{"id":11404,"date":"2007-09-05T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/09\/05\/how-not-to-put-together-a-resume.html"},"modified":"2007-09-05T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T19:23:38","slug":"how_not_to_put_together_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/how_not_to_put_together_a.html","title":{"rendered":"How not to put together a resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some good advice on the biggest mistakes in in writing your r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/font><\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.<\/li>\n
  2. Opening generic objectives.<\/li>\n
  3. Personal attributes (height, weight, age).<\/li>\n
  4. Interests and hobbies (that have nothing to do with the job).<\/li>\n
  5. Details of every task you’ve ever performed in every job you’ve ever had.<\/li>\n
  6. Excessive bragging.<\/li>\n
  7. Outdated information.<\/li>\n
  8. False information.<\/li>\n
  9. Unexplained gaps in work history.<\/li>\n
  10. A lack of professionalism (pink paper, cutesy fonts, silly e-mail addresses)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As someone who’s gone through a lot of resumes — yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some good advice on the biggest mistakes in in writing your r\u00e9sum\u00e9: Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Opening generic objectives. Personal attributes (height, weight, age). Interests and hobbies (that have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/the-biggest-resume-mistakes.html","url_meta":{"origin":11404,"position":0},"title":"The Biggest Resume Mistakes","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Sep-14 7:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't read nearly as many resumes as Mr Bock (the SVP of HR for Google), but I've read quite a few, and, yeah, this list sounds right:1. 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It starts...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38071,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/resume-patching.html","url_meta":{"origin":11404,"position":3},"title":"Resume patching","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jul-13 3:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Having gone through a lot of resumes (as a hiring manager) in my time, there are some good pieces of advice here. \u00a0You can (indeed, must) be honest while still framing things in a way that is advantageous to the case for your hire.Reshared post from +Lifehacker\"Maybe you've job-hopped, had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/mistakes-were-made-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":11404,"position":4},"title":"Mistakes Were Made (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Nov-15 12:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"So let's assume that the 3000-page explanation of why a \"Doctors without Borders\" hospital in Afghanistan was targeted and destroyed by US forces is, in fact, completely correct. 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