AT ENTRY LEVEL, 3 THINGS YOU DON’T NEED ON YOUR CV
Ariella Coombs is a leading career blogger in the United States and Managing Editor of Careerealism, one of the Top 100 career Websites in the United States, according to Forbes. She answers this question in an interview with OpenCollege, a US-based platform.
QUESTION: What are the top 3 things you should avoid putting on your resume?
1.) Don’t include an objective statement – it’s a waste of space and it’s an outdated technique. Instead, create a personal branding statement to put at the top of your resume.
2.) Don’t use an old, unprofessional email address you created in High School. Instead, create a simple, professional email address using your name. For example, you could do john.smith@gmail.com, j.smith@gmail.com or smith.john@gmail.com .
3.) This should go without saying, but don’t try to fool employers with those little “tricks” you pulled on your college professors like fiddling with the format to make a paper look longer. For most university graduates, a longer resume does not equal more experience, it just means more paper in the trash can.
ok Sir.
Sir, Kindly shed more light on what to put in place of objective.
You don’t need anything in its place. If you must put something, use Profile Summary, which is two or three line summary of the CV itself.