Mistake 1: Golden retriever Syndrome

Do not ever talk about yourself in a way that can also describe as a hunting dog, which is shown below;
“Self motivated, hard working and reliable individual.”

A Tired phrase, wasn’t it? It’s a common Language and is found in too many resumes and thus means nothing to a recruiter. Phrases like this could be applied to almost anyone, in fact, even to anyone’s dog. However, if you use the below mentioned phrase, there can be a huge difference, in fact a totally reverse reaction is expected.

“Proven sales accomplishments, customer relation building skills, Ranked in top 3 among 63 sales representatives for 3 straight years, overstepping the sales quotes of 17 of 20 quarters.”
You felt the difference? You must have, as everyone else will do it too.

Mistake 2: Verbal Jungle

When writing anything whether it’s a resume, speech or any other document, you should make a rule to read it out loud once you write every paragraph. This makes sure that you write just the way you speak which helps you in making the same impact as you would when delivering a speech. Below is an example of how a jumbled up language can tick off a reader:

“Directed assembly of elements from business divisions in development, distribution, engineering, program management, and legal to effect proposal responses, contract management and market research.”

You tell me, did you understand what that entire context meant? I can tell you; even if you read it thrice you won’t be able to completely understand what this person is trying to tell about what he is experienced in and what his capabilities are. By putting so many things like this in a series will only confuse a reader and nothing else, thus you can’t expect a positive response from the recruiter. So, you should read out your resume loud in order to make sure that it sounds as good as it is read.

Mistake 3: Negative Nuance

Normally, a wrong word in a sentence can destroy the whole sentence but in a resume, one wrong word will brand you as an unprofessional or careless. Here’s and example of what nuisance a sentence can give to the reader:

“Single handedly tackles the bugs and errors in complex tools and applications and connoisseur in emergent of a new plan…”

You read that! Doesn’t it sound like a wrestler who tells his opponent how aggressive he is? Well, this happened because of the wrong selection of words, in fact a terrible selection of words. For only making an impression that your vocabulary is immense you can not put your resume in jeopardy so you should keep the entire matter of the data simple and understandable.

There is something very benificial that you can do to make your resume as good as the recruiters want. What you need to do is to send your resume to some of your friends, or read it out in front of your family members and ask them if they find any mistakes in it. No matter what there opinions are, note all of them down and then later analyze what common thing all of them pointed out in terms of grammatical, spelling or sentence structure error and so on.

Thus, if you don’t make the above mentioned mistakes, you can come up with a great resume!