Comments on: 6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck

By: How to write a job-winning résumé | RCM 300: Effective Professional Communication

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:22:28 +0000

[...] 6 Words that Make your Resume Suck — I know, unfortunate word-choice in the title of the article, but there’s some good advice here on how to make your résumé stand out. [...]

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Writing Resources | Filmanchor Productions — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:29:04 +0000

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Writing Resources « Filmanchor Productions — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:18:24 +0000

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By: Roni

Roni — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:06:26 +0000

I keep hearing that you need to quantify your resume. However, I am in marketing, not sales and have no access to the numbers. They usually say marketing has no ROI, so how do I get around that?

By: Rob D

Rob D — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:54:01 +0000

Totally agree that these terms are meaningless on resumes, but what about in job postings by companies?

Can you make another post entitled “6 words that make your job description suck”?

Thanks!

By: Spammy robots, connection whores and other LinkedIn criminals | The Passionate Project Manager

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:05:19 +0000

[...] speak English (or French). Stay away from that awful MBA-speak: avoid these boilerplate phrases and these six words that suck. (Guilty as charged: I am still serving my time for this horrible [...]

By: Job hunting resources for Students | City Torch

Job hunting resources for Students | City Torch — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:25:36 +0000

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By: Alfredeaux

Alfredeaux — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:04:11 +0000

So what do you do when what you were “responsible for” doesn’t lend itself to numerical results?

I’m in the legal profession and while the number of cases won might suffice, that’s far from the kind of description of skills and results employers are looking to receive.

Prepared 37 cases for litigation at once? Drafted 42 demand letters in one day?

I really like the post, but finding it hard to use in my particular profession.

By: Farn

Farn — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:57:15 +0000

This isn’t really useful to me since I’ve never had a job before, so I have to be vague about what I did. Giving away that I have no experience is worse than being unclear.

By: clemend

clemend — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:07:35 +0000

Thank you for the information. I’ve read all this article and learned a lot. But this topic about words or phrases that suck is a little contradictory as many of those words are actually listed in the job descriptions and are keywords. Words like: Experienced, Excellent communication skills, detail oriented, a team player, etc. are very common in job descriptions for restaurant servers for instance. Do you recommend to avoid those words in all cases? Thank you again for your information.