The most common reasons for rejecting a resume.
- Spelling errors, typos, and poor grammar [often leads to automatic rejection
- No clear sense of specific accomplishments
- Missing or inaccurate dates [include month and year for employment]
- Missing or inaccurate contact data
- Poor formatting
- Functional rather than chronological arrangement
- Too long for accomplishments
- Long, dense paragraphs
- Inadequate qualifications -- does not match requireds
- Inclusion of irrelevant personal information such as interests or hobbies
- Missing employer information
- Misleading or lying re: qualifications
- Generic, fuzzy, or irrelevant career objectives, goals, and introduction
- Poor font choice or style
- Use of inappropriate or difficult to open digital format such as a ZIP file
- Irrelevant images, graphics, or URLs
- Inadequate summary of skills and accomplishments
- Written in the first or third person
- Unexplained gaps in employment
- Burying important information
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