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We have invited Samraat who is working as a Analyst in Risk Management with American Express. We are working as a community in thedatatalk.org as well and looking forward that you get the most insight out of it… here is a reference material provided by Samraat…. Resume Writing:1. Interest Span - - a person/HR spends 15-20 seconds going through the resume - Prioritise, Rank, Summarise, relevant info to the job - Education details should be put, but not at the beginning, whatever is most relevant and best selling point should be put on top - Reverse chronological order2. Rule of Relevancy - filtration - Selection and elimination - Elaborate on most relevant experience - add achievements for the relevant experience3. Customisation - “ I got what you need ” - Use JD to add keywords into your Resume - Space optimisation 4. Factual, Concise, To the point - Career Summary 5. Super TargetBeating the Application Tracking System (ATS):1. Single column format2. Plain text3. Apply to 1 job in one organisation4. Keywords are the key - don’t add keywords that you don’t know, only keywords that can be justified if asked about them5. Bold - keywords6. Italics - things in a brackets or quotes or project names/title7. Underline - certain titles, headings8. Chronological order9. PDF10. Same font for all - Times New Roman, Verdana, Calimiri, Cambria - nothing less than size 10 or more than 12Things to avoid to beat ATS: 1. Tables 2. Text boxes 3. Logos 4. Images 5. Graphics 6. Headers or footers 7. Fancy headings



