If you’re working directly with the potential employer, send a PDF unless a specific format was requested. You’ll know they’re doing this if they ask you to send them your resume in Word doc format. If you work with a recruiter they will probably make your resume look like shit.
If you claim to be a master of one of these languages or technologies, spell its name right. Errors like these won’t get your resume thrown away, but I still hold it against you if you didn’t get it right. My other pet peeve is with language and technology names. Go talk to an interviewer who’s less of a hard ass about that kind of thing, and celebrate your mediocrity together. Â If you think I’m being pedantic and asking too much of you, that’s fine.
I ask merely that the one-page document that is supposed to tell me whether I should offer you an interview be free of errors. I’m not asking that every piece of correspondence you ever have with me is perfect and free of errors. I have thrown out resumes for really well qualified candidates for spelling and grammar errors (even when my colleagues wanted to move forward). I routinely review résumés for engineering candidates and I wanted to share some practical tips that are guaranteed to help get you an interview in the instance of at least one person who might be reviewing it.įirst and foremost, proofread the living shit out of your resume. You probably rolled your eyes at the English teachers who warned you about it, but they were right.
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