Resume Tips for Fresh Graduates

If you never written a resume before, you may be wondering what type of information you should include and leave out. This article goes over the different sections of a resume and offers style suggestions to make your resume effective.

According to Dawn Rosenberg McKay, who is a career planning profession and co-author of books about government employment, a resume is a written document listing work experience, skills, and educational background. The order in which these items are listed on your resume will depend on what areas you're strongest in.

Educational Background

Many college students begin with their educational background because they tend not to have much work experience. Depending on how many years of college you have under your belt, you may or may not want to begin with your high school information.

If you're a freshmen student then you should begin with your high school information since you haven't been college that long. However, if you're a sophomore or further along in college, you will probably want to include just your college information. Things you may list in this section include the name of your school, your major, type of degree (BA, BS, or MA), type of minor, GPA, expected graduation date, and year in college.

Work Experience

Next you will want to include your work experience. You should begin with the most recent job that you had that is relevant to the position that you're applying for. Finally, you'll want to put any other jobs you have had just to show that you do have some type of work experience.

Special Skills and Considerations

Lastly, you'll want to put down any skills or activities that could be relevant to the job. Make sure the skills are as specific to the position as possible. If it's not relevant, leave it out. As for activities, you may want to put down sports, clubs, sororities or fraternities. Having a list of activities may help show that you can balance school work and extracurricular activities. It may also give your interviewer something to break the ice.

Formatting Your Resume

Experiment with different layouts. Keep the font simple and use color sparingly. Make sure that the your resume is well-organized, clear, and easy to read and understand. Proofread carefully. Typos may hurt your credibility with the interviewer. And most importantly, be honest.

Resume Resources

For more resume tips, you may want to visit www.careerplanning.about.com or www.accepted.com. Both of these websites offer more tips and sample resumes

India's Biggest Electricity Companies

The electricity sector in India had an installed capacity of 199.6 Gigawatt as of March 2012, the world's fifth largest.

Thermal power plants constitute 65 per cent of the installed capacity, hydroelectric about 21 per cent and rest being a combination of wind, small hydro, biomass, waste-to-electricity, and nuclear.

Let's take a look at some of the biggest electricity-producing companies in India.

Source: Green World Investor

NTPC

NTPC Limited (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation) is the largest Indian state-owned electric utilities company based in New Delhi.

It is listed in Forbes Global 2000 for 2011 ranked it 348th in the world. It is an Indian public sector company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in which at present the Government of India holds 84.5 per cent (after divestment the stake by Indian government in October, 2009) of its equity.

It was founded on November 7, 1975. NTPC's core business is engineering, construction and operation of power generating plants and providing consultancy to power utilities in India and abroad.

Although the company has 19 per cent of the total national capacity it contributes 29 per cent of total power generation due to its focus on high efficiency.

NHPC

NHPC Limited (formerly National Hydroelectric Power Corporation) is an Indian electric utilities company that was incorporated in the year 1975 with an authorised capital of Rs 2,000 million and with an objective to plan, promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of hydroelectric power in all aspects.

Later on NHPC expanded its objects to include other sources of energy like Geothermal, Tidal, Wind, etc

At present, NHPC is a schedule 'A' Enterprise of the Govt. of India with an authorised share capital of Rs 1,50,000 million.

In 2009-2010 NHPC made a profit after tax of Rs 2,090 crores (Rs 20.9 billion). An increase of 94 per cent than the previous year profit of Rs 1,050 crores (Rs 10.5 billion).

NHPC is among the top 10 companies in India in terms of investment. Department of Public Enterprise, Government of India recently conferred prestigious Miniratna status to it.

Tata Power

Tata Power is India's oldest private sector electric utility company. On March 22, 2011, it has announced partnership with Sunengy, to build India's first floating solar plant.

The firm started as the Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company in 1911, which amalgamated with the Andhra Valley Power Supply Company in 1916.

