Standardization of CVs:

1. Spike points:
 Only 3 words per spike
 Bold all the spikes
 IIMK(Space)Committee/IG/Club (exception: Alumni Cell, IIMK)
For Case competitions:
 CompanyName(Space)Campus Finalist
 CompanyName(Space)National Finalist

For ABG Scholarship:

 ABG Scholarship Shortlist (if you are Top 20)

 ABG Scholarship Finalist (if you are Top 4)

No quotes or commas in Spike points

2. Class X, Class XII, 1st Semester

(the bolded letters are shown to highlight the required format, don’t bold these letters in your
resume)

It should not be Class 10, Class 10 th, Class Xth. Just ‘Class X’

3. First – 1st , Second – 2nd ; 1st and 2nd are not okay (superscript is required)
4. %ile – percentile
5. For numbers:
XX,XXX(Upto 5 digits) (10,000 not 10000; 1,000 not 1000)
XX.XX(Space)mn (For numbers more than 5 digits), XX.XX(Space)bn
(No ‘million’ even for space constraints)

6. Inter-House, Inter-College, Inter-School (Same goes for Intra)

(the bolded letters are shown to highlight the required format, don’t bold these letters in your
resume)

7. Certifications:

Google Academy Certification(Space)-(Space)Name of the certification

FLIP Certification(Space)-(Space)Finance and Banking Fundamentals
Coursera/Udemy Certification(Space)-(Space)Name of the certification,(Space)University name
Company/College Certification(Space)-(Space)Name of the certification

For Kraftshala, the left column should read INDUSTRYCreds, not Kraftshala

8. Intern:

College/Company Intern,(Space)Role/Team(Don’t add place of work here)

(Company name
has no ‘Pvt. Ltd.’)
(Maintain
consistency for
 college)

9. Project:

College/Company Project(Space)-(Space)Role/Team
College/Company
(Company name
has no ‘Pvt. Ltd.’)
(Maintain
consistency for
college)

10. Academic Achievements and Extra curriculars:

1st rank, 1st position
(Bold both words: don’t do 1st rank , do 1st rank)
Runners-Up, National Level
11. POR:

College Head/Role,(Space)Committee name,(Space)Fest name(Space)-

Name(Please (Space)explanation of the fest
check for Ex:
consistency of Head, Logistics committee, Zafran(Space)-(Space)Annual Cultural Fest
the college name)
Volunteer doesn’t go to PORs

IIM Kozhikode POR – Elected Member, Calicut Marathon Committee

No sub bullet point is allowed if you have not done work under the committee. Exceptions
are Industry Interaction Cell, HRiday

12. Work-Ex:

Roles & No ‘&’ in any CV points.

Responsibilities

Check whether promotion has been added. (Do not consider promotion from Management
trainee or Graduate Trainee to others as promotions)

13. Use only single quotes(‘XX’), not double quotes(“XXXX”)

14. Headers for extra-curricular activity:

 Add extra fields only if it is completely necessary (Nationals and consistency over the
years)
 Follow CV guidelines provided by Konquest for reference
 No sub-points in ECA (extra curricular activities) except for Entrepreneurship
 All case competitions must go into ‘Management’ header
15. Non-academic achievements must NOT be in Academic achievements section. They must be
in Extra-curriculars. If SPCs check, they are not going to tolerate.
16. No full stops at the end of any line
Check and recheck all these. Do multiple rounds of checking. SPC round is tonight. And they will not
tolerate.