Spinning Your CV or Resume
February 5, 2011
Top 10 Overused Phrases on Linkedin keeps haunting us. The message traffic on some of the LinkedIn groups whose updates we receive are increasingly job hunt oriented. This communicates interesting messages about what happens when a content-centric group pulls in users who are more interesting in eating than opining about the future of search, content processing, and social media. Imagine that. The most overused phrases, therefore, are becoming an increasingly important part of LinkedIn posts.
One way to do that is to really make your resume stand out. Jessica Holbrook Hernandez is the CEO of Great Resumes Fast and has compiled a list of terms that are overused and only serve to relegate your resume to the “do not call” pile.
“Instead of using these throwaway terms to describe yourself, attempt to outline specific accomplishments.”
Words like innovative, motivated, dynamic, and entrepreneurial are considered fillers and are on 99 percent of all resumes. Though these terms may describe your abilities, it’s best that you make changes to your resume immediately. Great tips, but we have already moved LinkedIn to our C list. Search systems on social services cannot deal effectively with “hire me” spam. The human moderators, once eager to maintain certain groups, seem to have a shorter and shorter half life.
Leslie Radcliffe, February 5, 2011
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