The thermal power stations of the company are located at Trombay in Mumbai, Mundra in Gujarat, Jojobera and Maithon in Jharkhand, Haldia in West Bengal and Belgaum in Karnataka.

Reliance Power

Reliance Power Limited, a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, was established to develop, construct and operate power projects in the domestic and international markets.

Reliance Energy Limited, an Indian private sector power utility company along with the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group promotes Reliance Power.

Along with its subsidiaries, it is presently developing 13 medium and large-sized power projects with a combined planned installed capacity of 33,480 MW. Reliance Natural Resources merged with Reliance Power in 2010.

Adani Power

Adani Power Limited is the power business arm of Indian business conglomerate Adani Group with head office at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Adani Power Limited is ranked number 334 in top companies in India in Fortune India 500 list of 2011.

The company currently operates five supercritical boilers of 660MW each (as per March 2012) at Mundra, Gujrat. It also operates a mega solar plant of 40MW at Surendra nagar, Gujarat.

It is India's first company to achieve the supercritical technology. The plant is the only thermal power plant in india to be certified by UN under CDM.

Damodar Valley Corporation

Damodar Valley Corporation is a thermal and hydro power generating public organisation of India. DVC emerged as a culmination of attempts made over a whole century to control the wild and erratic Damodar river.

The river spans over an area of 25,000 sq km covering the states of Bihar (now Jharkhand) and West Bengal.

Entrusted with the responsibilities of providing the vital input power for industrial growth in the resource rich Damodar Valley region, DVC has been practically operating as a pioneer, using latest available technologies to supply bulk power at reasonable rates to the major industries.

DVC has maintained its lead role in the eastern region by adopting itself to the challenges of time and technology during the course of last 64 years. DVC has been generating and transmitting power since 1953.

Lanco Infratech

Lanco Infratech Limited is a large Indian business conglomerate involved in construction, power, real estate, and several other segments.

Lanco Infratech Limited became a listed entity in November 2006 following the Initial Public Offering of shares. Lanco's gross revenue before elimination as on March 2011 was over $2.56 billion.

SJVN

The SJVN Ltd was incorporated on May 24, 1988, as a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Himachal Pradesh to plan, investigate, organise, execute, operate and maintain Hydro-electric power projects. The present authorised share capital of SJVN is Rs 7,000 crores (Rs 70 billion).

The Nathpa Jhakri Hydro - Electric Power Station - was the first project undertaken by SJVN for execution. In addition to the financial assistance from the World Bank, SJVN has also been financed as loan by a Consortium of European Banks, the Power Finance Corporation and various domestic commercial banks.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited is a government-owned corporation of India based in Mumbai. One of the public sector undertakings, it is wholly owned by the Union Government and is responsible for the generation of nuclear power for electricity.

NPCIL is administered by the Department of Atomic Energy. NPCIL is the only power utility company in India which uses nuclear fuel sources. NPCIL was created in September 1987 as public limited company under the Companies Act 1956

CLP Power

The CLP Group and its holding company, CLP Holdings Ltd, is a Hong Kong electric company that has businesses in a number of Asian markets and Australia.

Incorporated in 1901 as China Light and Power Company Syndicate, its core business remains the generation, transmission, and retailing of electricity.

In recent years, CLP has sought to expand outside of its native Hong Kong accomplishing this through mergers and acquisitions.

Overseas markets it has entered include Australia, India, Laos, Mainland China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited is a government-owned lignite mining and power generating company in India. NLC operates the largest open-pit lignite mines in India, presently mining 24 MT of lignite and has an installed capacity of 2740 MW of electricity.

NLC has well-developed township in Neyveli in the district of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. It is well connected by road along the Chennai-Thanjavur State Highway and Pondicherry-Tiruchirappalli Road.

A dedicated rail track with a railway station was constructed to transport heavy machineries for the mining and the power generation industries.

Torrent Power is one of the leading brands in the Indian power sector, promoted by the Rs 9,592 crore (Rs 95.92 billion) Torrent Group.

