It’s a first impression – your resume is who you are without ever meeting the recruiter looking to place candidates. So it’s essential whether you’re writing your first resume or revising it for a mid- career job search that you avoid the most common pitfalls.
- Typos and grammatical errors
- Highlighting duties, rather than accomplishments
- Don’t miss the specifics
- Worked with employees in a restaurant.
- Recruited, hired, trained and supervised more than 50 employees in a restaurant with $1 million is annual sales.
- Choose verb actions with care
- Include all information
- Get your contact information correct
Your resume should be grammatically perfect. Employers will instantly see the mistakes and read between the lines to assume your lack of detail or level of commitment to excellence. Alter your resume to be perfect – spelling, punctuation and formatting.
It’s easy to comply list the start and end dates of each job you’ve held- but employers don’t care so much about what you’ve done, but rather what activities/ projects you’ve accomplished.
Outline big projects of events you’ve worked to accomplish. Include details on the scope of work and skills required to complete those. What makes what you did above the rest of those applying? Tell that.
Employers need to understand what you’ve accomplished and how you’re experienced. For example:
Both of these tell the same person, yet one states details, and details matter.
Avoid using the phrases “responsible for”, instead, use action verbs like “resolved”, “developed”, “managed”, etc.
It may seem logical to eliminate odd jobs held while in school or in-between jobs. But those are important too – they show a variety of skills you hold and may directly relate to the position you’ve applied for. Don’t be afraid to list the odd ends of your career path- in come cases, variety is attractive to hiring companies.
What would be the point of submitting a resume if your contact info was incorrect? Your resume may be incredibly strong, but if you can’t be easily contacted, you chances of getting an interview decrease.
