Resume Donts
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- Nirvous
Having spent the last week looking over hundreds of resumes, here are some stupid things we have found.
1. Get a real email - dont list or
2. If you worked at a pizza place - dont list shredding cheese as an acomplishment
3. If the job is listed for $55k dont put $90k as a requirement
4. When sending your resume - dont send the one that you copied but forgot to change the name and address.
5. Make sure your phone is not disconnected
6. Your mommy is not a valid referral
- unknown0
it's truely mind boggling how poorly some people write their resumes.
I personally like when people put what high school they graduated from on it.
:P
- SP™0
Thankfully, I haven't needed a resume since about 1998. I hate writing them up.
- zaven0
at university a girl I know once put in the resume her weight and her height as well for apply in a design studio... she didnt get any answer
- Gorbie0
Are you saying someone had the wrong name on their resume?
I've been listening to my boss laugh in his office for two days, reviewing resumes. He said many were just simply comical.
- Nirvous0
Wrong address and phone number.
We called his co-worker who was also job hunting only to find out that he gave his resume to this friend that used the format and never changed the contact info.
- vena0
don't refer to your skillset as "super powers", your url as "secret identity", and client list as, "citizens saved"
it may have sounded like a good idea at the time...
- sandesign0
yes I am a poor sucker who sent off a few resume with the wrong number of a refference. I really hate and suck at resume writing and job hunting
- andre_k0
once i read in someones resume that they can "operate a phone"
wow, thats a good one
- mitsu0
posting high scores in mario bros or double dragon probably won't garner much interest either...
- ********0
ha haa you have to be kidding right Nirvous? that's funny man
- unformatted0
when i use to work at banana republic, ppl would send resumes in with their applications.
one had a 5 page resume.
1. this is a retail store that you don't need a 5 page resume. you should never have a 5 page resume.another put internet explorer as a skill
- unknown0
My company has an accountant position open, advertised in the paper this weekend. As I receive the faxes for the office through a software program (no paper faxes, imagine that...) I've seen a good number of them before forwarding them to HR.
I'm amazed at the amount of spelling errors on a cover sheet. You'd think that for someone applying for an Accounting position that requires attention to detail with numbers, you'd treat words the same way-especially when trying to get a job.
- pr60
Good advice. It sounds common sense but its easy to not pay attention to detail....
anyone have preferance on simple graphics on their resume?
- unknown0
graphics? yah, none. ever.
- Gorbie0
just clean, simple, legible, whizz-bang typography.
- r_gaberz0
thank you very much for the helpful advice.
- BonSeff0
make sure your resume can be read in less than a minute. bare bones. when employers are ripping through the resumes, if they are long winded and too self rightous, the get dumped.
name
contact
port url
experience - under 6 lines of text for each gig
schoolingkeep it simple and you'll get dropped in the keep stack
- davetufts0
"make sure your resume can be read in less than a minute"
Amen!
+ one page (2+ page resumes are my biggest pet peeve)
+ clean type
+ generous margins
+ no vision statement (I am looking for a job where my skillset blah blah blah)
+ no application version numbers. you know Photoshop, not Photoshop 7.0.2
- sexypixel0
also, please dont imbed a photo of yourself with your resume, chances are you will end up on our dartboard. Unless your a hottie, then you'll end up on the back of our toilet door.
Yes, we are shallow.
- georgietexan0
should you also have your resume on your portfolio site? if not I'll go remove mine now..