IT job seekers today have an edge above the previous generation of job seekers as the IT boom in India has opened up horizons for upcoming professionals with promising careers within the industry. So, here are some tips to secure the best IT job from the team of Naukri.com, India’s number 1 job site, read on…
India with the dawn of the millennium is facing an IT explosion where the IT industry is growing leaps & bounds and expanding multi-dimensionally. Presently India has more than 3000 IT service providers and the sector is projected to grow at a rate of 35% in the year 2007. In the year 2006, the 12 largest Indian IT companies generated a revenue of 11 billion USD. This growth is not only peculiar to metros but has trickled down to tier II & tier III cities as well. Today one can witness a boom in cities like Pune, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mysore, kochi, Vishakhapatnam and Ahmedabad.
This growth has also spawn the need for hiring more and more IT resources to sustain and drive the growth rate further. Hence, a need to hire skilled professionals has emerged among all streams of the IT sector such as: IT education & training, Computer programming, Software development, Software Engineering, Database Administrator, Network Systems & Data Communication Analysts, Technical writing, Content Development, Technical support, Hardware Design, System Administration, Web development, Quality Assurance, Call center support, Internet/Intranet development, E-commerce, Help desk/end user support.
The present situation is very meaty for any IT professional, as there are openings generating for all be it a fresher, project manager or team leader, hence, giving a job seeker several career options. But at the same time with so many IT courses available and lakhs of IT graduates entering the job market every year, competition is also getting fierce. So, for you to beat the competition and stay ahead of the crowd here are some tips from the team of Naukri.com, India’s number 1 job site.
Understand your skill set - Analyse what combination of skills and qualifications you have and then make a list of companies that would want to hire resources having a skill set similar to yours. This way you are streamlining your job hunt instead of blindly applying to all IT companies which could be completely different from your profile.
What benefit do you offer? - A company is more interested to know the benefits it can reap from a candidate’s skills. The skills mentioned in your resume should sound beneficial to the recruiter efficiency & productivity wise.
Put keywords in your resume - These days recruiters search for resumes mostly on job sites. So your resume should include terms or keywords that a recruiter would use while searching for an IT candidate. For example, JAVA, LAMP, C++, MIS, SQL, MCA, B tech. and so on. This will make your resume searchable i.e., whenever a recruiter searches for these keywords, your resume gets displayed in the search results.
Top it with a summary - Recruiters often avoid lengthy resumes and they tend to overlook important skills when they have to scan a huge pile of resumes. So, to avoid this, begin your resume with a summary of skills, where you can just mention briefly about your skill set, years of experience and number of projects you have worked on. This will hold the recruiter’s interest and provoke him to read your resume further. For example: your summary could be ‘MCA with 4 years of experience in QA & Testing’
Proofreading is a must - Check your resume thoroughly for incorrect terminologies and grammatical errors. No matter how qualified you are or how much experience you have, a small mistake in your resume can hinder you from getting a call from a company of high standards. So, proofread your resume and rectify all errors before sending it out. For example: Some people may write ‘data warehousing’ as ‘dataware housing’ or even ‘data wearhousing’… these kind of mistakes can’t be ignored, specially in the IT field. You can also seek help of your friends and seniors while proofreading your resume.
Stick to what you are actually good at - Mentioning skills in your resume which you are not well versed with may land you up in a trouble. If the interviewer asks you questions regarding these skills, then you may not be able to justify them with an answer.
Your innovations - During the interview quantify situations where you have helped your team save both in terms of time and finances by implementing some changes or a new work procedure. By talking about these incidents in an interview you will be promoting yourself as it is immensely important to market yourself during an interview.
Your accomplishments - Describe your Key Responsibility Area, the projects you have handled for the organization or during your course (mention course projects only if you are fresher), challenges faced by you and what steps did you take to overcome those challenges. But be crisp and don’t go on and on.
It’s okay if you don’t know something - If the employer asks you something you are not aware of then simply admit it, instead of pretending to know it. It’s not possible for any developer or programmer to know everything and the recruiter would surely understand if you are not trained in a particular skill.
