Recruiters on average look a Resume for just 7.5 seconds before deciding if you get an interview or not. These recruiters are often strapped for time and in a rush to fill an open position so Resume mistakes that slow down that process aren’t going to be received well. So without further delay I present…
28 Resume Mistakes Costing You BIG Time
- Not naming your Resume with some combination of your name and the role title.
- Misspelling your email address.
- Putting a wrong digit in your phone number.
- Sending HR Managers a .pdf version of your Resume.
- Using a generic career objective that sounds like everybody else’s.
- Not emphasizing the skills requested in the job description.
- Failing to include any software or methodology based skills in your Resume.
- Putting skills at the bottom of your Resume.
- Not customizing your Resume for ICR = Industry, Company, Role.
- Failing to put education, training or certifications you haven’t completed yet on your Resume.
- Including your high school graduation date.
- Including your college graduation date (if it’s more than 5 yrs old).
- Having a Resume that’s longer than 2pages (Federal Resumes don’t count).
- Treating a Resume like a CV or vice versa.
- Using job descriptions as your bullet points.
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- Using a photo in your Resume.
- Using paragraphs or 3+ sentence bullet points on your Resume.
- Communicating what you DID rather than what you ACCOMPLISHED.
- Using a black and white Resume instead of leveraging a bit of color.
- Not effectively demonstrating your career progression.
- Not effectively demonstrating industry focus.
- Writing task oriented bullet points rather than ACHIEVEMENT oriented bullet points.
- Using a Resume with unsophisticated formatting.
- Failing to leverage your leadership or volunteer experience.
- Using narrow page margins that push your text to subsequent pages.
- Having page borders on your Resume.
- Writing ‘references available upon request’ on your Resume.
- NOT downloading my free Resume Review Checklist
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