RESUME WRITING TIPS THAT GETS YOU NOTICED BY EMPLOYERS

All organizations, large and small, have non-management employees who act as resume filters because managers don't have time to consider every applicant. This means secretaries and human resource assistants judge your resume first; these people may only have seconds to judge your resume before moving on to the next one in the pile.

In today’s world everything is digitalized, even employers started to relay on software’s like Application tracking systems (ATS) to screen resumes. Job searches can be long and demanding. In today’s job market, you have to make sure that your resume stands out from the tall pile.

                                             

 Here are few tips to get your resume noticed:         

·    ATS looks for the same keywords as that of mentioned in job postings and will screen the         resumes only if those keywords are included .so you must be careful about mentioning those keywords in your resume.
·         If your resume is posted in websites like naukri.com or some other job related websites keep it updated, the resumes which are frequently updated will be noticed easily.
·         As said First impression is the best, recruiters don’t have time to go through whole of your resume. So, avoid grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes, hardly an employer looks at your resume for 6 to 15seconds.In that few seconds you need to create a good impression and should make him to consider your resume for further process.
·         Don’t mention “RESUME” on top your resume rather mention your name and contact details there.
·         Don’t use graphics or visual appeals or too many colors, they will make your resume look unprofessional.                                           
·         Do use bullets or numbering for clearly mentioning your achievements or for mentioning your skills.

       

       You might want to read this: Telephonic Interview Tips

·         Use simple fonts and minimum readable size for characters.
·         Give enough space between each line, so as to make it visible and clear.
·         Update your resume with relevant skills to that those of mentioned in job description.
·         Simply, don’t send the pre-prepared resume for all jobs ,for example if you have a resume prepared for the post of software developer don’t send the same, if the job posting is for the post of software tester do change the skills With those related to testing and then apply for the post.
·         Mention achievements, whatever you have achieved must be mentioned because it gives recruiters idea about what you can do for the company and it also lets them know how passionate you are about things.
 ·     Avoid technical problems, like if you have saved your resume in word format immediately change it into PDF, to avoid technical problems like formatting of text when recruiters open them.

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Time Management - An important aspect that leads to success

                               Managing time is an important aspect that you should actually care about .managing time doesn’t mean you need to work longer but it means to work smarter in turn reduce stress and increase productivity. It’s an important factor in life, whether you are working or self employed or looking for a job or a student whatever your profession is you need effective time management.

                              If you are unable to complete any task by the time you have to complete them, don’t say you didn’t have enough time. You have exactly same number of hours per day that were given to other people. You can’t make excuses rather say you didn’t organize things properly.

If you are the person who doesn’t have enough time to complete your tasks, here are few tips for you to organize time:

1.       Make to-do list: plan your day before it unfolds. Make a list on paper or on computer or anywhere you feel comfortable. Just note down the things you need to complete for that day, it will help you to have overview of how the day will plan out and also helps you to remember things.

2.       Prioritize tasks: As you have made a list of things to do for the day now prioritize the things from the list. It may not be possible to get all the things done but you can finish the most important tasks and urgent tasks first. It’s helpful to number those tasks like 1, 2, 3 or ABC etc to mark their priority.

                                                                     

3.       Have buffer time in between: when you rush from task to task, take breaks in between they will help to keep your mind fresh and you will be able to return with better focus. While taking a break, go for a short walk or take a power nap or any other exercise to refresh your mind.

4.       Multi Tasking: Multi tasking is not a skill that all of us possess. Realize whether you are that kind of person or not. If you are, that’s great. If you are not don’t even bother or try to do that because, eventually this leads to many tasks being started but left unfinished. So, if you are a multi tasker you should know when to multi task and when not to. If you have mundane tasks to complete multi task them.

5.       Learn to say no: your time and resources are limited you can’t say yes to every request. So, learn when to say no.

                                        

6.       Stop procrastinating: Don’t think I have a lot of time will do it later when ‘m free or don’t give excuses like ‘m busy or I have done enough for today. Complete the work as per schedule and set time limit for every target that will make you more focused.

7.       Get a good sleep: Everyday 7 to 8hours of sound sleep is important for every individual. Your brain needs rest to perform its best. So, if you have still things to do keep them aside you can continue with them next day. If you don’t get sleep it will affect next day’s schedule too.

                                                        

Being organized or following schedule will definitely help you to save time, relieves from stress and depression. It is necessary to manage time in whatever profession you are. So, follow these few tips and make your life tension free.

