, communication skills, time management, critical thinking, etc. (Please don’t write assured and determined as your skills). While putting together this list, think of what you’ve learned in the classroom, previous internships, and college events. It may so happen that you’re in the first year of college and have no substantial technical skills. In such cases, enlist the technologies and concepts that you’ve learned so far. For instance,
With the details of your previous internships, this section depicts your learning curve and displays how you’ve grown as a candidate. List the companies that you have worked for, the duration, and your profile. Underneath these details, mention the responsibilities you handled and your achievements.
Along with this, mention the responsibilities you’ve handled during your college. Remember that this is where you have to be creative as well as smart. Let’s take the example of a customer support internship.
Now, if you write ‘Replied to student queries’, you aren’t depicting the gravity of your job. You could instead write – Addressed the concerns of 200 customers on a daily basis via emails and calls Identified and met customers’ needs by helping them register on the platform These statements would tell the employer that you are good at written and oral communication and have the ability to learn about a product in and out.
Now, what could be daunting is the fact that you are applying for your very first internship and have no prior experience. After all, employers need you to possess five years of expertise before you even graduate!
Well, leverage your positions of responsibility in such cases. For example, if you are an editor for your college magazine, it could be a relevant experience in landing you a content writing internship. While you talk about this, emphasize your research skills, attention to detail, and communication skills.
– As a college student, you work on various projects as a part of your course. These projects on your resume depict your conceptual knowledge and practical skills. Include the name of your project, and a brief description of what it does and how it works all about, and mention your role and responsibility in the project explicitly.
– Herein, you enlist all the certified training that you have taken up so far. These add quality to your skills and signal the recruiter that you’re qualified enough to require up the work. If you haven’t done a substantial number of training, you can merge it with the ‘Work Experience’ section and name it ‘Internships and Training’.
8. Additional details
– This section club your achievements and extra-curricular activities and acts as a savior when you are taking your first step towards your career. Listing out the details of participation in various college events and competitions denotes your holistic growth as a student and give the recruiter an insight into your talents and capabilities and a glimpse of your soft skills – confidence, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and dedication.
Now, strike off those school singing and dancing activities from your resume – it’s not going to land you a marketing internship, is it? And please cut your JEE, AIEEE, and AMCAT ranks unless they are very good! Also, a big no to writing ‘Donated blood’ unless you organized the blood donation camp!
Include your involvement in student organizations and clubs, your volunteering experience, and scholarships. Mention your volunteering experiences along with the activities and competitions you were a part of. If you have given on-stage performances, list them – yes, dancing and singing at college are allowed.
Once you have assembled all the information on your Word Doc, take a scissor and edit out the irrelevant details and shorten the sentences wherever possible. Then, check your resume for typos, spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors – nothing is a bigger turnoff than grammatical errors on one’s resume.
Related: Top 20 soft skills to put on the resume.
In a few minutes, select a resume writing template and put all these details on paper as per the chosen format. You can select from a plethora of resume formats for fresher’s or take the help of an online resume maker. It is just like the Internshala resume. You can also have a look at a professional resume and make your resume using these Internshala recommended sample resumes for fresher’s – Sample-internship-resume, Resume-template-1, and Resume-template-2.
Finally, here are some quick resume writing tips and tricks that you should keep in mind.
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Finally, you have created a resume that employers can’t help but notice. What next? Well, do what you made the resume for – apply to some super cool internships and kick-start your career.
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