By Lisa Vaas
Hiring pros share the faux pas they find in real resumes, including wacky e-mail addresses, defunct phone numbers and cookie-cutter templates.
1. Random/cute/shared e-mail accounts
2. Failure to proofread
3. Bikini pictures (or any other kind)
4. Unprofessional voicemail
5. Lazy words, ‛etc.’
6. Cookie-cutter resumes
7. Everything but the kitchen sink
8-13 ad infinitum...
•Listing a spouse as a reference
•Not spelling out the name of an employer or school (“LSU” instead of “Louisiana State University” or “ZDE” instead of “Ziff Davis Enterprise”)
•Not providing a city or state for an employer or school
•Omitting the area code from a phone number for a reference or employer
•Providing only a first name for a supervisor or reference
•Including phone numbers that are no longer in service for references or employers
To the above, the HIT Recruiters would add:
- manipulating the margins and reducing font size to stay within an imaginary page limit
- incorrect use or incorrect spelling of industry buzzwords (ex: HIPPA instead of HIPAA)
- including irrelevant personal details like marital status, names and ages of children, personal interests (reading, jogging, squaredancing, spending time with family...)
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