stop perfecting your resume

Written By Ayush Duggal

most people spend hours adjusting fonts and crafting clever headlines for their resumes. getting a perfect linkedin profile feels important. but none of that matters if you cannot do the work.

companies hire people who solve problems, not those who look good on paper. a polished cv is easy to notice, but it fades quickly if there is no substance behind it. in india, a clean resume may stand out for a moment, yet what really matters is the ability to produce results.

polishing is safe. it is work without risk. building skills demands that you try, fail, learn, and improve. that is not easy. so most choose polish over progress.

the difference shows quickly. developers who can build products, marketers who drive real revenue, managers who cut costs and improve systems, salespeople who beat targets, designers who change user behavior—these are people every company needs. their achievements are clear and measurable. everything else is background noise.

instead of spending days on templates and buzzwords, invest in learning from experienced people. create work that others can see and benefit from. build projects employers would pay for. track your impact so you can explain it.

when your skills stand out, your presentation becomes simple. describe what you have done, with evidence. your resume becomes a list of challenges solved. interviews become conversations about your results. your network grows because you deliver real value.

polish will get you noticed for a few seconds. skill will be remembered for years. most people choose the quick comfort of polish. that’s why real skill sets elite performers apart.

Ayush Duggal

Ayush Duggal is the kind of founder who looked at India’s graduate unemployment problem and thought, “What if the real issue isn’t jobs or skills, but the complete lack of believable salespeople?” So he built VerveSchool. A place where the overlooked learn the overlooked skill. Sales. Not the sleazy kind. The kind that actually works. The kind where someone trusts you enough to say yes without hating themselves afterwards.

He teaches people how to sell like they mean it. Not because a script told them to. But because they’ve actually understood what it means to solve a problem for someone who’s barely listening. It’s more psychology than pipeline. More theatre than theory. More “shut up and listen” than “always be closing.”

VerveSchool runs on a Pay After Placement model. Which, let’s be honest, is probably how all education should work. You pay when it works. Not before. Radical, apparently. But only if you're still pretending the current system makes sense.

Ayush is allergic to mediocrity and buzzwords. He prefers late-night coaching calls to keynote speeches. He’d rather get one ambitious underdog to a 7 LPA role than impress a room full of VCs who’ve never had to sell a ₹15,000 course to a broke 24-year-old with a BA pass degree.

He’s read more Osho than MBA textbooks and thinks most “career advice” would make more sense if it came with a warning label. He doesn’t do fake humility. Or fake urgency. Just real people, real growth, and real results.

https://verveschool.com
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