Cheat Sheet

Resume Writing
Do’s
• Use serif font face for heading - Times New Roman, Georgia, Baskerville, Garamond, Cambria, etc.
• Use sans serif font face for body – Lato, Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, Segoe UI, etc.
• Keep body font size between 10 and 12.
• Keep same fonts and font sizes for all headings and same fonts and font sizes for all body text.
• Check indentation of all the headings and body text.
• Use maximum 2 colours in your resume (lighter shades of blue or grey).
• Use reverse chronological order for professional experience and academic achievement (ie latest first).
• Try to quantify your achievements.
• Restrict your personal information to your email id and contact number (Details of parents, marital status not
required).
• Add your LinkedIn URL (but don’t make it as live link, some applicant tracking system (ATS) detects it as virus).
• Proof read your resumes so that there are no typing and grammatical errors.
• Highlight your tech skills – softwares and technologies you are familiar with.
• Mention about your certificates, achievements and rewards.

Don’ts
• Copy career objectives, hobbies, extracurricular activities of others.
• Put photo unless specifically asked.
• Use Cosmic Sans font face.
• Share the word file of resume, always share in PDF format.
• Write “Resume” or “Curriculum Vitae” in the heading.
• Put important details in header and footer (not read by ATS).
• Use unprofessional email id to send your resume for eg coolamit@gmail.com.
• Include references unless specifically asked for.
• Use paragraphs, instead write in bullet points.
• Use acronym or technical jargon which makes it difficult for people from different background to understand.
• Mention your past and expected salary.

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 Cheat Sheet
Resume Writing
Tips and tricks
• Make resume as per job description of the required job profile.
• Try to restrict resume to 1 page. Maximum 2 pages.
• Include a persuasive resume objective (it is advisable to customise it as per the job role).
• Name your resume file as – “Name Surname_Resume”.
• Mention the location of job as your current city.
• Pick key words from the job description and incorporate those words or relevant skills in our resume to get
your resume selected by ATS.
• Highlight (using bold or underline) relevant skills, achievements.
• Use action words such as managed, lead, responsible for, improved, worked, etc.
• Lack of experience of a particular field can be compensated with extra-curricular activities related to job role.

Vocabulary
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) – Document with extensive information about academic background, degrees, awards,
publications and professional experience. It is to be used by people having extensive experience.
• Peruse – Read something carefully or in detail
• Synergy – the interaction or cooperation of two or more organisations, substances or other agents to produce
a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects
• Bottom line – Profits of the company
• Pioneer – develop or be the first to use or apply a new method, or area of knowledge of activity.
• Proficient – competent or skilled in doing or using something

Templates
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