Recruiter Teaches Winning CV/Resume Strategy

1. Chapter 1 Introduction: In 96% applications for most jobs, MS PhD applications get rejected without human being red, you've got about only eight seconds to grab the attention of the recruiter to show them you're the right candidate for the job. If the eight seconds have passed and your CV hasn't grabbed the attention, is going to the trash symmetrical Goodyear qualifications are and butter, right candidate for the job. To beat that 96% rejection rate, you need a CV that immediately grabbed the attention of the reader, makes them read your CV and then shows that you are the right candidate for the job. In this course, you're going to learn what are the key elements that grabbed the attention of the reader and show them, this is a good CV. You will learn how you can make your CV standout. Among other 50 CVs that the recruiter is reading on the same day. You will also learn how to be a tech and attention rule. The reader, read your CV. We will also discuss some key mistakes that Most CVs make that make the reader feel like the CV is not the right one for this particular job and we will learn how you can avoid those mistakes. And finally, we will also review and edit some good and bad CV's on the goals for the course project. You will have some templates available to you that you will edit to make this current project. But you will do is there will be some blanks that you will fill for the course, and that will basically be your course project. And you can later use that same CV to apply for some jobs that you are playing right now. At this point, you might be wondering who am I? My name is. And I have been helping students reach their dream universities for the past five years by reviewing their documents and their CVs. I've created multiple businesses right now. I am a machine learning researcher at equal the technology super jag. I created a business called academic coaching.com, which was helping these students. And I also have a YouTube channel. You can find me by searching for my name on Google or on YouTube. And I have a website called Half.com. Without further ado, let's get into this course. 2. Chapter 2 CV vs Resume And When to use Which: Cv versus resume. That is the question, what is a CV? What is a resume? And when you should use each one of them for your applications. Both a CV is a complete description of everything you have ever done academically or professionally in your life. So a CV can be anywhere between one-page to 20 pages to 25 pages, whereas a resume is a brief summary of your academic and your professional experience. Resume generally does not exceed one to two pages. In general, the term CVN resume is used interchangeably for both CV and resume, but there is this technical difference between CV and resume for beginners, it doesn't really make much of a difference because for beginners they don't have that much of academic experience or professional experience to list on their profile any way. So the CV and resume would be the same for a beginner. The only difference will come into play when you have more and more years and years of experience and your CV is starting to expand to 20 pages, whereas your resume still is one to two pages. In this course, we will use the term CV to represent both CV and resume. But do understand that when I talk about CV or resume, but I say CV, I mean, the summary, the one to two-page summary for the beginners that we will be creating in this particular course. Ben, you should use a CV and when you should use a resume bot, if they have explicitly asked for a CV, you're supposed to send your CV. If the recruiter if the job description has explicitly specified that they require a resume, then you are supposed to mention you're supposed to send your resume for that job application. Sometimes even recruiters make the mistake of interchangeably using this term CV and resume. But most of the time they will sometimes mentioned the job in the job description, send us a one to two-page CV. So in that particular case, they are not really asking you for a CV. They are asking you for a resume. If there is an explicit specification, if they need to page version versus the 20-page version, whatever is specified, you're supposed to send that particular version. But if nothing is specified, if they just ask you send us your CV slash resume for this job application which are usable to use them. In general, It's a good idea to always send a short and sweet resume, one to two pages. The reason behind that is that this is your first impression and nobody's really got the time to read a 20 page description of your works if the first page hasn't grabbed their attention. So sending a one to two page summary of your works is always a better idea than sending a 20 base detailed version, right, as your first impression. If they like your first impression of their after reading the one to two-page summary, you will always get asked for a longer version detailed works, and then you can send your detailed works. But if it's not specified, always go with the one-to-two bade summary of your works. 3. Chapter 3 How to get Attention: Let's talk about this 8 second rule. What do I mean by this aid second attention span rule. Let me tell you a little story. Before the year 2 thousand, somewhere since the beginning of history until 2000's, the average attention span off humans used to be about 12 seconds. The famous term that is sometimes used to refer to the attention spans. And NBC, I've got the attention span of a goldfish or this person, or that person's got the attention span of a goldfish, we generally mean a 90-second attention span. Since humans used to have 12 seconds attention span referring before the year 2 thousand, referring to the attention span of a goldfish. You used to mean that I've got a less than average attention span or this, or that human being has got a less than average attention span. So you'd need to grab their attention immediately. But studies show that starting the year 2000s, in the last 2022 years, the attention span of humans has decreased to even 8 second. Now, we've got even shorter attention spans in general as human beings than a goldfish. All of us, on average, since we've only got about a takings attention span, you've got an 8 second window for your CV to grab the attention of the recruiter. If your CV, at a first glance, it doesn't grab the attention of the recruiter within the first eight seconds, then it is very, very likely that your CV will be thrown out into trash without even being read. Because if someone doesn't read your CV, then it doesn't matter how relevant you are to deposition. It doesn't matter what your CGB or is. It doesn't matter what your skills are. If your CV visually doesn't look good, and if it doesn't make the recruiter read your CV, then they cannot magically know your skills without reading your CV. If your TV is in the trash, it's in the trash. It's not coming back to them and grabbing their attention. So keep the A-Check in rule in mind. We will come back to this rule again and again in this course. And we will see how some of some of the key elements of a CV can make this age Second Rule work in your favor. How you can use this rule to work for you instead of against. We can