1. What is the meaning of resume?

2. What is the purpose of a resume?

3. Whether resume is an exhaustive list of everything you have ever done? Comment.

4. Why should we update our resume from time to time?

5. Do you agree with the statement that resume serves as a marketing tool to sell yourself to potential employer. If yes, why?

6. Whether it is correct that a well-crafted resume increases your chances of being selected for an interview?

7. What are the key components of a resume?

8. What is the proper format for writing a resume?

9. Whether we should include our residential/correspondence address or email address in our resume or both?

10. Whether work experience in the resume should be written from oldest to latest or from latest to oldest?

11. What are those factors that affect how long a recruiter will spend reading your CV?

12. How does the volume of job applications affect the time spent by a recruiter on reading CVs?

13. Why it is so that on an average, the employer spends very less time on reading a CV in case of junior positions as compared to a CV in case of senior positions?

14. Why the outside agency assigned with the task of job recruitment goes through CVs at a fast speed in comparison with an internal recruiter?

15. What are the three ways in which the CV/resume may reach the recruiter?

16. If a recruiter receives a resume with recommendation or reference by one of his friends/relatives/employees, the employer is likely to spend more time on reading the resume? Why it is so?

17. What is the average percentage of applicants who are considered suitable for the roles they are applying to?

18. Which is the best day (as per a research) for sending your job application via email?

19. Which is the best time for sending your job application via email?

20. Within which time period you should normally apply after a job gets published? Why should we apply within that time period?

21. Whether should we use cover letter when applying for a job? or

22. Why is a cover letter so important?

23. Do candidates send cover letters?

24. Should you send a cover letter if it is optional?

25. What is meant by hard skills?

26. What is meaning of soft skills?

27. Employers are looking to hire employees who have the right mix of two different types of skills. What are those skills?

Who this course is for:

• Any person who wants to create his resume in a well crafted manner