5 things you should never include on CV

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An interview expert has shared the top things she insists companies don't want to see on your job applications, which they often see anyway. If you have been job hunting for a while, you know the pain of going through endless job applications, interviews, and tests only to hear nothing back from an employee or to be met with 'thank you for your application' emails. New job processes can be demoralising but you have to stick it out if you want to land a role.

But one thing that is imperative to get right and impress potential employers is your CV - and it appears a lot of reoccurring errors are causing employers to be put off from applicants.

Anna Papalia, author of Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing, is an author and job application expert - and she has been sharing her top tips. Anna, who boasts 1.5million followers on her TikTok page @ann..papalia, said there are five things you must NOT do if you want to land a job.

Anna said: "Things I don't want to see on your resume in under a minute...I'm just making sure you have the skills to pass you onto the interview."

Anna said that you don't need to declare what your objective is for applying for the role. The expert said: "I know what your objective is, it's to get a job. I'd rather see a summary, summarise your work experience."

Anna said: "I also don't need to see your home address." Instead, she suggests simply just including your email address and phone number so the employer can get in touch with you.

Anna explained that you should avoid using the word 'I' on your CV as this is implied.

She said: "Under your professional experience, in your bullets when you write 'I worked at blah blah blah', I never want to see the word 'I'. I'd just take it off and just lead with worked or consulted with or whatever it is."

One gobsmacked individual wrote in the comments: "Imagine not getting hired because you wrote 'I' on your resume."

Anna says she has noticed people including a number of irrelevant skills on their CV.

She brutally put: "I don't care about your volunteer experience... No one cares about your volunteer experience... Especially if it has nothing to do with this job. No, it doesn't make you sounds well rounded. And no I don't care about your personality."

In the comments, people were gobsmacked by this. One individual wrote: "Not caring about volunteer is WILD. It's shows they're a person who sites about other people. You should want people like that."

Another said: "Hard disagree on volunteer experience. Such a green flag for culture fits, additional soft/hard skills, and it's excellent for those in challenging job markets and those with low to no work experience. Coming from job coach for non profit that supports single parent families."

Anna said the number one takeaway that she wants people to remember is to save their CV document as their name.

She noted: "I receive thousands of resumes and they're all saved as resume."
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  • I will add, "make your resume visually appealing in terms of how you arrange the content and organize the headings on the page. " I used to tell my... students to assume the HR advisor charged with reviewing in-coming resumes is tired, has had a long day and is looking at dozens upon dozens of resumes. At that point, poor presentation or a hard to follow layout is probably all it takes to get it rejected. I a assuming that beyond that it's been carefully proof read to ensure the content is free of grammatical errors.
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  • "I" will be removed from all the following sentences.
    1. Always save your resume as " resume">.
    2. Include relevant qualifications that were in the... requirement that you responded to. Include other qualifications that you think could help.
    3. For older applicants, include experience in the current century only, unless it is something like a Nobel prize.
    4. For experience, the headline may be where you did it, but the important part was what you did, and (for technologists) the technologies you used.
    4. If you can quote quantitative numbers that you affected, that's good.
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  • Good to know dos and don'ts.👍

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  • Geez. Who wants to work for her. I'm surprised she didn't throw in "If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding!"

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  • Good 👍

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