25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé
October 8 by Leon Ho | Uncategorized
CareerBuilder has suggested that there are 25 words that you shouldn’t put in your resume. He referenced book The Elements of Résumé Style and show several examples from it:
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Instead of… “Experience working in fast-paced environment”
Try… “Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night”Instead of… “Excellent written communication skills”
Try… “Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users”
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When I reading job candidates’ resume, I don’t really mind of reading those terms – but it helps a lot to provide some solid achievements. The only with examples that suits the position will be have higher chance to pass onto next round (i.e. phone interview screening or even interview).
25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé – [CareerBuilder via Lebon and Roy]
Update (2005/10/09): Thanks to Roy. This post is reflecting to the original article.
I may be wrong, but it looks like the article you linked was lifted word for word from MSN Career Builder.
Mr. So appears to be a plagiarist, and a copyright infringer.
Other articles on So’s “blog” are exact copies of other sources. Don’t send him any more traffic.
Thanks Roy for the heads up. I have modified the post to reflect the original article in CareerBuilder. I have unlinked Alan So’s, but keeping Lebon’s post which linked to it.
Here are 25 Words That Can Hurt Your Resume’ (or anyone else’s): I have a documented and detailed history of copying word for word from other people’s ideas, articles, and published works and making them my own. (25 words)
25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé
Found this via lifehacker.org. Words that can hurt your resume is in short about that you should give clear examples instead of vague words like hard-working or team player.
Article gives couple examples and then lists 25 worst words. I should probab…
Thanks for making the correction.