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Looking at resumes for a living, I have seen some very detrimental trends when it comes to resume writing. While many would guess these are complex and hard to change, the mistakes are rather quite simple.
Below, I've listed three very common resume mistakes to avoid as a job seeker.
1. Copying and Pasting Job Descriptions - many resume writers get attached to a single phrase or very similar variation of and decide to spread it through the entire document, thus making the resume seem more robust and well-thought out.
However, this carries the opposite effect and what appears comprehensive to the resume writer, seems lazy and thoughtless of the count of the resume reader. Any HR manager who is interviewing for an important position is going to immediately look for these shortcuts because it is a tell-tale sign of that potential employee cutting corners in the future.
Remedy - alter your wording more using more adjectives, varied descriptions, and if need be, keep your resume shorter. Redundancy prevents dozens of job seekers who apply into our recruiting firm from getting to the our clients daily.
2. Overly Vague - when writing a resume, brainstorm all the important questions that a hiring manager may have about your position using a "Who" "What" "Where" "When" and "Why" model.
If you don't feel that you are an exact fit for a position, don't dumb down your resume using phrases such as "managed others," instead of "lead team of 4 sales representatives (2inside) covering the Southeast region."
Being vague does not get you into an interview, rather it prevents you from getting there in the first place.
Remedy - if you don't have all the qualifications for a job and want to avoid an awkward interview, be upfront about the mismatches on your resume compared to that of the hiring company's job description and briefly describe how you can fill these gaps better than those who may be half way there.
3. Too Much Formatting, Not Enough Content - Resume writing is not a graphic arts contest. Alison Ringo expounds on this point by saying, "your resume should showcase your strengths, not how many bullet point styles you know about."
While everybody should strive to have a well-formatted resume, many job seekers come home from the resume writer with three pages of pretty formatting, but empty content. As a matter of fact, the best job seekers tend to have resumes that are sometimes on the more subtle side rather than overly eye-catching.
Remedy - While there is no reason to strip your resume of its good looks, keep in the mind that too much fluff can go against any job seeker in the same manner that a poorly worded resume can.
Stop focusing so much on what the paper looks like. Rather, focus on the story it tells.
If You're Making an Above Mistake
Don't fret, simply change your resume. Once these changes are implemented, any job seeker in any industry should see a world of difference.
Ken Sundheim runs KAS Placement, an executive staffing firm that Ken started in 2005.
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Ken's articles have appeared in, among many others Forbes, NYTimes, USA Today and more.
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