The first and foremost step to achieve a dream job is to prepare a resume that would apprehend the attention of the interviewer. A resume is a reflection of our personality. Many of us don’t know the basic regulations of resume writing. Most of us fail on this platform and still wonder why.
Emphasizing this issue, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organized this free online workshop ”Electrifying your strategy to land the Dream Job” on Saturday, 27th November 2021 to exhibit the university girls to make them skilled to develop their resumes.
20 participants joined the online workshop from different universities of Bangladesh. This session was organized only for female university-going students.
Shakhira Afroz resume and content writer expert who is the Assistant program officer of Bangladesh Open Source Network was the conductor of the online session. The entire session was designed by various presentations to deliver them away how they could make a standard resume.
“Resume is a self-marketing paper,'' said Shakhira Afroz. She described the importance of a standard resume.”A standard resume keeps one competitor ahead of another” spoke Shakhira Afroz.
She narrated what a standard CV contains. How to make a resume, what should include, what are the mistakes, how to align a resume, how to frame a photo she described explicitly. She taught the participants how to mail e resume in a perfect way.
Shakhira Afroz emphasizes updating their resume. She also explains about the cover letter. How to write a cover letter, the importance of a cover letter, how to add them in an email she added. She talks about professional email etiquette.
She also discusses how to perform in front of an interviewer and how to approach an interview board.
“A perfect cover letter and a resume can differentiate between participants and be able to achieve opportunities,” said Shakhira Afroz.
Participants were so responsive in the entire session. They wanted to know their queries, asked about their mistakes, how can they make a standard resume, and how to email a cv to get their dream job.
This session was organized under three years ESDG4BD project of BdOSN which was supervised by Manusher Jonno Foundation.