use certain key elements of a CV that will immediately grabbed the attention of a recruiter. And then this A-Check and rule will actually give you an edge over the others who did not use this key elements strategy to grab the attention of the recruiter. And this will make your CV memorable to the recruiters. The first one of these elements is the length. The length of your CV is the first impression of your CV. It, it comes as part of the outlook of your CV, lens structure and hope these three elements will actually make or break your TV. Let's talk about the appropriate land for beginners versus prose. The appropriate length for a beginner will never ever, ever be 20 to 25 pages. If a recruiter sees a more than one to two-page CV, been internship experience, been teaching assistantship job. They immediately know that you don't know what's the appropriate length for an appropriate level, for a certain level of experience in your field. That gives a first bad impression about you that this person does not know the appropriate length of a CV for a certain level of experience. Whereas once you have a 3040 years of experience in a certain field, it's simply impossible to list all of them, years and years of experience in a two-page CV. So at that point, of course, you will have longer and longer and longer CVs. You or the length of your experience should match the length of your CV. If you've got very little experience, your CV should be very short and sweet. And it will immediately signal to the recruiter, okay, this person is not wasting my time, venue least the recruiters time. You are not increasing your chances of getting the job. So your length of your TV has to be really, really appropriate to your experience. It has to exactly match the amount of experience you have. And this is a mistake that a lot of fresh graduates make. They don't have a lot of experience on their CV. They fill up their CVs with irrelevant things, hobbies, stuff that really doesn't make any difference to the recruiter and make a two-page or even three page CVs. Making a 3-bit CV as a beginner is the biggest mistake you can make. And it can basically ensure you will not get the job. You have to pay. Close attention to the outlook of your CV at the first glance, when someone looks at your CV, it should have all these three key elements. The structure should be nice, the hook should be great. I will explain in a second, but a hook is, but if you've got the outlook right, which includes the three elements that length the structure and the hook. Your CV will make the recruiter at least read your qualifications, your skills. But if it doesn't have these three elements, the recruiter is not going to read your CV appropriate length. We discussed that in detail. Structure. Basically, you might have guessed it a little bit from the image on the screen. Structure basically means you cannot write long paragraphs in your CV. You cannot just keep going on and on about what you did on a certain project and make it look like an essay. People who are hiring you and looking at your CV do not want an essay in place of a CV. There's another place and time to describe your essays, to describe your research works, to describe details about certain projects. Your first impression on a single page is not the right place for that. The structure of your CV short reflect, you know, what you're doing. A CV is a brief summary of your work. So the structure should also be the structure of a summary. And a summary does not include 1000 words or 5 thousand words paragraphs. A summary includes bullet points. Summary includes keywords. A summary includes attention grabbing headings and italics and all these things that will immediately make it clear what your CV is about, but your relevant experience is, what are your skills? What can you bring to the company? The structure of your CV needs to be very clear to the recruiter. You can just keep starting random things about your skills at the top or your hobbies at the top, then go in detail. Writing one paragraph about something you did maybe five years ago. This structure has to follow a certain storyline. You have to mention your education, you have to mention your skills, you have to mention certain element projects that you did. And it has to be all in a summary form, in a bullet point form, it cannot be long boating essays. The point number third, which is the hook. The hook sometimes it's also called a tagline. And a lot of beginners use this hook to describe poetic ambitions that they have for the jobs. I've seen hooks that starts something like my passion is to use my skills acquired through incomprehensible words. Bring value to this company in terms of Five more and comprehensible words, your CV is not a place for poetry. Your hook is not a place for poetry. Your hook needs to be immediately clear about who are you, what can you bring to the company? It doesn't have to be even ascendant. If you're not sure. The easiest hooks are usually just by going as writing your job titles, writing your majors is writing your super-duper relevant skills to the job. For example, if you're applying for a job as an electrical engineer, you could simply write electrical engineer with a focus on XYZ doesn't have to be a complete sentence. Your hook simply tells them who you are, what you do, and what can you bring to the company? Optionally. If you don't have a very catchy, very attention grabbing cook, if you cannot summarize it in less than one sentence, just go with virtue did what you studied Electrical Engineer, that's it. Nothing else needed. You don't need three to four sentences of objective statements in your CVs that used to work maybe 50 years ago, it doesn't work anymore. A lot of recruiters still, and I see a lot of recruiters still teaching people to do this, still teaching people to write these useless statement in their CVs that in the end get CVs rejected. Don't write three to four lines of books. It doesn't work anymore. It just doesn't. 4. Chapter 4a Common Mistakes in CVs: Now that we've covered a little bit about the outlook, the structure, the visuals of your CV. Let's talk about some common mistakes that a lot of beginners make that get their CVs rejected. Grab a glass of water, take a pause if you need to bring a notebook and we will get into it. Alright. But do you see that is wrong with this particular CV? This is just a sample. And immediately, within the first eight seconds, What's the first thing you see about it? I see that there is a lot of negative space left after the personal skills. The person started with their CV with personal skills, which is another debatable point. They have listed their education which is fine. Achievement or slash responsibilities. Achievements and responsibilities are not really synonyms. If you want to list achievements listed achievements, if you wanted to list responsibilities, list responsibilities, internships, it's fine. There are these two major mistakes that I noticed with the CD immediately regarding this person. The first one is how they have structured the CV. It is immediately clear to me that there is very little margin on the side. It looks like they tried to cram as much text as possible on one page, but then they went on the opposite side of it and