RESUME BUILDING

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Why do you need a great resume?

• Your resume is a critical job

search tool.
• It is your first impression with
employers
• Your resume is the physical
representation of your
achievements.
• It should motivate the person
reading it to invite you for a
discussion.
Resume Formats
Chronological Resume

Contact Objective Education Experience (if Skills Additional Info

any)
Functional Resume

CONTACT RESUME EXPERIENCE SKILLS EDUCATION

OBJECTIVE/SUMMARY
Combination Resume

CONTACT SKILLS SUMMARY KEY COMPETENCY EXPERIENCE EDUCATION

AREA
How to format a resume?

1. Set one-inch margins on all four sides.

2. Pick a 11 or 12 pt resume font and stick to it.
3. Create a proper resume header format for your contact details.
4. Divide your resume into legible resume sections: Contact Information, Resume
Summary, Work Experience, Education, Skills.
5. Use bullet points to talk about past jobs.
6. Be consistent with your resume formatting (e.g., stick to the same date format: for
example 11–2018, or November 2018.)
7. Use single or 1.15 line spacing.
8. Add an extra space before and after each section heading.
9. Make your resume as long as it needs to be.
10. Don’t use photos on your resume. Unless the job description specifically asks for them.
You’re looking for a job, not a date!
 How to • Place the contact details at the top of your
resume
Format a • Avoid fancy graphics
Resume • Save your resume in the PDF format

to Pass • Copy all the contents of your resume

• Paste them into a TXT text editor (such as
the ATS Notepad)

Scan • If the text in the editor isn’t scrambled, your

resume is scannable
 • Your resume should be as long as it needs to be
to show that you’re the best fit for the position.
you need to be concise, crisp and appealing.

Be Concise, •  A good resume should only be one page long

unless you have 15+ years of relevant
Less is experience for the job you’re applying to. 
• Think of your resume not as a comprehensive
More list of your career history, but as a marketing
document selling you as ‘the perfect person for
the job’
Make your contact info Prominent
• Your name should be the most prominent
visual element on your resume and located at
the top of the page.
• Make sure you include a phone number and
professional email address as well as your
LinkedIn profile. 
Highlight your education, not your
GPA
 The keywords and the theme
will form the foundation of the
achievements you will highlight
in your
For e.g. :
Statistics, Data Mining,
Machine Learning techniques,
Data Visualization, Classifiers,
Anomaly Detection, WEKA,
NumPy, MATLAB, Visualization,
D3.Js, HIVE, Ensemble, NoSQL,
Databases, Mongo dB, HBase,
 Reflect the language used Business Insights, Highly
Analytical, Interpreting Data
in the target ‘ Job
Description’
 • Show the most recent experiences of your
career history

Keep it • Focus your resume on your relevant skills along

recent Keep with data science academic projects and
internships
it relevant
• Use strong, energetic language to highlight your
accomplishments in your experience.
 Have not more than four or five bullet
points
Curate
your bullet
points Bullet points should be in the order of
relevance,
relativity and
results-oriented.
 Best resume terms: Achieved, Improved,
Trained/mentored, Managed, Created,
Influenced, Launched, Developed, Applied,
Avoid Conducted, Solved, Created
E.g. :
Empty • Created machine learning models with Python
Words and scikit-learn to predict energy usage of
commercial buildings with 98% accuracy.
• Developed an algorithm in R that automated
financial forecasting
Proofread
• Make sure your resume is free and clear of
typos.
• Don’t rely on spell check and grammar check
alone-read it again & again.
• According to a survey, 61% of recruiters reject
resumes with typo errors.
Save it smartly

• While emailing your resume, make sure to

always send a PDF rather than a .doc. That way
all your careful formatting won’t accidentally get
messed up(which generally does happen) when
the hiring manager opens it on his or her device.
• Save it as “Robert_Downey_Resume” instead of
“Resume.” Or “ABCXYZ Resume” or full names.
It’s one less step the hiring manager has to take.
 • Carve out some time every month/quarter or so to pull
up your resume and make some updates.
• Do not include any kind of technical skills that you have
not worked with
• For a Machine Learning Engineer role, you can
Constantly mention skills like Probability & Stats, Programming
languages like Python/C++/R/Java, Data Modelling
refresh your & Evaluation, ML Algorithms, Distributed
Computing, Advanced Signal Processing Techniques.
resume • For a Data Scientist role, you can mention skills like
Python/R/SQL, Tableau, Hadoop, Stats, Data
Visualization, Deep Learning, ML, Neural Networks,
NLP
Objective/Professional Summary

• 4 to 6-line section of professional summary provides a recruiter a

snapshot of your skills, experience, and achievements.

• A glimpse into what you’ll bring to the table if you are hired and – when
done well – entices them to continue reading your resume

• Acts as the pitch of your resume

• Mentions the goal and objective of your career.

• Helps you catch the attention of the recruiter.

Professional Summary Examples:

1. Confident Data Science intern with a commitment to excellence

with hands-on experience in NLP and text mining.

2. Data Scientist with a strong math background and 2 years of

experience using predictive modeling, data processing, and data
mining algorithms to solve challenging business problems. 

3. Senior Data Scientist with 3+ years of hands-on experience

leveraging machine learning models and data mining to uncover
insights.
 Examples:

• Applied decision tree analysis, using R to

predict whether an email is a spam

Work • Created customized reports in Tableau for

Experience data visualization

• Created machine learning models with

Python and scikit-learn to predict energy
usage of commercial buildings with 98%
accuracy
 Data Science Projects

 Academic Projects
-Projects done during education, including while at INSOFE
-Internship would be a great project. 
-PHD but not MiTH (PHD is over 2 weeks with some elements of projects. MiTH is primarily hackathon)
Industry Projects
-Projects done during any work experience.
-If you were part of a specific consulting or research team internship with a partner company at INSOFE, then you can mention it
here.
Self-Driven Projects
-Projects which you did on your own with no specific guidance other than web resources.
-Likely to have less impact since there is no way to corroborate it
-Show results and include links to tangible evidence like a white paper, blog or a working demo. If you participated in Kaggle
competition, put percentile rank as it helps the person reading your resume understand where you compete.
Project without any date/affiliation/evidence is useless information. Mention date and affiliation everywhere. If you have done a
lot of Kaggle competitions and performed decently, you should put a link to your Kaggle profile at the end of the projects section
with a quick comment on the range of competitions / your performance, as this will be a further good proof-point of your
competence level.
 Only technical skills should be listed

• Data Processing skills

Skills • Programming in R and Python
• Performance Optimization skills
• Data Collection and Analysis skills
 Critical to keep
Shows you are
your skills fresh
passionate about
and even add to
what you
your portfolio
Hackathon
s and
Projects Boosts the
appearance of
Give the duration
of the hackathon
or dates,
your work history
including links of
during any
hackathon if
employment
possible, like
gaps.
GitHub, etc.
 Thank you

All the Best for your Job Search!