Basic salary is the number every other payroll figure is calculated from. Here is what your basic salary percentage actually controls, and why the take-home difference is smaller than you think.
Two offers, both ₹12,00,000. One pays about ₹15,000 more every month. The difference is one line in the annexure, and it is worth understanding before you sign.
A ₹12,00,000 CTC does not pay ₹1,00,000 a month. Here is the full breakup — basic, employer PF, gratuity, employee PF, professional tax and income tax — worked line by line, plus the one rule that makes 12 LPA a genuine sweet spot in the new tax regime.
Ten lakh divided by twelve is ₹83,333. Nobody with a 10 LPA offer has ever seen that number. Here is where the difference goes, line by line.
PDF exported from Word or Google Docs is the safe default today. The old advice to always send .doc is a decade out of date. Here is when Word still wins, what genuinely breaks a parser, and how to name and size the file.
The sidebar template is the most common reason a strong resume scores badly with an ATS. A parser reads across the full page, so your skills get spliced into your job descriptions. Here is the mechanism, the two-minute test, and the fix.
Fifty applications, no replies. Usually it is not the quality of your resume. It is parsing, channel, or experience band. Here is how to work out which one, starting with the check that takes two minutes.
A round-by-round breakdown of Amazon India's SDE-1 fresher hiring process, including the Bar Raiser round and Leadership Principles, with real example questions and 2026 CTC bands.
A step-by-step, repeatable process to tailor your resume to a job description in about 20 minutes — plus what to never change, and how to keep tailoring even when you're applying to 30 roles a week.
A line-by-line breakdown of Basic, HRA, DA, PF, professional tax and TDS on an Indian payslip, with a full worked example on an ₹8 LPA CTC.
The mechanical engineer resume format Indian core recruiters actually screen for — a full worked example, the CAD/CAM tools that get checked, and fresher salary bands sourced from real 2026 data.
Most work-from-home listings aimed at Indian freshers are fake. Here are the five specific red flags that separate genuine remote entry-level jobs from registration-fee and WhatsApp-only scams, plus where the real roles actually are.