Do your homework - Lastly, know the organization you are applying to or appearing for an interview. You must know about the industry they are into and try finding out the software and programming languages used by them. So, the interviewer will be impressed seeing your inertest in the company and would consider you as a sincere candidate.
Getting a job these days is not a big deal, but what kind of a job you are securing is what matters the most. We wish that these tips help you land in the right job with a promising and a successful career.
About Naukri.com
Naukri.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge revolutionized the concept of recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com has seen exponential growth year after year. Formerly an ICICI Ventures investee company, it has attracted investments from leading venture capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, apart from an IPO in November 2006.
Naukri.com is a recruitment platform and provides services to the corporate world, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers a bouquet of products like Resume Database Access, and Response Management Tools and its services include Job Postings, and Branding solutions on the site. With 80000 job listings and 10 million searchable resumes, Naukri.com serviced over 27000 corporate clients in the past year.
The company has over 1000 people operating through 57 offices in 32 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai. For more information, log on to www.naukri.com
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Resume- Your Ticket to an Interview
-By Madhurima Sil, Sr. Executive Marketing, Naukri.com
Are you about to pen down your resume before posting it to a lucrative job opening? Have you posted your resume several times to consultants and companies but yet not received any call despite being an eligible candidate? Here are a few resume writing tips from the team of Naukri.com that can make your resume your ticket to an interview call. Read on…
What is a resume?
A resume is a summary of educational qualifications, professional skills, achievements, work experience and extra curricular talents. It is a tool that you would use to market yourself to a company before or during an interview. A resume needs to stand out and be distinct in such a way that it catches the attention of a recruiter while he/she is short listing a few candidates from a huge pile of resumes. And so resume writing is one of the most crucial and important tasks for a job seeker, as it is a resume that can fetch you an interview call.
To begin writing a resume, the first thing to do is to create a list of main headings and their sub points on a rough sheet of paper. Some main headings could be:
Contact details
Objective
Career skills
Education
Experience
Achievements
Extra curricular activities
Using these points you will start writing the fair draft of your resume.
Before you begin with writing your resume, it’s important to determine your career objective. After mentioning contact details on your resume, your objective should follow next. Objective depicts a job seeker’s goal clarity and will catch an employer’s attention if it is well expressed. Your objective should clearly state the kind of work you want to do. Also, an objective should be crisp, realistic, relevant and one which reflects your ambition & passion for work.
Next you should mention your educational qualifications with the most recent one listed at the top along with academic honours if any. Followed by your work experience listed in reverse chronological order i.e. first you mention your previous/ present job and then moving backward till your first job.
After you have mentioned these, there could be some other but relevant information like your career skills, trainings attended, projects handled, extra curricular activities or achievements and so on, which can be an integral part of your resume.
Once you have completed writing your resume, do proofread it for a spelling and grammar check. You may also get it read by your two to three friends to get some feedback. It is equally important to format the document in a manner that would give it a neat look and would distinctly highlight the beginning of each section, thus making it easily readable. It is advisable to keep the headings in bold and mention the points under each heading in bullets. Use simple font style, a font size ranging from 10-14 and avoid ALL CAPITAL letters except for the headings.
So far, we discussed what should be the contents of your resume. But, there are certain untapped aspects of a resume that can leave an indirect impact on the employer and help you tackle some of your crucial points effectively. Following are some suggestions that would help you give a new angle to your resume:
-Read your resume from the perspective of an employer and ask yourself if you would call the candidate for an interview and consider him for the job. While composing a resume it’s important to know what employers seek in a resume. Generally the qualities that employers seek are effective communication, honesty, team spirit, motivation, good work ethics, analytical skills, adaptability and so on. So you might want the information in your resume reflect these qualities.
-If you have gaps in your work tenure such as full time parenting, maternity leave, travel, full time student etc. then you must mention them in the work experience section along with the respective month and year of the gap.
-While framing the content of your resume, try using some action words like prepared, managed, developed, championed, monitored, presented etc. These words catch the reader’s attention and have a punch like an advertisement, persuading the reader to buy the product or rightly put - persuading the employer to hire you.
