11 Things To Avoid When Writing Your Resume

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Come to think of it, when applying for a job, everything pretty much boils down to one sheet of paper: your resume. Before you get an interview or get to prepare how to dress up for one, you have to submit a resume that’ll catch a prospective employer’s attention. Just make sure that what catches his or her attention is how impressive your resume is, and not these mistakes, which you must avoid at all cost, that guarantee your resume a trip to the trash bin:

1. Generic-sounding objectives

If you say vague things …

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6 Basic Job Interview Dress-Up Tips

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Whether we like it or not, appearance is of the utmost importance during job interviews. A person may be the most qualified person for a job, but if he shows up at the job interview wearing a Nirvana t-shirt and a pair of ripped jeans, chances are he’ll turn the interviewer off, and that will lessen his chances of getting hired, despite his glowing resume.

Job interviews, after all, are basically about first impressions, and the way a person looks becomes the first in a long list of first impressions as soon as the applicant walks through the interviewer’s door. And …

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