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Significance of Soft-Skills for Job Placements

Have you ever wondered why people who have less or not even minimum technical skills are hired but not those who have sound technical skills? There are many points the recruiters consider, one of them could be their soft skills.

Why soft skills are so important?

Let us first see which skills are considered as soft skills in general perspective…..

1.       The ability to communicate with people effectively, communication is the key to get hired, as you progress in your career or even if you are at the basic level you need to communicate with different people they could be from front desk people to anybody at the manager level or if it’s a start up or tiny firm may be there would be a need to even communicate with firm’s CEO. So, communication skills play an important role to get you hired.

2.       Problem solving ,plays an important role as many recruiters at the time of interview try to analyze how do you respond to particular situation by posing different questions and try to put you under pressure, they want to check how well you can handle a situation, even if you don’t have the least idea about it.

3.       Adaptability, as the technology is emerging every day you need to keep yourself updated with the latest trends related to your field. Adaptability at your work place is also expected.

4.       Teamwork, you can call it even cooperation but it’s one of the key aspects which should be maintained as an employee moves forward in career. Working collaboratively with team also determines how he can work with different from people from different backgrounds.

                                  

                                              

                                         

Importance of soft skills:

                               One needs to be good at these basic skills to climb the corporate ladder as these are the key skills even if you have technical skills these soft skills play important role to get you job placement. People with only Technical skills will be able to survive in the team but people with soft skills along with technical skills will have more chances to make path in the corporate industry. Organizations are looking for people who have good soft skills and people who can maintain good relation within the organization and with its clients. If you are a fresher or experienced you just need to have these skills if you want to have a career growth in the IT sector. Not only in corporate sector in any sector you have to posses these skills to be successful. Most people especially fresh graduates lack these soft skills definitely they have good technical skills but not good soft skills. So, from their college days they themselves have to inculcate these skills so that they don’t have to face rejections in job placements after they graduate.

                              

Difference between Technical skills and soft skills:

                                  Technical skills are those skills which you learn in your college or at training institutes which provide you only with technical knowledge related to your field for e.g. you are a software developer you will be having technical knowledge related to software programming like C#, ASP .NET, Java or Hadoop etc. If you are into testing you will be having technical knowledge related to manual testing or automated testing these technical skills vary depending on your profession. 

Along with these technical skills you need to have soft skills because when a recruiter has to choose between a person with sound technical skills and sound soft skills he will prefer person with good soft skills. Soft skills come to your rescue when you need to explain a non technical person some complex technical problem which is one of the main things which recruiters are looking to provide job placement.

                      

                    So, it is better to be prepared before hand by taking soft skills training or by practicing them so that you don’t need to rush at the last moment.

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WHY TO GET TRAINED IN JAVA?

If getting into IT industry was your childhood dream or if you have passion for programming you can consider java as one of your career options. Java has wide range of chances for growing up in the IT industry .As of today almost each and every software program or application is built mainly on this platform. So are the chances of employment in this field are very high.

Why is it important to get trained in java?

                                                    If you are starting your career as a fresher or even if you had experience you need to update yourself with the latest technologies or softwares’ that are currently used and you might have even experienced how difficult it is to get a job without proper knowledge or with the little knowledge you have. So it is better to get trained to ensure that you will have good chance of placement.

                                                You may have learnt the basics of java as a part of your college curriculum chances are low that you would have learnt it in the context of real time rather you would have learnt it in the point of clearing your exams or to just to have a little knowledge about your project done in college etc. so it would be good for you to get trained in java and apply it in the context of real world. Along with learning programming you will be trained on real time projects in some institutes which will give you a brief idea about how project should be done and it will also make you capable of handling different issues that may arise only while working practically.

                                              As there are many MNCS as well as startups growing up and are concentrating specifically on this language, there are many people who are opting java as their career option so there is heavy competition in between employees as well as employers to get the best. So, this had made training mandatory to be placed in the best, if you get a certified training it would be given more preference rather than getting just trained. Even if you have sound knowledge of subject certification would really help you to grow in your career.

                                             

Best java training institutes in Hyderabad:

                                                There are many institutes providing java training in Hyderabad, almost in every corner of the city there is at least one training institute which trains you in this language but you have to be selective while choosing an institute with all the resources needed to get best training and progress in your career. Placement school can be considered as one of the best java training institutes in Hyderabad which train you in java along with certification and real time projects also with an added advantage of placement assistance.

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