-Finally, don’t go overboard with flowery or buzz words in an effort to make your resume attractive as excess of self-praising may begin to backfire at you instead.
Always remember, the purpose of a resume is to generate interest in your favour among prospective employers even if you are amidst fierce competition. Your intention behind writing a resume should be to create interest to an extent that the employer gets persuaded to call you for an interview.
About naukri.com
Naukri.com is India's No 1 job site. It provides a common platform for companies, head-hunters and job seekers to exchange information quickly and effectively. Established in 1997, naukri.com is a division of Info Edge (India) Ltd. (the company has a network of portals - Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com apart from naukri.com) – and is India’s largest Internet Company. Naukri.com is the 5th most popular website in India across all categories with a database of over 9 million registered users and 200,000 live jobs. With over 25,000 companies trusting their experience in them, it has a very large user base. Naukri.com also offers Resumes Services such as Resume Display, Resume Development, Resume Flash and Job Mail.
Being leaders in their space, the company is constantly innovating. Visit them at http://www.naukri.com
Are you about to pen down your resume before posting it to a lucrative job opening? Have you posted your resume several times to consultants and companies but yet not received any call despite being an eligible candidate? Here are a few resume writing tips from the team of Naukri.com that can make your resume your ticket to an interview call. Read on…
What is a resume?
A resume is a summary of educational qualifications, professional skills, achievements, work experience and extra curricular talents. It is a tool that you would use to market yourself to a company before or during an interview. A resume needs to stand out and be distinct in such a way that it catches the attention of a recruiter while he/she is short listing a few candidates from a huge pile of resumes. And so resume writing is one of the most crucial and important tasks for a job seeker, as it is a resume that can fetch you an interview call.
To begin writing a resume, the first thing to do is to create a list of main headings and their sub points on a rough sheet of paper. Some main headings could be:
Contact details
Objective
Career skills
Education
Experience
Achievements
Extra curricular activities
Using these points you will start writing the fair draft of your resume.
Before you begin with writing your resume, it’s important to determine your career objective. After mentioning contact details on your resume, your objective should follow next. Objective depicts a job seeker’s goal clarity and will catch an employer’s attention if it is well expressed. Your objective should clearly state the kind of work you want to do. Also, an objective should be crisp, realistic, relevant and one which reflects your ambition & passion for work.
Next you should mention your educational qualifications with the most recent one listed at the top along with academic honours if any. Followed by your work experience listed in reverse chronological order i.e. first you mention your previous/ present job and then moving backward till your first job.
After you have mentioned these, there could be some other but relevant information like your career skills, trainings attended, projects handled, extra curricular activities or achievements and so on, which can be an integral part of your resume.
Once you have completed writing your resume, do proofread it for a spelling and grammar check. You may also get it read by your two to three friends to get some feedback. It is equally important to format the document in a manner that would give it a neat look and would distinctly highlight the beginning of each section, thus making it easily readable. It is advisable to keep the headings in bold and mention the points under each heading in bullets. Use simple font style, a font size ranging from 10-14 and avoid ALL CAPITAL letters except for the headings.
So far, we discussed what should be the contents of your resume. But, there are certain untapped aspects of a resume that can leave an indirect impact on the employer and help you tackle some of your crucial points effectively. Following are some suggestions that would help you give a new angle to your resume:
-Read your resume from the perspective of an employer and ask yourself if you would call the candidate for an interview and consider him for the job. While composing a resume it’s important to know what employers seek in a resume. Generally the qualities that employers seek are effective communication, honesty, team spirit, motivation, good work ethics, analytical skills, adaptability and so on. So you might want the information in your resume reflect these qualities.
-If you have gaps in your work tenure such as full time parenting, maternity leave, travel, full time student etc. then you must mention them in the work experience section along with the respective month and year of the gap.
-While framing the content of your resume, try using some action words like prepared, managed, developed, championed, monitored, presented etc. These words catch the reader’s attention and have a punch like an advertisement, persuading the reader to buy the product or rightly put - persuading the employer to hire you.
