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5 Resume Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make

Your resume is the most important document in your career. It’s the first thing hiring managers and recruiters see about you, so you have to make sure it’s perfect. It should tell a story about you and sell you as a candidate. If there’s something wrong with your resume, if it’s riddled with errors or doesn’t show what you need it do, hiring managers will hold it against you. They’ll toss out your resume and focus on the rest of the pile. Here are five resume mistakes you can’t afford to make if you want to stand out from the competition and make it to the interview phase.

 

Grammar Mistakes and Typos

These are easy for hiring managers and recruiters to spot, so they’re a good reason for them to toss out your resume. They show that you’re careless or that you don’t care enough to check and double-check. Plus, there is spell check and other apps that check for grammatical mistakes that there’s no reason to have any type of simple mistake.

 

False Information

Double-check everything—from your phone number to your address to your email to the dates of your previous jobs. Whether you did it on purpose or it was simply a careless mistake, it doesn’t paint you in a good light. Even something like putting a job title in your work history that doesn’t match the job description can be verified with minimal effort. It might be when they call to check your references or when they look at the company’s website. And even if it was a careless oversight on your part, to the hiring manager, it might seem like you lied.

 

Having a Generic Resume

One of the most essential rules for crafting the perfect resume is to customize your resume for each job you apply to. If you take the time to tailor your resume to match the job description, it shows that you’re really interested. You put in more effort because you care. Plus, by doing so, you’ll make yourself seem like the perfect fit.

 

Forgetting Skills

Hiring managers want to see your skills, and they want to see what you’ve accomplished, so be sure to include both. They want to know what you’re capable of and what you might be able to do for their organization. List the hard skills and then provide an example of how you applied that skill.

 

Being Vague

They want to hear about your accomplishments, but you need to be specific. When you add in numbers and facts and figures to qualify what you did in your last job, you show the magnitude of your contributions. How valuable were you? If you manage employees, tell how many. If you saved your company money, tell how much. Give a precise number that can be fact-checked.

 

For more tips on composing the perfect resume that will set apart from the competition, contact Pridestaff Thousand Oaks today.

 

 

 

 

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