Once someone makes a decision about your resume, it's almost impossible for you to persuade them that they were wrong. No amount of persuasion can make them change their opinion.
The alternative and the opportunity that you have is to encourage the non supporter to look at new information and make a new decision. Give them a new angle to look at you. A new perspective. A new you. A new story.
Cover Letters is one of the topics that I have covered quite a few time in this blog. Today as I read this latest advice on how to write great cover letters I could resist posting it here.
Some of the tips in there are obvious and some are really good. Do check it out and Hope this help you in your quest for jobs
Here's one interesting job posting that I am not able to resist myself to tell you all.
Its from EADS!!
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2007, EADS generated reven ues of EUR 39.1 billion and employed a workforce of about 116,000. So wanna be apart of this.
Here’s the description.
Striving for PROGRESS? - Participate in the new EADS Corporate Programme for graduates & young professionals at different locations within Europe.
The PROfessional and GRaduate Entry Support Scheme (PROGRESS) is a new programme in the EADS Corporate Trainee & Development Portfolio. EADS is offering you this unique fast track path to start your career in the EADS Group (Airbus, Eurocopter, Astrium, Defence & Security, MTAD and EADS Headquarters). This 24-month programme will develop and support the highest calibre graduates and young professionals, who are eager to gain international experience in a world class aerospace & defence company
PROGRESS is designed for graduates and professionals with a maximum of a 3-year professional experience (including internships) and a minimum of a 6-month experience abroad.
In addition, you should fulfil the following requirements:
• English language fluency (additional language(s) is (are) a plus),
• Excellent academic background in business or engineering
• Very good communication skills and strong team player
• Creative and innovative
• Desire for world-wide mobility
• Passion for engineering and technology
For more info click here
So can we apply, yes sure its also listed on naukri.com
Also read : what you can do so that your resumes gets you invited for an interview
I have already showed you all the worst crafted resume of my life. And in that I promised that when I'll get time I'll showing the mistakes and would re design the resume. Since I have see lot of requirements in OURAeSI so I thought it high time to update you all on that.
So in this post i will give you a general structure of the resume that one should follow. While writing this I will keep the worst resume of my life in my mind.
Personal detail should be at the end. For a resume to be effective, you need to have the first page that contents all the relevant info up front. So first page of the resume is the most important.
The first thing is give in your name. Broader than anything you have, then state your phone no. And email. And briefly in one line state your location. No need to give house number or other details. Just stating behala kolkata is enough. That is just be brief in the address. Give a general idea about your location.
Then comes the objective. Let it be brief. One line statements. As this post told you, objective is only good if its original otherwise it looses its importance. So craft a good objective or leave it.
Then if you are new a graduate. Education should be your first highlight after the objective. Be brief and to the point in it. State the year. Avoid percentage if not asked specifically. Use first class or grading level. Address of your school college is not important so skip it just give the location. For AeSI graduates follow Bishnujee’s advice and write BE aeronautical instead of AMAeSI. Why ? AMAeSI is unfortunately little known so avoid the confusions.
Then comes the important thing. Here you should rite about any practical experience you might have. Any training you attended and stuff like that. It should be the place where the recruiter will spend the most time to see if you are fit for the job so be sure when you send out the resume update this section accordingly and shuffle the list in accordance with the requirements.
Technical skills section can either come here of just after the education. make it as a bullet list. An example presented below
After the project summaries list, you can include the project details where you elaborate on the projects. Here also be very brief about the projects and highlight what were your responsibilities in the project.
After this you can give in your personal profile. Be brief and don’t state unnecessary details. No one will read them unless you are going for a reality show. So keep it professional.
Well this are some of the general guideline of crafting a resume. I said I have written a lot about it here, so do check it and don’t forget to get a cover letter
I was visiting naukri.com and noticed that Goodrich aerospace is one aerospace company that has the maximum number of requirements this week.
From design engineer to stress analyst, from software engineer to technical publication, Goodrich aerospace is looking for aerospace professional for varied range with varied experience
Do check out the job pages here.
Also if you are planning to apply for the job at Goodrich aerospace or any other requirement remember this following points.
1> Research about the company, what it does, what is it primary business?
2> Know if the company was in news recently, if you follow indianaeroblog you will already know what Goodrich aerospace is doing in India. This information will help you in your interview and while crafting a custom resume and cover letter.
3> Update or edit your resume in light of the requirement and company's information that you have.
4> Craft a cover letter to highlight the points that's make you suitable for the job.
5> and finally follow this general instruction of how to send resume and begin preparing for the interview with these 50 common interview questions and answers.
This common sense steps are always required for every job requirement that you might apply for, be it Goodrich aerospace or Mahindra aerospace or any other
For more information on how to build resume and how to craft a cover letter click here
Resume without cover letter is like indian cricket team without sachin, hindi movie without song, job without a pay. So you see its incomplete. just like an hindi movie is incomplete without song, indian team is incomplete without sachin.... You are not doing job if you aren't getting paid...
I am interested in working as an {the post name} in your organization and applying for the job listed at naukri.com. I am a graduate of aeronautical engineering from aeronautical society of india, New Delhi.
