By Syed Sohail AhmedAssistant Professor

Email:ssoahmed@ssuet.edu.pk

Purpose of your Resume The Employer’s perspective Targeting your resume to match

Employer Needs Resume styles & Formats Tips for Resume in the digital age Effective Cover letters Resources

Myth: “The Purpose of a resume is to get a job”

Fact: The purpose of a resume is to get an interview!

The recruiter who is interviewing new graduates knows that these young people don’t have work experience yet so they won’t be looking for them.

What they will be looking for are knowledge, skills, and specialties.

Specialties and knowledge are defined by course subjects and academics

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Employers will usually take, at most, only twenty seconds to look at one-page representation of yourself before deciding whether to keep or discard it.

The 20 second rule To ensure that you will make it past that initial screening, you should design your resume in such a way that employers can read the document easily and process information quickly

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