Too focused on job duties One of the most prevalent resume blunders is to turn a resume into a boring listing of job duties and responsibilities.
Many people even use their company job descriptions as a guide to developing their resumes.
To create a resume that is a cut above the rest, you should go beyond showing what was required of you, and demonstrate how you made a difference at each company. Provide specific examples of how the company benefited from your performance. This type of statement is overused and too general, and therefore wastes valuable space. If you are on a career track, consider replacing the objective with a tagline, which is a statement of what you do or what your area of specialty is. The rule about the appropriate length of a resume is that there is no rule.