Years of experience
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- NotByHand0
I've hired many people over the years, and these are the main two things that really rubs me wrong (even though you'll see it frequently with people right out of school):
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* The 'Jack of all trades' approach. Saying you can do pretty much 'everything'. As a rule of thumb, that means you can do nothing.
* Trying to make it sound like you've done more and bigger things you actually have. This thing can only really go one of two ways: either it becomes clear that you actually didn't have those experiences or that big of a part in them, in which case it's painfully clear that you were trying to 'embellish' your resume. Or you have to go all out, and completely fabricate things and be dishonest about it. Which usually doesn't work out favorably in the long run either.
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