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Resume Bloopers
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Formatting your resume so it goes juuuust over 1 page. You killed a tree for that?
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Tabs that go here, there, and everywhere. Use just one or two tab
settings and stick to them.
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Content confusion.
When you apply for
a job, then you want to reflect your desire for such a job in your resume's
career objective statement. Likewise, you want to show that you are a viable
candidate in your resume's work history and skills sections. On a resume sent in
response to an ad for a writing position, the career objective was: "Apply my
special abilities in technology assessment, market research, business
development and commercial licensing in a position of strategic leadership for a
university or science research organization." Now there's a good way to kill
off interest. And the rest of the resume was no better. Though the applicant had
impressive experience, he simply made no effort to use any part of his resume to
distinguish his writing experience.
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Forgetting to turn off the 'track changes' feature. HR might be
impressed that you know how to use this word processing tool. They would be more
impressed if you have remembered to cover your tracks and hide evidence that a
second party reviewed and edited your resume.
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Listing your high school – especially when you completed a
college degree many years ago.
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Using a completely different font than you used in your cover letter.
The hiring manager might start to wonder who wrote what.
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Using lots of different fonts and colors for no good reason – and
there is never a good reason to junk up a resume this way.
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Forgetting to include your name and contact information. Murphy's Law
has a special subsection on the ironclad certainty of resumes getting separated
from cover letters. You need to put your name and contact information on both.
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