Resume

Resume or CV is the most important astra in the arsenal of a job seeker. Right the time one thinks of a job he starts preparing his resume. There are dedicated websites that deal with this issue. There are great personalities who say how to write a resume. They argue that one has to prepare his/her resume himself. But how many of us really work on our resume. Most of us just ask some our friends to prepare one for us. Others just go through many of the resumes available over the net and some of our friends and make up one for ourself. As far as my experience goes regarding interviews what many of us do is fine because theres no use wasting our time on preparing something which is never seen by the interviewer. Let me make it clear that what I am saying is only the Indian interview perspective, I am not aware about other countries. In India, most of the time the resumes are looked upon, only after the 2 or 3 round of interview although our resumes are collected at the beginning itself. It might be because of the huge crowd that attends the interview every time so the interviewer doesnt have time to go through the resume and 90% of the time all resumes are the same. Its a viscious circle. We donot prepare our resume because it is not seen by the interviewer. And because its all the same its not seen by the interviewer. But by the end of the 2-3 round the interviewer would have already made up his mind whether to take the candidate or not. So it only helps a little bit. I dont say "it doesn't help at all". 

Most of the time many of us are not aware about whats there in our resume. I have seen many. There has also been incidents where the interviewer has just asked to state what you have written in your profile and many candidates have failed to do that cos they have never prepared it. So they donot know what is inside. 

Here's my advice: Doesn't matter whether the interviewer looks at our resume or not, Do prepare one for yourself. It helps. I donot say it will get you a job but it will help in you knowing yourself better. The time you start preparing your resume, rather than you asking your friend to prepare the one for you who is least likely to be interested in creating a nice and beautiful one for you with all due respect to your beloved friend, you tend to understand yourself better. You start asking yourself the common questions which you feel you know the answers but donot,  like: What is your objective? What are your career goals? What is that you want to achieve? How do you plan to achieve? When do you plan to achieve it? What is that interests you? How much do you know about the field that interests you? so on.... So you start asking yourself these questions. You surf the net to get to know how others have formatted their resumes to suit their needs and many more. Other than this you learn formatting. You learn to arrange things in a proper order and streamline your ideas. You may feel it to be easy in the first but once you get to build your resume whole hearted who get to know how difficult it is and how little you know about yourself and how much more is there to learn about the subject you perceive and a lot lot more.

After all this efforts when you have your resumes hard copy in your hand you really will feel proud about yourself that you have made something. But it really hurts when something which you have prepared so dearly with so much time and effort is thrown into the shredder by the interviewing panel. But donot mind after all its your career and you have to build one for yourself. To build something beautiful, may it be anything including your career you need to work a lot and if your answer is yes why not start it from your resume itself. So start preparing your resume right now after you complete reading this cos if its not now its for never for sure.