Your Passport to a Job in America
To get a job in the U.S., you have to Americanize your resume.
Your dream of getting a job in the U.S. could be ended by a common mistake: not Americanizing your resume.
Indians typically include things on their resumes that American recruiters don’t want to see, and may even find off-putting. It’s important, therefore, to customize your resume to meet the requirements and style expected by an American recruiter.
Here are some tips on how to do that:
Limit personal details: The typical Indian resume includes too many personal details, which are best left out when applying to the U.S. Your marital status, number of children, religion and father’s profession are superfluous.
These details have no bearing on your ability to do a job, and instead make your resume look dense, and could be uncomfortable for the person reviewing it.
Stick to basics like your name and contact details.
Focus on accomplishments: While many Indian recruiters first look up your academic qualifications, American recruiters typically care more about your work experience, and how interested you are in the job you’re applying for.
So, for an American resume, mention your educational qualifications at the end, says Pujya Jennifer Pascal, a career counselor at O.P. Jindal Global University, in the north Indian state of Haryana.
Start instead with your area of interest or expertise, followed with the skills you have for the job, and then list your work experience.
If you have worked for many years in one particular field, you can start with your work experience.
Use numbers to show what you’ve accomplished in your previous jobs, says Ashley Chiampo, founder of New Global Mind, an executive coaching firm based in Gurgaon.
For instance, if you designed 10 products at your last firm, which helped increase the company’s revenue by 10%, be sure to include that, says Ms. Chiampo.
Use words that convey action like “created” and “negotiated,” she adds.
If you have just graduated, and don’t have much work experience, highlight your skills and extra-curricular activities such as leading a group project or being the captain of the college cricket team.
It can help to highlight life beyond your work and show you are a rounded individual.
If you are applying for an engineering job and mention that you are interested in fashion and design clothes in your free time, it helps show your personality, says Ms. Chiampo.
Mind your language: All resumes should be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors, but for an American resume, be sure to use American English. If you use British grammar and spellings — which Indians follow — the person going through the resume at the American company might consider it an error.
Be job-specific: American companies expect resumes to be crisp and very specific to the job you are applying for, says Sunil Goel, chief executive of Delhi recruitment firm GlobalHunt India Pvt.
If you send a generic resume to a company it shows that you haven’t spent enough time finding out about them.
Read up about the company and the job you are applying for, and use your resume to show why you are the best fit for that job.
If, for instance, you want to join an information technology company in United States as a software engineer, check the segments in which the company does most of its software development. When you write your resume, mention the skills that are most relevant to that segment first, and then list other skills.
Test your resume: Experts suggest giving your resume to a person who doesn’t know you very well. Give this person 10 seconds to look at your resume — the time a recruiter will give your resume — and ask what they remember.
If this person doesn’t immediately get your strengths and achievements, you need to rework your resume.
Source : WSJ
300 lose jobs as US firm shuts shop
HYDERABAD: About 300 employees of a US-based hardware company located in Madhapur have been rendered jobless after the company filed for bankruptcy and is all set to issue relieving letters to the staff next week.
Powerwave Technologies, a US-based multinational company located at Cyber Pearl in Madhapur, filed for bankruptcy in the USA in January this year. Now, the 300-odd employees working in the city have been intimated by the management to collect their relieving letters as the company is reportedly winding up its operations.
Employees of Powerwave, which is a listed company in NASDAQ, told TOI that they were asked to report on a particular day next week and collect their relieving letters by depositing the assets given to them by the company. "On Wednesday, we were informed that Thursday and Friday will be holidays and that the company will resume operations on Monday. However, on Thursday, I got a telephone call from our HR intimating us that I should come on Tuesday and collect my relieving letter," Ravula Thirumal, Senior Two Engineer in Powerwave, said. Similar was the case with most of the other employees. Ravula added that all the reporting heads of the company were informed that the company has decided to wind up its operations.
It was on January 29 that the bankruptcy suit was filed in Delaware State, USA, by the authorities of the MNC. Powerwave, which manufactures 2G and 3G hardware, started its operations in Hyderabad in early 2000.
Employees are worried that the company has not referred to its contractual obligations besides the payment of salary for the last 15 days. "As per the contract, the authorities of Powerwave are supposed to give a three months notice to employee besides giving three months salary while terminating the services of employees. But, when I questioned about the arrears and other contractual obligations, our HR said that they cannot make any commitment. All that they told us was to surrender the assets like laptops and other items given by the company," a reporting head of Powerwave, who requested for anonymity, told TOI.
When contacted, Rakesh Sinha, country head of Powerwave, told TOI that so far no one has been told to collect their relieving letters. "As of now the company is operational. So far we have not asked anyone to collect their relieving letters," Sinha said.
Source : TOI
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