-Finally, don’t go overboard with flowery or buzz words in an effort to make your resume attractive as excess of self-praising may begin to backfire at you instead.
Always remember, the purpose of a resume is to generate interest in your favour among prospective employers even if you are amidst fierce competition. Your intention behind writing a resume should be to create interest to an extent that the employer gets persuaded to call you for an interview.
About naukri.com
Naukri.com is India's No 1 job site. It provides a common platform for companies, head-hunters and job seekers to exchange information quickly and effectively. Established in 1997, naukri.com is a division of Info Edge (India) Ltd. (the company has a network of portals - Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com apart from naukri.com) – and is India’s largest Internet Company. Naukri.com is the 5th most popular website in India across all categories with a database of over 9 million registered users and 200,000 live jobs. With over 25,000 companies trusting their experience in them, it has a very large user base. Naukri.com also offers Resumes Services such as Resume Display, Resume Development, Resume Flash and Job Mail.
Being leaders in their space, the company is constantly innovating. Visit them at http://www.naukri.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Cracking Interviews
Have you received an interview call that can lead you to your dream job but are worried as to how you’ll get through those stressful rounds and wondering where to begin your preparation for the interview? Here are a few suggestions from the team of Naukri.com, India’s no. 1 job portal, read on…
An employee, like any other company resource has to be hired at a price and before investing into any resource the company will make sure that the person will meet their expectations and will contribute towards their goal achievement with the skills he has been hired for.
There are different types of interviews that an organization may conduct depending upon the nature of the job such as telephonic interviews, general interviews, behavioral interviews, stress interviews, technical interviews etc. Hence, preparation before any interview is of the foremost importance as it adds to your confidence.
The most important preparation is to brush upon the points you have mentioned in your resume in order to counter questions asked about your choice of career, your career skills, achievements, projects handled and so on. Also, it is important to do some research about the company and the industry you are applying to.
Another way is to create a list of expected questions and then preparing answers for them. A few questions could be:
Why did you decide to apply for this position?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
List three of your most important/proudest accomplishments.
What kind of work environment do you prefer?
Why do you want to move to this area?
Why should we hire you?
What is the salary you expect?
However, you must remember that an interview is a two way process where both the interviewer and interviewee need to participate equally. So, keep a track of the length of your answers and don’t go on and on. Your answers should be to the point and precise. If your answer tends to stretch for more than two to three minutes then take a pause and ask if you should continue or get on with other questions. Make sure you do not go off track and speak about things irrelevant to the job or the interview.
Always carry a positive attitude and a smile that leaves a lasting impression, as it is rightly said that ‘The first impression is the last impression.’ Avoid saying anything negative about your current or previous supervisor and organization. Maintain your eye contact with the interviewer without glaring at him as eye contact reflects your confidence level. Simultaneously looking good is also important, so wear something formal and decent as one can avoid flaunting expensive clothes or jazzy accessories in an interview.
You might even be nervous before the interview, as it’s the case with almost every interviewee. However, you must realize that its ok to be nervous and the earlier you accept your nervousness, the better will be your performance during the interview. Often situations tend to worsen if you try to suppress your anxiety, rather try to get relieved of it by diverting your mind to some light thoughts and taking some deep breaths. Also, do keep your mind open for all kinds of feedback from the interviewer whether positive or negative as any feedback will help you improve for your next interview.
On the day of the interview, make sure you reach the venue on time but certainly turning up too early shows that you have enough time in your hands. You must arrive on time but not before 15 minutes of the given time and incase you get stuck due to some unavoidable circumstances then call up and tell them about your delay along with an apology. Lastly, never forget to carry extra copies of your resume and passport size photographs when you are going for an interview.
As the name suggests, an interview is changing of views between two or more people. The actual purpose of an interview churns out when both the employer & the jobseeker exchange their views simultaneously. Incase you have some doubts about your role, you must get them clarified during the interview itself.
We wish that these suggestions help you excel in all your interviews and you get the job of your dreams. To find some lucrative job offers and to get interview calls visit http://www.naukri.com/, the number 1 job portal of India.
