Declaration for Resume

Include a declaration for: government and PSU applications, teaching and school jobs, bank and clerical roles, campus placement submissions where the cell template requires it, and biodata-style formats. Skip it for: product companies, IT services applying through Naukri/LinkedIn, startups, and most employers using an ATS — it adds nothing a recruiter searches for.

The two documents where it is expected by default are the government job résumé and the biodata format for job: both end with a signed declaration, place and date.

Place after your last section, left-aligned, with your signature, place and date on the lines below.

English: I hereby declare that all the information furnished above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Hindi (when the form asks): मैं घोषणा करता/करती हूँ कि उपरोक्त दी गई सभी जानकारी मेरी जानकारी और विश्वास के अनुसार सत्य और सही है।

The core sentence barely changes. What changes is what you add to it, and whether the employer has already written it for you.

• Fresher or campus placement: use the standard line only if the placement cell's template includes one. Don't add promises about joining or bonds unless the cell asks.
• Experienced professional: the standard line, plus availability if the employer asked for it — "I can join within 60 days of an offer." Keep the notice period identical to what you wrote in the application.
• Government or PSU application: "I hereby declare that all statements made in this application are true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief." Many application forms add that candidature can be cancelled if information is found false — read yours.
• Teaching, school and bank roles: the standard line, signed, with place and date. These are the employers most likely to ask for a signed printed copy at the interview.

One rule beats every sample: if the notification or form prints its own declaration, copy that wording exactly. It overrides anything on this page.

Write the declaration in the same language as the rest of the document. For a bilingual form, follow the form.

Hindi: use करता if you are male and करती if you are female — pick one on the final copy rather than printing both with a slash, which reads as an unfilled template.

Marathi (male): मी याद्वारे जाहीर करतो की वर दिलेली सर्व माहिती माझ्या माहितीनुसार व विश्वासानुसार खरी व बरोबर आहे.

Marathi (female): मी याद्वारे जाहीर करते की वर दिलेली सर्व माहिती माझ्या माहितीनुसार व विश्वासानुसार खरी व बरोबर आहे.

The labels under the line change too — Hindi: स्थान (place), दिनांक (date), हस्ताक्षर (signature); Marathi: ठिकाण, दिनांक, स्वाक्षरी. A full Hindi job biodata with the declaration in place: बायोडाटा कैसे बनाएं.

The declaration is one line — not a paragraph, not boxed, not bold. Leave a line, then put place and date on the left and your signature on the right, on the same two lines:

• Place is the city where you sign, not your home town.
• Date in DD/MM/YYYY, the day you sign — not a date months before the application.
• Signature in blue or black ink on a printed copy; your full name in capitals beneath it, matching your certificates.
• Online forms: if the form has its own declaration checkbox or signature upload, use that and don't paste a scanned signature into the résumé. Carry a signed printed copy to document verification or the interview.

Three things Indian applications ask for that people often mix up:

• Declaration — one signed line on your résumé or biodata vouching for the whole document. No stamp, no witness.
• Self-attestation — signing photocopies of your own certificates (often with "self-attested" or "true copy") to confirm each copy matches the original. Asked when you submit copies; the originals are checked at verification.
• Affidavit — a sworn statement on stamp paper, attested by a notary or oath commissioner. Needed only when the notification asks for one, for example for a name change.

A résumé declaration is the lightest of the three. It doesn't replace self-attested copies or an affidavit the notification asks for.

Usually not. On a private-sector application through an ATS, Naukri or LinkedIn, one plain line won't break parsing as long as it sits in the body rather than the page footer — but it uses space, adds nothing a recruiter searches for, and can read as an old campus template. Use that line for a project or a metric instead.

Keep it where it is expected: sarkari applications, biodata, teaching and bank forms, and any employer that asks for a signed résumé. If you send both kinds of application, keep two versions rather than one compromise — and run the corporate one through the ATS resume checker before you send it.

• Oath language — "solemnly swear", "under oath". A résumé is not an affidavit.
• Signing over mismatches — the declaration makes every line your signed statement, so spellings, dates and percentages must match your certificates exactly.
• A blank or stale date — undated copies look unfinished; a date months old looks recycled.
• Hiding it in the page footer or a text box, where readers and parsers skip it.
• Mixing languages inside the line, or leaving both करता/करती printed.
• Adding it to every résumé by default — including the IT and product applications where it costs you a line.