The high points of Torrent's foray into power however were the acquisitions of two of the India's oldest utilities - The Surat Electricity Company Ltd and The Ahmedabad Electricity Company Ltd.

Torrent has a generation capacity of 1647.5 MW and distributes power to more than 3 million customers annually in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Bhiwandi and Agra.

The company is currently implementing a 1200 MW gas based power project at Dahej in South Gujarat.

Image: Labourers load coal on trucks at Bari Brahamina on the outskirts of Jammu.
Photographs: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters 

WB Tourism invites proposals for mega tourism park

Project will include resorts, ayurvedic spa village, theme garden, camping area, golf course, old age home   

JOY ROY CHOUDHURY - Kolkata

In tune with chief minister Mamata Banerjee's vision to turnaround Dooars in North Bengal into an international-class destination, the Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal has issued an 'Expression of Interest' inviting proposals from private partners to develop a mega tourism park at Gajoldoba. The project is visualised as a Mega Tourism Hub and proposed to be implemented on a public-private-partnership (PPP) mode.

Gajoldoba situated 25 kms from Siliguri is a picturesque tourist destination on Teesta Barrage, Jalpaiguri district adjacent to the Baikunthapur Forest. The project site is well connected with all other parts of the country. Tourism in Dooars is assuming importance because of its untapped potential to create employment for the tourism sector along with infrastructure development. IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (IL&FS IDC), has been roped in as the consultant for the project. According to a senior IL&FS IDC official the project will include lake resorts, three-star category hotels, budget hotels, ayurvedic spa village, camping area, golf course, theme garden, cultural zone, hospitality training centre, picnic area / food court, children park and old age home. The scope of the bidder will include design, build, finance and operation of the project components for a pre-defined period of time.

Most Endangered Big Cats: Rarest Tigers, Pumas Or Lions In The World

The cat is a predator and it is found on almost every part of the world. The cat family is diverse and includes the familiar domestic cat, tigers, lions,  jaguars, ocelots, caracals, pumas, leopards, lynxes, and many other groups of cat. Cats use several methods to hunt their prey. Here are the top ten 10 endangered or rarest cats in the world.

	Amur leopard:- Amur leopard is the most dangerous big cat (calls-Mammalia). According to the international union for conservation of nature it is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. They are 32-48 kg in weight, with exceptionally large males up to 60-75 kg.
	Anatolian leopard:- It is ranked as the second most endangered big cat. It was described as a distant subspecies of leopard native to Anatolia in Turkey. In depth studies have previously indicated that the original habitat of Anatolian leopard is very dangerous to humans specially. Their prey also consists of wild goats, wild boar, chamois and Caucasian grouse.
	Asiatic Cheater:- The Asiatic Cheetah is a critically rare endangered subspecies of the cheetah found today only in Iran and Pakistan (Blochistan). It is the third most endangered Big Cat. It lives in its vast central desert in fragmented pieces of remaining suitable habitat.
	Eastern puma:- Eastern puma is the fourth most dangerous mammalian in the world. It also the second heaviest cat in the American Countries. It is also knows as cougar and most closely related to smaller felines. Its primary food sources are deer, elk and bighorn sheep, as well as domestic cattle, horses and sheep. Adult puma stand 60 to 70 cm/ all at the shoulders and length of adult puma is around 2.4 meters and 53 to 90 kilo gram in weight.
	Florida Cougar:- The Florida Cougar is a highly threatened representative of cougar family that lives in the low tides, plan forests and swamps of southern Florid in the United States. Its Males weigh about 169 pounds and they are territorial animals and mountain home ranges of up to 100 miles.
	North African leopard:- North African leopard with possibly a handful surviving in the wild, the North African leopard is one of the most threatened of the leopard subspecies. The leopard is an elegant and powerful endangered cat. It has well-muscled body, thick limbs and broad powerful paws. It is the sixth most endangered mammal of big cat species.
	Siberian Tiger:- Being the largest cat in the world, the Siberian Tiger has a reputation of being a vicious Killer. The Siberian Tiger is native to Siberia. The Siberia tiger has a very large hunting territory due to lack of prey. Its diet consists of deer, wild pig and fish. The population numbers 250 in the wild, and around 400 in zoos around the world.
	South Arabian leopard:- The South Arabian leopard is listed the eight most endangered big cat and it is also the smallest leopard subspecies. It is most closely related to African leopard. Its Jaws and legs are very strong. It is not aggressive about keeping his large hunting territory. Due to the vast population of uneducated humans, concerning the ecosystem, in some areas South Arabian leopard was exterminated.
	South China Tiger:- One of the largest of the big cat, the tiger is an instantly recognizable and endangered animal. Generally however, china tigers have a reddish-orange color and black marking, the pattern of which is unique. Like other big cats, south china tigers are well adopted for hunting large prey and have short, heavily-muscled forelimbs and long, sharp, powerfull claws.
	Sumatran tiger:- The Sumatran tigers are competent swimmers, Hunting mainly occurs at night and principal prey consists of deer, sheep, wild pigs and domestic horses. Sumatran tigers average 204 cm in length from head to tail and weight about 136 kg. The Sumatran tiger is found only on the Indonesian island. In the zoo the tigers are fed an assortment of fish, meat and poultry parts.

