What hiring managers hate about your resume

• Grammatical/spelling errors
  Too much information (or as GSG says, “I’m hiring you for a job. I don’t want to know about your 4 kids, that they are (in your opinion) little Einsteins, your dogs, your husband/wife, or your hobby of knitting little stocking caps for the poor little cold kittens.”)
• Information provided that the interviewer can’t legally ask for (marital status, age, religion)
• Unexplained date gaps in work experience
• An overstatement of technical skills
• Bad formatting (TiggerTwo hates “the failure to place the most important information in the top third of the page, lack of white space, a bunch of keywords that appear to exist only to be keywords, failure to provide a skills listing, use of less than 10 point font, and use of a difficult-to-read font.”)
• “If you can’t tell from the resume alone if the owner is enthusiastic about (some aspects of) his previous job experiences, the resume is out.”
• Not highlighting actual results delivered
• Overly long resumes. According to frostbite, “anything more than 2 pages is a hard read, more than 4 is a tome.”