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50 bad resume tips

1. Take a photo with a pink pony

Now you will not surprise anyone with an ordinary photo in a shirt on a white or gray background.

Come up with an original idea. Here are some examples:

    A photo with mom - it will immediately make it clear that you have a reliable rear and there will be someone to wake up to work.
    Photos on the beach - you make good money, you can afford to relax, you need to pay a good salary.
    Photo from the graduation - you have a higher education.
    Photo with someone cropped to the “passport option” - let the recruiter rack his brains now, who did you cut off there.
    Photo with a pink pony - you have a fantasy and a creative approach.

2. Write a 10-page resume

Wimps get blown away quickly and make a two-page resume. Show that you are a strong personality, capable of describing your experience as an office manager on 10 pages. If you don’t have any ideas, just copy a piece of text from the book “Anna Karenina”, still no one will read what is there after the first page, but you will leave the impression of a thorough person.

Alternatively, translate the resume into different languages ​​and paste into one file. Indent wider, double spacing between lines, 16th font size. Improvise! Do it! Come true!
3. Do not indicate phone numbers

List your referrers without their phones, let the recruiter be smart and find their contacts himself. Otherwise, why does he get paid?
4. Do not forget the exact home address

Write your address with the number of the house, apartment, entrance and entrance code. Write the floor number and, just in case, the names of the neighbors. God forbid the phone goes to the recruiter and he personally goes to invite you for an interview, and you did not give clear instructions on where to look for you. Indicate the address of your grandmother as a spare, what if you eat pies from her?
5. Mention the zodiac sign

This must be indicated. You know that not all zodiac signs are compatible with each other and every normal recruiter is simply obliged to check you for compatibility with the boss and the team. Just in case, copy your forecast for the next year in the resume, if you have plans to make achievements there, let the recruiter see what benefits you can bring to the company.
6. Put a password on the file

Put the password on the file, and specify the password in the letter, you can even in the form of a rebus. A recruiter will appreciate how you care about data privacy.
7. Archive

Why take up extra space in a recruiter’s mail? What if he only has 5 KB left? A good archiver to help you. I recommend the EXE format - in case the recruiter does not know how to use archivers (and they are all stupid there, right?).
8. Save in ODT format

Show that you do not use a pirated office suite, save the file in the format of free Open Office. And what if the recruiter’s company also has non-pirated software, but don’t have money for a licensed “office” yet?
9. Copy the job description into the resume

Listen, why do you need to bother at all if smart people wrote everything in your job description for a long time? Just copy it. A recruiter will come in handy: what if he does not have a job description for the position for which you are looking for? And then your invaluable help arrived in time!

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