RESUME RED FLAGS

Check Your Spelling

It is simple to explode so much time working on your resume that you stop seeing the text actually on the page. Read your resume from beginning, word for word, and have a good friend do the same if he or she is willing. There is nothing more unprofessional than a typo in a resume.

Check Your Grammar

Be confident to use complete sentences; watch for subject-verb agreement; try to keep away from the passive voice; and avoid wordiness.

Check Your Data

Are the phone numbers on your resume recently used?  Are the people listed as references still working at the organization you list?

Element of having an updated resume is observance these numbers current.

Avoid Being Cute

Unique resumes are sometimes worked. Mostly, however, cute resumes fall flat potential employers, reading hundreds of resumes, like to look at firm elements of a resume for firm types of information. They are busy and aware to time; if your resume confuses them, they will not regard it or you any further. Give them the information where they expect it.

Avoid Buzzwords

Buzzwords in a resume sound nice to the uneducated or inexperienced, but specify foolishness to the well-trained eye. A buzzword, writes Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, is "a most important sounding basically technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen." Avoid the use of the buzzword.

Resume Length

How long should a resume be? At the past stage of one's career a single-page resume is enough to convey the most important experiences of your working history. At some point, when you are recognized in a field, you will switch to a longer resume with more detail about you.

NOW THAT IT'S DONE . . . POSTING A RESUME ON THE INTERNET

Posting your resume on the Internet is an easy process. A number of programs exist to translate your word-based resume to a findable document so you don't waste time mastering the intricacies (though they are relatively easy for anybody who wants to try) of programming in HTML.