Resume Writing Tricks and Tips

What is a Resume? The word “resume” is a French word meaning “summary”. Often times, you’ll hear a resume referred to as a “vitale”; a Latin word meaning “data about life”. They are both the same thing - a simple, well-organized profile of your experiences and qualifications. A resume is your calling card when you apply for a job. Usually, your resume has to sell an employer on giving you an interview. Interviews get the job; resumes can only get an interview. Very often, personnel people will pattern the interview on the resume they have received from you. Thus, it is essential that you have a resume and that it be a good one. A resume should contain brief but sufficient information to tell a prospective employer: • Who you are • What type of job you would like to do • What you...

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Tricky C interview questions

How do you write a program which produces its own source code as its output? How can I find the day of the week given the date? Why doesn’t C have nested functions? What is the most efficient way to count the number of bits which are set in a value? How can I convert integers to binary or hexadecimal? How can I call a function, given its name as a string? How do I access command-line arguments? How can I return multiple values from a function? How can I invoke another program from within a C program? How can I access memory located at a certain address? How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K? How can I find out how much memory is available? How can I read a directory in a C program? How can I increase the allowable number of simultaneously open files? What’s wrong with...

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Tricky C interview questions

How do you write a program which produces its own source code as its output? How can I find the day of the week given the date? Why doesn’t C have nested functions? What is the most efficient way to count the number of bits which are set in a value? How can I convert integers to binary or hexadecimal? How can I call a function, given its name as a string? How do I access command-line arguments? How can I return multiple values from a function? How can I invoke another program from within a C program? How can I access memory located at a certain address? How can I allocate arrays or structures bigger than 64K? How can I find out how much memory is available? How can I read a directory in a C program? How can I increase the allowable number of simultaneously open files? What’s...

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