This Is the One Thing You Should Never Put on Your Resume

Apr 16, 2018, 11:39 AM
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Ask a room full of hiring managers which resume cliche is most likely to make their eyes roll back in their heads, and they’ll probably all give you the same line:

“Proficient in the [f500link ignore=true]Microsoft[/f500link] Office Suite.”

This string of seemingly innocuous words sunk its hooks into the job seeker's lexicon years ago, and remains a resume staple to this day—and for no good reason.

Yeah, everyone wants to flex a little.