PRESENTATION ON E- RESUME
CURRICULUM VITAE
• Summary of one’s life –details of
education, experiences and
achievement
• Personal Details – Name and Address,
Ph.No, email and own home page or
web page
• Easy to read language, design, focus
on the job, quotes from people
• Look at the job(s) you apply
• Use font size 10-12, Arial/Times New
Roman style
• Typed in A4 size paper
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Electronic Curriculum Vitae
• E-resumes are basically plain text
document.
• E-resumes can be easily
transmitted, stored and searched.
• Important aspect of an e-resume is
the use of appropriate keywords.
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Need for e-resume
• Changes in the job searching
process
• Employers migrate to the IT enabled
style of recruiting
• Employers often gathers resumes
for their databases.
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Trial Transmission:
• Before sending a C.V. by e-mail to an
employer, send it to your own e-mail
address as a trial.
• Confirm that everything is fine and
then transmit to the employer.
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Scannable C.V.
• The C.Vs are subjected to scanning
• This is done with the help of an OCR
System (Optical Character Recognition
System)
• OCR System transfer the paper
documents to editable computer files
• The OCR System creates a text file in
ASCII and then reads the text and then
extracts the required information.
Present Yourself Electronically
Points to be remembered while preparing
C.V. for OCR System:
• Use only plain fonts and usual font size
• Avoid capitals for whole C.V.
• For emphasis, use capital or bold letters.
Avoid underlining, boxes, italics, bullet
points and graphics
• Avoid symbols (% and &), use text style.
• Do not use landscape layout
• Remove unnecessary spaces and gaps.
• Avoid columnar structure.
Points to be remembered while preparing
C.V. for OCR System:
• Use sub-headings that are easily
understood (use capital letters).
• Provide a summary that includes
the key words
• Use a good printer
• Avoid fax for sending C.V.
• Never give a fancy e-mail id. Don’t
give your previous company name
in your id
Points to be answered while selecting the Job/ Career
1. What kind of person you are?
2. Would you be prepared to move ?
3. Would you be prepared to undergo more training ?
4. Your expectations about the salary and benefits ?
5. What is your long / short term goal?
Questions asked often to Undergraduates during the interview
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. What sort of job you are looking for ?
3. What are your strengths?
4. What are your weaknesses?
5. What do you know about this company?
6. Don’t you think you may be too old / young / in experienced ?
7. Tell me about your mini Project / Thesis ?
8. Describe your most rewarding extra curricular experience in
college ?
9. Tell me about your internship and part time jobs