What you should not include in a resume

Do you feel your resume is too long and poorly read? It might be because you still haven’t removed these things from it!

When you face the six-second resume test, you must ensure that your resume carries nothing but the most important and most relevant information about yourself, if you want to pass. Certain things that you include in your resume may prevent the hiring manager from seeing your best qualifications and make your resume look like it is full of fluff.

1. An unprofessional email address

Take a good look at the contact information section of your resume. It is one of the very first things a hiring manager notices about you. What does the email address tell the hiring manager about yourself? Including your fun email address from college days or your current work email is considered highly unprofessional on a resume.

2. Your full physical address

Hiring managers no longer contact you through snail mail to let you know that you’ve been selected for an interview. They either email or call you. Therefore, you don’t need to mention your full physical address on your resume. It takes up a lot of space on your resume and exposes you to unnecessary risks online.

3. Irrelevant social media profiles

It’s a great idea to include links on your resume to make it more interactive for potential employers. However, you need to be careful about where those links lead hiring managers. If the links on your resume lead them to an incomplete LinkedIn profile, outdated social media profiles, or an irrelevant social media profile, you will end up creating a negative first impression with them.

4. A resume objective

Are you one of those job seekers who still add a resume objective statement? Resume objectives were the norm on job applications years ago. However, we consider it redundant to have a whole section dedicated to why you are writing the resume today. Instead, you can add a resume summary statement and add value to the document.

5. Irrelevant personal information

Certain things such as your social security number, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or nationality do not need to be mentioned on your resume. These are personal information that have nothing to do with your professional life. And sometimes, irrelevant personal information on your resume may end up getting you discriminated against in the job market.

6. A headshot

Unless you are applying for a role in modeling, acting, or any other field that requires you to share your physical appearance through your resume, you don’t need to add a headshot to the document. However, if you are applying for a job in certain parts of Europe or Asia, your resume must carry a headshot.

7. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors

Unlike all the before mentioned elements, these are two things that you add to your resume without intention. It is essential that your resume be free of all kinds of errors before you submit it to the employer. Proofread your resume several times manually to get rid of all possible mistakes.

By?Resume Mansion