Is Your Resume Unintentionally Unprofessional

Is Your Resume Unintentionally UnprofessionalPosted on March 23, 2015February 22, 2019 by Millie Reinhardsen Getting caught up in the hurricane of the job hunt can leave you forgetting to fix any unintentionally unprofessional details in your resume. Unfortunately, hiring managers can spot small blunders from miles away. They hold the potential to crush your chances for an interview. Being aware of what you may be overlooking will help you avoid miscommunicationand missed opportunities.1. Funny or cute or shared emaille accountsIf youre of the millennial generation (roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000), the Internet and email exploded when you were still considered a childso it only makes sense if your first email address welches, well, childish.Failure to upgrade this trusty old email address, whether from stubbornness or negligence, is a sloppy excuse to throw away your chances for an interview. According to Forbes, 31 percent of resumes are automatically dismissed for having an inappropriate email address.If you need to create a new, professional email address, keep it simple and professional.If you have a shared email account, create your own for job searching and related purposes. Responses from recruiters and potential employers can often end up in junk mail folders. And thedanger of important messages being deleted by other users is, well, self-explanatory.2.Failure to proofreadDont always rely on spellcheck Context isnt always consideredby spellcheck, so job seekers may not realize that although a word may be spelled correctly, it may actually be the wrong word.Studies show thata glossing over happens when something is read on a screen rather than on a printed piece of paper. Read your resume aloud or print it out on a hard copy for a quick way to get a fresh take. A new angle can help you find and fix mistakes. Nothing says unprofessional like a misspelling.3.Failure to customize your resumeWhile working as an office assistant, I would occasional ly receive resumes and route them to the appropriate person. Once, I received three resumes from the same candidate applying to three different jobs in the company. Each resume was exactly the same.Failure to customize a resume to each job (even if only applying to jobs within the same company) is downright lazy. Its the difference between a Happy Meal and French fine dining. Which do you think requires more effort?Thankfully, tailoring a resume to a particular job is not as stressful as a French kitchenespecially with the help of online resume tools such asJobscan. Its a great building block to help you select and polish those crucial resume keywords.Resume keywords are the skills and qualifications in your resume that match the skills and qualifications in the original job description. Using the correct resume keywords helps you get past applicant tracking systems(ATS). An ATS is arecruitment software, and they are used by 90 percent of businesses today. They not only sort and sto re resumes, but judge how qualified each resume is based in large part on how many resume keywords it contains.Customizing your resume goes hand in hand with including the most appropriate resume keywords. And the chances of generic resumes appeasing applicant tracking systems and hiring managers alike are slim.4.Everything but the kitchen sinkOnly include what is relevant to the job.On average, hiring managers only spend 6 seconds reviewing each resume, so it is a job seekers task to make sure they present as much relevant information as possible.A good tip is to departure with those resume keywords to make sure that, no matter what other skills and qualifications you provide, you stand a good chance of getting past the applicant tracking system.And remember, that 6 seconds means a hiring manager isnt reading each individual word on your resume. So if you keep information thats not pertinent to a particular role on your resume, you run the risk of a hiring manager seeing that and m issing out on something important.5.Lazy words such as etc. When working to prove your qualifications to potential employers, dont choose etc. or words like it. Instead, focus on being specific.If you feel your experience and skills may not be enough, remember to try phrasing your duties as accomplishments. For exampleDuty Responded to customer tafelgeschirr calls and improved customer satisfaction.AccomplishmentIncreased customer satisfaction rate to 91 percent by shortening call wait times by 2 minutes.Also remember the importance of spelling out acronyms, at least on the first use, so both applicant tracking systems and human hiring managers understand what youre talking about. For example, instead of WWU, say Western Washington University. Instead of just B2C, also use business to consumer.On a resume, nothing says professional like clarity.Facebook Commentswpdevar_comment_1 span,wpdevar_comment_1 iframewidth100% important