Seven Sure Ways to Sabotage Your Résumé and Your Job Search in Internet
1. Failing to correct a typo in your résumé. Those who distribute résumés—electronic or otherwise—that contain typos are known as unemployed.
2. Omitting an objective or a summary in your résumé.
3. Lying about either your skills or your experience.
4. Using too many complex words. Write as if you were addressing a class of sixth graders.
5. E-mailing a résumé that arrives garbled because the employer’s program can’t read formatted text or a Web page.
6. Emphasizing your duties rather than your accomplishments.
7. Including salary requirements in your résumé. Don’t do this even if an ad or a job description says it’s mandatory. Employers need employees these days, and they look at all the résumés they receive. You’re much more likely to be ruled out when you include salary requirements than when you don’t.
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