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Ditch this phrase, and let your actions and your experience speak for themselves. magazine reports that in a survey of HR managers and employers by, this term comes is as the number one phrase not to use on a résumé. BEST OF BREEDīest of breed © Quinn Dombrowski (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickrĭon't. Allow your experience and skills to speak for themselves, and then you can dazzle (or annoy) the interviewer when you come in. This is a subjective description, and it won't cause an employer to stand up and take notice. They may instead just laugh at you and delete your résumé. If you mention your "sparkling personality" on your résumé, nobody's going to take your word for it. Besides, this is an anachronistic phrase as it is - 1995 called, and they want your résumé back. Who isn't? And if you're not, perhaps you shouldn't be applying for a job at all. Going for goal © Thomas Leth-Olsen (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr Of course, this shouldn't prevent them from bringing you in if you're qualified, but why add fluff just to make yourself look like a well-rounded person? 7. That's great that you enjoy hiking and building model airplanes, but does a potential employer really need to know that for an accounting position? Perhaps the person looking at your résumé was once bitten by a snake on a hike or was hit in the head with a toy airplane as a kid. Hobby store sign © Keith Cooper (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr But we bet that you do have more to offer in that extra space. Expand your job skills (or use double spaces and pull in the margins of the paper) if you don't have much to put down on a document. And putting an objective at the top indicates you have room on your résumé and you needed filler.

Few people apply for jobs just because they want to only have this particular position for the rest of their life. In an article entitled "14 Fatal Résumé Mistakes," says it simply: "Lose the objective statement." Nobody cares that you eventually want to run your own business and rule the world. Mobile Objective © sheldonschwartz (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr Instead, this term may distract the hiring person from the more important matters - that you do in fact have the necessary skills for the job. It's par for the course but nothing that needs to be highlighted in a résumé. Or even if you are, don't you have other skills that are more worthy of the precious space on your résumé? During the interview process, the employer will evaluate if you're "getting" what's being said and will look to your references to see if you can get up to speed or if you move at a snail's pace. If you have to say this, you probably aren't. Week #32 -In Motion © Camera Eye Photography (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr warns that if you list your salary requirement on your résumé, it looks like you've "run out of things to say." Another problem with putting down salary requirements - you could low-ball yourself.

Only touch this topic if a potential employer insists on it, and even then, reserve it for your cover letter. Salary © Evan Jackson (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr Focus on more specific, honest attributes about yourself. It's a meaningless term and it's just your opinion.

Employers are big on finding people who will match their "corporate culture" these days, but anyone can claim they are a people person.

There's really no reason to tout this trait - if you're called in for an interview based on your experience, a savvy employer should be able to determine whether you'll fit in with the company. Glug © Glug Events (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr