Career advice from people who hire.
Resume rules, ATS rubric, interview tactics, salary negotiation — practical guidance from the people doing the hiring.
Applying abroad
Resume conventions, visa lines and document names change by country. Start here, then use the resume format by country guides.
How to Write Visa Status & Work Authorization on a Resume (US, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE)
Where the line goes, the exact wording for each status in five markets, what never to include, and the one sentence for your cover letter.
Should you tailor your resume to every job?
Yes for the jobs you actually want, no for the spray-and-pray batch — and the 15-minute version captures most of the benefit. Here's what to change, what to leave alone, and when a generic resume is genuinely fine.
CV vs Resume vs Vita: The Difference by Country
In the US they're different documents, in the UK and India 'CV' just means resume, and in US academia a 'vita' is something else again. What each market expects, and which document to send where.
What is 10th & 12th called on a resume?
CBSE, ICSE, Maharashtra, UP, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu all give the same two exams different official names — and the one printed on your marksheet is the one that has to appear on your resume. Here's the board-by-board wording, then whether to include the marks at all.
Salary hike percentage: how to calculate it
The formula takes ten seconds. The mistakes take a year to undo — comparing the wrong numbers, counting components you never receive, and letting a percentage anchor a conversation that should be about a figure.
IIT resume credential restrictions, explained
What a placement cell will actually let you claim: campus placement resumes are verified line by line, and a point with no proof behind it comes off the resume. Here's how credential verification works, what counts as proof for each kind of claim, and how to audit your resume before you submit it.
What is a good Naukri ATS score? The 2026 bands
80+ is the band to aim for. Here's what Naukri lets you control, what each score band means, and how far you are from the safe zone.
How to increase your Naukri ATS score: 10 fixes
From headline keywords to the re-upload trick — the exact changes that move a Naukri resume from the 60s to 85+, in the order you should make them.
How to write a resume that gets interviews
The 4-component ATS rubric, the bullet formula, and the 7-second recruiter scan — what actually moves the needle today.
ATS resume rules for 2026: what changed
Modern ATSes parse layouts better than they did in 2024, but the four-component scoring rubric still wins. Here's exactly what to do.
Indian Resume vs US Resume: The Differences (and How to Convert)
Photo, date of birth, declaration, CGPA, length, paper size, notice period — the Indian resume conventions side by side with the US ones, and how to convert for US, Canadian or UK applications.
12 resume mistakes that kill interview chances
Ranked by how often we see them in real ATS scoring sessions, with the fix for each.
1 page or 2? The real resume length answer
The 'always one page' advice was never universal. Here's what actually works at every stage of your career.
How to write resume bullets with no experience
Fresh graduates, career-switchers, returners — the strong bullet patterns that work when you don't have a track record yet.
How to negotiate salary in India (2026)
The 2026 playbook: the 60-second script, the levers beyond base, and the cultural specifics that work in Indian hiring.
Career-switch resume — framing past experience
How to frame past experience for a new field: the structure that lets a former teacher land a PM role, an analyst become a data scientist, or a sales lead pivot to ops.
About this guideThe ApplyVita Career Team — The ApplyVita Career Team builds the resume-scoring and job-matching tools at the core of ApplyVita. Our guidance is grounded in the same four-component ATS rubric our product scores resumes on — content and impact, keyword match, formatting, and skills — and in current recruiter and hiring-manager practice. Every guide is checked against that rubric before it is published, and updated as hiring norms change.