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.



  • Career achievement- If you think that you have got some career related achievements means earned a scholarship or so or even rewards for your work at the previous company and then this is the section to talk about the same.
 For an example, a technical analyst can add his achievements like
  • Received various letters of recommendations from employers and customers for the excellence in the job poison I held at XYZ firm for a period of 2 years. Also awarded the star performer of the year at the end of the current financial year.   
  • Trained and developed an effective team that was able to sell to a market where high expertise in the said was a major criterion. 
  • Experiences- Previous work experiences also plays important role in landing you for a good job. You shall keep yourself well prepared as during the central process of the interview, the potential employers shall ask you questions about the responsibilities you underwent and overtook in your previous job. You shall try to include the most recent job experience description in the top order followed by others in the same occurrence.
  • Example- Senior Technical Analyst- ABC Company Pvt Limited- for 2 years Till Present.
    Technical Analyst – XYZ Company Limited, Bangalore- For 3 Years.
    Educational Credential- Now come the vital aspect of writing your desired technical analyst resume. Your educational qualification has to be in a tabular format with respect to the degrees the candidate has undergone in the past. The most recent degree shall be written about in the top order followed by others in the same order of occurrence. 
  • Example- MBA- FINANCE+MARKETING- 2010- Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune. 
  • BA-JOURNALISM-2008- Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. 
  • Certificates- Advance computer application- Jaipur- 2003   
  • Honors, if any- If a financial analyst for an example, has won any national or state level honors then this is the section to list about the same. For an instance, under a financial analyst resume, one can talk about any conference and seminars attended or coordinated in. 
  • References- References are basically not taken to call other people you know to have a more suitable candidate for the post applied. It is for the purpose of gauging by the potential employers to understand as to what kind of people you are associated with. The same is taken upon by recruiters to make an opinion about your peers that how would you be useful for the company at what post. 
  • Example of references- Mr. Daniel,
                                               Senior Manager,
                                               Times Group of Companies,
                                               Daniel@timesgroup.com
                                                09730443851 

In addition the useful tips for writing a technical analyst resume, let’s see the most frequently asked questions or what forms the basic crust of the business analyst resume questions for an example. You can also look for different resume samples over the internet for references. What is so lucrative about this job and what is unattractive .

  • What is so lucrative about this job and what is unattractive?
  • How long can you be with us if provide the desired job?
  • What in your opinion forms an ideal work environment?
  • We have seen many candidates, but why shall we hire you as an analyst?
  • How do you motivate people to improve performances? 
  • What type of performance problems you have seen in people reporting to you. 

By now, you must have got the basic idea as to how to successfully write a technical business analyst resume. Just follow these simple tips in order to book your date with your potential employer for an esteemed interview and win the desired job, respectively!

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