PRESENTATION ON E- RESUME

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Summary of one’s life –details of education, experiences and achievement

• Personal Details – Name and Address, Ph.No, email and own home page or web page

• Easy to read language, design, focus on the job, quotes from people

• Look at the job(s) you apply• Use font size 10-12, Arial/Times New

Roman style• Typed in A4 size paper

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Electronic Curriculum Vitae

• E-resumes are basically plain text document.

• E-resumes can be easily transmitted, stored and searched.

• Important aspect of an e-resume is the use of appropriate keywords.

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Need for e-resume

• Changes in the job searching process

• Employers migrate to the IT enabled style of recruiting

• Employers often gathers resumes for their databases.

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Trial Transmission:

• Before sending a C.V. by e-mail to an employer, send it to your own e-mail address as a trial.

• Confirm that everything is fine and then transmit to the employer.

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Scannable C.V.• The C.Vs are subjected to scanning

• This is done with the help of an OCR System (Optical Character Recognition System)

• OCR System transfer the paper documents to editable computer files

• The OCR System creates a text file in ASCII and then reads the text and then extracts the required information.

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Points to be remembered while preparing C.V. for OCR System:

• Use only plain fonts and usual font size• Avoid capitals for whole C.V.• For emphasis, use capital or bold letters. Avoid

underlining, boxes, italics, bullet points and graphics

• Avoid symbols (% and &), use text style.• Do not use landscape layout• Remove unnecessary spaces and gaps.• Avoid columnar structure.

Points to be remembered while preparing C.V. for OCR System:

• Use sub-headings that are easily understood (use capital letters).

• Provide a summary that includes the key words

• Use a good printer• Avoid fax for sending C.V.• Never give a fancy e-mail id. Don’t

give your previous company name in your id

Points to be answered while selecting the Job/ Career1. What kind of person you are?2. Would you be prepared to move ?3. Would you be prepared to undergo more training ?4. Your expectations about the salary and benefits ?5. What is your long / short term goal?

Questions asked often to Undergraduates during the interview1. Tell me about yourself?2. What sort of job you are looking for ?3. What are your strengths?4. What are your weaknesses?5. What do you know about this company?6. Don’t you think you may be too old / young / in experienced ?7. Tell me about your mini Project / Thesis ?8. Describe your most rewarding extra curricular experience in college ?9. Tell me about your internship and part time jobs