We have invited Samraat who is working as a Analyst in Risk Management with American Express. We are working as a community in thedatatalk.org as well and looking forward that you get the most insight out of it… here is a reference material provided by Samraat…. Resume Writing:

1. Interest Span -
2. a person/HR spends 15-20 seconds going through the resume
3. Prioritise, Rank, Summarise, relevant info to the job
4. Education details should be put, but not at the beginning, whatever is most relevant and best selling point should be put on top
5. Reverse chronological order
6. Rule of Relevancy - filtration
7. Selection and elimination
8. Elaborate on most relevant experience - add achievements for the relevant experience
9. Customisation
10. “ I got what you need ”
11. Use JD to add keywords into your Resume
12. Space optimisation
13. Factual, Concise, To the point
14. Career Summary
15. Super Target

Beating the Application Tracking System (ATS): 1. Single column format 2. Plain text 3. Apply to 1 job in one organisation 4. Keywords are the key - don’t add keywords that you don’t know, only keywords that can be justified if asked about them 5. Bold - keywords 6. Italics - things in a brackets or quotes or project names/title 7. Underline - certain titles, headings 8. Chronological order 9. PDF 10. Same font for all - Times New Roman, Verdana, Calimiri, Cambria - nothing less than size 10 or more than 12

Things to avoid to beat ATS: 1. Tables 2. Text boxes 3. Logos 4. Images 5. Graphics 6. Headers or footers 7. Fancy headings

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