How to create Resume for VLSI jobs?

Resume is like a marketing ad which an Individual does for himself/herself. Any hiring manager whenever drives the hiring campaign for any of the vacant post the first thing which he/she needs to go through is Resume shortlisting. Now for one job opening various candidates apply so short listing candidates from thousands of resume is not an easy task. Some companies still uses the manual way of inspection & then finalize the candidates whereas many companies have move towards the technology for shortlisting appropriate candidates based on the resume.

Now obviously be it manual way of inspection or through AI/Technology, your resume should be impactful enough that with in the fraction of seconds it should grab the eyeballs. In this Article we will discuss few things which everyone should consider while drafting their one page of educational & professional summary:

Length of Resume:

It should be crisp & clean. Usually people try to accommodate all highlights of their academics/careers in their Resume, which is fine as long as it is not going beyond 1 page. You need to be extremely selective while drafting your most important one page of summary. In this era where resume’s are getting discarded with in 2-3 seconds, making 2-3 page long summary is only going to make it difficult for you to get any interview/job call.

Importance of Grammar & Resume Format:

Ultimately you would be making one page resume which will be an advertising document for you, so it becomes extremely important to make it error free. Recruiters usually expect from you to make it readable & error free. It doesn’t give a good impression to recruiters if it contains various error. If you can not spend some time to make single page document error free how someone can trust you to do your job efficiently. So double check your resume before you upload/share to any recruitment portal.

Also while drafting phase, it becomes very important that how you are managing various sections in it. Since you need to contain various information its necessary to spend some while creating proper layout. Now a days there are various online platforms where you can feed all the required information and they can generate the nicely organized resume in few minutes only, so you can use them as well.

What things you should mention in your Resume?

Its very important to filter out all those information which are irrelevant. Clear understanding of what to mention is very important. Sometimes while drafting it, we think that every small achievement should be mentioned like participation in some hackathon, competition these kind of information. You have to mention these small things in your resume or not it depends on how rich you graduation/post-graduation has been. If you have done so many things in your college like projects, internships. You have achieved some rare achievements like winning any big competition, any awards which are significant enough to mention, Achieved decent rank in any all India competition that should definitely be mentioned.

But if you don’t have so much accolades to mention, then you can write even small achievements or about your participations in various competitions also. But serious advice for you would be to make it rich, filled with so many projects, internships & achievements. Try to have at least following things in your resume:

• Academic Qualification details (Better to present in in tabular format)
• Internship/Training details
• Key Achievements
• Various Projects
• Professional Skills
• Recommendations
• Any Certifications

Resume most of the students prepare in their 3rd year & even few prepare in the final year to apply for various job opportunities. Since its a lost moment thing, so in order to fill your resume with various activities you need to plan your 4 years of B.Tech in proper way. This will make sure that at the end of 5th/6th semester you will have so many things to mention. At Mosgyan we have one article which talks about 4 years roadmap for an Electronics & Communication Engineer, you should go through this article to understand how you can plan your enginnering’s 4 year in much better way, here’s the link:

4 years Roadmap for an Electronics & Communication Engineering Student

Way of Representation:

Presentation is very important skill to have. You might have thousands of things to mention but if you don’t know how to present your skill set, then still even with so rich resume you might not get shortlisted. Let’s say you have done 5 projects in your graduation out of these 5, 2 projects are on VLSI. So in case if you are applying for VLSI Jobs better to present first 2 projects of your VLSI followed by other 3. Use highlighter very cautiously  to showcase skill set which you used to complete those VLSI projects.

Similarly if you are applying for some other Job role you can do the same for projects related to that job profile. Whatever we discussed just now same can be use for Internships, recommendations & even for mentioning professional skill set as well.

These are some of the points which one should consider while drafting the resume or even while feeding the data in online platforms so that compact, crisp & rich resume can be drafted.

You can watch this Youtube video also to know why most of the Resume’s are rejected?