Top 12 Resume Mistakes of Every Job Seeker and how to avoid?

Around a calender week prior, I posted my last article (Find your dream job using LinkedIn) on my LinkedIn and my Blog Spot. 

I called attention how anyone can improve their resume. I am featuring probably the most unknown slip-ups that I have found in those resumes to assist you with staying away from them. 

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In today's Article I would like to present you the top 12 most common mistakes that every job seeker does and solution to avoid them too... :-)

Mistakes and Solutions:

1. Legibility:

The information on your resume is crucial, and the capacity for an employing administrator or selection representative to peruse it is similarly as significant. Utilize legitimate text, dimensions and textual styles. Additionally, it's acceptable practice to leave a space before significant areas (Experience, leadership, and so forth) 

2. Sensitive Contents:

Avoid information like your full location and so on (City and State should get the job done). No age, Gender, religion and so on. 

3. Summary / Objective:

I am against synopsis since I don't trust it offers a great deal esteem, and the space could be utilized to feature more effective things  (skills, experience and more). 

However, in the event that you choose to have one, that is fine. Ensure you are utilizing those 2–3 lines, overall quite well. Composing things like "multitasker, cooperative person, communicator, and so forth" are not impactful; instead, showcase those soft skills in your experience.

4. Dates/Company: 

Formatting matters a ton, guarantee every one of your dates are correct adjusted and reliable with a similar format. 

Micromanaging this particular will help you in the background verification during scrutinizing your job application.

5. Graduation date (graduates): 

If you have graduated and are presently working, your experience carries more weight; moving your education data to the lower part of your resume is intellectual practice. 

6. Applicable coursework: 

Take out numbers like I & II — just writing Physics or any subject is fine as is, “Chemistry 1” somewhat sells you short. Take out any “intro” and leave the course, so “Intro to microeconomics = microeconomics.” You can tell the extent or the level of expertise you have during the interview or at a screen.

7. Bullet points: 

This was the most well-known error and presumably the most critical part. Show your result and impact for every bullet point

Talk about what you did, how you did it (including skills involved technical or non technical), and the result/impact. Use numbers to quantify things (impact matters)

8. Action items that begin your bullet points: 

Resume writing is a form of storytelling, and choosing the right words is essential. Google great action verbs to use on your resume and apply those whenever you start a sentence.

Avoid words like working, helped, stayed etc. And look at words in the company of spearheaded, executed and more.

9. Skills section: 

Add your technical skills, software and languages etc. Any soft, skill, “time management, teamwork, etc.” should be implied in your experiences. Back it up.

10. Skills (part 2): 

One common mistake people make is to list a bunch of skills but not include them anywhere in their experiences, projects or leadership section. That is one way to demonstrate that you have those skills and can use them.

11. Format: 

Except you are sending your resume for review, send a PDF / a word document. When you send a doc format, your resume formatting can get distorted depending on the reviewer’s laptop or the doc format they have.

12. Information: 

There is such a thing as way too much on a resume that it becomes tough to read. Your resume should be targeted to specific jobs, not one resume with all your info for every job.

This strategy will help you be more concise, readable and help your resume match a specific job description more closely.