Alan : 25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé

Looking for a job, but not getting any results. You could be torpedoing your own chances for success.

Review your resume and make sure that you're highlighting your accomplishments, as opposed to using puffery to bolster your work history. Specifically, Alan lists a series of words that everyone knows are meaningless buzz-words. Glancing over my own resume, I don't have too many of these major offenders, but I could probably use a nip and tuck here and there. Luckily, that can wait ... since the new job is going so well.