During one of my job seeking workshops, the class went through series resumes and evaluated what we liked and didn’t like about the resumes. The following are some observations

Things that people like:

–        Easy to see and peruse.

–        Put your name at the bottom of the page in case page 1 and to get separated

–        Short and sweet or less is more.

–        Nice formatting

–        Eye appealing and well formatted.

–        Concise

–        easy to consume

–        Bolded. Wow statements that told reviewer, but to concentrate on.

–        Use words well.

Things that people didn’t like:

–        Resume lacks specifics and just speaks too much generalization.

–        Lacks well statements.

–        Has no summary statement.

–        Lacks detail.

–        Lacks a job description

–        hard to point out key points

–        too much information crowded together, making it hard to read and not enough stand out

–        do more than job duties

–        resume lacks focus

–        typos, grammar and equal paraphrasing

Do you have something to add about resumes that helped you in your job search? Please share in the comment section of this blog.