Monday, December 27, 2010

Technical Resumes to Create that Lasting First Impression

A technical resume should clearly highlight your technical skills and expertise in it. This can be done by drafting a well structured resume using the ideal format and keywords related to the profession. Hence, it is necessary to draft a technical resume that would create that lasting first impression on your employer or recruiter that would help you get a job.

Some important guidelines which will help you to draft an effective technical resume are mentioned below:

  • Before drafting your own technical analyst resume , it is necessary to collect information about job, employer’s requirements. You can browse different websites and refer to the different sample technical resumes for more information. It will suggest the ideal format for drafting your own resume and also offers your resume writing tips.
  • In a technical resume, it is recommended to opt for traditional layout. This layout contains the important sections which are to be included in the resume like personal contact information, skills, educational qualifications, work experience, references.
  • The information included in the sections such as educational qualifications and work experiences are to be included in the reverse chronological order.
  • The resume should begin with the personal contact information such as your full name, address, email address, and phone numbers. This information included should be accurate and should help the employer to get back to you after an interview.
  • The job objective section is the most important section in a technical resume as it is the first section to be noticed by your recruiter/employer. This statement should clearly provide information about the post you have applied for and your career goals. It should be short and related to the position that you have applied for.
  • In the educational qualification section in your resume, it is necessary to include the information such as the degrees that you have pursued. You should also include any special certifications related to your profession in your resume. 
  • The work experience section included should contain information about the organization that you have worked for, the duration and the responsibilities undertaken by you in it. The description included in the resume should be short and focused. Use bulleted points for describing the job responsibilities. Long sentences should be usually avoided.
  • The resume should contain detailed information about the technical skills or expertise that you possess in your resume. It basically helps to create a lasting impression on the recruiters and create an impression that you are the suitable candidate applying for this post.
  • Include the keywords and action words related to the post that you have applied for. Revise all the contents included in the resume and make the necessary corrections in it. 
  • Avoid including sections such as hobbies and your interest areas in your technical resume. You can include any special achievements that you have received related to technical field in your resume. 
Thus, while drafting your own technical resume, you should carefully include the information in the resume and also consider the guidelines mentioned above. It will help you to create that lasting first impression on your employer with the help of your technical resume.
 


Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Tips For How to Write a Technical Resume

Everyone knows how to jot down a resume but many few know to do that correctly in the correct format. People are always curious to know as what should be the ingredients to make the resume palatable to the potential employer.

It’s not a complex issue but some time, the simplicity of some thing forces us to act as immature and that’s why mistakes happen when taken into longer consideration of time.

In the coming sections, we provide you the basic ingredients which a perspective candidate, especially a perspective technical business analyst shall include in his/her resume.

Let’s see some of the basic but unavoidable factors that may help you in writing a technical resume with ease.

  • Include job description- This is the most important section you must take care about while penning down a technical or any kind of resume to work for you. Example- Conducts needs assessment, reviews research & program literature. A problem proof gives a potential employer an idea that you are a responsible person and can be trusted for the job requirements at his/her own helm.
  • Contact Information- In this space, a perspective candidate shall include details about permanent and current address, mobile phone number, and e-mail id and not to forget you full name as written in your class 10th mark sheet.
  • Professional or career objective- Since your objective is about your goals you wan to achieve in certain duration of time and thus, needs to be direct and in a crisp and lucid language understandable by most of the lots of recruiters. In simple language, just write about where you want to be in career related life.
To attain a place in the Business Finance/Accounting area as a Cost Estimator/ Planner/Technical Analyst that will exploit my proficiency in cost management (i.e., estimating/planning/accounting) and will allow for progression.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Resumes

Resume is the first thing a potential employer looks at, at the time of interview and thus, the same needs to be power-packed one.

This blog would give you steps on how to make that desired technical resumes so that I can click for you at the right time.

We shall also include what steps not to be taken when going for wiring a resume.

Let’s first now what is meant by resumes?

A resume is the first document that’s presented to a recruiter when a perspective candidate goes for the job opening. This crucial document includes information from the job-seeker pertaining to educational qualifications, previous job experiences in his respective fields, projects, personal information.

 Mostly formal resumes are needed to be churned out by the candidates, but once in a blue moon, the perspective job-seeker can also go for that glossy resume especially for animation and related job, respectively.

Include quality resume objective statements to enhance the vitality of your resume. Let’s see the importance of the same in brief.

Why does a candidate need an objective to be listed in the resume for any job?