left a lot of negative space, a lot of blank space after the person who has skills which could have been utilized more efficiently, your CV doesn't need to look crammed to provide a lot of valuable information. You don't need to reduced margins on the side, reducing margins on this side, it is generally not a good practice for making a good CV when you reduce margins, it immediately signals to the brain that someone is trying to cram V2 much text into a CV. So if you can write a CV without reducing the margins on the paper, always write your CV without reducing the margins on the paper. If you have a lot of blank space available, divide that into two columns, right? Something else there, not just for the sake of writing something there. This is another mistake and we will see that in a couple of other CVs. Sometimes students just right, irrelevant stuff just for the sake of filling up empty space, which is not a great practice. Every inch of your CV is a valuable real estate. When you have a very, very expensive real estate, you need to use it. Both. You need to show you valuate. You cannot just put random stuff on their consider every inch of every inch of this piece of paper. A highly valuable asset. The way you use it is going to make or break your CV. It's going to either lend you a job or get your CV in a pile of other TVs that are going to the deathbed. Every inch of this piece should deliver some value, some valuable information about you. Some promise to the company about what you can do for the company, some relevant experience about your background. Nothing on this CV should be useless. Every word that you write on the CV should be carefully considered and carefully written. So this is the first mistake that I noticed about this CV, the structure and the references that references the second mistake. I didn't get the chance to come to it yet. In general, it's not a good idea to provide your references beforehand because a reference is not something very random. No one can just randomly call your referees before asking permission and randomly start asking questions about you. Do you know this person? Has this person booked booked under your supervision? But can you tell me about their work because a reference build credibility about your work. So if you are putting rough contact information of the referees on your CV and your sending the CV to ten different places. It signals to the recruit recruiters that you did not particularly ask your referee for this particular position and did not really inform them here, you might get a call or do I have your permission to put your name on the CV and you might get a call from XYZ company to contact you and ask about my experience. So since this is a delicate matter and since people have a very limited amount of time, you cannot waste the time of your referees beat your teachers, be to your colleagues, your bosses, co-workers. You cannot just randomly put their names on a CV and then tender TV to 50 different places. And then all these 50 different places are calling them, asking about you and they have no idea who you are because you did not ask their permission, you did not inform them. You just put their name on a permanent CV and centered 250 different places. Generally. Putting the names off references on a CV, putting their contact information on your CV is not a great idea. If someone likes your CV, if a recruiter wants a background check on you and wants to know about your references, they will ask you for it, or if the application has explicitly mentioned about references, they will have another section where you can fill your reference's information, where you can provide that contact details. It does not have to be on your CV. So generally providing references on your CV is about practice. Now let's take a look at these two CVs. What do you see? Do you see your dicey there? I see very, very crammed CVs, really bad practices. Margins are very, very low. There is way too much text on both of these CVs. I cannot I cannot possibly read anything from the CVs right now except for the headings. Maybe the second one seems a little better when it comes to headings because they took the time to create some bullets at least. But both of these CVs have way too much explanation, way too much texts, way too much, too many things cramped up on a single page. These are both beginner level TVs. These are both series in which people do not have a lot of experience to list. Cramming a lot of information on a single-page feed will immediately make the recruiter confused. They will look at the CV and they will feel like that's just way too much for me to read. And the writer, the applicant did not value my time, did not make it easy for me to be able to read and understand their background. So this is a bad practice. You cannot make your CV. They too long. You cannot make your CV way too busy. If you do that, that is the first signal to the recruiter that you did not possibly take enough time polishing your CV. You did not put in enough effort making your CV. You just wrote everything that came to your mind onto a piece of paper and dissented. You did not take the time to cut the fluff out and polish your CV? I have a term that I like to use when it comes to polishing your CV. It's called shoulder muscle, hide the fat. In your CV. You're supposed to show only the, It's off your achievements, the best of the best. And you're supposed to cut all the fluff out, you're supposed to cut all the facts out, you're supposed to trim all the fat so that your CV shows the best of the best regarding your work. These two CVs do not reflect that. So with that, I hope that now you have some idea of what a good and bad CV looks like, at least visually in the first eight seconds. If you see ten CVs know in front of you, at least within the first eight seconds, you will be able to tell which CV is worth reading and which one simply needs to go to the trash. It's unfortunate that how it is. Let's talk about some of the immediate rejections, reasons for those immediate reactions. I hope the first three CDs that I just showed you would serve as examples of bad TVs and you will be able to, you will be able to spot some of the mistakes that we saw in those CVs. So the first thing that is very, very important is the structure. If you've got the wrong structure, your CV is going to the trash. The structure of your CV needs to be immediately clear. It needs to immediately provide value, it needs to immediately tell a story, and it needs to immediately show the recruiter you know what you're doing. The other things are the language of your CV, how relevant your CV is to the position that was advertised. And finally, the originality of your work. These are the broadly four categories in which all the other mistakes fall. And we will look at the details mistakes in a second. But I wanted to tell you the four major types of mistakes that I have seen personally in my years and years of experience of reviewing all the CDs and helping people with their applications, that the structure is usually the first thing that you notice, the outlook of your CV Act, the ADA first glance, you can tell if it has a bad structure. The second thing that comes to attention is the language. 