As someone who spends the majority of their work day reviewing resumes and hiring people I can't emphasize how important it is to proof read, then have someone else check it over as well.
All too often I see people spend way too much time on fancy formatting, only to find the actual content of the resume to be a catastrophe.
Another little pet peeve of mine I notice quite a bit: oddly switching tenses in the middle of a resume. A lot of people tend to describe their old jobs in the past tense, and their current or most recent work in the present. Then that person reuses their resume when they go job hunting again, add some new work experience, but change tenses again without fixing the old one. The whole thing ends up reading rather awkwardly. Better to just stick with past tense for the whole thing.
imnotthatkindoforc108 karma
As someone who spends the majority of their work day reviewing resumes and hiring people I can't emphasize how important it is to proof read, then have someone else check it over as well.
All too often I see people spend way too much time on fancy formatting, only to find the actual content of the resume to be a catastrophe.
Another little pet peeve of mine I notice quite a bit: oddly switching tenses in the middle of a resume. A lot of people tend to describe their old jobs in the past tense, and their current or most recent work in the present. Then that person reuses their resume when they go job hunting again, add some new work experience, but change tenses again without fixing the old one. The whole thing ends up reading rather awkwardly. Better to just stick with past tense for the whole thing.
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