October 8th, 2005 in Lifehack

25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé

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”
…

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.

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Roy Jacobsen says on October 9th, 2005 at 1:00 pm

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.
Roy Jacobsen says on October 9th, 2005 at 1:19 pm

Other articles on So’s “blog” are exact copies of other sources. Don’t send him any more traffic.
Leon says on October 9th, 2005 at 2:01 pm

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.
tim says on October 9th, 2005 at 2:26 pm

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)
Roy Jacobsen says on October 9th, 2005 at 11:06 pm

Thanks for making the correction.