Resume Building Tips for Freshers

February 7, 2021   |   by Madhuri B

For Freshers, the resume should be mainly about their skill-set and academic details. Here are some tips about how to build your resume, section wise.

• Career Objective Section:
  • It is absolutely unnecessary. The Career objectives are just like heritage carried from your senior’s CV’s to your CV, then to your junior’s. You can safely remove it as it is nothing but copy paste.
  • If you have something of your original, that reflects your real career motto or attitude, you may add it, just to bring some interest.
• Technical Summary:
  • Add a line in technical summary about training attended at Kernel Masters. Course name is Certified Industrial Embedded Systems Developer training.
  • Or add any other relevant course that you have attended at any institute.
  • Update the skillset or technical summary section with whatever topics you learnt at Kernel Masters, or implemented, like socket programming, inter process communication etc.
  • You may also add the major subjects studied in technical summary/skillset, like C Programming, Embedded C with STM32, Operating System concepts, Git, GDB , KGDB etc.
  • Protocol names must be mentioned.
  • Sometimes it may be required that you have to update your technical skillset based on the company’s requirement and Job Description. So keep visiting this section from time to time and update.
• Projects:
  • Add the embedded C project done at Kernel Masters, to your profile above your academic projects.
  • Add Project Title first.
  • Add project abstract / description. Add this in your own words, to reflect how you understood the project in general words. Include some key technical words that help describe the project.
  • Do not copy paste project description from anybody else.
  • Quality is more important than quantity when it comes to projects. You will be validated based on how much practical implementation you have done on one project with perfect understanding, than how many projects you have done.
  • Add the responsibilities handled by you and the technologies & protocols used.
  • Under responsibilities you will have to add details like ,data sheet study, any kind of analysis done, sensors studied etc in bullet points.
  • Academic project should be added only if you are able to explain about it in interviews.
• Experience Summary:
  • Add your experience or internship details if any only if it is related to Embedded field.
  • Add companyname, designation and duration for which you have served at the company.
  • Do not add teaching experience or experience from any other field that is not relevant to Embedded Industry.
• Education Details:
  • Academic percentages, branch or specialization and passedout years are mandatory in education details.
  • Also add the university and college names for graduation and post graduation.
• Personal Details:
  • Personal details section is not usually required if you are providing your residential address at the top.
  • If you want to provide, put your date of birth & Residential address. Family details are not required.
• Contact Information:
  • Add a valid mobile number and a mail id that you regularly use and check. The mobile number that you provide in resume, must always be available.
  • Make sure your email id that you provide has a professioal looking user name that shows your full name as part of it.
  • Do not use any unprofessional & funky mail ids like mylifemywish@gmail.com.
  • Better to add your residential address to give the employer an idea of your current location, there by decide the mode of interview.
  • Add your SkypeId.
• Other Key points to Note:
  • Name your resume file in this format “FullName_Fresher/x+exp” Full name is mandatory. Never name it like “my_resume”, “resume”,”resumeupdated” etc. Resumes wrongly named will be discarded.
  • Send only word documents to me, if you are under my placement assistance program (only for Kernel Masters students).
  • Wish you All the Best.