Candidates often spend a lot of time preparing themselves for interviews, group discussions, and aptitudes. And they forget one of the most important constraints to reach these rounds, the resume clearance round. Your resume is the most important thing that gets you your dream job. Every big organization round the globe first goes through your resume before they call you for any personal interactions. Thus, spending some quality time in drafting your resume is necessary to create that first impression on your dream organization.

Fresher as well as experienced candidates tend to make many mistakes in their resume that create a negative impression on the interviewer. Hence, one must follow proper steps while drafting their resume to create that first impact on the employer. One must go through several sample resumes that would give them an idea on how a perfect resume should be drafted. An ideal resume comprises of several important fields that sometimes make no sense but yet they are important to be mentioned. Let’s now understand some of the important fields one must include while drafting their resume.

Personal Information

Your resume must always start with your personal introduction. This helps the employer or recruiter to know who you are, what’s your name, your address, age, gender, etc. These fields are essential since many a times the job profile is applicable for either gender. So this information helps the recruiter to filter out resumes accordingly.

Career Objectives

One of the most important and impression setter field in your resume is the career objective section. This is the section that helps you create your first expression on the employer. So, your career objective statement must clearly portray your ambitions and how would your presence help the organization. However, when I say this field is an impression setter field, it doesn’t mean that you elongate it. Your career objective statement must be simple, crisp, clear and up to the mark.

Educational Qualifications

Your educational qualification is the next important section in your resume. This section is notably important if you are a fresher and it’s your first job. For fresher, he/she should smartly draft this section as your selection totally depends on it. However, if you’re an experienced candidate then this section hardly matters to you. When I say hardly matters, it doesn’t mean you can skip this section. This section has to be present in your resume.

Internships/Experience

This section is another important section and an impression re-gainer (if the above two sections have messed you up). Yup! Smartly drafting your internships and experiences may get you your dream job within minutes. While drafting this section one must ensure to mention the roles they played during their internships or previous jobs. They must also include things they learnt, accomplishments, etc. in this section.

Key Skills

This section includes all your positive points that are closely related with your job profile. These points usually portray that you know several important thing about the profile and are an eligible candidate for that profile.

The above mentioned points are more than sufficient to draft a great resume. However, not just understanding these points will help you to write your resume. You must often refer to several sample resumes to avoid any minute mistakes. Even resume templates can be used to draft an effective resume.