I've sent out hundreds
of resumes over my career, applying for just about every kind of job. I've
personally reviewed more than 20,000 resumes. And at Google we sometimes get
more than 50,000 resumes in a single week.
I have seen A LOT of
resumes.
Some are brilliant,
most are just ok, many are disasters. The toughest part is that for 15 years,
I've continued to see the same mistakes made again and again by candidates, any
one of which can eliminate them from consideration for a job. What's most
depressing is that I can tell from the resumes that many of these are good,
even great, people. But in a fiercely competitive labor market, hiring managers
don't need to compromise on quality. All it takes is one small mistake and a
manager will reject an otherwise interesting candidate.
I know this is
well-worn ground on LinkedIn, but I'm starting here because -- I promise you --
more than half of you have at least one of these mistakes on your resume. And
I'd much rather see folks win jobs than get passed over.
In the interest of
helping more candidates make it past that first resume screen, here are the
five biggest mistakes I see on resumes.
Mistake 1:
Typos. This one seems obvious, but it happens again and again. A 2013
CareerBuilder survey found that 58% of resumes have typos.
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