| It is absolutely essential to eliminate the weakest points | | | | misspelled word that is a correctly spelled word that |
| in your resume and cover letters of course. Since | | | | looks similar to the intended word, such as Manager |
| about half of professionals write their own resumes, | | | | and manger. A manger is still a feeding trough for |
| you will become emotionally attached to your work | | | | animals, but looks silly next to the word department in |
| during the creative process just as an oil painter would. | | | | place of a job title. Other common undetectable errors |
| There is one difference though; your resume has to | | | | include proper names, capitalization, phone numbers, |
| impress enough employers to generate the interviews | | | | address numbers, dates and well, anything else with |
| you need to get hired promptly. The penalty for having | | | | numbers. Using the past or present tense correctly, |
| glaring weaknesses on your resume or missing the | | | | number agreement and foreign words for people, |
| mark with your target audience because you do not | | | | places and things usually go unnoticed too. |
| have the ability to think like a hiring manager is an eerily | | | | Also, often missed is popular industry jargon and |
| silent phone. | | | | acronyms used in technical, health care and military |
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| are utterly useless for you. I know this will come as | | | | weeks and wonder why you are still not getting |
| news to some of you, but the spell checking feature in | | | | interviews. I suggest you become proactive and |
| popular word processing programs only catches about | | | | borrow some expertise from someone who will tell |
| half of the errors on your documents. Yes, I did say | | | | you the cold hard truth. You are not revealing a |
| about half of all errors are missed. | | | | weakness here, it is a well accepted fact that 88% of |
| Among the many things it will miss include all of the | | | | all resumes are not effective enough to earn |
| following. Homonyms, these are words that sound the | | | | interviews. Instead, you are merely learning to fish from |
| same but are spelled differently and have different | | | | someone who knows how. Sometimes when you are |
| meanings such as to, two and too or their and there. A | | | | fishing, success is all about using the right bait. |