Neha Sharma

Professional Resume Writer, Rejume.in

Jul 30, 2024

How To Make a Good BBA Fresher Resume

BBA resumes should show a variety of skills to stand out

BBA is a very popular degree in the recruitment scene. For entry level positions, it is a well sought-after degree after or at the same level as technical and specialist degrees. It is no exaggeration to say that BBA is probably one of the top general business degrees, and that makes the competition very hot for BBA students looking for their first jobs.

So, why is the competition increasing for BBA degree holders? It is because once BBA degrees became popular with BBA graduates getting placed quickly, the demand for BBA degree seekers increased, leading to many more colleges offering. Eventually, more supply of colleges offering BBA degree led to more people having BBA degrees, but the number of positions in the job market did not increase proportionately.

In this article, we will take you through specific areas you need to pay special attention to as you prepare your BBA resume. We hope that you will read through this article and not jump off the page since we write content for actual humans, who can read and appreciate well-researched content.

1. Create an accurate career objective statement

This is going to be the first section your potential employer would look at when they receive your resume, assuming you passed the ATS hurdle in the first place, so it is important that this section is accurate and free of errors.

What do we meany by accurate career objective statement? As long as our career objective statement correlates to the position you are applying to, then you can rest assured that your objective statement is accurate. If you are applying to a specific job post, make sure to spend enough time reading the job description and mentally take a note of the soft skills, technical skills and any specific traits the job description suggests the candidates possess.

If you are creating a generic resume to forward to our network for them to refer your profile, then keep the career objective statement generic. By generic, include only skills and traits that are widely found on all job descriptions. Even if you are preparing a generic resume for forwarding to your network for referrals, there should be a certain degree of specificity in your statement. For example, you should have a clear idea of the type of functions you want to be considered as a good candidate.

By specificity, we mean calling out the functions your statement stands good for. Mention functions like operations, marketing and sales, for example. We suggest that you include up to 3 functions as targets in your career objective statement.

Sample Generic Career Objective statements for BBA Fresher

As you can see in the 3 example statements, none of them is complicated or fancy. They are all easy to read and straight forward. You could tweak these slightly to modify for your areas of specialization and the nature of roles you are looking for. It is also generally advisable to leave out the title of the position you are looking for to avoid the risk of being interpreted as too demanding. While there is nothing wrong wih coming across as demanding, it is good to avoid titles since the tiles vary greatly across companies. The best is to say entry level positions. That would mean you are being practical.

2. Skills for BBA Fresher Resumes

With the objective statement out of the way, we can now talk about the skills you want to include in your resume.

It is generally advisable to split your sections into Technical and Soft skills so there is a lot more room to show your skills. Let us talk about Technical Skills first.

One common misconception among job seekers is that technical skills mean programming.

It is not correct. Anything that is not a soft skill, which are generic in nature, are technical skills. What makes a candidate suitable for a particular function is the technical skill. For example, what makes someone a doctor is their technical skills related to the field of medicine. Similarly, what makes a lawyer or an accountant is the set of skills tha are very relevant and specific to that field. In the same vein, you would see skills such as a GAAP, Tally, SAP etc being listed as technical skills under the technical skills section of an accountant.

Another misconception among job seekers is that technical skills are all software applications. While it is true that knowing a particular software application is a skill, it doesn't mean that all technical skills have to be knowledge of how to operate software applications. One example is US GAAP. GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which is a set of standards to be followed for accounting in the US or for US-based Businesses. An accountant who specializes in the area of accounting support for US-based businesses would list US-GAAP as a technical skill.

So, feel free to add those skills that you posses and that are unique and critical to a particular field as technical skill. Below are some of the most common technical skills for you to consider adding to your resume.

Common Technical Skills on BBA Fresher Resumes

• 1. MS Excel

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• 2. MS PowerPoint

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• 3. Tally

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• 4. MS Visio

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• 5. MS Project

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• 6. Agile / Scrum

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• 7. Canva

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• 8. R / Python for Data Analysis

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• 9. Google Docs

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• 10. Google Sheets

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Let us talk about Soft Skills now. The challenge many job seekers find with listing their soft skills is that they think they have plenty. This is just the opposite of the situation with the technical skills. We tend to think we have many soft skills, which is not far from true.

The single most tip that you can use for the rest of your career when dealing with soft skills on resume is list those soft skills that are relevant to the job you are applying to. Even if you are preparing a generic resuem that you want to use for referral purposes, it is easier to narrow down the list of soft skills if you have a target job in mind.

When you have a target job or a set of jobs in mind, you can easily think about the soft skills those jobs would need and then proceed to include them in your resume, as long as you are also confident that you possess those skills.

