While filing for MBA admission, a candidate also requires to attach a resume and file it alongside the application form. The prime objective is to make the admission committees aware about the candidate’s academic accomplishments, work experience, add-on skills, areas of interest and so forth. As such, by filing a comprehensive resume, one gets a great opportunity to keep those administering our admission in any top-notch B-schools, spell-bound and to let them have a feel about our writing and manner of presentation in widely used English language.
Crisp Content:
We should be mindful of the fact that admission committees of prominent Business Schools, go through scores of admission applications every day and within a limited time-frame they have to cover each and every aspect about our profile. Hence, we need to provide terse summary about ourselves in crisp manner and every notification should be to-the-point, simply to honour their tight schedule but in our own interest.
Evidently, one should consult a towering authority or an expert while looking for handful of guidance before going to write or draft a resume. Some of the handy tips for compiling an impressive resume are as follows:
• One should desist from using full-length sentences and then, “a”, “an” and “the” should also be sidelined.
• One should either use periods or should sideline them completely but consistency should be maintained throughout,
• As for the type of characters (fonts), their size should not be more than 10 points while side margins should also be around 0.3 to 0.5 at maximum,
• Leave minimal space between paragraphs and there should be space left between a bullet and the first letter of sentence, simply to make it more readable,
• Widely popular abbreviations can be used and so should be the acronyms,
• Standard fonts should be used like Ariel, Calibri and Times,
• For numeric, use “4”, instead of typing a word four,
Maintaining A Consistent Resume Structure:
Even though not a big difference is there, in terms of resume structure which are often drafted for corporate or professional purpose but a few differences are there. For instance, “Objective” should be ignored, as obviously, everyone will have similar objective while they file for admission in a Business School.
• Likewise,specific dates should also be emphasized upon in a resume, as colleges are interested in knowing the duration of employment,
• Further, if we take a break in an employment, then, we should draft a paragraph (in fact awesome paragraph) highlighting how exactly such a time cycle was utilized, while we were off the work,
• Again, the dates should be emboldened in order to make it easier for the admission committees to understand the exact time period of the employment.
What to Stress Upon in Experience?
Friends, always remember that under each job title, the first bullet point occupies the greatest significance, we should always bear in mind that the admission committees are our actual audience and that they always attach significance to leadership skills, decision making ability and upon interpersonal intellect and on the collective basis of all these aspects, futuristic progress is established while the admission committees consider how a candidate would act and behave once he or she clears the Business Administration study program or any other curriculum where one intends to seek enrolment for.
Elaborating further, those administering admission are also keen to know about the magical managerial skills of a candidate when he directs, leads and co-operate with a 5 member crew in an organization and such type of operational as well as occupational aspect is bears more significance than any other academic ability or any additional academic qualification.
Quantification for Simpleand Easy Understanding:
Students are required to present the experience info in such a manner that each expression should be turned into a corresponding number.For instance, size of the job, role and responsibilities in numeric, total strength of people one has managed, strength of the department one has led, number of people one has managed and worked with, the budget allotted, time window allowed per task, number of objectives one looked after, cost cutting, revenue generation and how much was realized against the expected amount, number of years or months one has served for at a given position and so forth. Needless to mention but a solid numeric figure encapsulates a huge importance when such is expressed diligently, on a resume. For guidance and tips on drafting an impressive resume, please contact Wisdom Mart and our counsellors will guide you through accordingly.
A Star-bright Impact with A S.T.A.R Approach:
At Wisdom Mart, we lay stress upon S.T.A.R approach when one wants to express his or her accomplishments clearly and such should be religiously implemented onto a resume. Here, “S” stands for Situation (including constraints and favours), “T” stands for tasks, which one was expected to achieve, “A” defines action or the plan which one executed in the process and then, “R” stands for Results, meaning the outcome but in a quantified manner but such should also include constraints because of which, outcome could have been more supreme.
Emphasize Your Strong Aspects But Conceal Weak Areas:
When candidates win honours in graduate or under graduate courses and so, as the awards are won and other certifications, such factors should be highlighted, since such are not any lesser than assets. Besides, take due care of the following areas:
1. Our GMAT score, if bright, should be emboldened and presented as a great achievement. Such should be near the place where we highlight our university degrees,
2. Then, our graduate and high school score, if supreme enough, should be underlined,
3. If any performance is average or below average, one should simply mention the name of the board or university or institution, which conducted that exam,
Lay Emphasis Upon Vocabulary Of Your Resume
As is quite clear by now, every aspect of candidate’s profile like study, job(s), skill set etc, is widely put into discussion among the admission committee members. As such, every word, phrase and statement that we make out there, does have a corresponding concrete effect. This is also because that admission committee consider our profile deeply and make predictions about future achievement and professional virtues, if we are awarded admission in their reputed B School and in any other course as we prefer.
For instance, instead of mentioning 4 bullet points that highlight our skill and role in any professional arena, it is advised to use 2 bullet points while making it appear content-rich with beautified language. Using such a strategy further, will provide more space to us to mention other appealing content at the other part of our resume.
Highlight Your Interest:
As B Schools put special consideration upon our profiles and applications, we should not omit our interest behind or uncovered.
• Do you like to devote time and efforts towards some social welfare objectives? If yes, highlight your role and responsibility broadly and try to attach a piece of documentation along in support of your claim.
• Which outdoor or indoor games do you play? List that or those, as this shows the way you recreate and de-stress.
• Then, if you are proficient in any other language, other than English or Hindi, then, such should be highlighted too with proper proof..
Most evidently, during interviews of MBA admission, such interests and expertise will be the focal point.
Be Critical Towards Language:
Here, we should suggest that one should ignore jargons since the members of admission committees are not likely to e familiar with the industry specific jargons and terms. Likewise, one should also abandon the modals like “may” and “might” since such indicate to something that is not confirmed. Finally, one should also not opt towards space-saving, even though one is likely to be on the mind.
Be Honest And truthful:
It is widely said and suggested that one should always be honest and truthful about whatever one declares and reveals. This is also because of the fact that B-Schools also carry out verification from schools and universities as are mentioned upon the candidate’s admission form and if, anything false is detected then, the chances of admission will completely be submerged due to sheer violation of honour code.
Secondly, one should not put too much of personal details, like age and marital status and then, one should also not reveal high school name, high school exam or any other entrance test, such as SAT.
Final Draft Requires Multitude Of Proof Read(s):
During such process, one should always be specific about the capitalization but in appropriate way. For instance, titles of jobs, teams, brand names, department etc, should always be in capital and so should be the college names. Additionally, first letter of every bullet and sub-bullet, should also be in capital letter, along with hobbies, skills and such occupational sectors.
Finally, for any guideline and assistance in drafting your MBA resume, please feel free to contact our expert career counsellors, at Wisdom Mart.