resume that the manager wants to read/ what the necessarily skills and requirements for the

job
what the managers want to see
how to keep the the job
find out what hiring managers want
what job were looking for
what do we want
when retire, must have enough money to last until you die
Retirement age: 70-75
If you know that youre in the wrong direction, take action and turn back. Dont wait until
youre too far in the wrong direction and then try to make a U-turn. The decision can only be
bad for you.
Take a paycut is a really bad idea
Take a paycut is really a bad idea
Pay cut and another job is a really bad idea.
should love and be good at what you do+ constantly update yourself.
Give you a sense of what is your interest
SUbmit a resume for your homework by the end of the month
WRITE A RESUME- TO GET TO THE INTERVIEW ROOM
THE RESUME HAS TO BE PERFECT TO GET YOU TO THE INTERVIEW ROOM
Resume writing is not about you. Its about your abilities to do a particular job / you skills for
a particular job, whether you have what the hiring managers are looking for.
What do the hiring managers look for?
1/ Format and presentation: neatness nad most presentable looking resume
2/ Content
Eg: employment in Google
What the hiring managers want?=> The job, the company, the industry

Eg: You want to be a management trainee

Magmnt trainee: leadership, communication skills, creaivity, peoples skills, observation

skills, organisational skills, time management => a list of about 6-8 competencies ( Restiction
by 2 pages of resume allowed). For some company, only 1 page or 2 page resumes are
accepted.
Your ability to network and research: will determine how well you can know what the hiring
manager wants. Ask very specific questions? Eg: What do they do everyday? ( what skills are
need=> what skills you want to put in your resume => a more detailed job description).
Whats the companys culture? ( Ask about the slsection process ( who are you interviewers,
do I have to play a game....many other questions)? Can I take a look at your resume? ( you
friends resume is the model answer)
+Listen carefully to the advice given: whether it is the rules or the exception
Build a network : try and know someone from Google if you want to work in Google in the
future. The same goes for any company
Writing a resume is not a problem
But writing a good resume is a problem
Eg 2: Markeing executive at Google
Presentation skills
Job you appplying for -> necessay skills needed?
All the dates must be on the right. Dating: from top down, latest day on top and the more
past date at the more bottom down
In Janurary: may or may not go for internship.
its not hard to write a resume. But is it good enough?
MNCS: dont really change their hiring process
At the start, experience is more important than the salary. Later on, the salary will gradulaly
become more important.
Google
IT
Font: dont use anything less than 10.
Name
Contact number. Email address.
Photogrph to be included in cover letter, not your resume

Personal profile: should be short and simple

Education: write down the manjor youre most inclined to do+ where youll graudtae
+specializtion+ scholarship
Suggestion: go back to your JC achievements
Work experience: what have you done differently from the same person with the same
capacity as you. Dont only describe whta youve done+ very specific+ you did it alone, or as
a group.
Adjectives alone are ambiguous. Use numbers and more details to substantiate and make it
more specific. Try to provides details from your numbers
As a hiring manager, they are trained to read between the line. If you dnt tell them the result,
they will assume the result to be bad. If the results are good, you must explicitly state so.
Whenever you said something, you must be specific.
Specific how many, how much, the scale of your work
same for project, CCA and working experiment
How you market yourself is very important
COVER LETTER:
Answer the job ad
Provide examples of your activies to prove that you have of what the hiring managers want
Dont copy/paste the wordings from resume even though the same ideas may be presented
twice in both resume and cover letter
Same format as resume.
Do not exceed 1 page. But dont make it less than 1 page also. Give an exact 1 page cover
letter
Practice networking. What to talk about with them?
Talk about who are they hiring, what kind of things do they do? What do their employeeds
lido ? Practice, go for networking session to practice talking to employers so that in your final
year, you will be better at talking to employers and networking. , better job searching for you.
Tell them that youre only first year and youre looking for intership opportunties only.
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