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What NOT to Put on Your Resume

William Ganucheau on April 22, 2018

Originally posted on the Debug My Resume Blog When writing a resume, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the more you include, the be...
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Ben Sinclair

I never really noticed this, but I always thought that "resume" was just an American word for "CV". Having read your post I see a lot of it is only going to be relevant to U.S. readers - it would be interesting to see how these vary around the world.

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Ross Henderson

I'm pretty sure you're correct in your assumption. From looking online over the years, I think some information is required on a CV where it's a bit more optional on a resume.

Though I'm probably wrong.

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Scott Spence

As far as I understand it a resumë is a breif summary and a CV is a complete listing.

I'm from the UK but as I'm changing career a lot of the information on my CV is misleading so a resumë is what I'm using instead.

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Alex 👨🏼‍💻FullStack.Cafe

Too many empty words with no real-life examples. Show us your template for reference otherwise don't pretend you're an expert I should listen! As a full stack dev I would recommend to check the fullstackresume.com service to build your Full Stack Resume in less than 30 seconds. Instead of writing all the content by yourself the service will generate it for you based on your unique experience using minimalistic A/B tested template. Less words - more value.

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Alex 👨🏼‍💻FullStack.Cafe

Your site doesn't work.