50 Buzzwords You Shouldn’t Use on Your Resume

why can you use these words in a cv but not a resume? words like motivated, highly skilled and fast learner are encouraged in a cv.

louisa of LA 11:49AM October 10, 2012

The best interviews and the best jobs I had did, were those with little emphases was placed on the presentation style or wording of my resume and more focused in a ONE on ONE face to face conversation where the recruiter/manager ended up know all the other skills I had and like wise I was able to learn a lot about the position and how I matched the job, how I liked it, and how I could best map my skills to the employer needs. Infact the best jobs I have had in the past and the best manager were those that took me with no hard technical grilling and just a character and personality check with required capabilities by a having a friendly chat and lunch.

I have heard from so many great managers that I have met how told me that skills and certificates are not best criteria. It the candidate has a great attitude, are honest, have integrity, a desire to learn and has a likeable personality they can be trained and are valuable assets that can be moved to business needs.

So, if the have all the skills and certificates but later you find they that are not flexible, do not want to learn new things or are arrogant that they know too much that is a problem.

These managers motto is we can train employees but cannot change their character or instill passion and non of these things can be measured by a nicely written resume and super coded word search application.

The other problem is that employees are being screened by a lot of contracted Hr folks who screen resume like they are shopping in a grocery store. It is only with a conversation can I employer really find out the true assets a potential employee can bring that may be relevant of their aspects of an employers business.

Candidates, be your true self, it is a hard road but just as employers are weeding out employees you end up weeding out the employees who only care about saving money and not people caring companies.

Employers wake up and spend more money to talk to candidates, and stop hanging on to the yes folks in your company because many of these are coasting and not being critical for the betterment of your company and are not creative.

It takes caring parents to criticize a child they love and it takes a caring employee to voice their opinion and criticize process and things in a company because they want to improve it and are creative and not stagnant.

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Robin of TX 10:41AM December 13, 2010

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Yea, agree with all the above comments. I have been to network groups, church meeting, etc and some of the advice from actual HR folks back fire sometimes. As mentioned not all companies play by the same rules to review resume.

In fact I think this whole word search thing is being blown out of proportion and to a very unproductive level by a lot of the HR folks who are asking great potential employees to play dog and pony show with resume and making people behave other then their true self.

You know everyone in the world would be in sales if they are great at sales people as many of e HR folks want them to be. With the way HR folks want to make every candidate a super sales and marketing person to make their life easy by coding a resume with BUZZ words. They are bound to get many con artists who are supers at acting and creating a fantastic shop front resume and slick at talking.

While it is true that one needs to sell one self. However, what the current trend is showing is that a great employee who is a poor sales person will not get the job so companies will not hire the but great actors with middle of the road performance will be choose, like choosing a book by the cover. No wonder many companies are struggling to get great employees and like wise great employees who are very honest struggling to find a great employer.

Robin of TX 10:37AM December 13, 2010

Until I found a job, I was beginning to think that potential employers just shuffled through a stack of resumes like a deck of cards and whoever they picked was the lucky receiver. It is just so HARD to know what is the right thing to say, right words to use, and so on and so forth because EVERY INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYER IS DIFFERENT, THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT MINDSET AND INTERPRET WORDS DIFFERENTLY.

So truly, who really knows what words to use or not to use. I say just use words that come from the heart, in a professional manner of course, and tell the honest story of your employment and education as best you can. "Thinking" too much can ruin any project you are attempting to put together and "yes, even a resume". And oh yea, by the way, it won't hurt to say a prayer over the resume before you email it or before you drop it into that mailbox !!! It sure couldn't hurt !!

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE, MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU...

Jada W. of FL 1:21PM December 08, 2010