Resumes are the start point of our career life. Being the beginning, it has to be ideal. If it is not then you know the consequences. But what leads to rejections is a question. To answer this question, we will learn the top 6 blunders while writing a resume. These blunders occur knowingly or unknowingly and results in a disappointing penalty. Better know the common mistakes and work on it. You just need to keep these points in mind every time you write a resume or while suggesting somebody to write one.
Missing Keywords
Resumes usually lack keywords that can be highlighted by the online job search engines. Keywords make it easy to pick a resume for a particular role. Hence, it is very essential to add keywords in your resume. These keywords could refer to leadership quality which includes words like organized and inspired or for achievements with words achieved, performed and implemented or keywords that reflect the initiatives taken by you and your ability to solve problems.
Bullets Ignored
Would you like to read long passages in a very short span of time? Of course not! Often, candidates ignore to draft the information in short bulleted sentences. Many of them think that more information can be impressive. Unfortunately, it is not. Readers prefer scan-able data to read through. When they are in a haste of selecting capable candidate, they have no time to read every bit of your details and that too when the information is not in bullet points, it becomes tedious to know about you. So bullets are to be triggered on your resume.
Beyond the Length
Resume length normally should not exceed two pages. If it does, you should try to cut it short. It is understandable if you have a long history of work experience. Otherwise, you have no choice other than chopping the length. As mentioned in the above point, candidates do not use bullet points which force them to write lengthy sentences in passages. Your resume should look a brief piece of details.
Silly Typo Errors
Although the spell check option is in-built in the computer system, it cannot correct similar sounding words like right instead of write and other grammatical mistakes. Keep yourself in the shoe of a reader and judge a piece of paper with such silly mistakes. What will be your perception about the person? In my opinion, I would think, if a person fails to write a simple resume, he continues to fail further. Minor mistakes invite major failures. Therefore, read, read and read your resume to pick these errors.
Why "I" always
Do not add "I" in your resume. "I" refers to you and when it is your resume, you are going to write about yourself only. Hence, there is no need to mention "I" before every beginning of a sentence. It sounds very conservative and unprofessional when you are already giving details about yourself and still adding "I"
Unnecessary Details
Avoid writing every detail about yourself. You need to mention appropriate data specific to your job profile. Choose the ones that highlight your chances of getting through the interview. However, the shorter the simpler.
Learning and correcting the above top 6 blunders while writing a resume will help you in bringing the best of you through your resume. So, avoid these blunders and observe the readers finding your resume impressive in the first place.