Warning! Don’t Do This on Your Resume

By COED Staff

Graduation days is slowing approaching so that means it’s time to start fine tuning that resume. We asked some industry professionals to give us a few resume mistakes that you should try to avoid at all costs.

Check them out after the jump!

‘When people have a lot of over-glowing statements about themselves and they seem to self-congratulatory. It seems like they’re covering up something.’
‘ Erik Johnson, senior associate, EYP Architecture and Engineering

‘If someone has been at a job for less than a year and jumped around, I won’t call them.’
‘ Allison Ginsberg, human resources manager, fashion company

‘Not giving any thought to the specific position you’re applying for. Many people put together one resume and send it out to as many people as possible.’
‘ Ed Shen, executive producer, Vault.com

‘On Microsoft Word, full uppercase words are passed over by Spell Check. Word considers them acronyms.’
‘ Bob Casper, director of career services, SUNY-Oswego

‘I like to see order in the construction and consistency in the format, so I don’t like it if someone’s bulleted here but used numbers there, for example.’
‘ David Soranno, program manager, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency