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Raksha Kannusami
Raksha Kannusami

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Create a professional resume in a few minutes (for free).

Having a professional resume is the most important thing when you apply for a job, which depicts your skills and experiences and could be the deciding factor for getting you shortlisted for the face to face interview out of all the applicants. 😟

Hence, if you don’t have your resume yet, let's start making it. πŸ₯³

Fret not, you won't be spending a single penny to get those cool looking templates. πŸ€—

The easiest way to create a professional resume is by using Google docs. Yes! you read that right! 🀯

Step 1:

Login to your google account and click on google docs. πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’»

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Step 2:

It will tell you to select the type of google doc. Go to the CV section and check out the templates available for creating a resume.

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Step 3:

Chose any one of those templates availabe. If you are confused about which one to chose, select Serif one. It looks highly professional and I prefer it too! πŸ‘Œ

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Step 4:

Now the last step, Edit the template with all your details, And tadaaaa! your professional resume is ready! πŸŽ‰

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Bonus tip:

Save this resume as a google doc in your drive, so that it will be easier to update it now and then, and you can obviously download the pdf version of it whenever you want! πŸ’Ž

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you liked it. πŸ’–

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Devang Hingu

it looks great. but some features can't be implemented in google docs rather than ms office when you are pro over building documents. And I'm a fan of linux from my 2nd year of graduation. but I am still using my office for building such documents.

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Raksha Kannusami

Yes! But I felt this is bit easier and plus you can always share your resume using a link. :))

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Devang Hingu

yeah you are right, it's easier. Even i done my last project documentation on google docs. but it does not allow those features which Microsoft does. and we talk about link sharing, it is not a big deal. πŸ˜ƒ

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Raksha Kannusami

That is true. It definitely can't match MS Word!

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scroung720

Really helpful

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spiritupbro
also check this post by me to automatically create your resume from mongodb database using python
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Aniket Sonavane

Hello Raksha

Congratulations for such an handy article

Even Novoresume.com is also one of the most professional resume builder sites.

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Raksha Kannusami

Glad you liked it!

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Xavier Brinon

Just a warning though:
Google drive/ Google doc can filter out emails containing data that look private. You're resume might end up in a spam folder if you send it by email.

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Raksha Kannusami

True! Especially, nowadays there are lot of automatic rejection systems. A pdf/word document attached to your email should reduce the chances.

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Raksha Kannusami

Sure will! :)

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JP

flowcv.io Just take a look at it. Very customized resume builder

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Raksha Kannusami

thanks for the suggestion!

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Vivek Soni

you can try resumetic.com also, its good.