Two Categories of Bad Resumes
Most poorly written resumes fall into one of two categories. Learn what these categories are so you can keep your resume out of both of them.
Career Blunders: Web Resumes and Identity Theft
Did you know that identity thieves love trash cans, mailboxes, and web resumes too? They dig through your trash and your mailbox, looking for personal information they can use to open credit accounts in your name. And, they use web resumes to glean this same type of information.
Employers Are Most Interested In…
What you have to offer, or what you can bring to the table. That's one reason why your resume needs to be achievement-oriented, rather than responsibility-oriented.
Career Blunders: Resume Lies
According to estimates by human resources professionals, and career services professionals, roughly 40% of job applicants lie on their resume. Since everyone's doing it, resume lies won't hurt your job search, right?
Career Blunders: Refusing to Use Job Titles
On the Free Resume Critique page of our web site, we ask four questions to obtain information that is helpful to us in addressing each candidate's specific concerns and questions, as well as the overall effectiveness of their resume. One of these questions asks what 3 types of jobs you are most interested in, and is essentially asking what your career objectives are.
