What NOT to include on a résumé

Sit down, you’re rocking the boat.

“Extremely proficent proofreder.”

The DPS (or healing) logs from your guild’s most recent raid in World of Warcraft. Especially if you didn’t finish on top.

Two threads below this one:

Man builds a working Little Tykes Cozy Coupe

Don’t laugh! One of my classes this term involves developing Facebook apps. Which can be as simple as a web page with some embedded codes to talk to Facebook’s servers. Basically, you get a developer account, hook up your webpage, and start mining that sweet, sweet Social Graph data…

How about a 4-D cube? :slight_smile:

Well, not necessarily. I was applying for a job as a writer, so I included the facts that I was a regular editor of Wikipedia and also had a movie review blog, and included samples.

Of course, I didn’t get the job …

Fair enough, some jobs that would be plus, but in this instance the job was a secretarial position.

If you absolutely must list “rapping” as a hobby, at least make sure you spell it with the right number of "P"s.

Ditto if you’re a raper.

Also watch your spacing when applying to be a therapist.

This one is a true story: an applicant for a job I had to fill put on her resume that she had been the runner-up Miss Connecticut several years previously and was now active in organizing Miss America beauty pageants.

No, I’m not saying she shouldn’t have put that on her resume; even though beauty pageants are not my thing I do understand that the case can be made that she was demonstrating poise, teamwork, organizational skills, etc.

What she SHOULDN’T have done is to have coupled that information with a cover letter that began, “I saw your job opening and it got me all excited.”

The men I worked with were highly in favor of granting her an interview.

Eh. Lots of businesses have half-assed Facebook pages and having a secretary who can “manage their social media presence” would be a plus.