Resume for IT-services campus hiring: what TCS, Infosys and Wipro-style drives need

01What this page can and cannot tell you

Students search for TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCLTech and Accenture more than any other campus names. Their eligibility rules, test names and application portals change from one hiring year to the next, and we could not confirm this year's details from company documents while writing this guide. So it makes no claim about a current cutoff, a test pattern or a portal.

02How mass recruiters tend to screen

From the guidance we reviewed, large IT-services employers tend to screen first on degree, marks and an online aptitude or coding test, and they look for communication and trainable fundamentals more than deep specialisation. In many drives, then, the test score and the application form do most of the early filtering, and a person reads the resume at the interview. That is common, not universal. Treat it as likely, and do not conclude that the resume does not matter.

The practical conclusion is narrower. The resume must agree with the form you filled in, it must be easy for a parser to read, and it must survive a technical interviewer who picks one line and asks about it.

03Marks come first, so show them early

Put Education directly after a two-line summary and give CGPA or percentage in a form a reader cannot misread: 'CGPA 7.9/10' or '71.5%'. Career sites commonly quote minimums for service companies of around 60% in Class X, Class XII and the degree, or a CGPA of about 6.0 to 6.5. Treat those as reported figures. The official notice is the only authority, and it changes.

If your marks sit below a number you saw online, read the actual notice before assuming you are out. Never round up a mark or alter a year. How to write marks and school lines is covered in CGPA vs percentage and school marks.

04Make the resume agree with the form

Degree, branch, year of passing and every mark must match your marksheets and your application form exactly. Employers check. AuthBridge's report for the first half of FY26 found discrepancies in 4.33% of white-collar background checks overall and misrepresented resumes in 18.8% of IT and ITES cases. Those are one verification firm's figures from its own clients, but they explain why a small mismatch can cost an offer.

05The structure that survives a keyword screen

1. 01

   Summary, then Education

   Two lines of summary, then degree, college, years, CGPA and the Class XII and X lines if the form asks for them.

2. 02

   Skills in grouped lines

   Languages, Core subjects such as data structures, OOP and DBMS, and Tools. Include only what you could answer questions on.

3. 03

   Projects with a stack line

   Two or three projects, each with the stack, a number and an outcome. A deployed link helps.

4. 04

   Certifications that match the work

   Cloud fundamentals, vendor certificates and NPTEL courses, each with issuer, year and tier if there is one. Three to five is enough.

5. 05

   Evidence of communication

   Services employers look for it. Show it with a count: events run, participants, presentations given, a club you led.

06Keywords: take them from the notice, then tell the truth

Read the notice or job description for the skills it names. Where you have a skill, use the notice's own word for it. Where you do not, leave it out. Any line on the page can become an interview question, and many drives include a technical round.

07What to leave out

Leave off the photo, date of birth, father's name and the declaration paragraph. The form collects what the employer needs, and the parser gains nothing from them. The reasoning, and the exceptions, are in what to remove from an Indian resume. Do not paste the company's name or a copied sentence from the notice into your summary either. Sameness is easy to spot.

08Checklist for a campus-drive resume

• One page, one column, standard headings, text-based PDF under 1 MB.
• Degree, branch, year and every mark match your marksheets and the form.
• Skills lines contain only what you could be asked about, and each appears in a project or certificate.
• Projects carry a stack and a number; internships and certifications carry an issuer and a year.
• No photo, date of birth, father's name or declaration.
• You have read the current official notice, not last year's blog post.