5. Chapter 4b Detailed Mistakes with Remedies: Then is that elements and then the originality of the work in structures, as we just saw in the previous three examples. If a CV house paragraphs, It's malpractice. If the flow of the CV is very abrupt, if it does not make sense, if you have your expedience listed somewhere, your hobbies listed somewhere else. And then at the end of your CV, you're listing your education. It's not a good storytelling structure. Your story needs to follow a streamlined, either chronological or psychological structure that makes it flow, that makes it easy to understand and easy to read. For example, if you first talk about your education, then you talk about your experience, and then you talk about the skills you acquired from that education and from that expedience. That is a good flow, that is a good structure. You look at it and immediately it makes it clear to the reader that okay, the student has this education, this experience, and then these are the skills that they've acquired from those two positions. So it needs to have a fluid. The third thing which we already saw in the previous examples, if your CV is too long, if you have 0 experience and your CVs 20 pages, that is just a very bad practice. Let's talk about the language mistakes. There are three common types of language mistakes that I have noticed in my years of reviewing different TV. The worst thing you can do to your CV after grabbing the attention of the recruiter is to have spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes in your CV. You've got the right hook, You've got the right visuals, you've got the right outlook, and you've used all these Bullard and you've gone to the effort of making your CV visually attention grabbing and know the recruiter is reading your CV. And the first thing they see is that there are spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes in your CV. What kind of impression does that give about yourself that you put so much effort into the visuals. But then now when it comes to the real stuff, you did not put enough effort. You did not spell check your work. You did not read your work before submitting it. You did not use other spellcheck extensions to correct your work. You did not ask someone to review your CV before sending it for a job offer. Spelling mistakes is the worst thing you can do through your CV after wasting so much time and effort into grabbing the recruiter's attention because that will make them feel even worse. That okay. You've got my attention and now you're telling me you've got nothing credible, nothing good to show me. You've wasted my time even more. It would have been better if I just threw your CV directly into the trash. Spelling mistakes, really, really bad. Another mistake about when it comes to language is keeping the language either too casual or two poetic. I've seen these two extremes when it comes to reviewing different students CVs, for example, when they are graduating, they either keep the language way too casual or they make it way to put it. They make it Shakespearian language that nobody even understand or speak. So no one even talks like that. If you're languages too casual, it will signal to the recruiter that you did not put enough time and effort into making your CV. And if your language is V2 poetic, it signals to the recruiter that you are more into artsy poetic type of things then in the work itself. Unless you are applying for a position that requires you to be artsy and poetic, I would generally advise against it. You don't need to be artsy and poetic when it comes to your CDN resume. Alright, let's talk about how relevant your application is to the advertised position. How much you make it obvious that your application is the right, you're the right candidate for this particular advertised position. Because if you make these three mistakes that I listed on the screen, you won't be making it super obvious that you've done your homework and you are relevant to the position. For example, if you are applying for a job in computer engineering, listing your experience five years ago as a babysitter. Is not relevant. If you are applying for a computer science application, listing your experience as a music producer 20 years ago is not relevant. So when you have only one page or two pages to show your most relevant skills and experience for an advertised position. And you are listing irrelevant skills. It's signals. Either you did not put enough time and effort into making your replication relevant, or you simply don't have enough relevant experience or expertise in the field and you are just filling up the space by listening irrelevant things. So don't do that, Don't ever do that. Another thing is copy based applications, and this is what I see a lot in a lot of applications. Students simply find some successful TVs. Copy paste their applications, copy paste some structure from one thing, something from another, and just put together a rushed CV, which does not reflect their own experience in any way. So this is the worst way of making a CV, just finding random experience on the internet, on some cd samples of other people Googling stuff. What are people listening as teaching experience, as experience of the job teaching experience, teaching assistant. I'm sorry. So finding those, Googling those CVs, copy-pasting certain experiences from those does not help your CV because it does not reflect you, it does not reflect your work. Even if you have put one sentence that is extremely shiny and bright and eye-catching, it's simply impossible to make a coherent, a good-looking CV by copy-pasting from multiple sources. Because every CB has their own language, their style, copy pasting from other people. Cb is a really, really bad practice. Never copy paste from other people's styles. Never even copy paste from your own previous works if you wrote them for two completely different positions. For example, if you applied for one internship at a scientific company, whereas if you applied for a part-time job at a retail store, copy pasting from those two CVs. This tilde make your current TV that you're using for applying for a new job. Vd, VD, incoherent. It will have different language, it will have different power verbs. It will have very different structure. So generally, copy-pasting from anywhere is not the greatest idea unless you are just upgrading a previous version of your CV and you're just keeping parts of it, adding new parts to it. In general, advise against copy and paste. The last mistake when it comes to making your CV relevant is making it absolutely fit to the description. So if the job description requires x, y, and z skills and you do not list X, Y, and Z skill as your particular skills. Instead, you list some irrelevant ABC skills that they did not even ask for. And then you mentioned in your CBM and expert in this, but would it signaled to the recruiter that recruiter will read the CV and be like, Okay, if you are expert in that thing and that thing and that thing, I don't care about that I need these skills. Unless your skills that you are listing are very, very close match to the ones they advertised. Either less the exact skills that they are looking for and you have them. And if you don't have those skills, unless you have a skill that is a