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Real-life resume bloopers

post #1 of 4
3/21/07 at 1:33pm
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What kind of mistakes might cause hiring managers to throw your resume in the trash?

Real-Life Resume Blunders to Avoid
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post #2 of 4
3/21/07 at 1:40pm
My name is Dawn ... and I am a wedge.
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post #3 of 4
3/21/07 at 1:42pm
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I thought this was a pretty good article for just about anybody, whether you want to work inside the home or outside the home.

I know that working in HR, one of the things I have to do is log and sort through resumes to be passed on to my boss or the other managers. They throw things out really fast if they have:

-Typos.

-Handwritten information added at the bottom.

-Things that have been crossed out and written over.

-Things that have liquid paper on them.

-Photocopies of an original resume that have copier streaks on them.

-A really LONG resume. They like it short, sweet, and to the point, but with as much information as possible in that short space. It’s hard to do, I know. The last time we advertised for a position, this guy sent a notebook (literally) full of information about things he’d worked on in the past, and it was just overkill.
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post #4 of 4
3/21/07 at 1:44pm
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The thing that got me was that I didn't realize under the typo thing just what the typos actually were until I read it 4 or 5 times.
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