Some rejections hit hard

A few days back, I had my first ever interview with an HR. It was on a video call with around 50 other students. The HR was going through resumes and, honestly, rejecting people right on the spot. When she saw mine, she straight up said my resume couldn’t be selected—it was too weak. I was so confident about it because I had shown it to my relatives, and they told me, “Nobody can reject this, it’s fine! For an internship, you don’t even need special skills.”

But seeing her reject it right in front of me… I was like, “Oh God, what’s happening?” I had created that resume just a few days ago. It had my name, address, education, languages I can speak. Compared to many students on the call who had done so much in the past two years, I hadn’t done much. I thought maybe that wouldn’t matter—they’d just ask a few questions, and I’d get the internship. But nope, she rejected it on the spot. That day, I made one project just so I could show something next time.

Comments

[Dipankar Shaw]

can you share your resume

[Dipankar Shaw]

what were you applying for ?

My thoughts

1. Your resume does not clarify what you want to be ? You are saying you want to grow in IT field but in which direction ? Web Development, Mobile Development etc.
2. You mentioned you know web development, so in the career object mention you want to move forward in web development(or whatever field you want).
3. Host your projects. There are a lot of free way to host web projects, host your project and add the link in your resume.
4. Do more projects and add them.
5. Make your portfolio website.

My resume(not updated in long time): drive.google.com/file/d/1rMKdHJElj...

[Manasvi Pal]

Thank you for your review — it was really helpful. I also appreciate you sending me the resume; it gave me a clear understanding of how to design one properly.

[Dipankar Shaw]

This one is not my best. I have updated it more but I couldn't find them. Still you will get some idea about it.