Writing your resume
How to make a resume (resume kaise banaye): a step-by-step guide
Eight steps from a blank page to a resume you can send today, for 10th pass, ITI, freshers and experienced people in India.
Many people search “resume kaise banaye” the night before an interview or a walk-in. The good news: a clear, honest resume is not hard to make. Follow these eight steps in order, whether you are 10th pass looking for a first job, an ITI electrician, a B.Com fresher or someone with ten years of work.
1. Decide which job the resume is for
A resume is not a list of everything you have done; it is an answer to one job advert. Pick the kind of job you want (accounts assistant, delivery executive, software developer, staff nurse) and keep one real advert for it open. The advert tells you which skills and qualifications to put first.
Applying for two different kinds of job? Make two versions. In Dossier4u you can copy a resume and change the title, summary and skills in a few minutes.
2. Collect your details first
- Mark sheets for 10th, 12th, diploma or degree: board or university, year, percentage or CGPA.
- Certificates: courses, training, licences (driving, wireman), NCC or NSS.
- Work: employer names, your job titles, start and end months.
- Numbers: customers served a day, sales against target, machines handled, students taught. Numbers make a resume believable.
3. Pick the right format
Freshers put education before experience and keep to one page. Experienced people lead with work and may use two pages. Government and PSU applications expect personal details and a signed declaration. ITI and diploma holders put the trade first. The resume format guide shows each order, and the resume format for freshers goes deeper.
4. Write your contact details and job title
At the top: your full name, phone number with +91, an email made from your name (not a nickname), your city and state, and a LinkedIn link if your profile is up to date. Under your name, write the job title you want, in the advert's words: “Accounts Executive”, not “Seeking a good opportunity”.
5. Write a short objective or summary
Freshers write a career objective; experienced people write a professional summary. Two to four lines, naming the role, your strongest skills and one proof.
B.Com graduate with Tally Prime and GST return filing practice from a three-month internship, looking for an accounts assistant role where accuracy and speed with numbers matter.
More examples for every level: career objective vs summary.
6. Fill in education, experience and skills
- Education: latest first, with board or university, year and marks.
- Experience: latest first. Under each job, three to six bullet points that start with an action word and show a result: “Reduced billing errors by 30% by checking invoices daily”.
- Skills: the ones the advert asks for that you really have, plus tools (Excel, Tally, AutoCAD, Java). Eight to fifteen is plenty.
- Extras: certifications, projects, languages known, and a declaration if the employer expects one.
Stuck on wording? Start from a sample resume for your kind of job and change it to your own facts.
7. Check it against the job
Read the advert again with your resume beside it. Is every must-have skill you have actually written down? Are dates written one way? Is anything spelt wrong? Then run an ATS check: it shows which requirements of the advert your resume does not show yet. See how ATS software reads your resume for why this matters.
8. Save it as a PDF and send it
Save the resume as a PDF named after yourself (Rahul_Yadav_Resume.pdf) so the layout stays the same on any phone or computer. Send it by email or upload it to the job portal. On WhatsApp, a live resume link works better than a file: when you update your resume, the same link shows the new version.
Never pay anyone who promises a job in return for a fee or a “registration charge”. Read how to spot fake job offers.
Make it faster with a resume builder
You can do all of this in a word processor, but a free resume builder like Dossier4u does the layout for you: choose who the resume is for, start from a sample, and it sets the sections, order and page length. Your effort goes into the words, which is where it counts.