Academic Qualification
If you keenly observe the job advertisements, you get to learn the significance of ‘Academic Qualification’ on a resume. Any job for that matter, employer always prefers stating minimum educational qualification with other expectations from the job applicants. This is to ensure that the employees are not underqualified or underemployed, both of which are the hazards that can depreciate the quality of work or bring disrepute to the firm in the long run.
To fulfill this demand with supply of relevant information should be considered as a priority. Thus it is quite apparent that most of the resume templates carry ‘Academic Qualification’ section at the quintessential part of the resume.
What details to disclose?
An interviewer scans through one’s resume to find details about his/her educational qualification. So, a neat and clear declaration of the following details is to be made. Following are some of the key points that one should highlight under this section:
- Institution/ Name of the University, along with the mention of city and state where it is located
- Respective Degree (follow the trick of reverse chronological order, which is to place highest degree on top and at the bottom of this section should have information concerning your secondary education (for instance, SSLC board exam)
- Degree acquired month and year
- Also state your aggregate percentage of scores under each educational qualification.
- You can weigh your resume with your honours, achievements won during the tenure of study.
Buzz of alert:
Before stating these credentials one should always remember to cross check with the details especially the year of passing and scores acquired. Errors found if any during the document verification process can cost one his/her job. So leave no room for any confusion.
Add-On Course details:
This section nothing but provides space for the display of additional or certificate courses that one has pursued to make him/her most desirable for the respective job role. To showcase this detail of one’s life on the resume is also as significant as the academic qualification. Because, if you consider academic qualification as a well-constructed house, necessary certificate course is like fine interiors and furnishings that makes house ready as residence. These add-on courses make individual job-ready.
So, now let us quickly discuss what and how to organize these details
- Follow the same pattern as under academic qualification.
- Specify the name of the institution with city and state; course name; year and month of completion and also the skills acquired.
- Highlight on those skills which are also the requirements in the Job description (JD) as stated by the employer.
Buzz of alert:
Always have certificates to validate your claim. So, mention only such courses for which you are able to produce certificates.
