Common Mistakes to Avoid on Your Resume

Saying YES to the mess

An unprofessional resume screams SKIP! Remember to keep it sleek and professional with proper highlighting, bullets, and minimal colours. Don’t make it fancy or too simple, don’t use any kind of word or sentence, which will look like a command or too unprofessional, make it professional.
Ensure that it isn’t too busy, too colourful or has illegible fancy font styles.

Check out my posts, ‘Tools to enhance your resume’ for more on this.

Not linking your portfolios, and recommendation

One of the most common mistakes that are made while creating a holistic resume is not providing links to these. Ensure you add a hyperlink to your port folio and recommendation. Also, ensure it is accessible to the employer to view!
Recommendations are like a golden star on your resume. Keep it short, but do provide a contact that they can reach out to, for verification.
Never forgot to add this!!

Not highlighting well enough

Sure, we did tell you what to highlight. But what do you not highlight? Unnecessary minor details, especially in a stretched – out manner. Just add what is important, that will make it look good but if you add small things, it will make your resume look bad. So just remember that you have added things which are important and don’t make it too long.
Use action verbs to describe your daily responsibilities and experience.

Sorry, they can’t come to the phone right now

Why? Because they listed an incorrect contact details on their resume or didn’t list one at all.
So many times we never check our personal information and because of this even if you got the job you will miss it.
Be careful to double and triple check your contact information. E-mail addresses and phone numbers should be highlighted for easier identification.

Too long to read

Keep it short. Your ideal resume should not exceed 2 pages. Employers usually have to go through several resumes in a single day. A super lengthy resume, just make it easier for them to glance and skip.
Make it effective and short.

Grammatical or spelling error

Not only is it extremely unprofessional, but it also implies to the employer that you are not very interested in the position. Use tools like Grammarly to run spelling and grammar checks. Additionally, you could also run it by a friend, just in case you missed something. It’s that easy!

TOOLS TO HELP ENHANCE YOUR RESUME

1. KICKRESUME

Kickresume is a resume builder tool that lets you choose from pre- designed resume and cover letter templates. Kickresume is by far the most easy to use and effective resume website which will help to make your resume look more elegant, well designed and impressive. Kickresume gives you amillion design combinations to improve your resume. Whether you are nurse or an engineer it doesn’t matter with kickresume your resume will always stand out.

“Being a college student who is transitioning to the work life, I consider Kickresume the most helpful tool available. It is very user-friendly with a variety of designs tailored to your personal preferences and profession. It doesn’t get any better than this!!!“

It offers templates for various professional arenas. Simply choose your profession and further customize it according to your needs!

2. READABLE

While creating your resume it is extremely necessary to view it from an employer’s perspective. Is the format clear? Does it hold attention? Is it easy to read and understand? Readable can help. The tools scores your content based on various aspect such as sentence construction, structure and more!

Readability is about making content clear and easy to understand for the largest audience possible. Focusing on readability increases the chance that your target audience will actually read and interact with the content you publish. For this reason, readability should be a natural part of your content management.

3. CANVA

Of course, you’ve heard of Canva choose from a plethora of templates to add that touch of finesse to your own resume. Customize your resume by changing elements, colour, and style. While it can be a lot of fun customizing your resume remember to it professional, sleek, and clean.

4. GRAMMERLY

Yes, this tool is nothing short of a lifesaver when it comes to assignments. But guess what? You can also use Grammarly to create grammatically flawless application and resumes. it will make sure that everything you type is effective and mistake-free, it will help you write mistake-free in not only resume but also in Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other app you use. Even the text messages also!

It also check the tone of your application, making it suitable for professional and formal use . No silly spelling errors anymore, yay!

Grammarly isn’t just a safety net. You’ll get detailed explanations for all your mistakes to help you avoid making them again in the future.

Career choices and obstacles

Abstract

We all learn to get work. Learning is different according to our needs and interest in our careers. We set the objective, make goals and identify the obstacles. Sometimes obstacles change our choices and interests too.

Keyword

Career, obstacles.

Introduction

Career can be defined as the process in which we learn certain skills to get the job/ work. Choosing a career is not an easy task. An individual needs to set goals, objectives and schedule their whole life according to that aim. Career helps and individual to earn wealth, name and fame. Because of this reason people want to choose the high profile ranking job.

In India parents help their children to settle their career- by providing funds for their business or by providing education and qualification till the higher studies. Parents want their children to attain the high position in society. According to them – only some jobs have respect in society- engineer, doctors, lawyer and teacher.

The work culture are as

Gold or white collar jobs- doctor, surgeon, engineer lawyer.

Green collar job- They related to the environmental sector

Red collar job – government services

Pink collar job- EnterConclusion

Black collar job- worker

This working culture divide the people and classifies them from a high job profile to a low job profile.

The career choices are divided not only on the basis of what the child wants, but also what their parents and society require.

The obstacles are stated from here when the parents ask the child to learn more so they get a good job as a career.

Obstacles children face to choose their career.

Family : Family is a supportive pillar for an individual. They provide their best to the child but the actual thing they forget to give is freedom to choose their career on their own. Somewhere, the male child is pressured to become an engineer , doctor or any job related to white collar job. The female child would do some non technical courses. This thinking of family becomes an obstacles for an individual to choose their career option.

Division of work : As above we discussed how the collar colour described the nature of the job. Parents prefer that their children go with white collar or pink collar jobs. Because the job consists of fame and wealth. So the division of work becomes an obstacle to choosing a career.

Potential of an individual: Every individual has their own potential to gain knowledge. Some are really good at writing work, others are good at designing. When we as parents want to take out that potential, we forget that what the child innates is his/ her self. It is important to analyse the real potential of an individual. When we can’t do that it becomes an obstacle to choosing a career.

Lack of Motivation: sometimes an individual has enough potential knowledge and skills to do a particular job. But due to lack of motivation, they don’t want to do that work. They thought that what if they failed. They are afraid of society and don’t want to laugh. And the obstacles can affect their career choosing process. So it is important to give motivation to your child if they have any special talent in themselves.

These are some of the obstacles which impact on an individual to choose their career. There are many others but they are major.

Conclusion

Family plays an important role in choosing a career for an individual. As the family member we should be supportive and try to remove obstacles , so they can choose their career according to their interests and not under any pressure.

References

https://klcampbell.com/complete-collar-colors-understanding-consumer-personas/

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/obstacles-changing-careers/