Fresher resume format
- Header with name, phone, email, city and a LinkedIn or GitHub link.
- A two-line objective naming the role you want and one real strength.
- Education: degree, college, year, and grade if it is good.
- Projects: two or three, each with what you built, the tools you used and the result.
- Internships, part-time work or volunteering — all count.
- Skills and certifications relevant to the job.
- Achievements: competitions, leadership roles, publications.
Turn projects into experience
Write a project exactly like a job: a title, dates, and bullets that show what you did and what came of it.
- “Built a college event registration site in React used by 800 students; cut paper forms entirely.”
- “Led a four-person final-year project on crop disease detection; model reached 91% accuracy on test images.”
- Part-time jobs show reliability: “Handled cash and stock counts for a busy café, 20 hours a week during exams.”
Mistakes freshers make
- A long objective about “a challenging position in a reputed organisation”.
- Listing every subject studied instead of the ones relevant to the job.
- Two pages of padding. One strong page is better.
- Personal details such as father's name, religion or date of birth — not needed for most employers today.