Remove These From Your Resume! - Tips On How To Write An Effective Resume

Remove These From Your Resume! - Tips On How To Write An Effective Resume. If you're wondering how to write a great resume, you want to avoid these 17 mistakes on your CV or resume. In general, I would avoid resume templates that you find on Canva, etc, because I notice many of these resume format issues. Examples of issues included!

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[tobiasthederp]

I was in the final round of the interview process for a Management Consultant. They did a background and saw my credit report… due to a divorce, my credit was ruined. I was denied the job. This should be illegal for any job that isn’t a government level clearance position or banking.

[commanderz]

Video Summary:

1) Avoid bright colors, infographics, or clipart.
2) Avoid columns (will mess up ATS parsing).
3) Avoid photos/headshots.
4) Avoid personal identifiers (anything that identifies certain characteristics a recruiter could use to screen you out).
5) Avoid unprofessional email addresses.
6) Avoid full home addresses (city and state are okay).
7) Avoid irrelevant work history (anything 10+ years old).
8) Avoid industry-specific jargon.
9) Avoid giving too much detail about your education, the basics are enough.
10) Avoid listing references or “references available upon request”.
11) AVOID SALARY HISTORY!
12) Avoid mentioning standard skills like Microsoft office (excel, word, etc) or leadership.
13) Avoid cliches like “quick learner” or “team player”.

[xfiles]

The sad truth is that HR people are lazy. Rather than read resume's they simply scan them and have software search for key words. The more key words that match up the higher you are ranked. In this way the HR people can quickly get through a stack of resumes and get back to playing solitaire. A former HR executive told me this fact and recommended that every resume you send should be tailored for the job. Scour the job description and put as many key words from the job description into your resume. One targeted resume like that is worth a thousand generic resumes blanketing a metro area.

[Carepedoit]

For what it’s worth, I’ve been told by two recent recruiters to absolutely list Microsoft Word, Excel, etc., because the system will kick it out if you don’t. Just saying, that’s what I was told.😊

[BenWeeks-ca]

Designer here. Graphics are for your portfolio. Keeping your resume functional with good typography is advisable.

[slimtodress]

I was hired to one of my best jobs was the hobbies section. I recall contemplating leaving it out 😅 My boss later told me how he scrolled through hundreds of similar resumes and got very interested in a person who was reading Ancient Greek and Russian literature, studied astronomy and loved hockey.

[xA]

Applicant Tracking Systems are the bane of job seekers.

[franklinmartin]

The best way to get hired is to have a friend or acquaintance already working for the company you want to work for. That person can act as your champion to get the management to look over your resume in more detail. Most resumes are scanned by software for key words others are briefly looked over by some HR intern and that person is so bored that their eyes are glossed over. You can continue to listen to these scam artists and even pay them, but having someone on the inside IS almost priceless and will up your chance significantly in getting an in face interview. Don't forget when you do get hired in to help some other acquaintance to get a job also. So do some networking discreetly.

[jygug]

What I find strange is that an internship is not counted as work experience even though that's literally what they are meant for. How does that work exactly?

[BUTGOD-jx]

Man, you educated me more in 14 minutes on resume writing than unemployment offices have done in weeks of "professional resume writing" classes. Thank you. I got my present gig(highest paying ever) using your techniques.

[holl]

As someone with a degree, an unimpressive internship, who is two years out of school, and has no experience in my field, applying is daunting. I hope my food service experience doesn’t hinder me from being hired, it’s all I’ve got.

[TheGramophoneGirl]

The part at 3:00 on columns is very important. I had a really fancy resume that was laid out in columns. It looked amazing, but I was just not getting any response from it. Turns out the automated sifting programs were only reading the first column and not the next one that had all the relevant information!! When I removed the columns I started to hear back from employers again.

So do be careful using columns in a resume. I learnt that the hard way.

[chibiktsn]

I’m a graphic designer, a profession which requires more creative resumes, and your note on the “3/10 star skills” is bang on. It’s fairly common with creative professionals, but I’ve heard from people in hiring positions that they don’t care about those because they’re YOUR estimations of how you’d doing. Like, you give yourself 4/5 stars for Photoshop knowledge, but what does 5 mean to you? It’s arbitrary and subjective, which isn’t extremely helpful.

[Babaganouj]

I agree with most of this but the bigger issue is that a lot of companies are accepting your resume on a website and there they ask all the questions to say to avoid like full address or your minor in college. My biggest pet peeve is forcing me remember dates, to the day, for a job duration. The month shouldn't even matter. Are people staying that short at a job that the month duration is making a difference?

[hdmaragh]

I broke the first few rules you mentioned. My resume was colorful, had infographics, included a pic of myself, had multiple columns. . . I have since changed it (especially since I have experiences and updates to make). . .but my first resume got me way more attention and way more interviews (the only time I've had interviews in my life) than when I removed those elements. I thought it was just because of timing, but I just sent out my old colorful resume, and it started getting responses. For my next test though, I'm going to find ways to have my sections stand out without the colors, because part of me suspects that it's not the colors or fonts that are doing the work, but the fact that it did a good job calling attention to the different highlighted elements, where my new one may not provide so much.

[SciaticaDrums]

Keep an email account dedicated to job searching. Don't use it for anything else. I totally agree there!

[lmusima]

One of the things I heard you should never put down is working for an MLM like Amway, Monat or Avon. On another channel an employment manager said how she rejects applications made by people who worked for these companies claiming they were CEOs. The people who get recruited into these pyramid schemes claim they’re business owners, when they’re really independent unpaid customers. So in reality, to employers it’s considered an employment gap.

[cxa]

I disagree with omitting industry specific jargon - only in that if you are applying for jobs in the same industry then it may be very useful. I am in an industry that is heavily regulated and idiosyncratic - I use our industry specific jargon because it highlights certain skills I have or certain technologies I have worked with. However, I only do this when I apply for jobs in my industry because I know anyone on that actual team or within the actual department will be more interested in my resume when it says I have worked with the implementation of XYZ technology.

[ajs]

This is great general advice. However, I'd add that it's best for applicants to know the industry to which they're applying. In my field, for example, things are very conservative and old school. Hiring managers and search committees (yes, we still have search committees) will expect to see a resume with ALL prior experience since graduating from college--even if that's 30 or 40 years. The same goes for degrees--they want all degrees listed with their major focus, if any. In fact, I've seen some TAM systems set up to require all job entries going back to the first employer. While this may not be the mainstream, it does exist in certain groups, so know your audience and write accordingly.

[Darrylizer]

Exactly. I was a graphic designer for over twenty years, never put graphics in the resume itself. I also got dinged regarding columns and resume parsing systems. Keep it simple. Great advice!