very, very close much listing it does not improve your chances. Make your CV and exact fit to the job description advertised. But the summary, making your CV relevant usually shows three mistakes on the part of a lot of students. The copy paste a lot of information. They do not fit it to the description. And they list all the irrelevant skills, all the irrelevant experiences. If you don't make these mistakes, you will probably make a good TV on your own. Even. The last thing is originality of the work. What do I mean by that? We discussed this a little bit in the relevant part. But people go one step ahead. Some, most recruiters will go as far as to say it's okay to exaggerate on your CV. Everybody lies on their CV. Wrong. Dishonesty in life, be it on your resume, beat on your public profile, beat on your dating profile is never a good idea because in the end, your essence v will be discovered. Your skills will be discovered. Two, if you get a job by lying about a skill that you do not have, as soon as you get the job, they will discover you don't actually have that skill and you will get fired very, very quickly and you will, in the, in the whole process, you will have wasted two or three months of your life, but you could have spent by just making the right TV listing the right skills, finding the right job and progressing in your career the right job, instead of lying on your TV, getting the wrong job and then getting fired. So never exaggerate on your CV, never portraying skills. There's a difference between using followed words and exaggeration. Exaggeration is bad. Rephrasing your experience and describing it better is okay. It's good because most people, especially people in technical jobs like engineering, are not very good at explaining their work. Explaining your work in a better way using some power words, using some significant words is absolutely okay because you're just describing your work better. There is exaggerating your work to show the results that you did not achieve or highlight some achievements that you did not actually get is bad. So correct explanation is okay, exaggeration is bad. The same goes for plagiarism, which I just explained when I was explaining the relevance as well. Copy pasting from other people's CVs is just bad. It's going to get discovered and it's going to get you fired very, very quickly. All these sample resumes that are available on the Internet are available on the Internet. So if you're downloading from them, if you'd copy pasting from them, it's very easy to find out the copy-pasted applications. It becomes very, very obvious even without checking through any plagiarism software. So never, never plagiarize. The last thing when it comes to originality is to list some hobbies and this might sound counter-intuitive, but your hobbies are specific to you. They do not have to be very, very relevant to the skills required to the job. And there is a bit of a controversial opinion when it comes to listing your hobbies. And the point of listening Hobbes is to humanize you, to make you more memorable. It has nothing to do with the job you will be doing, but some creative Hobbes will make you a bit more memorable to the recruiter Reading 50 CVs in a day. So if the person is reading 50 applications for a single job, It's very hard to remember, but the CPAC GPA of each and every person was. But it might be very, very easy to remember for them. Or there was this good CV, that person, the person who plays the board hammer meanings. So if you have a hobby that is very memorable, that differentiates you, that makes you more recognizable, easily, duper that on your CV even if it's not relevant to the job because Hobbes make you memorable hobbies make recruiters connect more with you on a human level, and then they make you memorable. The recruiter can easily remember you, and if they can't remember you, the job is most likely yours. 6. Chapter 5 Key Elements of a Good CV: Alright, let's talk about good CV, the key elements of it. Now, we've taught so far a lot in previous sections about the mistakes that ruin your CV. So now I think it's time to talk about what are the key elements that make a good CV. I will refer you back to the last point that we discussed at the end of the previous lesson, which was being memorable. So if you can make your CV memorable, it's going to immediately give you an edge over other people who are applying for the same jobs. If at the end of reading 50 CVs, that recruiter can remember something about your CV that is going to give you an edge over the other candidates. Because in the second pass, when they are sorting through other CVs, you are much more likely to catch their attention again, if they remember something about your CV, it can be through your color choice, through the font you use, through the overall outlook, the visuals of your CV. It can be something you wrote in the text, the way you described your project or the way you describe your experience or the way you listed your hobbies, anything that is memorable about your CVs is a good element. All good TVs have a key element that makes them memorable over other CVs that makes them stand out in a pile of 50 or 100 other CVs. The second element that all CVs have in common is their results. The good TV shows results. Instead of describing the process. If you worked at an internship, instead of describing your work, It's better to list the results that you achieved from that internship. If you got a 10% increase in efficiency, if you reduce the time taken in a process by 5%. Showing that results is always a better idea than describing your work itself. I conducted research, I did this, this, this, and I did that. If you did that, what was the outcome? What posts the results? So if you have any tangible results, any tangible outcome, it's a great idea to list that on your CV because that immediately shows that you are a go-getter, that you can get things done. And if you can't get thing, if you have gotten things done in the bus, it signals to the recruiter that in future also you will be able to get things done. You will be able to get results. All good CVs showed us those instead of describing the process. Another thing All good CVs hub in common is quantified results, quantified comparisons. If you were the top student in 20 list that everybody can read your CDPA, but nobody knows if that CDPA puts you in the top 5% or if that CGP, a PO2 in the top 10%, how many students did you even have in your class? Did you get that CDPA in a class of 20 people or did you get it in a class of 200 people? Quantifying, compare, comparing purities manage versus the others is always a great idea. Make all of your comparisons in your CV quantified. If it's a 10% increase in efficiency list 10%, instead of simply saying, I improve the efficiency, improved it by how much gotten things done, by how much made things faster, by how much margin to quantify these things. Quantify your outcomes, your results in your CV, because all good TVs have one or more quantified outcomes, quantified results. The next thing that all good TV CVs have in common is that they do not use a copy paste relevant skills section. Yes. You are the same person when you are applying tool five different jobs. But your skillset that is relevant