Calcutta Tramways Company plans to launch 'air-conditioned' trams

 

In a bid to generate additional revenue and lure more passengers and tourists to Kolkata, the cash-strapped The Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) has drawn up plans to launch fully air-conditioned trams with cafeterias on board. Confirming the development toExpress TravelWorld, Shantilal Jain, chairman, CTC said, “To attract more passengers, we have decided to manufacture air-conditioned cafeteria trams which are expected to be ready by Durga Puja in October this year. We have discussed the issue with Rachhpal Singh, tourism minister, West Bengal who assured us of his department's support and asked us to proceed with the making of these trams.” The state tourism department plans to showcase these air-conditioned trams as an attractive proposition to attract tourists into the city.

Senior officials of CTC mooted the plan a few months ago to manufacture air-conditioned trams in their workshops. Doors of the trams will close automatically when they start plying. The trams will have wide glass windows along with FM radio. Fibre reinforced plastic, will be installed at the top to avoid heating during summer, instead of ultraviolet infra-red polycarbonate sheets, which are at present used in trams. Jain said, “We have already sent a proposal to the state transport department seeking its approval to run air-conditioned trams. As the installation of air-conditioned cafeteria involves huge investment, we have decided to adopt the public-private partnership (PPP) model.” A private party will be roped in to renovate the trams. The state government recently provided funds to CTC to tide over the financial crisis. Once the trams are renovated, they will be run on a PPP model, said Jain adding that at first two air-conditioned trams will be run on an experimental basis.

Plans are also afoot to revamp the existing 125 trams running across the city, increase the frequency of tram services and set a time-table. “For smooth running of trams, we are also thinking of transforming the shape of the trams from two bogies to a single bogie,” said Jain.

World's Largest CAT

Siberian Tiger is the largest cat in the world. This largest cat breed in the world has up to 2.8 m head and body with 95 cm tail length on average. The male of Siberian tiger being the largest cat species in the world, may weigh as much as 360 kg. They like to live near water and may travel up to 20 km in a night. The natural habitat of wild cats is India, China, Siberia and Indonesia where they eat big mammals like pigs, buffalo and dear.

Siberian Tiger Picture

Largest Panda in The World

Giant Pandas are the largest Pandas in the world. The size of the largest panda that is ever seen or recorded lies between 120-150cm and it weighs about 75-160Kg. The giant pandas usually live only in high mountains or isolated parts of the world specially in China. They have an extra bone in their hands (just like a human thumb) which they use mostly in holding bamboos or food. They can eat other plants or hunt small mammals for their food but many pandas suffer hunger if the bamboo crop fails.

Largest Panda Picture