Four Things To Avoid While Writing Your Resume

By siliconindia  |   Monday, 03 March 2014, 16:03 IST
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BANGALORE: You may be the perfect fit for a job, but employer is never going to realize that, if he sidelines your resume after a mere glance. Even in this online era and technology advancements, a great resume is still the golden ticket to a successful job hunt.



It’s common knowledge that spelling errors and grammatical mistakes are trash insights. But is there anything else that job seekers are knowingly doing wrong? Well to find what it could be, we have listed out few points that may help you to chalk out a thrash free resume, as reported by Charles Purdy of Boston.com.



Avoid badly formatted Resume



Looks certainly matter! If you want a thrash free resume you should keep few things simple in your resume. Few basic things you have to follow, such as using standard fonts, because it’s very hard to match fonts between Word and HTML. You need to follow the same font throughout the document. Do not use spaces or tabs for formatting a table or aligning text. As much as possible try avoiding fancy table borders because it might not be formatted correctly. And you might end up getting your resume trashed.



“I don’t like it when I receive resumes with funky fonts,” says Mona Abdel-Halim, co-founder of the Web-based resume tool Resunate, he further added, “It is not professional and it makes the resume harder to read.”
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