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23 May 10 How to Write a Good, Captivating CV?

A Curriculum Vitae is an ‘advert’ to sell yourself to the employer. It’s also known as ‘Resume’. A CV is sent to the employer while applying for the given job; or while enquiring if jobs are available with the employer. A CV should reflect you at the best possible way, as it’s your written representation and first chance to impress. An employer may receive thousands of CVs, but choose only the good ones. So give your best shot while crafting your CV. Follow the given tips.

General guidelines

  • A CV has to be typed in word-processor, well formatted on a piece of A4 good quality paper. Print should be clear. Do not use too many variants of font sizes and styles. Make the headings bold/underlined. Don’t hesitate to leave plenty of white space around. It should look neat and professional. Use bullets wherever subsections are required.
  • Use spell-check command after completion of writing. Accurate spelling and grammar are essential.
  • A CV should not be more than 2 pages long. Be concise yet informative; as CV is appetizer not the main course of food. Just put relevant and important things on paper. Each page should be printed on a separate sheet of paper.
  • Don’t write ‘Curriculum Vitae’ on top, that’s quite obvious.
  • While applying for a specific job, bring your relevant skills on paper. Don’t unnecessarily add irrelevant skills in your CV.
  • Be honest and truthful. Don’t omit information (which you don’t want employer to know) and neither communicate inaccurate and misleading information. Addition and deletion of information may actually drag you into problems.

Things to be included in CV

  1. Personal Details
    • This would include name, address, phone number, email id, website.
  2. Educational Qualification
    • Mention names of institutes, names of courses, marks achieved and year of passing. Most recent one comes first.
  3. Work Experience
    • The recent work experience first. Name of the employer, designation, duration and year of working, job responsibilities, clients worked with – are to be included here. Even part-time jobs or summer trainings can be included.
  4. Awards and Achievements
    • If you have achieved any title in your career or academic span, feel free to flaunt it here in detail (title, year, cause, provider’s detail). Even small achievements, titles and awards earned can be mentioned.
  5. Skills
    • Languages known, computer-knowledge, driving skill can be included.
  6. References
    • It’s recommended to put names of two references – one academic (teacher or project supervisor) and one person from your employer (your ex-colleague/supervisor/manager). Make sure you take permission of the given people before including their names. With due permission give their names, contact information, work information briefly.

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09 Jan 10 Putting The Finishing Touches On An Article

So you’ve just written an article, and you’re just about to publish it, when you realize you’ve left a grammar error or two.  But then that’s extremely common, especially if you don’t take the proper editing steps once the first draft of your article is complete.  A piece is never finished until you’ve given it a good run through a few times, to clean out the errors and structure.  Here are a few tips to make an article better, once you’ve finished that first draft.

Spell check, spell check, spell check.  There’s a reason word processors come with spell checkers, take advantage of clicking that  button.  Spellchecker won’t catch everything, but it will catch some mistakes that you may have missed.  But remember to double check spellchecker, because computer spell check programs don’t factor context into it’s suggestions.  Spell check could tell you to change a word, when in fact you’ve committed no spelling error.  Which is where the next step comes in handy.

Any word you’re unsure about, don’t hesitate to look up in a dictionary.  The internet has a wealth of free dictionaries online, take full advantage.  Double check a word to make sure your usage is correct, and that your spelling is proper.

Now read through your article.  This step is most useful when you read your article aloud.  That will give you a good idea of how somebody else will be reading your article.  Check sentence structure, as well as paragraph length and make sure both flow.  If you find a sentence getting muddy, tidy it up a little as you go.  Then give a quick re-read after you’ve made your changes to ensure the article flows effectively.

From there do one last check for errors.  Usually it helps to go through your article backwards.  When you read normally there are still grammatical errors that you could miss.  By reading backwards your brain can’t make sense of a sentence, so individual words and punctuation marks will stand out more.  This way you can double check your spelling, and punctuation, and make sure all the untidy bits are properly corrected.

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05 Jun 09 How to make People read Your E-mails

How often has it happen to you that you sent an important mail to someone, and the person did not reply? When you called up to enquire, the person confessed that he or she has not read the e-mail sent by you. If this rarely happens to you then it is the reader who is to blame for his or her laxity, but if this happens sporadically then maybe it’s the e-mail writing behavior of yours that is to blame. Whatever might be the case, the fact is your message went unread.  In this post I am suggesting your some ways to fine-tune your e-mails to improve its readability.

Subject Line: This is the most important part of an e-mail. This is the window that gives your reader a glimpse into your mail. Make the view worth exploring.

Call to action: Most of the time the users need guidance. They need to know what response is expected of him.

Inverted pyramid structure: Write the most important thing at the top of the mail and then write the second most important thing followed by the third one.

KISS it: Keep it Short and Simple (KISS). The mail should be short, and simple. No one wish to read an epic in the mail.

Run a spell check: Typos not only put people off, but it also makes the message lose its meaning midst all the errors. Check the spelling before sending an e-mail across.

Check the recipient: People often commit this error and do it quite often. Check if the recipient’s address is written correctly.

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