While our government continues deficit spending at unprecedented
levels sooner or later the dreaded (TAX) word is silently gaining
more momentum in Congress as one way to begin reducing our national
debt.

Nonetheless, most US business owners vigoriously oppose any
kind of tax hike-many of them say any tax increase by Congress
will result in a huge loss of jobs nationwide.

For many of us any loss of a weekly paycheck would be devastating.
But it would certainly make good common sense to prepare for
a job loss by brushing up our resumes just in case.

So you have been fired. Do you desire another career choice?
Or are you a newly minted college grad just starting out?


Your resume speaks volumes about you.If your resume misses the
first cut,your finished,no matter how qualified you may be.
In this post I've included top 10 mistakes to avoid when
putting your resume together:


1)Multiple pages – You need to be concise. Keep it to one page and one page only. If you can’t highlight your talents on one page, you’re giving the message that you are unorganized and tend to go on and on.


2) Fancy paper – If your skills don’t speak for themselves, then your fancy paper isn’t going to make a bit of difference.


3)Fancy font – Same as above. Don’t try to set yourself apart with a different font on your resume. Set yourself apart by being uniquely qualified.


4) Irrelevant info – No one really cares that you were a singing waiter if you’re applying for an accountant job.


5) Outdated information – Does it matter than you had a newspaper route and were on the high school cheerleading squad 24 years ago? No, not in the least. Leave it off.


6) Typos and misspellings – You would think this is an obvious one, but you’d be amazed at the number of resumes received with huge blaring mistakes.


7)Falsified information –Greatly elaborated credentials are the same as lies. Do not list diplomas, certifications, affiliations or awards that you did not earn. Just don’t do it. It’ll come back to bite you in the rear end.


8) Attachments – At the resume stage do not send any attachments, whatsoever. If you are granted an interview, at that time you could bring in whatever it is you’re so hot to get into the selecting official’s hands. The person accepting the resumes will likely just throw it in the trash can.


9) Elaborating too much – Place of employment, job title and brief, very brief description of job responsibilities are all you need. Don’t complete a whole paragraph for each job you’ve held.


10) No cover letter – Writing a good cover letter is a bit of an art. However, any cover letter is better than none. Just keep the same principles in mind with your letter: Brevity, relevant and free from typos.


If you can avoid these simple top ten resume mistakes, you’re more than half way there to getting an interview