{"id":136212,"date":"2019-12-06T01:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136212"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:11:01","slug":"power-of-resume-for-job-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136212","title":{"rendered":"Power of resum\u00c3\u00a9 in job application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ahmad Muadh Bin Zainal Ali<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 6 December 2019: It would only take 3 to 7 seconds for the employer to review the resum\u00c3\u00a9 of candidates seeking for employment, hence, small details should be emphasised to gain attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was highlighted by Amalina Azhar, a representative from Graduan Executive in the slot &#8220;Resume Writing and Winning Interview&#8221; at the &#8220;Fly High 7.0&#8221; on Thursday (5 December).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Among those details include basic font sizing (which is 11 or 12), usage of basic colours (not more than 3), and an organised presentation of information,&#8221; Amalina stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion was about how to improve the impression of resum\u00c3\u00a9 when submitting application for employment to the companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the contents of the resum\u00c3\u00a9, she mentioned how qualifications shown are only valid for the period during university and onwards. &#8220;High school achievements should not be included in the resum\u00c3\u00a9.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amalina gave proper sequence of information for preparing covering letter as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Introduction (includes place of study, course majored and position applied)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Emphasise on course majored<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) State reasons on applying for the company<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Final remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Amalina also said, \u0153Please avoid using the first pronoun, I, when writing your resum\u00c3\u00a9.&#8221; She emphasised on how common mistakes like this would make the resume be discarded even though good qualifications and achievements are shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information, readers can visit @Graduan on Instagram or contact the office number (+60342703270). For more updates on Fly High 7.0, visit IIUM Student Career Team on Instagram @isctiium.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ahmad Muadh Bin Zainal Ali GOMBAK, 6 December 2019: It would only take 3 to 7 seconds for the employer to review the resum\u00c3\u00a9&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":136213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[134,111,12,5],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/news-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136362,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136212\/revisions\/136362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}