I am a good learner with relevant experience as trainee in NAL & Indian airlines. I have worked on {write here things relevant to post you are applying}. Additionally i have been involved in the project related to {the things that you don't have so much idea but are relevant to the job you are applying}
As you will see in my resume, {write the things that you want to highlight in your resume, it might be the the extra skills combination, or any experience }
I have enclosed my resume as a first step in exploring the possibilities of employment with your organization, which is { write something relevant about the organization} { This step will show that you have done research on the company}
As an aeronautical engineer with your organization, I would bring a focus on quality and ease of use to your system development and performances of the work delivered to me. furthermore, I work well with others.
I would appreciate your keeping this inquiry confidential. I am really thankful to you to give me your precious time. Thank you for your time and consideration. Hope to receive a call from you.
Thank you
Faithfully,
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Last week in OURAeSI club, there were 3+ messages related to job requirement... I hope everyone has seen them and appropriate candidates must have forwarded their resumes by now. But I was wondering how many of them had done it in the right way? I mean what was your checklist before you shot that email carrying your resume for the requirement listed?
Please do let me know in the comments.
Although I haven't sent my resume for a year now, but a year back, when I did, I had this 4 point checklist before I sent my resume to any job requirement.
Is the resume latest?
Do I have the cover letter?
Do my resume match the requirement or needs little adjustments?
Do I know anything about the company I am applying?
Let me elaborate on these points a little bit more. Is my resume the latest is the first thing I checked. Most of the time, it never was. I had to scour my resume back from the sent folders of my email account. Or from the my documents folder where it stayed unattended. Sure it always got updated. The areas which got modified were the dates of previous work experience. I quantified my work experience as 1.5 year (meaning 1 year 6 months), that changed as I progressed month wise. So I needed to include that and give my latest experience figures! While in NAL, the skills section also got updated to highlight the skills I have picked up since my last resume update. And same thing happened to Project listing. Sometimes skills and projects not needed in for the current requirements were trimmed and re-adjusted.
"Do I have a cover letter?" was the second thought. To this I will emphasize from experience, I know that my all resumes that went with a cover letter brought me a response!! There was not a single instance that my resume with a cover letter didn't get me a call for the interview. I think having cover letter is must.
You can't put everything on your resume and you can't use fancy colors or highlight your resume too much for the risk of looking unprofessional, here cover letter comes handy and useful. A cover letter is one place where you can highlight the specific areas that you want your recruiter to see when they look at your resume. It serves as a good introduction to your resume! So never let a resume go by without a good cover letter accompanying it!
While in NAL, i did various kind of work, some of the work came under design like design of mixed flow compressor, some came under software development where I developed VB applications to do various design calculations and other got into the category of analysis, where using analysis packages to get result was the main responsibility. So having worked on varied kind of work, I had this standard resume, where I listed all my work, major, minor, design related, analysis related and software development related and Every time I had to send a resume, I used to adjust my projects to the requirements, plucking projects and its description from this master standard project-only resume.
Sometimes one project covered and overlapped many different categories. Like I had this project "design of mixed flow centrifugal compressor impeller”; now this had design and during the project I have to develop a VB application to design the compressor. So this project encompassed 2 categories. And having a standard projects-only resume solved my problem. When I said I needed to modify my resume for the appropriate requirement, I meant pushing the project related to the requirement up in the list and including more details to it. Removing the once that were irrelevant, trimming some which do not add much value. This way the resume had the consistency and I was at peace that I haven’t missed any project.
Sometimes, if the requirement was of design nature then the design projects were pushed up and I hightled the points on this project. Even in the skills section of the resume, the skills related to design got highlighted and were emphasized. Sometime when I knew my work experience directly matched with the requirement; then I made sure that I highlighted the project in my cover letter as well.
Knowing the company I was applying for! Be sure to know what the requirement is and then use Google to search for the company you are applying for. It’s after this that you should craft your cover letter and update your resume. Your cover letter and resume should reflect that you know about the company you are applying for and are aware of the requirements!!
A resume cannot guarantee you a job offer, but a great resume introduced with a good cover letter can help you get an interview.
For more info on how to craft a resume see this excellent link
http://www.mahalo.com/How_to_write_a_resume
I am sure you will add your tips in the comments that I might have missed. So feel free to comment!!
Job hunting has now become the first priority in my life now a days, so please don't mind if i devote my most of my posts here on this ventures! Well my last interview was long back, since then none of my resume has fetched me any interview call. I've been lucky with my resume and cover letter as almost all that i've dispatched from my mail had had an response. None i guess landed up in someone's trash folder. But still there are flaws i guess, that's why i'm posting this entry still as a trainee engineer of nal. Anyways first and foremost thing i have learnt by sending resumes is that a good cover letter is must. Have seen lots of people just sending there resume with just a line "please find resume attached " as cover letter, pleas don't do that. Show your interest in the job you are applying, highlight the most important aspect of your resume in it and most importantly remember cover letters are your means to let the recruiter notice your resume that will eventually grant an interview call.! I guess enough of gyan for today. Do write about your experiences and experiments with your resumes.:-) love to hear about it.
