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.Atleast, I hope not.What s more probable are the subtle things you cando professionally that you don t even realize can slow or stop yourcareer growth.These include such things as screwing up in a job inter-view or gossiping about a coworker.These and other character traits,personality quirks, and dubious workplace habits can place you intoa career pickle very quickly.Let s take a closer look at them.Bad Résumés and Cover LettersStalled careers often get early starts.In fact, some careers can bederailed right out of the gate by bad résumés and poor cover letters.Human resources professionals call them bad first impressions.Theydo so with good reason.The following include some of the most common résumé mis-takes.Learn to avoid them when updating your résumé.It s All About YouEmployers would rather run their businesses than read your résumé.Therefore, yours must quickly answer the question on every employer smind:  What can you do for me? THE CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDE 57The problem with many résumés is that they begin with thepremise,  What can you do for me? Such phrases as  Seeking a posi-tion with potential for career advancement or  Manager looking forposition with more financial opportunities will find a manager scircular file and quickly.A good résumé starts out with the notion that you can help a com-pany rather than that a company should help you.Emphasize early onhow you can contribute to the company s bottom line or how your sales,marketing, and management experience will add to profitability.Generic BlatheringMy idea of hell would be reading résumés that include mundanephrases like  responsibilities included. or  I implemented policiesand procedures. What busy manager wants to read this?It s okay, even advisable, to talk yourself up on your résumé.Thisis why résumés exist in the first place.Instead of tossing banal gener-alities at hiring managers, however, be more specific.Instead of saying I was responsible for shipping and handling, say  I helped increaseproduct turnover by 20 percent and sales by 15 percent in five months.Some hiring managers are going to pound their desks and say, I could use a go-getter like that! But if you insist on sticking togeneric phrases, hiring managers are more likely to say,  I could usesome aspirin instead.Typo TerroristsAye carumba! The Holy Grail of bad résumés is bad spelling.Nothingwill get your résumé deep-sixed faster than spelling the name of the hir-ing manager or the name of the company to which you are applyingwrong.Even general terms like receive ( recieve ) or Bachelor of Arts( Bacheler of Arts ) are easy to misspell if you re not paying attention. 58 THE CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDETo avoid being a typo terrorist, proofread your résumé threetimes: once for accuracy (numbers, dates, city names, etc.), once formissing or extra words, and once more for spelling.Then read itbackward to look for weird spacings or punctuation.Poor PackagingSome résumés resemble wedding invitations more than they do busi-ness correspondence.Two or maybe three fonts with a mix of bold-face and italics and underlines are not uncommon.Worse might bethe résumé with a type so tiny that the hiring manager needs a mag-nifying glass to read it.One friend of mine was bragging about hisgreat résumé that was sure to get management s attention.His strat-egy? He capitalized every word.When I told him his résumé lookedmore like a ransom note or a used car ad, he called me narrow-minded.The last I heard, he was still looking for work.Résumé BlundersBelow are some real résumés chronicled in the July 21, 1997 issue ofFortune magazine that could have made hiring managers both laugh andcry.I can only assume that the applicants didn t make the first interview.1. I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive expe-rience.2. I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheetprogroms.3. Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.4. Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.5. Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.6. Failed bar exam with relatively high grades [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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