Chapter 3, Musings of an internship applicant, writing your CV
Hope you enjoyed the past posts. Today I will share my experiences with you about how to write your CV or resume for the required internship. Though I give you a disclaimer, that I am in no way to advice you about writing a resume but for the sake of completeness of the ‘musings’ I share some suggestions. You can get better tips from the internet and good newspapers.
At the outset, I tell you, the resume you write should be a sober one (not a multicolored poster), neat and clean, without any grammatical mistakes, with all paragraphs justified – but having the capability of convincing its reader. Use up to a maximum of two colors to write your resume. Always mention the date on which you are writing the resume. You write the heading like Curriculum Vitae of ABCD / Resume of ABCD and follow it by the date in next line like (dated DD/MM/YYYY). Do not worry about page limitations (as who opens your mail, reads your mail, opens your resume and starts reading it will at least once obviously scroll through the whole material as he must have at least some interest in you, but try within 5 pages maximum) – but do not write stories over there [: D]. One more thing that you need to do is go through the resume of the person (to whom you are applying, if possible) and see how he himself writes the resume, maybe he would prefer the resume in this format. Always be confident while making your resume, never leave out any point. Remember this is the only medium you can communicate your experience to the professor, otherwise nobody will take you out of the lot. Unless you claim that ‘I have done this’, they never know what you have done or what is your experience (no matter how many sleepless nights you spent in front of your monitor coding complex programs). So you have to approach people and state your eligibility as a candidate, it is your duty to convince them, it is not their duty to recruit you! But, beware, never exaggerate or write false statements (you would be rejected). Best of luck to all of you!
At the outset, I tell you, the resume you write should be a sober one (not a multicolored poster), neat and clean, without any grammatical mistakes, with all paragraphs justified – but having the capability of convincing its reader. Use up to a maximum of two colors to write your resume. Always mention the date on which you are writing the resume. You write the heading like Curriculum Vitae of ABCD / Resume of ABCD and follow it by the date in next line like (dated DD/MM/YYYY). Do not worry about page limitations (as who opens your mail, reads your mail, opens your resume and starts reading it will at least once obviously scroll through the whole material as he must have at least some interest in you, but try within 5 pages maximum) – but do not write stories over there [: D]. One more thing that you need to do is go through the resume of the person (to whom you are applying, if possible) and see how he himself writes the resume, maybe he would prefer the resume in this format. Always be confident while making your resume, never leave out any point. Remember this is the only medium you can communicate your experience to the professor, otherwise nobody will take you out of the lot. Unless you claim that ‘I have done this’, they never know what you have done or what is your experience (no matter how many sleepless nights you spent in front of your monitor coding complex programs). So you have to approach people and state your eligibility as a candidate, it is your duty to convince them, it is not their duty to recruit you! But, beware, never exaggerate or write false statements (you would be rejected). Best of luck to all of you!
A frame of the resume can be as follows:
1> Name, Affiliation and Personal Information (Contacts, Address, email etc. )
2> Research Interests. (Must be in accordance with the subject of the intern)
3> Educational Details. (Chronologically backwards up to Secondary level)
4> Project Works (This is the place where you can convince the reader, by giving a brief, precise and interesting description of your work(s). Followed by each project work, state the publication index you have corresponding to that project. This index is the publication number you state in the publications list. As I told you earlier, the relevant publications make your claim for the project work you have done makes it more authentic, at least they cant claim that you are lying.)
5> Publications. (write each of them in this format :
[4] Ayon Chakraborty, Swarup Kumar Mitra and M.K. Naskar, An Efficient Hybrid Data Gathering Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks, in the proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT'10 Bhubaneswar, India. (February, 2010).
Springer LNCS 5966, pp. 98-103
Online Link: Link )
Online Link: Link )
6> Special Achievements (if you are a ranker, if you achieved a rank in some competitive event (programming contests, robotics contests, paper presentation competition etc.)
7> Internships
8> Extracurricular Activities (Do not write absurd things here, try to keep them so that it could be of interest to your reader, may reflect you as a leader, you can manage many things together etc.)
9> References (may include your project guide, internship guide, your HOD etc.)
thanks sir for the information. :)
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