Craft a Winning Resume for Jobs in Asia
Asia has some of the fastest growing economies, India, & China, and one of the biggest Japan, The resume and job application should aim at objectives beyond getting a job. It should make a statement that you are ideal for the position. It should also give an impression that you are fast in changing gears, and cope with the positive change management strategies.
The resume should be short not more than two to three pages. If you need to give details of the projects handled, create separate files and attach them. You can also attach a power point presentation detailing how you could impact their bottom line positively. The advantage of this is that, during interview the discussions will center on these documents and you can confidently answer questions and score points.
Steps
- Prepare a master resume (This doesn’t go to the employer.) Make it as expansive and detailed as possible. It may go up to ten, twelve, or more pages. This is the warehouse and from here you can draw your inputs to craft customized resumes for each job.
- Please keep all your appointment orders, appreciation letters, and testimonials ready. Please also jot down all details about your deliveries at various levels in different companies.
- Note your failures and how you recovered from them, learned from them, made dramatic come backs and delivered extraordinarily. Mentioning a few failures in the early part of your career make your successes in the later part of the career look more credible.
- Make a hierarchical chart describing growth and the contributing factors for it. Write honest reasons for staying or not staying longer with company. Try to justify your stagnation periods.
- Make a monetary chart underlining growth and reasons. If you have made lateral shifts in the career, please be ready with the justifications and reasons.
- If there are terminations in service, try to find honest reasons and justifications. Employers take terminations more seriously in Asia than in west.
- Cite all of your community work and CSR: Please gather details about community activities, social service and CSR work during your studies or employment.
- Learn the language of the region in which you will be employed. It helps to know more languages as the interactions with the workers is generally in the native local language. Knowledge about demographics gives you an inkling about their behavior patterns and helps you to handle workers better.
- Mention how you managed emotional conflicts among your team members, or with your immediate manager.
- Mention your personal & family details, your educational achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, student leadership activities, community activities, and others.
Tips
- Now that your master resume is ready, you need to research and analyze each of your prospective employers. Whether it is a family organization or a professionally managed organization, what are the values they are looking for? If you know what they are looking for, you can craft your resume accordingly.
- Some organizations will look for family values, environment, where you have grown, how long you have stuck with your jobs. How much has your performance encouraged retention rather than attrition in your jobs? How have you worked at developing and encouraging leadership and entrepreneurial qualities in the people reporting to you? Where have you allowed due diligence and controlled discretion? What are your experiences that demonstrate your ability to manage crises and resolve problems?
- Some organizations will concentrate on professional deliverables. They will not mind a little attrition for achieving a high growth curve. They will see how fast you have grown in your profession. They will also be interested in your monetary curve.
- Your technical attributes have to match the requirements of the prospective organization. Your expertise in a program they are not using is of no consequence; instead give detailed information regarding your knowledge about the programs they are using. As well as you can, detail the points which show you as being adaptable and a fast learner.
- Once you know what an organization requires or what is relevant for them, take it from your master resume and include it in your crafted resume.
- Include some discussion buttons in the form of bullet points. This will include information about your work attributes and achievements and would create curiosity and trigger discussion during interview.It will create an opportunity for you to give more information.
Warnings
- Your resume should be strictly need based and should provide information related to job and organization requirements.
- It is always better to be honest with your information. That will enable you to be relaxed in the interview because honesty does not need any defending.
- If your attributes do not match job requirements, it is better to not send your job application. There is no point in piling up rejections which cause dejection and may negatively impact your preparation for other jobs where you have better chances.
- If you are not satisfied with the position, pay, and perks offered, do not apply for the job. Your applying may result in permanently shutting a door for you, and may influence other doors also.
Things You'll Need
- You will need lot of free time.
- A place where you are undisturbed
- A pleasant and upbeat mood
- All the source material like appointment, appreciation, promotion letters.