What do you in cases you have some special soft skills that are indeed rare. As long as they are relevant to general business settings, you might want to include them in the resume but keep them to the end of the list. Another place to consider including them could be the hobbies and interests section or under the additional information section, especially if you have accolades related to those special skills.

Below are the most common soft skills you should consider including on your resume, especially if you are considering creating a generic all-purpose resume.

• 1. Communication

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• 2. Team work

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• 3. Leadership

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• 4. Problem Solving

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• 5. Presentation

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• 6. Event Management

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• 7. Negotiation

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• 8. Project Management

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• 9. Vendor Management

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• 10. Coordination

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Think of soft skills as the medium through which you deliver results using your technical skills. Another way to think about the relationship between technical and soft skills is technical skills are largely the reason you are able to deliver results and the soft skills are how you deliver the results.

3. Projects

Not all colleges require their final year students to pursue projects. I went to a college that had a final year project requirement to meet the degree requirements but it was fair to say it was up to me to do the project. While this flexibility was good in a way so I could pick the project I want to work on etc., it was also confusing since I was so used to delivering everything under tight deadlines and meeting strict requirements on the academic front. So all of a sudden this total freedom was something I was not prepared for and spent a lot of time figuring out what project I wanted to work. I was talking about an era when internet was not widely available and you would go to college labs basically to access internet.

But, I learned the value of projects that I totally bombed as a final year undergraduate student much later in life. If I were to do all over again. I would do a few things differently and that forms the meat of the next few paragraphs.

Firstly, understand that your project is going to be your work experience on your resume and in your life until you get a real job and start gaining work experience. So, treat your project opportunity when you are still in college as something valuable becaue it is valuable.

What a wonderful opportunity it is to tailor your work experience the way you want without the pressure of a manager or without the fear of failure, which is often the case in a formal employment setting.

Firstly, as a BBA student, you realize that your skills are at the intersection of a variety of functions, such as technology, marketing, operations, sales, accounting and finance. You can even consider yourself as someone who has a decent shot at HR functions. Given this situation, it is important that you identify what are some of the functions you want to get your first job in, and those are the candidate opportunities for your project. If it difficult to make up your mind as to which functions you want to work in once you graduate, start with the functions you don’t want to work in.

Functions like HR, finance, and accounting are usually for those that strongly identify themselves with those functions and usually stick around in those functions for long, if not for ever. You could develop perspectives on the functions you want to avoid by talking to a few who already work in functions. It is easier to find them within the circle of your friends and family.

Now you should have identified the functions you want to work in and so it should be easier to pick a project idea that cuts across those job functions.

For example, if you like a role in operations and you also like technology, you might want to consider taking a project that cuts across these two functions so during the interview you would have a great project to talk about. A typical project that cuts across technology and operations can be found by doing a simple google search. In this case, your project does not even have to involve programming. It could be simple research and ranking of latest technologies that operations can use to become more efficient. Or, if you have some interest and knowledge in programming, you could develop a simple application or a design of an application for a specific operations use case. Both would be wonderful projects on your resume. Remember, your project is your work experience until you find your first full time employment.

Another example in the case of someone having interests in marketing and technology could be researching and ranking latest advancements in social media marketing. Or, it could be developing a cost-effective social media marketing strategy for a fictitious tech start-up.

BBA Final Year Project Ideas

Below is a list of projects that we think are wonderful for a BBA graduate. Let us know what you think or if you need help with finalizing your project idea. Our consulting on projects is of course for a charge but we have student discounts that we can offer if you are still in college.

BBA Project Ideas

• 1. Evaluation of Robotic Process Automation software for Operations

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• 2. Development of a business plan for a technology start-up

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• 3. Comparison of size of seed funds and first year growth rates of start ups

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• 4. Buy vs Make - evaluation methodology for new software requirements

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• 5. A critique on cash flow management in small scale founder-led companies

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• 6. Review of metrics for effective business management

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• 7. Study of relationship between experience and productivity in manufacturing companies

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• 8. First hand experience - can a new product be developed with $100?

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• 9. A review of short-lived start-ups

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• 10. GDP vs Start up seed capital

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A tip to keep in mind is do not have a wide cope for your project. It is one of the top reasons why even projects in big companies fail. Before we start the project, we all feel aspirational and want to achieve everything we think we want to achieve. But it is much more advisable to focus on a narrow area to achieve and do it very well. This will go a long way in gaining some valuable experience in your project and you will be able to talk through your project with much more confidence during your interviews.

Conclusion

We hope you found this article useful and gained some insights into how to build your first and impactfu resume. Remember, content wins and not the format and the choice of colors. The resume templates we have on our site are simple and designed specifically for fresh graduates. Let us know if you need any help. Good luck!