Resources & career guides
ATS screening, the HR round, the expected CTC question, and moving from a service-based company to a product company. Every guide here is written for how hiring actually works in India.
How to write a resume for India (2026 guide)
A walkthrough of writing a resume for India: section order, lines to cut, bullets that survive the ATS and the human, and how to tailor it without a rewrite.
Read the guide →Why your resume never gets a reply
Most Indian applications are rejected by software before a person ever opens them. Here is what the parser reads, what it discards, and the formatting that costs you the shortlist.
8 min readHow to answer "what's your expected CTC?"
The expected CTC question decides your salary before the offer is even drafted. Why answering first costs you money, and the exact wording to use when HR won't budge.
7 min readThe notice-period question, and why 90 days isn't a dealbreaker
How to answer the notice-period question when serving 60 or 90 days, what buyout means in practice, and how to keep a long notice from ending the conversation.
6 min readThe services-to-product switch: what actually changes on your resume
Moving from TCS, Infosys, Wipro or Accenture to a product company is usually a framing problem rather than a skill problem. Here is what a product-company screener reads differently.
9 min readExplaining a career gap to an Indian recruiter
Exam preparation, a layoff cycle, family care, health. What Indian recruiters actually read into a career gap, and how to explain yours without over-apologising for it.
6 min readHow to actually prepare with an AI mock interview
Reading a question list is not the same as practising. What an AI mock interview tests, how to pick your role and level honestly, and how to use the transcript afterwards.
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