Resume is an advertisement
for sale of ones' services.
Therefore, it should
describe one's strengths, interests and achievements, precisely and
directly. It is a structured written summary of one's education,
employment background and job qualifications. It is a list of objectively
relevant personal details supplied by a jobseeker to a prospective
employer for appreciation and affirmation that she/he is the most
competent, qualified and fits in the specific job. Curriculum vita, on the
other hand, is the biodata of a candidate stated in general way. Some
thinkers assign just the opposite meaning, which is not the purpose of
this write-up. Biodata are generally relevant for
an employer to appreciate a candidate with reference to
a particular job but may act as a negative factor also in certain
situations, where sometime certain qualifications are negative for a
collateral job down the line.
To recruit a right person for any job is a matter of great caution
and care, not only for jobseekers but also for prospective employers. It is
matter of great concern to assign the right job to a right person because
of higher attrition and lower loyalty in the
21st century. Recruitment process, a time-taking and costly
process, begins with job specifications, notification of vacancy, selecting
the most appropriate resume, contacting and summoning candidates
for interview, etc. Dispatching resumes is vital in order to generate
interest in the mind of the prospective employer to call the applicant for
interview. The resume may be solicited or unsolicited. This gives
another point of consideration, whether or not to proceed with
the resume or not. |
