This presentation is intended to educate prospective job seekers on the best way of crafting their resumes and increasing their chances of getting invited for interviews.
1. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
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2. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
● Ninety- five percent of job seekers however submit to hiring managers resumes
that are replete with errors and mistakes therefore becoming barriers to their
being shortlisted for interviews.
● They hardly bother to go over their resumes to find out whether there are errors
before submitting them.
● This is why such CV do not command a second look from hiring managers other
than the initial consideration.
● A resume that will command a second look and and consequently be considered
worthy of invitation for an interview must therefore be devoid of errors and
mistakes.
3. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
1. Improper research on self and the company putting job on
offer:
● Research makes you the employment seeker identify those skills, attitude and
accomplishments which otherwise might have been hidden.
● With proper research the job hunter will be able to identify those needs of the
company putting the job on offer that otherwise might have been hidden.
● Matching the job seeker's skills, attitude and accomplishments with the needs of
the job on offer and crafting appealing curriculum vitae that will win you an
interview then becomes easier.
4. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
2. Provision of improper and inadequate information:
● This is another vital mistake employment seekers often make that prevent them
from writing an attention grabbing professional resume.
● Most job hunters concentrate on providing information on their personal details
like date of birth, address, colleges attended, job history and the like leaving out
what the employer actually needs.
● The employer however is only interested in the value and benefits you can bring to
his company and nothing more.
● Any information outside these is inadequate and consequently worthless.
5. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
3. Structural mistakes:
● Nine out of ten resumes being considered for short listing by any recruiter are
filled with structural errors.
● They are often filled with mistakes such as grammatical, fond size, fond type,
balancing between white space and resume etc.
● Research has shown that recruiters spend less than ten seconds skimming through
a resume because of these errors which often eases their task.
● Avoiding these mistakes therefore make your CV more appealing and
consequently enhances your chances of invitation for interview which is the
objective of your resume.
6. What Mistakes to Avoid in Writing
Your Resume
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