Dos and Don'ts of Resume Writing

Many people do not focus on important things while creating resumes and cover letters. We put things in our resume that we believe are important, but this approach is inadequate from a hiring manager's point of view.

Resume

Some important elements of a resume should be addressed with focus because these elements will make your resume outstanding, and the chances of getting selected by hiring managers will increase. Let's discuss each one of them one by one.

Length

The first thing that matters is the length of your resume. It should have a one-page maximum because this is the corporate world, and recruiters get a lot of resumes, but reviewing each of them is a time-consuming task. So, they create criteria to select resumes, and one of the criteria is it should be no longer than one page.

Customize

It would be best if you customized your resume for the company you're applying for based on the job description and responsibilities they have given in the job posting. Try to mention only those projects that are most relevant to their domain. This will also help you reduce your resume length if you've worked on many projects.

Keywords

Keywords play a significant role in selecting you because hiring managers search profiles using keywords to find resumes that match the job qualifications. The thing you should remember is to do your keyword research so that you can put keywords that are more likely to work.

For example, mentioning a project as "Built Recommended System for Movielens" is less likely to work because if you do the keyword research for "Recommended System," you will find that the most used keyword is not "Recommended System" but ...