{"id":892,"date":"2020-03-12T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2020-06-02T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T13:09:07","slug":"how-should-my-resume-be-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/how-should-my-resume-be-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"How should my resume be setup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resume should be a brief recap of all you have done starting from your college times up to the very recent experience. This is the <strong>chronological order<\/strong> but there has been a trend of writing reverse-chronological resumes <em>highlighting the most relevant and important experience first<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;background-color: #ffffff\">In its entirety a resume should first have your <strong>name<\/strong> and <strong>contact information<\/strong> on the front, followed by a small summary (optional). Then you mention your <strong>educational background<\/strong>. You can mention your <strong>GPA<\/strong> if you wish to but if you are a student with not much experience it is better that you do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next, you mention your <strong>technical skills<\/strong> as well as your <strong>soft skills<\/strong>. Make sure you have all the <strong>relevant certifications<\/strong> and put in the keywords mentioned in the job listing.<\/p>\n<p>List out your <strong>achievements<\/strong> and <strong>projects<\/strong> that you undertook. While listing your achievements make sure to mention numbers, <strong>eg<\/strong>&#8211; I increased company sales by 8 percent, using quantifiable data makes your achievement more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly write the <strong>contact numbers<\/strong> of the references you have (if any, not compulsory) and make sure you inform them beforehand. It can be <em>previous boss<\/em> or your <em>college professor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope these tips helped you ! All the best !<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resume should be a brief recap of all you have done starting from your college times up to the very recent experience. This is the chronological order but there has been a trend of writing reverse-chronological resumes highlighting the most relevant and important experience first. In its entirety a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[251,301,94,16,47,139,259],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queries","tag-best-online-resume-builder","tag-cv-tips-and-tricks","tag-impressive-resume","tag-online-resume","tag-resume-rules","tag-resume-setup","tag-resume-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}