There is a great divide between modern day r\u00e9sum\u00e9-writing standards and those of a decade or two ago. These days, \u201cequal employment opportunity\u201d is the watch phrase, thus many of the details people routinely included in r\u00e9sum\u00e9s before are now considered immaterial, if not actually detrimental to the purpose of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Some of these are:<\/p>\n
1. Objective \u2013<\/strong> This is already a given. The company knows why you sent your r\u00e9sum\u00e9; there\u2019s no need to flesh it out. This portion is completely unnecessary unless you sent your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 as a shot in the dark or you\u2019re making a drastic career change.<\/p>\n 2. Irrelevant Experience \u2013<\/strong> If you\u2019re applying for work as a graphic designer, there\u2019s no need to put in your stint at the ice cream parlor in your junior year in high school. Your years of baby-sitting experience will also be irrelevant in your application for a marketing position.<\/p>\n 3. Personal Particulars \u2013<\/strong> There was a time when people put in such details as age, civil status, religion, hair color, eye color, height, weight, etc. when writing a r\u00e9sum\u00e9. These days, it\u2019s all about equal employment opportunity, so you\u2019re actually helping companies practice it by omitting these details.<\/p>\n 4. Hobbies and Interests \u2013<\/strong> Unless baking cupcakes or spelunking can positively contribute to your capacity to perform the job, it\u2019s pointless to include such information. There are jobs in San Jose, CA that may entail that your interests lean toward a certain niche, but most of the time, work and your leisure activities should not intersect.<\/p>\n 5. References \u2013<\/strong> You may think, furnishing a list of names of contact numbers shows initiative, but for the most part, it\u2019s really unnecessary. If you\u2019re a strong candidate for the position, your prospective employer will ask for references. There\u2019s no need to preempt him.<\/p>\n 6. Current Business Contact Information \u2013<\/strong> This could prove to be disastrous. Imagine somebody from work answering a call from a prospective employer, especially if he\u2019s from a rival company. Your current employer can and probably does monitor calls and emails, so don\u2019t put your current business contact details in your r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n 7. Salary Information\u2013<\/strong>The r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is not the medium for alluding to your desired salary. Its inclusion is simply presumptuous.<\/p>\n 8. Photograph \u2013<\/strong> Companies should evaluate you based on your professional and\/or scholastic achievements and not on your looks. Again, this exclusion is in aid of upholding equal employment opportunity.<\/p>\n 9. Grade School and High School \u2013<\/strong> Such details are nothing but padding. Unless you\u2019re applying for a job right out of high school, it\u2019s best not to include accomplishments outside your current career.<\/p>\n 10. Criminal Record \u2013<\/strong> It\u2019s up to the company to verify if you have a clean record. There\u2019s really no need to include anything pertaining to this in your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. R\u00e9sum\u00e9s are supposed to be informative, not entertaining. You should let your relevantcredentials engage employers\u2019 attention. This is the ethical and professional way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a great divide between modern day r\u00e9sum\u00e9-writing standards and those of a decade or two ago. These days, \u201cequal employment opportunity\u201d is the watch phrase, thus many of the details people routinely included in r\u00e9sum\u00e9s before are now considered immaterial, if not actually detrimental to the purpose of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Some of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n