Amanda Augustine, a job search and career consultant from The Ladders, wrote a fantastic article titled "16 Things You Should Remove From Your Resume." You can read the full article here.
Writing a good resume is an invaluable skill that cannot be overstated, even in the age of convenient tools such as LinkedIn and Monster.com that make job searching and applying much easier. A solid resume is still a front runner among the key factors that get you hired, and the challenge nowadays is getting your resume past a computer to land in the hands of an actual person. Computers that read resumes are not designed to sift through and process creative content like a human being can, so a resume with a lot of extra fluff on it (pictures, borders, creative fonts, etc.) may not even make it past the first stage. If it does, it then has to pass the human test - and that in itself is a conundrum. Each person who handles your resume has a slightly different standard by which they assess the resume and whether it will progress to the next stage.
There's no hard and fast rule by which resumes are guaranteed to succeed, but there many helpful guidelines that can help direct you as you give your resume a makeover. Augustine offers 16 valuable tips that cover what is generally acceptable to put on a resume (and what you should take off!), what employers want and don't want, and how to make your resume as efficient and effective as possible to land that dream career!
So if you're on the market, go ahead and give Augustine's tips a quick read! Then dust off that old resume and see if you need to make any, ahem, adjustments.
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