Responsibilities: Set up and break laboratory equipment

Don’t Leave Them Laughing — Proof Your Resume!

DECEMBER 10TH, 2016 | BY RUTHI POSTOW

You’ve heard it a thousand times. Proof your resume! Proof your resume! Proof your resume! That means don’t stop with a quick scan. Search for typos. Turn on spellcheck. Look up words if you are not sure of their meanings. Don’t oversell your experience; list the duties you actually performed. Read every line for meaning. Make sure it’s clear and not overstated, too broad, or redundant. Then have another person proof it. This advice is not new but it’s amazing how many people don’t take it. But when you skip steps the results aren’t all bad. You bring merriment and laughter to overworked recruiters, even though you don’t get an interview.

*Set up and break laboratory equipment and supplies.

This was a typo — wasn’t it?

*Worked on a team that organized and executed two physically challenged American Youth. Team Games in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Looks like someone forget to check punctuation and read every bullet aloud for meaning. Unfortunately his poor sentence structure and misplaced period cost the lives of two innocent kids.

*Arranged and coordinated extremely detrimental meetings

I wonder just how harmful those meetings were. Pick up the dictionary! Look up any word if you are not 100% sure of its meaning.

*Exhibit strong attenton to detail

Good at details? Got spell check?

Resume of Congressional intern:

*Attended committee meetings and handled serious legislative matters for the Senator.

Really? Did the intern overstate this — just a little?

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