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Resume basics
What to include, how to show skills and how to handle a career break.
Key ideas
- One or two pages. Clear, simple layout, easy-to-read font, no spelling mistakes.
- Top section: name, phone, email, city.
- Summary: two or three lines about you and the role you want.
- Skills: list skills that match the role — for example Excel, writing emails, basic TDS knowledge, process mapping.
- Projects and learning: list practice work such as lessons you completed and what you produced.
- Experience: include paid work, internships, volunteering, and responsibilities such as organising events or managing a budget — described honestly, in terms of skills.
- Education: latest first.
- Career break: you may simply state the years and add what you learned or did in that time. You decide how much to share.
Turn a duty into a skill
| What you did | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Ran the monthly household budget | Planned and tracked a monthly budget, comparing spending with a plan |
| Organised a family or community event | Coordinated a 60-person event: schedule, vendors and communication |
| Helped a relative with shop accounts | Maintained daily sales and expense records in a notebook / spreadsheet |
Try it
Write a three-line summary for yourself, then list five skills you can honestly claim today. Ask a friend to read it and tell you what is unclear.
Check yourself
1. A good summary on a resume is…
A short summary helps the reader understand you quickly.
2. How should you describe unpaid responsibilities, such as running a budget?
Honest, skill-focused descriptions are respected by employers.
Original beginner learning material by Bigsun Technologies for the Bigsun Udaan initiative. It is a learning aid, not an accredited course or a guarantee of employment.