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Common employer
criticisms of resumés
- Too long, short or condensed
- Poor layout and physical appearance
- Misspellings, bad grammar and wordiness
- Poor punctuation
- Lengthy phrases, sentences and paragraphs
- Too slick, amateurish and “gimmicky”
- Irrelevant information
- Poorly typed and reproduced
- Critical categories missing (i.e., career objective, references)
- Unexplained career history gaps
- Hard to understand or requires too much interpretation
- Does not convey accomplishments
- Does not support objective
- Unclear objective
- Lacks credibility and content
- Too much jargon
Source: High Impact Resumés and Letters by Krannish and Bains
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