But as somebody who has worked in recruitment for many years, I can tell you that this isn’t the case. I’m not saying that it’s okay to litter your resume with spelling errors, but there are much more important things you should be thinking about when writing your resume.
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Even though I believe it’s important to check your resume for typos, in “Spelling mistakes won’t ruin your resume, but these things will” Andrew Fennell lets us know what else to look for outside of typos. Why should we listen to him? He has worked in recruitment for many years. Thankfully he does point out “I’m not saying that it’s okay to litter your resume with spelling errors, but there are much more important things you should be thinking about when writing your resume”. Things I took from this article that I will have in mind when reviewing my curriculum vitae, is his advice to avoid the mistakes: You make your resume too broad; You don’t optimize your resume for easy reading. The one other mistake he mentioned I think I have a slightly better hold on, but these two give me more insight on how to deal with my overall problem with figuring out where I should give more or less detail. For I have the habit of going unnecessarily too in depth where I distract from the main point i'm trying to get at.
Resumes are the most important thing to get someone to be in a good position at a job interview. Before someone even gets the chance to create an impression, the resume is already on the desk of the interviewer and he/she have already created an image, that maybe good or bad, about you.
This is the reason why it is so important to not have easy mistakes on a resume such as spelling mistakes, the interchanging of its with it is, and giving the vibe that you are overpraising yourself.
Spelling mistakes are a big put off for someone who is reading a resume. The person is trying to understand the capabilities of a person he has never seen with a prospect of finding a future employee. The last thing that the person wants to do is to make sense of off spellings to ultimately decipher what the resume says. They wont like that.
The next thing that they wont like is if someone is being cocky or overconfident about their capabilities and their achievements. They want to have humble people in their work areas so that it is easy to work around those people.
Yikes! I've definitely made some of these mistakes. I absolutely need to pay more attention to the jobs I apply for and tailor my resume each time. In the past, I have been guilty of sending out the same resume out for a few very very different job descriptions. My current resumes are also pretty broad, although I feel that has a lot to do with only having a few prior jobs in completely different fields (think score keeper at the JCC vs stage manager at Six Flags). I think my biggest concern right now when it comes to my resume is what to throw out now that I'm in college while maintaining a list of past positions that is full enough. My older resumes are also super focused on listing which is incredibly unhelpful. I need to write out my responsibilities in concise sentences and bullet points so that employers know what kinds of work I am used to. Stage managers can have so many different sets of responsibilities and just saying I stage managed doesn't mean much. Even with score keeping, a pretty standard job, there are different boards and every league keeps track of different things. In short, I've got a lot of work to do.
I completely agree with the points that have been listed in this article. When I first started sending out resumes, I never really understood the importance of tailoring your resume to the job you are applying for. I have met people with different resumes for different jobs and they still create new resumes for a new job they are applying to. This cannot be stressed enough. I also find it very important to do research on the particular job that you are applying to, also research the company that you’re applying to. I never understood the importance of creating designs and logos for resume. I understood the importance of branding yourself but on a resume, that didn’t seem right to me. Different things work for different people so it is refreshing to see that I’m not the only one who thinks along the same lines. Resumes are the first way to get your feet in the door and it is good to make a good first impression.
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