Key Mistakes to Avoid While Writing a Resume

As insurance company recruiters, it is your core duty to guide the job aspirants regarding the mistakes they make while preparing their resumes. Many times, it’s not the candidate, but the resume that stands as a negative factor in not letting you accomplish your dream job. Let’s point out three fatal flaws and find ways to avoid them in order to shift your resume from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the crap:

Typing mistakes and Errors in Grammar

Various talent acquisition firms in the USA marked this mistake as a drastic blunder. Submitting a clean, crisp, informative, honest, and error-free resume is your first priority. If the resume is checked under human recruiters, then small punctuation and a few grammar mistakes can be avoided. However, the same being verified under machines, your typing and grammatical mistakes can't be spared. This creates a negative impression prior to starting any process. Thus, it is advisable to read out your resume aloud personally and verify the things that get missed out. The candidates can also use tools and applications such as Grammarly for checking any kind of mistakes left unnoticed.

Using cheesy buzzwords and avoiding practical terms

When we talk about resumes, we are actually discussing your professional life and you, the candidates, have to carry it seriously and practically. Including cheesy buzzwords, like, ‘Guru’, ‘experts’, ‘Can't do this or that, ‘evangelist’, etc. that show your personality as bossy or arrogant or careless is definitely not going to work in your professional sphere. You are going to interview for a responsible post. You are not a rockstar or number-cruncher. Though, you need to be creative and use trendy tactics that attract the mass to produce results-driven synergies. And you have to prove this by action, not by boasting. Thus, it is suggested to stick to practical verbs that are necessary to demonstrate your proven success. Don’t claim leadership without having a definite leadership position in your job history. Apply low-key strategies to create a meaningful impact.

Making the resume lengthy and bulky

Numerous employment agencies in the USA have urged candidates to produce an informative, short, and to-the-point resume for their relevant job application. A hiring manager has to go through infinite numbers of job applications and he/she can barely invest 6-7 seconds in scanning a resume. Thus, include the positive stuff and cut off the bluffs to avoid them being bulky. Too much information or too long a resume proves successful in losing the charm of your experience and qualities. Thus, try to make it as short as possible. Eliminate the usage of unnecessary or extra adjectives to highlight your skills. It is better to re-check your resume and take out the redundancies. And if, you have performed the same function in different organizations, rephrase the information in different verbiage making it short and effective.

Always keep in mind that it’s your resume that puts the first impression on the recruiters as well as the hirers and estimates your potential. And, when the hirers do it in a biased-free, fairer way, it’s the technology that will emboss your first outlook and thus, human errors can’t be avoided.