Ifyour resume is a strong, with accomplishment-driven content of your career experience, it can open doors and bring you new opportunities to yourself. But, if your resume is weak, lacks clarity or is boring it can harm your chances of getting a interview. So, regardless if you write your own resume or have it professionally prepared, you'll need to check it over to ensure that you have not committed any of the following No-No's of resume writing.
I. Deception- false information on your resume can and probably will cause you problems and could cost you the job. Lying about job titles, dates of employment, and awards, or inflating results, financial accomplishments, and numbers of employees supervised will catch up with you in the end. Do not falsify college or grad school degrees. If you did not graduate, just indicate the number of credits or years of undergraduate classes you actually attended. More and more companies are doing background checks on prospective employees and they are looking for precisely these types' problems to determine character.
2. Omission - If your resume contains time gaps in full time employment it will raise questions. If you can explain the time away from employment and feel that it would be important for a prospective employer to know this information, include it.
3. Boredom - Resumes are meant to be descriptions of your career experiences and strengths. Long rambling and wordy paragraphs can be confusing and tiresome to read through. Break up the information short statements to highlight your accomplishments and achievements. Use "Action" verbs such as managed, designed, created, defined, delivered, provided, integrated, championed, transformed, and launched to give your resume energy..
4. Not Focused- Recruiters, HR Directors, and Managers want to know what have you accomplished inline with what their job requirements are. A strong resume should highlight the job requirements in skills, experiences and tasks.
5. Unprofessional- Your resume could be the equivalent of career gold, but if it is presented with typographical and grammatical errors, that is the personal image you put forth to the prospective employer. Your best chances for employment opportunities are a resume that is clean, organized, and professional in appearance.
