Favourite HR Interview Question: Speak About Yourself

You all might wonder why these HR interviews are taken. Though they seem simple that technical interview, they aren’t easier than technical interview. Look guys, in technical interview all technical knowledge is tested. There is only one technical answer for one question, isn’t it? But in HR interview, you personality, your communication skills and your confidence is tested. So after writing your professional resume by referring resumes samples online, your task is not over, you have to proceed by preparing for group discussions, technical interviews and HR interview.

Interview Questions

             HR interview is taken so that interviewer can judge about your personality, how can you tackle situations, how can you manage difficulties and so on. Now, let’s assume that your HR interview is started. Favourite HR question we all know: Tell me something about yourself.  Check out the below tips for facing this question:

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25 Things Not to Be Included In Your Resume

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We are back with the ‘Not to be included information in your resume’. Till date we have discussed 20 things that one should never include in his/her resume. As we said there are 25 things that we must never include in the resume. Today, we would discuss the last five things that one must exclude from the resume. For the first 20 things, you can refer to our previous posts on 25 things that we must never include in the resume.

Resume Writing Mistake

21. Criminal Record:

If you have had any kind of complaints filed against you, or were a part of even a very minor crime, never make the mistake of mentioning the same in your resume. It is good to be honest, but only when you are face-to-face with the person. You get a chance to justify yourself, and not let prejudices to be built up for you.

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25 Things Not to Be Included in Your Resume – Continued

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We are back with the next list of things that you should never include in your resume from turning it to a blunder. We have discussed 15 things, which should be excluded from a good resume. We would now move on and discuss another 5 important things, which need to be kept out of your resume to make it a perfect resume.

Resume Mistake

Things to be excluded from your resume:

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25 Things Not to Be Included in Your Resume Part- 3

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We are back with the ‘Not to Do’ list for your resume. As we discussed earlier, in these series of blogs we are focusing on what should not be included in one’s resume. We have discussed ten things that should never be included in your resume. let us move on and discuss 5 more things for the day.

Info not Include in Resume

 11. Grammatical errors:

If you are not good at it, accept it. Do not ever send a resume across, with grammatical errors and spelling errors. It directly creates a negative impression about your education, communication skills, and also poses you as a lazy person, who does not bother to read his/her resume before sending it. Do check your resume for the same, and take some expert opinion, if necessary.

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25 Things to Be Excluded from Your Resume Part-2

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In the last blog we had discussed 5 things not to be included in your resume. You might write a great resume referring to many different sample resumes available online. However, if you do not know what things should be excluded from your resume, you would never recognize any mistake, and probably would do the same. We have discussed five of these resume things in

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Resume Mistake

What should not be included in your resume? Continued

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25 Things Not to Be Included in Your Resume Part-1

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While writing a resume, you look for resume samples, tips for resumes, and refer to articles that give you information on what should be included in your resume. However, if you know why certain things should be excluded from your resume, or what reduces its effectiveness, then this concept will be clearer. It will help you understand the importance of excluding some things from your resume. Unless you are clear with it, you might knowingly or unknowingly include some of it in your resume. Thus, today we would discuss on the same. 

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What should not be included in your resume?

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Tips for Cracking Group Discussion

Group discussion is one of the techniques used by the recruiters to judge the job seekers. Today, as per the market competition, if the recruiter has to choose amongst these 2 persons: A job seeker with average marks and good personality and a job seeker with good marks and average personality. So surely recruiter will choose the person with good personality. Today, having good personality has become essential due to rapid industrial growth. Good personality means good communication skills, ability to talk with people, ability to handle people efficiently and also good professional dressing sense. So during the initial screening process, recruiter judges the personality of job seeker by seeing his performance in group discussion. He observes each and every minute thing about the speaker, the way he speaks, the way he puts up his opinions, the way he criticizes others opinions. Group discussion is the good way to check whether the job seeker is good listener or not.

So here are some of the career guidelines to crack group discussion successfully:

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What is Video Resume

In today’s technology era, everything is revolutionized. Like telephone is replaced by cell phones, cell phones by smart phones etc. Even the employer‘s requirements are changing. Today’s recruiter needs multifunctional job seeker to work with and contribute to company’s success. This multi-functionality within you is reflected by your resume. Your resume has cover letter. That cover letter is snap shot of your personality that is what inspires to take you the job position mentioned, why employer must recruit you? All these brief aspects are mentioned in your cover letter. It can create recruiter’s interest within you. Then comes the resume, which can highlight all skills within you.

Video Resume

But as I have mentioned earlier, we are in technology era. Now most recruiters prefer video resume as complementary thing to ordinary resume. Video resume is short video in which you have to speak about your qualifications, strengths, skills you have acquired so far, etc. It means that recruiter after going through your video must land up to certain conclusion.

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Writing a Dynamic Cover Letter

Many job seekers think that writing a fully fledged resume is only the thing to put impression on recruiter. And if you are one of them, then just pull on your socks now for writing a resume cover letter for your resume. A resume cover letter allows the recruiter to have snap shot of your personality. Resume will surely reflect your personality, but your resume cover letter will summarize your personality. One must have practice to send the resume cover letter along with their resume for online submission of resume or offline submission of resume.

Resume cover letters are of three types:

1.      Uninvited /application based cover letter: It is used to when you want to respond to job call.

2.      Invited/prospective based cover letter: It is used to have inquiry about the latest job openings.

3.      Networking based cover letter: It is helpful for jobs related search and other inquiries based on same.

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