The author seems to have reached an agreement with rediff for some kind of advertisement of his firm. Most of the things he spoke here are outdated by atleast a decade or more. Candidates applying for jobs have already readjusted to whatever he said, atleast 10-15 years back. looks like he alone is getting idiots who come out with these kinds of CV's.
Where I agree with him is on the usage of SMS language which is definitely a turn off.
Re: How it works?
by Raja Krishnan on May 07, 2015 05:46 PM
ofcourse. when you apply for a job you have to align your cv to the job description. What if you have not included something which you are good, that is in the JD and not in your CV. It does not matter how many versions of CV you have. If you know the stuffs asked in the JD and if it is not there in your CV, you are sure to be rejected. Ensure that you send the right optimized CV to the HR manager. only an idiot will send multiple versions to the same HR.
Small observation : the writer is preaching from a high pedestal and thinks the job applicants don't know most of the points like 1) All Caps 2) too much family details etc etc but he should be asked to elaborate on point 14. Ok, even if we don't use 'hyperboles' and are to form a sentence how do we do using only keywords like '...sales, marketing, networking, communication..'. Please elaborate. I challenge, the writer will be able to make any constructive sentence avoiding all those words himself which he's advising others to emulate.
Write IIT even if you are from Indore Institute of Tampering by
Kabeer on Feb 19, 2013 03:12 PM | Hide replies | Hide message
The objective of a Resume is to get a call for an interview; there you can give all explanations, if required.
So, if you are from IIT, write by all means IIT and not Indian Institute of Technology. The employer doesnt suspect you and you will get a call and there you can prove that you are from IIT.
Even if you are from Indore Institute of Training, write by all means IIT, the employer assumes you are from Indian Institute of Technology and calls you for interview; there you can show your talent if you have. Once he or she sees the talent in you he or she wont reject you just because you non-technically misled them.
But if you are from IIT and take the trouble of writing Indian Institute of Technology, the employer may not take the trouble of reading fully and call the Indore fella. Even if he is unfit, you wont get that job because you are not called.
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Re: Write IIT even if you are from Indore Institute of Tampering
by Daniel Rawal on Feb 21, 2013 03:28 AM
hahaha. Clearly, you haven't work a day in HR or recruitment.
Thanks for advising not to use uncommon abbreviations. By the way is KRA a common abbreviation? I don't think so. Could you please write what it stands for.
Writer need to be taught how to focus on the major points and not to waste time being verbose. using all caps, bad formatting, spelling mistakes, unknown abbreviations etc are poor written English applicable to any fomral communication and need not be specified as an Individual point. Matter of common sense actually, you need not be an HR manager to understand that.
There seems to be a lot of contradiction to his statement. At one instance, he says not to mention CV/Resume as its self explanatory and in another instance he says to abbreviate IIT, B.E etc., which is self explanatory as well.
Re: Contradiction to his statement
by Sagorika on Feb 18, 2013 09:40 PM
When it comes to India, CV/Resume is alternatively used. Though in the US a CV is document which details your Vital Curricula, which means it is a detailed version of your academic profile, while a resume is a brief statement about your career accomplishment coupled with major academic/professional landmark. But there is an important point to be noted, in the European and the Western Europe to be precise a 'CV' or a 'Resume' is used interchangeably. So I do not seem any ambiguity as far as the title CV/Resume is concerned. Now coming to the fact that where to use abbreviations, I guess the author is asking not to use subjective abbreviations which are not well known, or which could be used in a closed group. Abbreviations that have become acceptable should be used. For example, IIT in India is Indian Institute of Technology, but, in the US it is more of Illinois Institute of Technology. Same is the case with MIT, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech, but in India it could be very well Maharashtra Inst. of Tech. or Madras Inst. of Tech. so only those abbreviations should be used that make sense. So in my humble opinion I do not find any ambiguity.
Re: Re: Contradiction to his statement
by bhaskar on May 08, 2015 06:05 PM
subjectivity related with ambiguity never deals with intricacies of subjectivity.
Re: Contradiction to his statement
by Sagorika on Feb 18, 2013 09:42 PM
When it comes to India, CV/Resume is alternatively used. Though in the US a CV is document which details your Vital Curricula, which means it is a detailed version of your academic profile, while a resume is a brief statement about your career accomplishment coupled with major academic/professional landmark. But there is an important point to be noted, in the European and the Western Europe to be precise a 'CV' or a 'Resume' is used interchangeably. So I do not seem any ambiguity as far as the title CV/Resume is concerned. Now coming to the fact that where to use abbreviations, I guess the author is asking not to use subjective abbreviations which are not well known, or which could be used in a closed group. Abbreviations that have become acceptable should be used. For example, IIT in India is Indian Institute of Technology, but, in the US it is more of Illinois Institute of Technology. Same is the case with MIT, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech, but in India it could be very well Maharashtra Inst. of Tech. or Madras Inst. of Tech. so only those abbreviations should be used that make sense. So in my humble opinion I do not find any ambiguity.
