Career Branding
Should you put a photo on your resume?
A photograph, date of birth and a declaration line are standard on Indian resume templates and a liability on applications abroad. What to keep, and where.
· 2 minute read
Things worth knowing before you apply.
We publish only what we would actually tell a customer. Four articles now, and more as we have something genuinely useful to add.
What a recruiter reads in the first six seconds
The top third of your resume decides whether the rest gets read. Here is what belongs there, and what is quietly wasting the most valuable space on the page.
· 2 minute read
How to write a project on a fresher resume
Most fresher resumes reduce a semester of work to one line. Here is the structure that turns an academic project into evidence a recruiter can evaluate.
· 2 minute read
What an ATS actually does with your resume
Applicant tracking systems do not score your resume out of ten and reject it. Here is what they really do, and which formatting choices genuinely break them.
· 3 minute read
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