{"id":254,"date":"2008-05-30T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vicknes.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/30\/how-to-prepare-a-potential-resume-cv\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:40:00","slug":"how-to-prepare-a-potential-resume-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/how-to-prepare-a-potential-resume-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare a potential Resume \/ CV ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Well, many of you might be thinking that who the hell am I to guide or brief  about securing a good job with a perfect CV. If you think that way, I cant help it dude. (sounds egoistic huh, lolz)<br \/>Recently I did some research and review on my CV writing skills before start my job hunting again after a year till I cant remember my Jobstreet password, I managed to gather some info on how to promote myself to my potential employer, because i feel the sole purpose of my CV is to fetch me an interview call. If i can pass through that, meaning i have a chance to prepare for the interview and get ready to impress the interviewer (which i think i rarely does,hehe)<\/p>\n<p>I had sorted out 12 points here with my <s>terrible<\/s> simple English. Hope it helps.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Avoid using glossy or colourful<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-CV is something formal\/ official document, so please keep it simple<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">No Header or title is needed for your resume\/CV<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">You are submitting a CV and of course when the HR look at it and at the 1st glance itself they would know what is the document, hence, no title like <\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:100%;\">John Doe Curricular Vitae<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">  or <\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:100%;\">My Resume<\/span> is needed as the header of the resume\/CV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">No photograph is needed<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Malaysia, its pretty often that the HR request for the recent photograph attached with the resume or th job application form, i really have no idea why is that so? wonder if the employer gonna reject me if i look ugly or wonder are they hiring some model (which i never qualified to be,hehe) I was told by my singapore employer that its an offence to ask for picture for job application as it can be considered as discrimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Avoid &#8220;I&#8221; , &#8220;My&#8221;, &#8220;He&#8221;, &#8220;She&#8221; kinda words<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Which one sounds more proffesional, judge yourself: &#8221; I worked as Supervisor for ABC Company&#8221; or  &#8212; Team Leader for ABC Company from 2005-2007 . I bet you would go for the second one, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Spelling mistakes and grammatical error<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Please have the habit of proofread your Resume\/CV. It&#8217;s always a good idea to get your mate to proofread for you as we might overlook or overconfident with our sentences. Such kind of small mistakes that appear on your resume tend to convey a lazy and careless attitude to the interviewer. An example: <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A candidate who submitted his CV without proofreading it committed the mistake of wrongly spelling &#8216;ask&#8217; as &#8216;ass&#8217;. Now you can imagine the type of embarrassment he must have faced during the interview, when the interviewer pointed it out. lolz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Do not lie or over exaggerate about your candidature<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You might get through the interview by saying that you have basic knowledge in Java scripting where you cant even compile &#8220;hello world&#8221;. You might had the luck today, but not everyday are sundays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Abbreviations or jargon is a no no<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The HR people may not know what is OVSD or SDLC mean, so please avoid using such jargons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\">Reason for leaving last job<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may leave this for the personal interview session. Avoid making such statements in your resume\/CV, they add no extra value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Do not mention past failures<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bet you don&#8217;t want to lose the chance to get the interview call. Types of failure can vary and one of the example that i can share here is, if there&#8217;s gap between past employment because you own a business and it didn&#8217;t do well. DONT EVER SAY YOU FAILED. Instead, say something more positive to plant the good thought in the HR people&#8217;s mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\">Current or expected salary<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leave it to be discussed later on unless its required to be stated on the resume<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\">Omit personal details<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leave your marital status, number of kids, passport number or such info out of your resume. Mind you, its not a biodata form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\">Referees<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think you may state : &#8221; Reference available on request&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now you can run through the list and take a fresh look at your CV or Resume and try to prune away irrelevant or unnecessary details and start to strive towards your dream job<\/p>\n<p>*Note: person who compiled this is not a HR professional or some kind of high rank officer in employment agency. All info provided are based on experienced and on-line source.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, many of you might be thinking that who the hell am I to guide or brief about securing a good job with a perfect CV. If you think that way, I cant help it dude. (sounds egoistic huh, lolz)Recently I did some research and review on my CV writing skills before start my job &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/how-to-prepare-a-potential-resume-cv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to prepare a potential Resume \/ CV ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}