What Not to Put On Your Resume

by Susan Dunn


"Should I admit a weakness?” one of my coaching clients asked me. “Something tells me I shouldn’t.”


”Something” was telling her right. Your best tool in writing a good resume, is your intuition, or common sense aka Emotional Intelligence.


Weaknesses
Don’t talk about your weaknesses unless you’re asked. In my years as a Career Counselor for college students, I received fledgling resumes that read “I don’t like people” or “I hate talking on the phone.” On the one hand,  such statements of extremes are rarely true, and on the other hand they are open to gross misinterpretation.

CV Writing... how to write one...

When applying for a job, many employers request that you send in a CV. What is a CV? What is the point? How do you make your CV stand out over the others?A CV stands for curriculum-vitae, a short concise summary which summarizes your skills and experiences in the past. The aim of this document is to demonstrate that you have all the skills (and some complementary ones) necessary to do the job which you are applying for.

How to write a resume (cv)

Found this quite useful for those who wanna make their resume shine.. Here's how to put together a resume that'll impress any employer.