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Effective Resume tips for Software Engineers



SHARATH PAI
22 DEC 2023 · 5 MIN READ

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Resume is like a fact file consisting of the details of your academic and professional excellence. For professionals to be able to shortlist candidates, a resume is usually preferred and your chances rely on the resume you make. So it is important to make such a resume that is of one page, covering all the necessary details in short and sweet manner.

Through this blog, I would be providing tips which would help every software engineer to keep in mind the important points to be included and the mistakes to be avoided.



1. Must include sections

These sections are a must in every resume and I have highlighted their importance from top to bottom.



2. Optional sections

These sections can be added depending on the needs of the organization or in case you have some extra space in your resume to fill up the content to make the resume look more attractive.



3. Not to be included sections

These sections must be avoided in any resume as they don't have any weightage during applications.



4. Resume building tools

There are plently of resume building softwares available such as Canva, Novoresume, Adobe, Resume.io, etc. You can build you resume in any of these softwares but you may have to purchase their premium pack in order to make a resume of your desired template.

In such situtations, I prefer using Overleaf software based on LaTeX package where you can create n number of resumes for free. It contains a variety of templates published by open source contributors and you get multiple templates to choose for your desired resume. Not only resume, Overleaf also contains free templates for thesis, presentations, books and many more.

For reference I have included one of my resume which is a Data Analyst resume built on Overleaf. The template can be found here.

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