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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1990233" data-attributes="member: 812">So I've spent pretty much the entire day reviewing resumes for a couple of positions we have, and my brain is overflowing with all the annoying things people do in their resumes that shoot themselves right in the foot.Like:1. Don't mention the specific position you're applying for in the email subject.Buh-bye. If you don't know what you're applying for, why should I go to the effort of figuring it out?2. Allow grammatical/spelling/usage errors to appear in either your email or your resume.Gee, nice attention to detail, buddy. Maybe you're NOT the sort of person to whom we want to entrust our company's future.3. Include a separate cover letter as an attachment.I'm not even going to read that. Why would I? I'm going straight to your resume. If you've got something to say beyond what's in your resume, put it in the email.4. Opening matter in your resume of a page or so before you get to your work experience.When I see huge long lists of "Languages I Know" or "Technologies" or whatever, I start getting impatient. Tell me what you've DONE, not what you can reasonably claim to KNOW.5. Funky Resume Formatting.My favourite resumes are plain text. They're just so much easier to read.6. Thirty Bullet Points In A RowBullets are meant to be "highlights". At a certain number, highlights cease to be highlights, you know?7. Empty emails.If you just send me an email with an attachment or two and don't even bother saying "Hi", don't be surprised when I don't even bother saying, "Goodbye." I mean, seriously. The one thing you KNOW I'm going to read is the email body itself (unless you didn't mention the specific job in the subject, of course) -- why wouldn't you take advantage of that to try and catch my eye?8. Untargetted submissions.As soon as I start to sense you aren't applying for THIS job in particular, but are just sending your resume out at anything that looks remotely close to your skillset, I stop reading. I've got a hundred resumes from people who want THIS job, I'm not going to waste my time on people who'll take any job they can get.9. Saying stupid things.One guy said, "I don't know the language you're working with specifically, but I learned PHP in two days so I'm sure I'll be able to learn that language in no time." He actually put that in his resume. I mean, that's not an English-as-a-second-language error (which I could forgive the "I have spent 10 years in IT exceeding 15 years" (?) as). That's just stupid.</blockquote>

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