CV Tips: Some common mistakes...

Failing to highlight relevant skills, strengths and achievements. No matter how proud of making the state figure-skating team in 1991, don't devote half a page to it.
Omitting specific career accomplishments.
Providing lengthy, generic job descriptions.
Listing less important career details before key experience and achievements.
Adopting a "life story'' approach. A potential employer doesn't need to know how desperate you are because your partner just walked out, leaving you with three kids, two dogs and a hefty mortgage.
Using an outdated, standard resume format.
Including old, irrelevant information. If you've worked your way into a senior management role, a detailed description of your high school education is not your strongest selling point. Limit job descriptions to the last 10 years.
Sharing information such as marital status or number of children.
Attaching a photograph.
Ignoring errors in spelling and grammar. It doesn't make a great first impression to describe yourself as being "very detial oreinted''.
Going on and on. If your resume stretches to more than four pages forget about applying for positions which require "excellent communication skills''.
Forgetting the importance of active language. Start sentences with strong action words such as "delivered'', "designed'', "implemented'' and "initiated''.

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