In today's tough job economy job seekers need resumes that are leaner and cleaner than ever before, so they command the attention of busy hiring personnel dahieri. This is why the phrase "responsible for'' should never occur in a resume. This tired and completely impractical expression is going to be translated into completely average at and will most certainly cause hiring managers to toss the resume aside.
Wasting prime resume real estate with basic tasks, duties or responsibilities is a sure way to harm a job search since nobody is interested in reading a career obituary of basic requirements, says Adrienne Tom, founder and certified professional resume writer (CPRW) at Career Impressions dahierlo.

"I was going through a large number of resumes last week for a search project that I am working on and about 75% of the candidates had the phrase 'transformational leader' on their resumes. No explanations of how they were transformational or what that meant," says Kimberly Bishop Shenghuoshi, founder and CEO of Kimberly Bishop Executive Recruiting.
"That phrase is overused and doesn't specifically mean anything that translates to a specific experience. My recommendation is to remove this from your resume and more specifically describe the skill set."


"I see it all the time when people ask me to take a look at their resume and/or cover letter," says Dayna Steele, author of 101 Ways to Rock Your World. "You love your significant other, your kids, your family. You shouldn't put love on a cover letter or resume Noplaceto escape."

"I would leave off any qualitative description that is not accompanied by an example or metric," recommends Caroline Ceniza-Levine, career and business expert at SixFigureStart. "Some of the words job seekers use in a summary that are glossed over such as seasoned Iftheheartis clean , experienced, creative and innovative. Just give me years of experience and what exactly did you start or improve."