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For a Great Resume!
Guidelines
Basic Standards
15 Golden
Tips
Top 10
Reasons
Common
mistakes
Sample
Resumes
Email your Resume!
Basic etiquette
Tips - my
experience
Do's
& Dont's
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Your Cover Letter!
Look
& Feel
5 Tips
Sample
cover letters
Building a Technical Resume
Specific resumes for Indian IT Industry
How Can I List
experience without experience.
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Email Resume for your First Job
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Follow these step-by-step instructions and you'll
have a perfectly clean ASCII text resume.
Use this version of your resume for e-mail, unless you have received
specific directions from the recruiter/employer to use another
format. This is also the version of your resume that you will use
most often to cut-and-paste into the resume forms on Web job sites.
Converting a Word document to ASCII text:
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Spell check and then re-save your resume in
your word processing program (e.g. Word) before you move to the
next step.
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Open a simple text editor like Notepad (on
the PC, under Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad)
or SimpleText (on the Mac)
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Start Word (or your word processing program
if you're not using Word), if it is not already open.
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In Word (or your word processing program),
open the file for your resume. If you make any changes, be sure
to double-check your spelling and grammar before you save the
file.
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Highlight all the text in your Word
document by -
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Clicking on Edit > Select All,
or
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Using your mouse to run from the top of
the file to the bottom, or
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On your PC, holding down the Control and
the "a" keys simultaneously.
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Highlight -- You will know
that the text is highlighted because the background
and letters of highlighted content are in reverse
from their normal state (black background with white
letters is the highlighted state for normal black
letters on a white background).
Don't let your mouse "touch down" anywhere
in the document's window, or the highlighting will
go away, and you will have to start over again.
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Copy the highlighted text into your
computer's temporary storage (the "Clipboard" in a PC)
by -
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Clicking on Edit > Copy, or
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On your PC, press the Control and the
"c" keys simultaneously.
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Move to your simple text editor, most
probably Notepad (step 1, above), and paste the copy of your
resume file into this new editor.
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Click inside the Notepad window, and then
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Click on Edit > Paste, or
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On your PC, press the Control and the
"v" keys simultaneously.
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Save as plain text.
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Select File > Save As, and then
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Name the file resume.txt (or whatever.txt),
with
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in Notepad, Text Documents
selected as the "File of Type"
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You aren't done yet! You need to adjust the
text to make it more readable and interesting
You will notice that your resume, in Notepad, is not as
"pretty" as it was before. That's because it is now
plain text. All special formats, like bolding and italicizing,
have been removed, as have any graphics or other non-text
elements. (Now you know why it is called "plain"
text!) This is a good thing! At least, for e-mail, it is. You
can, and should, take some steps to improve the way ASCII text
looks. It still won't be beautiful, but it will be more
acceptable.
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Mock Resume
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