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12 THINGS TO NEVER PUT ON YOUR RESUME

Too Much Information.
Sensitive Personal Information.
Long Sentences Full of Buzz Words and Commas.
An Objective Section.
The Word "Summary" or Variation Thereof As A Section Header.
The Dates For Education.
More Experience Than The Company Is Asking For.
Pictures, Graphics, Emojis, Fancy Fonts, Watermarks.
An Embedded Cover Letter.
Redundant Usage Of Language and Information.
Abundance Of Acronyms.
Sidebars, tables, columns, bubbles.

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Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew and I'm Scott. This production has meant to provide meaningful support to you to find great careers faster whether you're working or not today on job seekers radio. We're talking about the twelve things not to put on your resume. Resumes are great. They're necessary. We we know we need to use them but I need to keep up with the times. we don't use resumes quite the same way we did ten twenty thirty years ago so it's important that we make sure that we are aware of what is currently not just acceptable but preferred so we wanna talk about a few things that maybe in the past some people have enjoyed using or doing to probably shouldn't at this point and resumes. If you look at the history I think they've only been around since the nineteen sixties. It's relatively new phenomenon in the world of work in the world of human existence right well of course mistake what I know there's lots of change change in that time and there's this new thing called the Internet and applicant tracking software and all these new players are on the scene that are insulating us from the ability to find work often. The things that we create to make things is easier also make things more complicated so we want to give some ideas on some things that maybe we've done in the past that we don't want to do moving forward because we want to make sure that your resumes are the ones that get to the top of the list. We want you in the short pile not the round file exactly and the first thing the number one thing in my estimation and I came up with this list so Scott will just take some credit for I added a little a little bit. Okay is too much information. I can't tell you how many resumes I've seen that are eight nine ten pages long and if you're doing something outside of the sciences that's probably overkill it is over even in the sciences depends on that whole thing right who's even going to understand it. Well and I'm one that my coworkers will tell me all day long how wordy I am. I know that to help with that. I usually have someone else. Look look at my resume to help me edit it down because if I'm repeating things that I don't really realize because I'm trying to get the story just right. Having a second set of is especially when you have a friend or colleague who look at that from your the opposite point of view somebody who only thinks or speaks bullet points is probably going to help you and it had down to the the the information you actually need. You may not be the type this really wordy in that case. He's stretching the information to fit a pager to might be a challenge but this is for those people that are extra wordy or feel like me. They're trying to overwhelm the audience. I've got to make sure I get every little detail exactly because it's important that everybody knows everything that I can do. No it isn't yeah the resume you look. It's a French word and you know French did idea okay resume means summary. It's a summary of your experience is not a catalog of everything when you've ever done right and that actually ties into another point we'll be making later ...