We have invited Samraat who is working as a Analyst in Risk Management with American Express. We are working as a community in thedatatalk.org as well and looking forward that you get the most insight out of it… here is a reference material provided by Samraat…. Resume Writing:
1. Interest Span -
- a person/HR spends 15-20 seconds going through the resume
- Prioritise, Rank, Summarise, relevant info to the job
- Education details should be put, but not at the beginning, whatever is most relevant and best selling point should be put on top
- Reverse chronological order
2. Rule of Relevancy - filtration
- Selection and elimination
- Elaborate on most relevant experience - add achievements for the relevant experience
3. Customisation
- “ I got what you need ”
- Use JD to add keywords into your Resume
- Space optimisation
4. Factual, Concise, To the point
- Career Summary
5. Super Target
Beating the Application Tracking System (ATS):
1. Single column format
2. Plain text
3. Apply to 1 job in one organisation
4. Keywords are the key - don’t add keywords that you don’t know, only keywords that can be justified if asked about them
5. Bold - keywords
6. Italics - things in a brackets or quotes or project names/title
7. Underline - certain titles, headings
8. Chronological order
9. PDF
10. Same font for all - Times New Roman, Verdana, Calimiri, Cambria - nothing less than size 10 or more than 12
Things to avoid to beat ATS:
1. Tables
2. Text boxes
3. Logos
4. Images
5. Graphics
6. Headers or footers
7. Fancy headings