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Some points to remember while creating your CV

• Present your Skills and Experience clearly- Highlight any prior experience and skills that correspond with the course you are applying for clearly.
• Make your CV readable- make sure that your CV is easy to read, use simple and professional language and check for any grammatical mistakes.
• Use reverse chronological order- Always list the most recent experience on the top followed by previous ones for internships, work experiences and educational qualifications.

Photograph

• A standard passport size photograph with plain background.

Personal Information : Include only the following details

• First name and Surname
• Address
• Telephone
• Email
• Nationality
• Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY)
• Skype ID

Work Experience: Add separate entries for each relevant position occupied, starting from the most recent.

• Date: Duration of the held position.
• Occupation/ Or Position held
• Main roles and responsibilities : Include details that correspond to the current course for which you are applying. Example: Applying for Robotics, coding and knowledge of computer knowledge should be displayed.
• Name and Address of the employer (Company Name)
• Type of Business/Sector:

Example

Work Experience 1

• Date: December 2019- January 2020
• Position held: Software Development Intern
• Main roles and responsibilities:

-Designed an application for searching through XYZ’s codebase using search API, Galene.

– Designed and developed frontend with features like IDE mimicking, facet selection, search directives and typeahead.

– Devised and implemented various statistical techniques to account for user behavior in

document ranking algorithms.

– Implemented Regex search on the application using Java Parsing (using ANTLR) for    metadata.

•   Name of the Employer: XYZ Company
• Type of business/sector:Computer Software Service

Include Further work experience(if any) in the same manner.

Education: Add separate entries for each completed course, starting from the most recent.

• Date : Duration of the course( Year of joining and completion)
• Title of Qualification Awarded : Include the whole detail. Field of Graduation is important.
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered : If applying for a Management course, write about the course like business administration/Economics/Finance/ Human Resource Management taught in Bachelors.
• Name of institution providing education and training

Example 1: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

• Date: 2017-2021
• Title of Qualification Awarded– Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Software Engineering , Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence etc.
• Name of institution providing education and training: University of Delhi

Example 2: CBSE 12th Board- Senior Secondary

• Date: 2017
• Title of Qualification Awarded: Senior Secondary
• Principal Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science
• Name of the Institution: Delhi Public School, New Delhi India.

Include Further educational details like Matriculation in the same manner and start from the highest education qualification achieved.

Internship: Add separate entries for each relevant internship experience you have completed, starting from the most recent. You may include workshops attended, skills acquired through coursera etc.

• Date
• Hosting Organization
• Principle task covered: Skills that would be helpful in the course for which you are applying. Example: If Applying for Computer Sciences, website design internship would come in a handful.

Example

Internship 1

• Date:April 2019- June 2019
• Hosting Organization: XYZ Organization
• Principle task covered: I was part of a team of developers which was responsible for fast paced development and delivery of client critical projects. I was instrumental in developing web applications and PWA using MEAN stack.

Training : Name of the course and time period. ( Include any online certificate courses or workshops that you have attended in this section.)

Example:

Machine learning – April 2020 – June 2020

Virtual Reality Specialization- November 2019- December 2019

Include Further internship and training details (if more) in the same manner.

Personal Skills and Competencies

• Mother Tongue
• Other Languages: B2 level of knowledge required in English
• Technical Skills and competencies
• Computer Skills and competencies

Example 

Personal Skills and Competencies 

• Mother Tongue : Hindi
• OtherLanguage: English (add any other languages that you know and specify the level)

• Technical Skills and competencies: Software Development, Technical Writing, Data Science.
• Computer Skills and competencies: Programming languages (C++, Python, Java), MS Office

Final Year Projects

• Title 
• Dates ()
• Description of the project (3 lines)
• Supervisor name

Example

Final Year Projects

• Title : Library Management System
• Dates (February 2019- March 2019)
• Description of the project: Implemented database for a single library management system with enhanced entity relationship management model.
• Supervisor name: Dr. A.Sharma

Additional Information

Organizational Skills: If you are applying for any management courses, highlight organizational skills.

Example: Project Management, Leadership, Team Management etc.

Achievements 

Example

Secured 2nd rank in App Developing Competition at TechVista organised by J.P School (2018).

Got selected for KVPY Fellowship in 2016.