to those five different jobs is not the same. For one job, your technical writing skills might be the most important skill, whereas for another job, your AutoCad and drawing skills might be the most relevant skill. For the third job, maybe your expedience with humans, you are volunteer works, your HR work might be the most relevant skill. If you have a genetic skillset, dentists, all of these skills that you have acquired through your education and experience. It's good, but it's not perfect. The perfect is making a shortlist out of your skills and making it very braided element, very specific to the job. If the job requires focus on Phyton and programming skills and some in C plus plus skills and Barry log skills are some other specific programming language skills. If you know ten programming languages, instead of listing those ten, maybe listing the most relevant one would give you a better edge over everybody else who listed all ten programming languages. Because there is this thing about human psychology that when you list wanting, it makes you look like an expert in the subject rather than listing ten things which makes you look like a beginner in all those ten languages, even though your actual expertise of all those ten languages remains exactly the same. So make your list and there is a common misconception that listing more and more and more skills on your CV makes it somehow attractive, which is not true. Listing less skills on your CV, but showing, showcasing your skills as an expert makes your CV a good CV rather than just generic ten or 15 skills, skills that are relevant to the job, make your CV standout. The last thing that all good CVs have, the last element that all goods EVs have in common are some achievement. And again, building up on the previous concepts, these achievement needs to be quantified. If you were aboard topper, if you've got the first position out of 50 thousand students and 500 students, quantified achievement. We'll give the company this idea that they are hiring someone who is a high achiever there. They have a quantified comparison available about your achievement and your leadership skills. And they know that, okay, If you were able to stand out among 100 people, this automatically makes your CV also stand out among 50 other applicants who are applying for the same job. And maybe as a candidate, you will stand out as an employee among 50 other different employees. Those are the five elements that make your CV standout, among others, those are the five elements that all good CVs have in common. 7. Chapter 6 Structure for Success: Alright, let's now talk about the success structure. You've learned so far. Quite a lot of stuff in this course. So if it is overwhelming, I encourage you to take a break, take a glass of water again, note down the things that you have learned in this course. If you need to go back to revise some of the lessons that you have just learned. I highly encourage you to bring a notepad with you. Go back to those lessons, make a checklist of all the lessons learned. And finally, when you will be using this template at the end of the course and making a project. I would encourage you to check items off that list. Right now, go back to the lessons, read those lessons again and make a checklist. Listen to those lessons and note down in your checklist, highlight this skill or make it memorable, or make a shortlist of skills. Once you have this checklist with the due at the end of the course, then you will make your project. I want you to check items off of your list by looking at your CV if you have done all these key elements that we learned in the previous lesson about successful TVs. That is something that will help you a lot in the long run. Now let's take a look about, let's take a look at the successful structure of the CVs. The first thing that you can see here is highlighted on screen. Make sure your email address is professional. This is somewhat obvious. A lot of students sometimes use very funny looking email addresses like funny boy, at gmail.com, those are not professional. If you have an address like that, please change it to your firstName and lastName. If you're firstName and lastName is not available, It's okay to add numbers at the end of it to make it look somewhat professional. Email addresses, it's okay to use abbreviations of your name to get a unique email address, but please do not use funny-looking, unprofessional email addresses in your CV. The second thing here is a tailor your statement, who, the organization, your objective, your career goals, and show that you know the job you're applying for and you don't have a genetic CV that you're sending to five different types of jobs. If you want to use Indian a generic CV, still keep the focus relevant to the job. Instead of using this three-line objective statement, I do not really encourage you to use a three-line objective statement and instead replace it with a tagline which shows electrical engineer with a focus on communication systems or mechanical engineer with a focus on XYZ. And that XYZ, it's okay to change that from time to time based on the job you're applying for because in the end you are still the same person. If you have ten different expertise, it's okay to list one of them as your focus when you are applying for a job, if that focus matches the job description of the job that you're applying for, it's okay. You're still the same person. You have all ten focuses. You're just listing different focuses on different TVs when you're applying for different jobs to show that your expertise are relevant to the job that's advertised. The next thing, your degrees and educational achievement in reverse chronological order. So that basically means chronological or reverse chronological. It doesn't really matter. You just need to list all of your education. Normally it's a good idea to list your most recent degree first and then go backwards from that. If you're doing a PhD right now you lift your PhD, then you list your masters, and then you list your bachelor's. In all of those. There are certain key elements that you should highlight under your education. Especially if you don't, if you're a beginner and you only have a bachelor's degree to list, I would encourage you to list some core courses or your focus area under your education to highlight that your education is relevant to the position advertised. The next thing to keep in mind is to list your professional experiences and highlight the relevant duties that you performed in those positions and quantify the achievements that you got in those relevant positions that you've held. If you aren't listening your internships, if you are listing your TA ship experience, if you are listing any other part-time jobs you did during your education, it's important to highlight the duties that you were given. How did you perform them, but are the results that you got in them. And I would encourage you to use bullet point to list those. So in this example, for example, we see paralegal Smith and partners commercial law firm ACT. And then in the bullet point, there are the key responsibilities that the person held in that particular position. Now, this key, this section can be used very creatively depending on the responsibilities you