Business Communication

4.
Experience: Describe your major job responsibilities, skills and knowledge acquired on
the previous job. List your experiences in reverse order and with the latest and most
interesting coming first. You may highlight internships, training, voluntary work, extra
curricular activities, responsibilities handled etc. if you have no professional experience.

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5.
Interests: Your interests are best listed, if they are either unique or relevant to the particular
job. Professional membership, licenses/certificates are to be listed depending upon their
relevance and contribution to your value as an employee on a particular organization.
6.
Personal details: It includes father’s name and mother’s name, date of birth, nationality,
marital status and address of the candidate. In case of two addresses i.e. correspondence and
permanent address, correspondence address should be mentioned on the top of the resume
and permanent address in the personal details.
7.
Declaration: Declaration by the candidate that all the information written in the resume is
true and he/she will be responsible for any mistake. And it is undersigned by candidate itself
and also mention date and place.
8.
Referees: The names and address of referees can be provided, if necessary.
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Some Tips for Preparing an Impressive CV
1.
Always put the essential things—first arrange the information within each item with your
career objective in mind.
2.
Emphasize your skills, accomplishments and levels of responsibility attained.
3.
Use reverse sequential order, meaning that when items are listed by date, the most recent
should come first.
4.
The contents of the CV should be completely accurate and honest.
5.
Mention anything special that can add weightage to your candidature.
6.
Use a clear font and a font size that is easy to read. The font size should not be too small or
too large. The ideal font size would be 12.
7.
Ideally, a CV should not be more than two or three pages. It should be shorter for fresh
graduates.
8.
Abbreviation should be avoided.
9.
References should be provided, if required.