Hiring managers receive numerous resumes for each opening and pass judgement within 6 to 10 seconds. So how can you make sure your resume doesn’t end in the stack of “no’s”? Here are 25 things that do NOT belong on your resume.
1. Objective
2. Irrelevant work history
3. Personal information
4. Hobbies
5. Age
6. Too much information/text
7. Time previously taken off
8. Your References
9. Personal Pronouns
10. Writing about past jobs in present tense
11. Unprofessional Email addresses
12. Unnecessary/obvious words and labels (eg. ?Phone” and “address”)
13.Contact information for current place of work
14. Your Boss’s name
15. Terms exclusive to your current company
16. Un-related social media links
17. Salary information
18. Outdated fonts
19. Crazy fonts
20. Buzzwords (eg. “team player”)
21. Reasons for leaving previous positions
22. GPA
23. Photos
24. Opinions versus facts
25. short-term or Part-time jobs
Visit the article for a more in-depth explanation of why these things don’t belong and some options on how to avoid them.
Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/never-put-these-things-on-your-resume-2015-7
