Top 5 Resume Mistakes That Could Cost You the Job

Sometimes despite your best attempts to capture every detail of the job, roles, responsibilities and achievements, your resume never gets shortlisted. I have been there too. There were times; I have failed to understand why my resume never gets picked by the HR — does it miss the keywords, or does it lack the relevant skillsets?

Maybe it’s not what you ‘haven’t’ captured so far but perhaps what you ‘have’ mentioned on your resume that’s the problem.

I recently conducted a few interviews for a few roles in our team. This allowed me to understand the entire process from an interviewers perspective.

To be honest, due to extremely packed calendars and little notice about the interview, I and my co-interviewer didn’t have enough time to read through every detail on the resumes provided to us. And that made me wonder if all hiring managers would face the same challenge? If not all, most of them would not have the capacity or intent to analyse all resumes that are sent to them.

Anyway, I analysed the resumes post the interviews to do a complete assessment on the candidate and found a few common mistakes in each one of them — something that I thought to share with you.

Here are the top five things that should be removed from a resume.