A CV is sort of advertising yourself. In an engineering job or teaching
job the employer is not interested at all in how nice looking you are or
where is your home district etc.
So, it is better not to give your photograph or biographical information (Parent's name, home district, national ID no, passport no. etc. etc.) in your CV.
You can divide your CV into a number of sections:
1. Contact Information
2. Educational Qualification
List up your degrees with results [There is no need for SSC and HSC result], In case of BSc you can separately give your CGPA in CS subjects
3. Technical Skills
Group your technical skills into several categories. e.g.
Programming Language: C/C++, Java, C#.Net, Verilog HDL
Server Side Scripting: ASP.Net, PHP
SDK and Framework: Jakarta Struts, Android SDK
Compiler Tools: Lex, Yacc
Simulator: PSpice, NachOS, Packet Tracer
.
.
.
and so on.
4. Research Interest / Experience
5. Undergraduate Thesis
6. List of Publication [if any, if you've submitted any paper to any conference / journal you may also refer it]
7. Major Hardware and Software Projects
You may order this list by putting the best project you think you have done at top and then in decreasing order of importance to you.
Don't write just like "4 bit micro computer". Put a little bit of description like. "Design and implementation of a 4 bit micro computer supporting
18 instructions and 2 stage pipe lining". Or "An automated reservation system for airlines with X, Y, Z features. MySQL was used as RDMS, PHP was used as server side scripting language and HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX was used on build the client end interface ".If there is any webpage for your project you may also give the link. There is no need to give project partner / supervisor's name.
8. Awards and Honors
9. Extra curricular Activities. [ you may put up your achievements in programming contests, project shows, software contests, olympiads etc. etc.]
10. A list of references
This is usually a list of contacts (preferably 2, at most 3) who can say something about you if your employer contacts them. In our country the employers
usually don't contact the referees. But in case you are applying for any international job your employer may contact the referees. Normally people put the name
of their advisers / thesis supervisors as referee. You can put any professional / academic contact who knows you well. Or you may just put like "Available upon
request"
Now don't make your CV too long or too short. The optimal size is around 2 pages. Keep one thing in mind, the recruiter who goes through the CVs have to
handle a lot of them. When he has a CV he gives the most amount of attention on the first page, the attention reduces in second page, and s/he might not
even look at the third page.
If you are applying for a teaching position in an university your research experience, list of publication, thesis are given more importance. So you may order the sections like 1,2,4,5,6,3,7,8,9,10 so that these things come in the first page or at most in the second one.
If you are applying for an engineering job then your technical skills, past project experience are given more importance. So in this case your ordering may look like
1,2,3,7,4,5,6,8,9,10 so that these things get more highlight.
These are not any hard and fast rule. They are just guidelines. Give some time on your CV. You'll come up with even better ideas. You can also search the internet for good CV examples. There are lots of them. There are even some good CV templates in the internet in LaTeX. The document produced with LaTeX looks very crisp and nice. So you can give it a try to make a one with LaTeX.
In future you'll be required to submit a CV in numerous occasions. So give some time behind it.
So, it is better not to give your photograph or biographical information (Parent's name, home district, national ID no, passport no. etc. etc.) in your CV.
You can divide your CV into a number of sections:
1. Contact Information
2. Educational Qualification
List up your degrees with results [There is no need for SSC and HSC result], In case of BSc you can separately give your CGPA in CS subjects
3. Technical Skills
Group your technical skills into several categories. e.g.
Programming Language: C/C++, Java, C#.Net, Verilog HDL
Server Side Scripting: ASP.Net, PHP
SDK and Framework: Jakarta Struts, Android SDK
Compiler Tools: Lex, Yacc
Simulator: PSpice, NachOS, Packet Tracer
.
.
.
and so on.
4. Research Interest / Experience
5. Undergraduate Thesis
6. List of Publication [if any, if you've submitted any paper to any conference / journal you may also refer it]
7. Major Hardware and Software Projects
You may order this list by putting the best project you think you have done at top and then in decreasing order of importance to you.
Don't write just like "4 bit micro computer". Put a little bit of description like. "Design and implementation of a 4 bit micro computer supporting
18 instructions and 2 stage pipe lining". Or "An automated reservation system for airlines with X, Y, Z features. MySQL was used as RDMS, PHP was used as server side scripting language and HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX was used on build the client end interface ".If there is any webpage for your project you may also give the link. There is no need to give project partner / supervisor's name.
8. Awards and Honors
9. Extra curricular Activities. [ you may put up your achievements in programming contests, project shows, software contests, olympiads etc. etc.]
10. A list of references
This is usually a list of contacts (preferably 2, at most 3) who can say something about you if your employer contacts them. In our country the employers
usually don't contact the referees. But in case you are applying for any international job your employer may contact the referees. Normally people put the name
of their advisers / thesis supervisors as referee. You can put any professional / academic contact who knows you well. Or you may just put like "Available upon
request"
Now don't make your CV too long or too short. The optimal size is around 2 pages. Keep one thing in mind, the recruiter who goes through the CVs have to
handle a lot of them. When he has a CV he gives the most amount of attention on the first page, the attention reduces in second page, and s/he might not
even look at the third page.
If you are applying for a teaching position in an university your research experience, list of publication, thesis are given more importance. So you may order the sections like 1,2,4,5,6,3,7,8,9,10 so that these things come in the first page or at most in the second one.
If you are applying for an engineering job then your technical skills, past project experience are given more importance. So in this case your ordering may look like
1,2,3,7,4,5,6,8,9,10 so that these things get more highlight.
These are not any hard and fast rule. They are just guidelines. Give some time on your CV. You'll come up with even better ideas. You can also search the internet for good CV examples. There are lots of them. There are even some good CV templates in the internet in LaTeX. The document produced with LaTeX looks very crisp and nice. So you can give it a try to make a one with LaTeX.
In future you'll be required to submit a CV in numerous occasions. So give some time behind it.
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