How to Make CV or Resume

A resume is one of two page summary of your skills, work experience and educational details. Whereas, a Curriculum Vitae (CV) is a longer and more detailed synopsis which contains information about individual's skills, knowledge, goals, education and professional experience to describe person the best.

A CV or resume is very important to give your employer a good first impression about yourself and what you are good at, so you'll be placed at your most desired or most suitable position.

5 Resume Mistakes You Need to Avoid

We showed you how to avoid mistakes in your resume, now we are going to show you how to write a good resume.

Important Points to Cover:

1. Name and Contact Details

- Full name

- Mobile no.

- E-mail id

- Address

2. Job Objective/ Goal

- Career interest

- Work environment

- Organisation

3. Educational Details

Make tabulated form of educational information. Table should contain all required information like class, percentage, school name, college or university and and year of passing. Class sequence should be reverse as given below.

- Doctorate

- Post graduation

- Graduation

- 12th/ HSC

- 10th/ SSC

4. Work Experience

- Name of company

- Address of company

- Job designation

- Period of job

- Salary package

- Job profile

5. Skills, Reports, Research and Publications

- IT skills/ Software skills

- Computer knowledge

- Core skills

- Project reports with title and description

- Research work

- Publications by you

6. Training and Certifications

- Details of industry training during graduation and post graduation

- Time period of training

- Name of industry along with address

- Details of various certifications reveived by industry or other certifications done in special topics and subjects

7. Achievements and Awards

- Academic

- Sports

- Cultural events

- Other activities

- Competitions

8. Conferences and Workshops

Details of attended conferences and workshops

- Name

- Period

- Location

- Description

9. Personal Details

- Name

- Date of birth

- Languages known

- Permanent address

- Sex

- Marital status

10. References and Declaration

- Name, contact no., email of some references

- References should be selected properly

- In last Declaration that I do here by declare that the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge with name, date and place