About naukri.com
Naukri.com is India's No 1 job site. It provides a common platform for companies, head-hunters and job seekers to exchange information quickly and effectively. Established in 1997, naukri.com is a division of Info Edge (India) Ltd. (the company has a network of portals - Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com apart from naukri.com) – and is India’s largest Internet Company. Naukri.com is the 5th most popular website in India across all categories with a database of over 8 million registered users and 200,000 live jobs. With over 25,000 companies trusting their experience in them, it has a very large user base. Being leaders in their space, the company is constantly innovating. Visit them at http://http://www.naukri.com/
- By Madhurima Sil
Sr. Executive Marketing
Naukri.com
An employee, like any other company resource has to be hired at a price and before investing into any resource the company will make sure that the person will meet their expectations and will contribute towards their goal achievement with the skills he has been hired for.
There are different types of interviews that an organization may conduct depending upon the nature of the job such as telephonic interviews, general interviews, behavioral interviews, stress interviews, technical interviews etc. Hence, preparation before any interview is of the foremost importance as it adds to your confidence.
The most important preparation is to brush upon the points you have mentioned in your resume in order to counter questions asked about your choice of career, your career skills, achievements, projects handled and so on. Also, it is important to do some research about the company and the industry you are applying to.
Another way is to create a list of expected questions and then preparing answers for them. A few questions could be:
Why did you decide to apply for this position?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
List three of your most important/proudest accomplishments.
What kind of work environment do you prefer?
Why do you want to move to this area?
Why should we hire you?
What is the salary you expect?
However, you must remember that an interview is a two way process where both the interviewer and interviewee need to participate equally. So, keep a track of the length of your answers and don’t go on and on. Your answers should be to the point and precise. If your answer tends to stretch for more than two to three minutes then take a pause and ask if you should continue or get on with other questions. Make sure you do not go off track and speak about things irrelevant to the job or the interview.
Always carry a positive attitude and a smile that leaves a lasting impression, as it is rightly said that ‘The first impression is the last impression.’ Avoid saying anything negative about your current or previous supervisor and organization. Maintain your eye contact with the interviewer without glaring at him as eye contact reflects your confidence level. Simultaneously looking good is also important, so wear something formal and decent as one can avoid flaunting expensive clothes or jazzy accessories in an interview.
You might even be nervous before the interview, as it’s the case with almost every interviewee. However, you must realize that its ok to be nervous and the earlier you accept your nervousness, the better will be your performance during the interview. Often situations tend to worsen if you try to suppress your anxiety, rather try to get relieved of it by diverting your mind to some light thoughts and taking some deep breaths. Also, do keep your mind open for all kinds of feedback from the interviewer whether positive or negative as any feedback will help you improve for your next interview.
On the day of the interview, make sure you reach the venue on time but certainly turning up too early shows that you have enough time in your hands. You must arrive on time but not before 15 minutes of the given time and incase you get stuck due to some unavoidable circumstances then call up and tell them about your delay along with an apology. Lastly, never forget to carry extra copies of your resume and passport size photographs when you are going for an interview.
As the name suggests, an interview is changing of views between two or more people. The actual purpose of an interview churns out when both the employer & the jobseeker exchange their views simultaneously. Incase you have some doubts about your role, you must get them clarified during the interview itself.
We wish that these suggestions help you excel in all your interviews and you get the job of your dreams. To find some lucrative job offers and to get interview calls visit http://www.naukri.com/, the number 1 job portal of India.
About naukri.com
Naukri.com is India's No 1 job site. It provides a common platform for companies, head-hunters and job seekers to exchange information quickly and effectively. Established in 1997, naukri.com is a division of Info Edge (India) Ltd. (the company has a network of portals - Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com apart from naukri.com) – and is India’s largest Internet Company. Naukri.com is the 5th most popular website in India across all categories with a database of over 8 million registered users and 200,000 live jobs. With over 25,000 companies trusting their experience in them, it has a very large user base. Being leaders in their space, the company is constantly innovating. Visit them at http://http://www.naukri.com/
- By Madhurima Sil
Sr. Executive Marketing
Naukri.com
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