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professional acquaintances to see my Facebook page either.
• List key personal projects - I ask this in almost every
phone interview I do. "What kind of stuff are you working
on in your free time?" I am always inspired by this. Also
shows me that you have passion for your field beyond your
9-5 (ha, ha, like those even exist anymore).
• Use color and lovely typography
things i wish people would stop doing
• Using MS Word's resume templates - Period.
• Writing resumes in first person - exceptions made for
people who do it cleverly.
• Allowing their resume to be a ridiculous number of pages
- Unless you are a college professor with multiple published
works, you do not need an 8+ page resume. That
is not impressive; that is obnoxious. Condense that bad
boy, s'il vous plait. Also, I do not care that you worked at
Burger King in 1988. I mean, good for you, but no; not
relevant.
• Mixing up first person and third person or present tense
and past tense - Pick a voice, pick a tense, and then stick
with it. I suggest third person and past tense.
• Listing an objective at the top of the resume - Dude, seriously?
This isn't 1992.
• Mailing, faxing, or hand-delivering paper resumes - immediate
disqualification. Do not pass go.
• Sending resumes addressed to the CEO that end up on
my desk unopened - This is a gross generalization here
and exceptions are made for smaller companies, but um,
Ceos don't read resumes — not the first pass. Also see
above re: paper resumes. P.S. We laugh at people who do
this.
• Exaggerating titles and responsibilities — eventually the
truth comes out.
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