Get Hired!: 10 Reasons Your Job Resume Is Being Ignored

These common mistakes could be holding you (and your career) back.

by Janell Hazelwood Posted: April 26, 2011

Missing Contact Info – While it’s important to protect your identity online, potential employers won’t even bother to look at a resume that doesn’t contain at least a phone number and an e-mail address. It’s sometimes OK to skip the mailing address, but there are no exceptions for phone number and e-mail address. Make it as easy as possible for the company to get in contact with you.

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  • Blinks

    This is a great qeiutson. Being a recent graduate myself, finding a job seems impossible. The biggest thing you can do is network, and social media allows for tons of networking opportunities. Each time I applied for a job (which I usually found on an online job search website) I would go to LinkedIn and try and connect with whoever was in charge at that particular company. This gives you two different outlets to apply, and an employer will likely remember your name if they see it twice. This will show you are interested, and it worked for me!

  • Maya

    Depends on how you want to cite them. If you just want “wrote articles for major media oltteus ,” it should be a simple line item under your summary of experience.If you want to go all-out, created a header labeled “Publications.” Under it, create a format that goes something like this:”Title of my article.” _Newspaper name_ (online), Month day, year. Available at URL.If you’re creating an HTML version of your resume, make the URL a link.References :