Ten Resume Mistakes That Must Be Avoided

Do you think you know everything about how to get a good job? Your resume is correct but it doesn't end up making companies fall in love? Did you think that with a degree and good references finding a job would be a matter of days? Well no, actually there is something much more important that most job seekers overlook: perfecting your resume and avoiding essential mistakes. 

Today, most job interviews that end in failure have the same cause: unforgivable resume errors that ruin years of study and preparation. Does this mean that we are not prepared to work and that there will be no way to win back new talent recruiters? Of course not, there is a solution for everything and we will help you find it.

A good resume is the first point of contact between a job seeker and recruiters, so if we want to make a good first impression that will make them call us immediately and offer us the job we've always dreamed of, what we'll have to do is this: learn to identify the most common errors in resumes.

Do you want to improve your resume and be irresistible to companies?

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Ten Resume Mistakes That Must Be Avoided

Do not be specific

Many times we believe that by giving the most obvious information our resume will already be correct and will attract recruiters, but it won't. The more details you give about everything you have done so far the better: where you have worked, in what position, for how long, your annual income, etc.

Recruiters love to know everything about their future employees, because this way they will know better if they fit the position they are offering or not and if that person has the experience to take over successfully.

Expression and grammar errors

It is unforgivable that a resume should have a lack of expression or grammar. No recruiter will stop talking to you if he sees that your resume is misspelled, it's too serious a mistake that pays the worst of the penalties.

Use a standard resume for all job offers

Some people think that having a good unique resume is valid to apply for any job offer and any company, but it is just the opposite. Companies want to see that you are interested in their position and that you are focusing your application on what they are looking for. They like to be made to feel special, so if you send them the same resume that you would send to 100 other companies, they will know about it and will not want to hear about you and your possibilities.

Focus on your responsibilities and not on your achievements

One of the most common mistakes made when writing a resume is to fill it with personal achievements, instead of explaining the tasks you performed in each job and what made you essential to each company you worked for. They don't want to see your diplomas with honors, but rather to know in which positions you have managed to work correctly so that they can be clearer about whether you are completely valid for the job they are offering you.

Summarizing too much

There is a false belief that all resumes that have more than one page will be rejected, which is completely wrong and causes many people to suppress their trajectory to get into this requirement. Although it is true, the estimated duration that a resume must have a maximum of two pages, which gives us a very generous margin to be able to explain without abbreviation all our jobs and diplomas.

Do not use action verbs

It is very common to read in the resumes all kinds of descriptions of previous jobs based on this structure:

"Responsible for"

 "Cashier of"

By using such static phrases, we are also making our candidacy static. It is preferable to try to introduce more action verbs to describe our work experiences, for example:

"Developed logistics management programs for the company for 5 years"

"Incorporated new ideas to the marketing team together with his colleagues".

With this structure we will be making our curriculum more dynamic and inevitably more attractive.

To summarize badly

It is clear that in the resumes we will have to summarize a lot of information so that it does not end up becoming an endless and difficult to understand letter. However, many times summarizing our own experience badly makes us lose points and makes recruiters lose interest in us.

Try not to use phrases that are too common and do not say anything, such as: "Motivated professional seeks new challenges". This phrase looks great but deep down it doesn't say anything new or relevant about you.

Companies want details and you show them what you really are through simple words, such as: "Accomplished business manager who has worked on successful international campaigns looking for new opportunities to help them grow".

Don't forget important facts

Sometimes we think that there is work experience that we can suppress and we write only the three or four most important jobs we have had, which is not bad but makes your resume halfway through and those possible skills you acquired in those other jobs are gone.

Visually Saturated

Before you start sending your resume halfway around the world, it would be a good idea to show it to another objective person who could tell you what it looks like: "Too saturated? Does it hurt to look at?

If so, what you'll have to do is sort it out and simplify as much as you can, since there are times when recruiters dismiss a resume because they get dizzy from the amount of data on it as soon as they look at it. Simple but effective, that's the key.

Incorrect contact information

It seems obvious, but you'd be surprised how many times a person has misspelled their phone number or email. It's impossible to get a job if they can't get in touch with you, don't you think?