had. If you did not have quantified results and outcomes, then you can keep it as is and you can just place the responsibilities. A better way to do that would be. To have quantifiable results and comparisons and then list them next to the responsibilities you had. If you had the responsibility of general administration, you just general administration. And next to it, you highlight the result you achieved or the performance or efficiency, whatever you accomplished as the general administrator. I think you get the point. All right, moving up the achievements section. Ask yourself the question, what does this achievement communicate to the employer's? Your achievements section should clearly highlight to the employer what kind of a go-getter person you, are. You a team person or are you a solo player? Your achievements should also be somewhat relevant to the job advertised. For example, if the job advertised has nothing to do with personal skills, are debating skills, then listening your achievement as a debater maybe might not be as relevant as you think, whereas it might be a very valuable asset to have if your job requires some public speaking, some dealing with the public, some some sort of customer support, certain type of jobs. If you are listing your experience, your achievements may be as a debater, as a public speaker, it will be very, very relevant to that particular job. So if you have more than one achievement, try to make your achievement also relevant to the job that you're applying for. I think that if there is a one lesson that I can tell you to take away with you from this entire course in one line, it would be make your CV absolutely relevant to the job you're applying for. For each individual job. Don't just use one CV for ten jobs and send it without modifying it to ten different jobs. All right, next thing, stating memberships can be useful, particularly if you've been actively involved. And this involves memberships in different societies and clubs, some sort of volunteer ship work that you have done. Some maybe for student memberships if you've had them, some club memberships, if they are irrelevant, listing them can be helpful. The last part, choose deliveries appropriate to the position. Again, here, I would not agree with this point. Do not list your references on your CV. Only provide them when you are asked to give them and when you are asked, choose your referees appropriately. My point here is that your referees should have witnessed your work. You cannot list your friend who has never witnessed your professional work, or you cannot list your mom or your brother as your professional reference. If they have never really seen your professional work, your referees need to have senior work firsthand. 8. Chapter 7 Make your Education section great: In this lecture, we will talk about how you can make your education section stand out among others. Let's take a look at some of the key elements that make your education section standout. Been a recruiter is looking at your CV among others. So the first thing you will notice on my CV is that I have listed my research focus. I have listed my code courses. I have also described mighty search. This section may look very generic to you at first glance, but I have always modified this section whenever I was applying for any kind of job, any kind of position. Because mighty search can be described in more than one ways. And one of those ways will be more relevant to the job advertisement than the other. So if one way is more relevant to the job advertisement than the other, then I will rephrase my focus, my courses and mighty search to make it more relevant to the job description. So my focus generally will remain somewhat same. There will be a little bit of rephrasing, but not a lot. My core courses there'll be rearranged. The order in which I list my code courses will be changed depending on the job description. If I'm applying for an image processing related a job, then I will list more of my undergrad courses that we're focused on image processing and signal processing, it other than the electronics courses. Whereas if I'm applying for an electronics related job, I will list mode of my courses that are related to electronics and circuit design as my good courses before listing other image processing and signal processing courses, the order industrialist your courses is also very important. Also describing your research can help when you don't have a lot of research papers. When you don't have a lot of research expedience listed already on your profile. A very helpful tip is to describe your research. And the way you describe your research clearly shows to the recruiters, to the higher education position recruiters that you know what you're doing, but kind of research you are conducting, what's your background? And you know a little bit of the technical language that is used to describe different types of research. So use the language that is most commonly used in your field to show that you are familiar with a lot of the keyboards used in that particular field. You are familiar with the work done in that view. So this section will help you highlight your education in a better way than others. 9. Chapter 8 Make your Experience section great: In this section, let's talk about how you can highlight your experience in a better way than others. First of all, if you have both academic and industrial types of experience, I highly encourage you to divide your experience into industrial and in academic experiences. And then depending on the type of job you're applying for, if you're applying for a job that is more related to a kid's meal, you can shorten the length of the industrial section and highlight more on the academic side. Whereas if you're applying for the industrial jobs in the academic expedience does not matter too much for it, then you can shorten your academic experience and expand more on the industrial experience. So depending on the types of jobs that you're applying for, if you're applying for a job or you're applying for higher studies, you can adjust the length of your academic and industrial experiences to match the type of position you're applying for. In this section list, the university's you got this expedience. So if you've worked as a research assistant, mentioned the name of the university and the location of the university. Also quantify the results that you achieved in that particular internship, in that particular job. If you worked as an industrial perform professional, whatever your job was, whatever your responsibilities, we will quantify the results that you got in those particular positions. 