Outdated Resume Tactics

Outdated Resume Tactics Job seekers â€" 1990 called and wants its resume back! If you include any of the following items in your resume it is going to look like it belongs in a different century: Objective: This old-fashioned introduction likely wont help your cause. As the CEO of the top recruiting firm Korn Ferry puts it: “The chances of you being on the mark are one in a hundred. Your objective will either be too low or too high. I don’t care what your objective is; I care what you’re going to do for me. Task-Heavy Content: Enough of the copying and pasting of job descriptions people. These tell and don’t sell. Share proof of your claims and focus on results instead. “References Available Upon Request”: Assumed. Space waster. That is all. Full Mailing Address: Mailing addresses on a resume are less and less common and rarely required. However, a location (city, state/province, zip/postal code) is still recommended for screening purposes. Times New Roman Font: Refresh the resume’s look by modernizing font selection. Some favs: Calibri, Cambria, and Candara. What else makes a resume stick out like a sore thumb in all the wrong ways?! Read some of these other resume reminders from HR pros, recruiters, and career experts from a recent LinkedIn post: If your resume reeks of the 1990s, you will come off as stodgy and old fashioned. Thats a real issue especially if you are 50+ and potentially facing age discrimination anyway. Even if the content is great, appearance counts. Your resume should not look like a MS Word 97 template. You want your resume to stand out, so be sure to update your formatting to something (anything) more modern. Take off your mailing address and add a customized LinkedIn URL instead! Trying to squeeze 10+ years of work experience onto just 1 page. Ensure experience is limited to more current roles. No point mentioning experiences that happened 20 years ago. Ill add one: 2 telephone numbers! In 1990 you needed to put home and work numbers not anymore :)