Top 20 Things Clients Say They Hate About Resumes

1.   Spelling Errors, Typos and Poor Grammar.

2.  Too Duty Oriented - A resume that reads like a job description and fails to explain what the job seeker's accomplishments were and how they did so

3.  Dates not included or inaccurate dates

4.  Contact Info - none or inaccurate contact info, unprofessional email addresses

5.  Poor formatting - boxes, templates, tables, use of header and footers, etc

6.  Functional Resumes as opposed to writing a Chronological Resume

7.  Long Resumes - too long

8.  Paragraphs - Long Paragraphs instead of Bullet points

9.  Unqualified Candidates - Candidates who apply to positions for which they are unqualified

10.  Personal Info unrelated to job

11.  Employer info not included and/or not telling what industry or product candidate worked in

12.  Lying, misleading (especially in terms of education, dates and inflated titles)

13.  Objectives or Meaningless Introductions

14.  Font Choice - poor font choice or style

15.  Resumes sent as PDF, ZIP files, faxed, web page resumes or mailed - not sent as Word attachment

16. Pictures, Graphics or URL links no client will call up

17.  No easy to follow summary

18.  Resumes written in the 1st or 3rd person

19. Gaps in employment

20.  Burying important info in the resume