Mistakes one should not do while creating résumé & CVs ?

@Dark Star :
I glanced over that screenshot, and grimaced.

1. What is TEXT and VOICE. Looks so unprofessional and juvenile.
2. Keep the adjectives at a minimal. Flowering prose like: "challenging career"; "rich evolving"; "pragmatic fields"; "accolades" -sound- lame and over done.
3. Do not use short forms. &&&
4. No need to highlight something in the synopsis of your career graph. It will be read first, or ignored. It glares out.
5. Why are you using colloquial lingo like: "budding"; "knack"; "digging around"; "deep dive".
6. The grammar and structure is bouncing between 1st person and 3rd person. Basically the English structure is just not correct. Any recruiter (not HR but front line) will find this highly irritating. It sets a strong base.
7. Do not use Latin substitutes for English. Example: Academia. It is way too archaic in today's world. Basically adds nothing.
8. Do not use center - aligned justification. Harder to read. Right or left aligned is best. Better keep it left aligned cause English readers prefer that. Unless you are sending your CV to the Gulf. :)
9. Keep sentence short and crisp. Run-ons display a lack of English education, and are extremely difficult to read from a readers cognition point of view.
10. Use incremental numbers or bullets. Not hashes. Why..?
11. Remove Erodov. Please. That is a spam site. If any potential manager opens it, they will rubbish your CV. Sorry.
 
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First of all you should check down if you have any spelling and grammatical mistake in your resume which sounds to be leading away from path, Your Objectives should be clear about what you want to do and become for an organization, Your Educational Qualifications should be clear and right as per your original Documents, try not to fake any of your skills you never know when a test might be given to check your skills.
 
Bumping the thread.

Anyone here in IT with decent amount of experience and can share resume (via PM). Need to know the format of making a resume for experienced people.
 
Lemme tell you something about my experience as a senior interviewer:
1. 95% of the resume does not require to be more than 3 pages
2. The pass marks and CGPA are not important if you have more than three years of experience.
3. CV should be customized for the targeted position (even for general upload into job sites, make sure that the targeting is done correctly else you will get unnecessary calls)
4. Usually I expect candidates for IT to have less than average English knowledge. So certain amount of flaw is expected even from experienced programmers. But such people have to put more effort to convince me that they are that good technically.
5. If I am able to catch someone lying then I avoid recommending him/her even if he/she is acceptable technically.

In few cases, the reality is,

When there is less supply than demand for a particular skill-set only thing I consider is the knowledge in that skill and the attitude. Everything else is swept aside.;)
 
raksrules said:
Bumping the thread.

Anyone here in IT with decent amount of experience and can share resume (via PM). Need to know the format of making a resume for experienced people.
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rule 1: no fancy formatting. Just highlight stuff you want people to read.
rule 2: down to business. no objectives, fancy sentences.
rule 3: no more than 2 pages.
rule 4: high information density and no over claims. achievements should have data along.

please dont steal my resume :p
This format was done by one of the hrs in my previous company when they wanted to share my resume with the client. I stuck to that.

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^^Don't get me wrong. But I think this CV you are using to apply for experienced positions. Right?

AFAIK, never mention things like freshers, like writing all the programming languages you know, instead only mention the ones you have been working on and have experience. Like as you wrote, Linux Kernel, winsock, VC++ it's good, but C#, ASP.NET and PHP too? You sure?

Just my 2 cents..!! As I used to do the same, writing 13 programming languages, yeah I know Python, Qt, C++, C etc. and all, but those were just basic knowledge and was impressive when I was fresher, but I started getting bashed when I kept doing the same after 2 years. And then I realized I need to change the CV first :P

One more thing, Professional Exp. comes before Education for Experienced Candidates. And vice-versa for freshers. Also add personal details section.
 
Actually this was done for the Australia market. here when I was jobless and went berzerk with all the buzz words since recruiters were using automated searches for finding resumes. otherwise, it would have been cleaner. my previous resume had only the highlighted technologies in a single line. that entire section is something like tags for bots :p
 
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