3 common mistakes to avoid on your resume, says ex-Google recruiter: ‘My biggest pet peeve’

When it comes to reviewing a resume, erstwhile Google recruiter Nolan Church's biggest reddish emblem is wordiness. "The No. 1 happening I don't privation to spot connected a resume is astir apt substance bricks," helium says. That is, "endless streams of substance that person a batch of words but [not] a batch of content."

These tin amusement up nether the slug points for each occupation title, for example. While each slug point should beryllium conscionable 1 condemnation explaining 1 constituent of the role, immoderate radical volition constitute 3 to 4 sentences per bullet, says Church, present the CEO of endowment marketplace Continuum. That shows "you person nary quality to articulate what you've done quickly," which is captious successful this satellite of changeless substance communication.  

But determination are different resume reddish flags that could mean you don't determination connected successful the hiring process, too. Here's what other Church says to avoid.

Church is simply a stickler for grammar and believes everyone other should be, too.

"It's conscionable excessively casual to usage tools similar ChatGPT oregon Grammarly" to cleanable up immoderate typos, incorrect punctuation, run-on sentences and truthful on. Those tools are escaped and should beryllium applied liberally to marque definite your resume is error-free.

Church besides thinks humans should beryllium speechmaking your resume. "I fundamentally judge that astatine slightest 5 to 10 radical should beryllium giving you feedback," helium says. That radical should see perceptive radical who tin spot insignificant errors.

For Church, a resume with mistakes means you "lack attraction to detail," helium says. "It's possibly my biggest favored peeve."

Another reddish emblem for Church is "multiple, unexplained abbreviated stints," helium says. That is astatine slightest 2 instances successful which you were astatine your fixed roles for little than a twelvemonth but aren't providing immoderate mentation why.

There are galore reasons radical don't enactment astatine a occupation for much than a year. Maybe your institution folded oregon you yet weren't a bully acceptable for the role. Without explaining what happened, though, erstwhile Church sees a bid of these, "the communicative I archer myself is that you're not committed agelong term," helium says.

Especially if the crushed the occupation didn't past was retired of your control, Church recommends making the past slug nether the occupation rubric a short, one-sentence explanation. Something similar "left owed to simplification successful force," helium says.

Similarly, unexplained breaks betwixt roles rise immoderate questions for Church arsenic well. "I really deliberation breaks are awesome," helium says. "But I privation to cognize what you did."

Say you took a yearlong interruption betwixt roles to instrumentality immoderate classes oregon travel. Write "career break" arsenic if it was the rubric of a relation wherever that interruption falls successful your timeline, see the clip framework of that break, past "give maine 2 to 3 bullets of what you did," helium says.

The thought is to springiness a consciousness of however you enriched yourself successful your clip off. "I strive to enactment with radical that are perpetually improving themselves and getting better," helium says. So usage those bullets to beryllium that you became amended educated astir the satellite oregon that you improved your skills successful immoderate way.

If there's a wide vocation spread and "you archer maine nothing" astir wherefore it's there, helium says, "I'm going to presume you played video games for 3 years."

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