Tips for campus placements

Final year, mails from TPO and frustration, thats what is common to every final student in every college. While it does matter what you have studied in the past few years but still there is a lot of time to patch up your knowledge.
I have been doing TA duties for almost 2 years and almost every student asks this question from me, " How to prepare for the placements?". So here are some tips for the placements.

1. Resume/CV: They say first impression is the last impression. Resume is your first move against the interviewer. It should be crisp, clear and should highlight how you are different from the ones standing outside. Don't put any skill in it unless you actually know it like, don't put Linux as your skill if you barely even turn it on. Take help of Google in this case.
2. Subjects: Data Structures, Algorithms and C these three are the must know. Even if you don't mention them in your resume interviewer is going to ask from them anyway. Apart from these Operating Systems is also important. Most companies focus on OS, they start from definitions and end up asking you code for signaling, pipes etc. A word of advice for people who think they know Computer Networks, please don't mention it explicitly. It is very vast and you will most probably end up not answering most of the questions. So if you are good at CN then don't mention it rather let the interviewer decide whether to ask or not. In this way if he asks normal level question you will be able to answer and that will give you +ve points. Rest its upto you :D.
3. Projects: Add all the projects you have ever done. Whenever interviewer asks about your project throw everything you know at him (don't start bragging though). Its an open ended question. You can even add stuff that is not the part of the project, provided you know it now. He is not gonna check your reports.
4. MOOC: A subject out of the coursework is very helpful. If you can learn a subject, a tool or a new software then its very helpful to set you apart from others. Join a MOOC and earn a certificate. Sites like coursera and edx provide a great platform for online education.

I'll write a post on what books to follow and other Do's and Don'ts. Peace.