10. Chapter 9 Winning Strategies of Successful CVs: Finally, let's talk about some strategies that make your CV absolutely stand out, among others. These are the final sections of your CVs where you list your projects and your skills. Your projects is a space for you to highlight your extremely relevant expedience in the form of projects. These can be undergrad course projects. This can be personal hobby project that you did by yourself. These can be freelance project that you did for third parties. These projects, any project that you have done in past which are relevant to the job you're applying for. In this section, super relevant to the job and list those projects here. This section and the skill section will change for every job that you are applying for. Do not have a genetic projects and skills section that you are using same again and again for every position that you're applying for, list only the most relevant project and the software skills. If you are applying for a job that requires by thin, expand on Python by listing the libraries that you have, you're familiar with that particular regard that dropped with their job needs tensorflow list Tensorflow here if you're familiar with it. If their job doesn't care about by ton, but it's focused more and more on Open CV maybe or is focused more and more on C plus plus, then expand more on that. If you're applying for a job that requires java, didn't expand more on that and cut down on the skills that are not required on their job. They are still your skills. You just don't need to list all of them in a limited space. Use this limited space to list all of your relevant skills. And the same goes for the softwares and for other miscellaneous skills that you have, the software skills that you have acquired along your journey as a student, as a professional, make these sections relevant to the job advertised and you will absolutely landed on. The next section after your projects skills comes the awards and honors. In this section again, list only the awards and honors that are relevant to the position. And this is very, very helpful when you're applying for academic jobs. In academic jobs, usually achievement in academia are valued very highly. List all of them. If you have certain achievement that is not universally recognized, then you find a way to quantify it. For example, here you can see highest score first-price in competitive exams out of 1 million participants. Just listing first-price in mnist entry test may not have the same voltage as saying first-price or highest score in 1 million participants because the job that you're applying might not be familiar. What mnist entry test is. If you are applying for certain jobs, they're your achievements might not be immediately obvious and there can be multiple reasons for that. Maybe you're applying to a company which doesn't know these achievement. Maybe you're applying photo job in a different country and your country's education system is not the same as the one used in that particular country. So in that case, whenever you have certain achievement which is not internationally recognized and immediately obvious, find a way to quantify it and highlight it. 11. Chapter 10 Successful CV Templates: Let's take a look at some successful templates and how you can use them in your particular CV as the course project and to make your CV standout among others, this template will be included in the download section so you can pause the video and download this from the resources section. First up, you will replace the name. You will write your name there, your degree and your expertise. On the top right side you will list your address, your phone number, and your e-mail. And remember, your email has to be a professional one here. Next up you will list your education. You will list your university. If you haven't graduated yet, you will list your expected graduation date. If you have graduated, you will put your graduation date here and you will also list your GPA. In general, if you have a CGP lower than 2.8, I would recommend against listing it on your CV. Keep it. It's okay not to list your GPA on your CV, but if you had if you have higher than 2.80 GPA do listed on your TV. The next thing you will change in this template is your professional experience. Again, you will list your university or your company wherever you got this professional experience. I have also included certain guidelines in this example. The example Listen example expedience. Whereas the guidelines show you what you actually need to write in this section. So for example, here, you can read the first bullet point which is list your key responsibilities as clearly as possible and be specific, quantify the results you've achieved. For example, 10% top five out of 21 hours, seven days, highlight your contribution if you were part of a project that goes beyond your individual work scope. This part, I want to expand more on that. If you were part of a group project and your work only contributed partially towards it, then quantify your work there highlight, you will part of a team and this was your responsibility and this was the overall goal of the project and this was your particular contribution towards it. Last but not the least, highlight at least one thing that choose your values. For example, in the above example, I use the word to ensure origin originality of work. It shows that, but off my code values is the originality of work and that I do not endorse or encouraged plagiarism in any way. Here I'm listing my experience as a teaching assistant. So showing your values, what you value makes you more human, makes you more memorable and makes the recruiter connect with you on a deeper level that okay, we want to hire a person in our company who will not tolerate plagiarism. So this kind of thing makes you more human rather than just a piece of paper that they are reading. Next up, your skills core courses, honors and awards and your projects. These are the sections that will always, always change based on the job that you're applying. Whatever job you're applying, it will either change the order of these things or you will omit some things. You will list some things to make it very related element to the job you're applying. You will change these sections every time you are using this template to apply for a different type of drops. So whenever you're using this template, right, new skills or make one generic template which lists all of your skills, all of your core courses, all of your honors and awards and Bundibugyo to applying for a job, take a subset of those skills from your master template and then use it to make a relevant to the job that you're applying for. Make your CV as short as possible. Use this template and if you can shorten it down, even more, shorten it. Same goes for the projects section. Make a master list of your project. Every project that you did in your undergrad listed, every course that you took in your undergrad listed their list, all your course projects and keep them in a master project list and then benefit you'd applying for a job. Find the project that are relevant to that particular job and list them in your projects section. Your personal personal strengths section can sum would remain constant. That's basically all from my side. That brings us to the end of this course. Now, don't be a stranger, even though this course has ended and I'm leaving you with the resources. If you have any questions, These reach me later on Twitter or on my personal website. I always keep shading some helpful tips and tricks to update your CV, to keep your CV more relevant, to acquire more relevant skills and how to land more and more jobs on my website. So go to my website, it's called Sadie a half.com. Fill in your information there, your email, that way you will be able to stay in touch with me. 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