Are you making these top 5 resume mistakes?
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
I have reviewed several 100s of resumes. I see people making a lot of mistakes but here are the top 5 that I would recommend you to steer clear of if you want to land an interview:
Don’t write a novel: If you’ve less than 5 years of experience, keep your resume to 1 page. HRs will thank you! Also, don’t go for shortcuts like reducing the font size to an ant size 8. It will do you more harm than good.
Don’t write job responsibilities: Everyone knows the JD of a certain role. The purpose of your resume is to reflect what YOU did in that role! So, make sure you highlight the impact that was created as a by-product of your work! Add your KPIs. Quantify your achievements.
Don’t put the least important stuff as the first bullet point: Don’t have ‘Managed 50 invoices on a daily basis’ as your first point! The bullet points under your work ex should follow descending order of impact. Most important points should be at the top.
Don’t put irrelevant stuff on your resume: If you are applying for a tech sales role, adding your coding projects to the resume is useless and waste of precious space.
Please don’t submit a badly formatted resume: First impressions matter. Make sure that you resume has a consistent font, font size, well defined sections and is symmetrical to look at.
To check if your resume is good or not, do a role reversal.
Think of yourself as the HR. Ask yourself, “Would I select this resume?”
You will be surprised that you will yourself find flaws in your resume if it’s not good enough!
Keep Blooming,
Bani Singh