Industry needs large number of trained IT professionals. In order to meet this huge demand lot of existing ITeS players are diversifying into pre-job training market. Aptech has jumped into this as well:

The first batch of 30,000 under graduate student from 100 colleges affiliated to the University of Pune will start training courses for the ITeS sector. These college are located in the three districts of Pune, Nashik and Ahmednagar. Global talent track a start up founded by Uma Ganesh and Ganesh Natrajan, currently Nasscom chairman and vice chairman of Zensar Technologies, has signed a five year agreement with Pune University for the delivery of the courses. The Rs 6 crore project is supported by Cisco both financially, technically as well as by the University which will offer the premises for the training as well as its infrastructure, in the form of connectivity and faculty.

“Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” 
– Confucius

We all look for such a job but it is very difficult to get such job, not because they don’t exist but because we are not able to find it. Positions given on job boards, papers may not be what you are looking for. Enter social media. You must be using social media since long for making new friends, finding old colleagues and other purpose, but have you tried to use it for making friend. Social media has a huge potential and realizing this employers are moving now to social media to find right candidate. In order to make social media work for you it is essential that you make your resume social.

With social resume you can make employer see your resume and contact you freely. You can also add your resume on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut with our application CodeMunch and can make this platform work for you. To create social resume just create your profile (which is very easy and hardly takes 5 minute). Now you can see profile of all members, can contact them, get your resume rated and rate others resume. One most important thing is your participation on forums. The more you participate, stronger your identity is. Also you can be easily discovered because of active participation. Add this resume on your Facebook and Orkut profile and start getting your dream job opportunities from your personal network and jobs forums on facebook and orkut.

Good positions are unadvertised – you need to be in the known.

In recent years, the job market has become increasingly competitive. Still some professionals are highly successful in conducting effective job search. According to me they are successful not only because of good resume as many jobs portal sites are providing resume builder tools and its easy to create an attractive resume, I think they are successful because they know how and where to share resume. Sharing resume in effective and efficient way is important as it is the first step towards creating your Personal Branding (the process of clarifying and communicating what makes you and your unique value proposition different and special). In Web2.0 world we often share our own and others’ resume. It has provided much ease to job seeker as now recruiters can be reached easily through social network.

Some common mistakes made while sharing resume are:

• Sharing resume with inappropriate person:

Sharing resume without knowing whom to share with is the biggest mistake and almost ends with frustration. Before sharing resume it is necessary to know which job profile you are looking for and job profile offered by employer. Once you are clear with objective and get the opportunity matching your profile, then only share resume.

• Sharing without Cover letter:

Cover letter is a letter of introduction and creates first impression about you. So when you are sharing resume with someone it is necessary to enclose the cover letter. Many times job seekers send their resume without cover letter, which is just like going for tea with someone without introduction. Cover letter must be brief and to the point, and should demonstrate that you meet the requirements listed in job description. You can add bullet points to make it attractive. Also address your cover letter to a specific person and avoid general salutations like “Dear Sir/Madam” .

• Improper Subject Line:

Most of the recruiters in job description specifies job code along with title to be entered in Subject line, so proper subject line must be entered. Even if any specific job code or title is not given in job description, then also subject line must be relevent and indicate which job you are applying for.

• No Customized resume:

You may be eligible for some different type of jobs, so while sharing offline make relevant changes in resume as per needed. This is a common mistake as job seekers have only one resume and they share it without even customizing it. So make sure to share a customized resume as it will increase your chance for an interview call.

• Spelling Mistakes:

Check for spelling mistakes not only in resume but also in cover letter and subject line as any spelling mistake in this will create a bad impact.

• Using vague email id:

Email id used for sharing resume must be professional and simple. It can be your name or somewhat similar to it if exact name is not available. But make sure not to use absurd email ids.

• Sharing resume in bulk:

Often job seekers share resume in bulk and this habit can yield adverse effects on job hunt. When resume is shared in bulk, then in cover letter general address is made which is wrong. Also recruiter can see all others with whom resume is shared.

• Sharing with friends:

Social networks are the biggest source of job opportunities today, which makes it very essential to share resume with friends. But many times job seekers share resume in a very informal way, forgetting that they are sharing it for job opportunity. This is a very common mistake as while sharing resume with friends everyone thinks that our friend is going to take care of all things, which is not the case.

Creating a good resume is easy and so is sharing it effectively, if these common mistakes are avoided. Just remember that -

“Be discriminating; don’t shoot at everything that moves and shoot such that you hit the target”