Your Resume (job interview part IV)

Your Resume (job interview part IV)

This may seem like an unimportant thing during an
interview, but this is the sole reason why you may get that
interview so you should be prepared with a well written resume.

You should tailor your resume to highlight the
qualifications, work experience and any education that you’ve
had that best represents the type of work you are applying for.
You should also include any other work experience that you’ve
had, as well as any accomplishments that you have made in your
field.

You may also want to dress up your resume to let it stand
out a bit. A nice border is an elegant way to make your resume
stand out without being a distraction to the information within
it.

Of course there also quite a few things that recruiters
hate to see on resumes as well. Many people do not think that
recruiters really go all the way through a resume, but they
really do. Recruiters have certain pet peeves when it comes to
reading a resume. I’ve included a list of some of the pet peeves
that you should avoid when putting your resume together. These
are the things that recruiters hate to see.

• Hiding or not including vital information on a resume is
like death. A recruiter needs to see all of your important
information without having to search for it.

• Major gaps in your employment history leave a recruiter
wondering about your work ethic. Be prepared to answer
questions if you have such gaps in yours.

• Summaries that are hard to follow and understand are
annoying to recruiters. Keep your summary easy and brief.

• Use easy and simple fonts. Fancy fonts and colors are not
eye catching in the manner that you likely wanted it to be.
Yours will become to how-to on making resume errors.

• Avoid writing your resume as a narrative or in the first or
third person. It is really irritating for a recruiter, and
comes off as arrogant and/or egotistical.

• Pictures and/or graphics on a resume is distracting to a
recruiter. Things like that will likely get your resume
tossed out without a glance.

• Needlessly adding objectives and introductions on your
resume bores recruiters. They know what your objective is,
and your resume is not meant to be a novel.

• Lying or putting misleading information on your resume is a
major no-no. There are always ways for a recruiter to check
up on you and many do, so don’t lie. Getting caught in a
lie on a resume just says that you can’t be trusted.

• Adding unnecessary information on a resume like your
hobbies is completely useless. You should save that section
to describe any accomplishments that you have made in your
field.

• Sending a resume that doesn’t match the type of job that
you are applying for is extremely irritating to a
recruiter. You are wasting their time.

• Using overly long paragraphs in a resume will get yours
tossed aside. It is harder for the recruiter to read and
makes the task take too long.

• Resumes that are more than two pages will not be fully read
by a recruiter. That’s just the way it is.

• Dating the information in your work history in the wrong
order makes your resume harder to follow. (Work history
should be listed with most current jobs at the top)

• Resumes that have too much detail when talking about your
previous duties are a waste of your time. Duties are
generally just sifted through. They are rarely given very
much attention, just enough to give the recruiter an idea
of what you have done in the past.

• Spelling and grammatical errors just proves that you are
not very keen on details.