On May, 16, 2024, an interesting scientific and educational event took place at the Educational and Research Institute of Information Technologies and Robotics of National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic": an online lecture "Let's Talk About CV" was given by Lead Recruitment Specialist of Luxoft Nina Dyachenko for future IT specialists.
The topic of the event was chosen not by chance, as the speaker has seven years of successful experience in IT recruitment, searching for candidates for Ukrainian and European locations. The lecture was attended by professionally motivated and goal-oriented students who are pursuing their dream profession and plan to build a successful career in leading IT companies in the near future.
During the meeting with the students, the lecturer spoke about the peculiarities of writing a resume, its optimal structure, because a properly designed resume should give potential employers a positive impression and a full understanding that they are dealing with a highly qualified professional.
During the discussion, the participants of the online lecture reviewed the main items that should be paid special attention to when preparing a resume for each specific position. The main points of the resume include the contacts of the person applying for a certain vacancy, a description of the position for which the resume is being submitted, a brief description of your own activities and vision of your effectiveness in the following similar projects, a list of hard skills, a description of experience (studies, internships, educational courses, pet projects), education, professional interests, hobbies, and information about yourself.
Students of Poltava Polytechnic received useful practical advice from an experienced professional on how to write a resume for a job in an IT company. In particular, the issues of length, language of the document, the need to check for mistakes, and the format of the resume were discussed in detail. The students were especially interested in the examples of resumes given in the presentation, which prompted a lively discussion and led to a number of relevant questions to the speaker.
The most common recommendations included limiting resumes to 1-2 pages, writing them in English, adapting the text to a specific job, previous experience is also important, even if it is not in the IT field, checking the text for errors, personality, evaluating it yourself/letting others read it, and using PDF format.
At the end of the event, students of Poltava Polytechnic expressed their sincere gratitude to the partners and organizers of the event, emphasizing the wide opportunities that open up during the meetings with the practitioners and employers.
Recently, the future specialists learned how to build their own business effectively on the example of a well-known IT company, students of Poltava Polytechnic visited SoftServe's Poltava office and learned about employment in the IT company.
Earlier, a representative of the NIX IT team gave students a lecture about the advantages of the Python programming language, students of the Educational and Research Institute of Information Technology and Robotics visited the Poltava office of Nix Solutions, and freshmen of the Institute of IT and Robotics learned about career opportunities from the NIX IT team.
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