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Sometimes, lack of experience and talent is no longer what receives your CV evicted, however the use of clichéd phrases and phrases that make hiring managers cringe. While it is essential that you use buzzwords to highlight your abilities and competencies, you need to be cautious how you use them. If a recruiter or hiring manager opens your CV and it is no exclusive from that of the previous person, you can be positive he will leap past it. He needs to see the strong point in you. He also desires to be convinced that you are the proper candidate, and a bunch of repetitive jargons won’t do the magic. Here are 5 worst overused buzzwords you should banish from your CV: 1.  “I AM EXTRAORDINARILY MOTIVATED” Motivated to do what? Almost every jobseeker consider themselves motivated, so 90% of CVs hiring managers come throughout include this phrase. If you need to show off this on your CV as a strong skill, be specific and actually show what you mean. For example, you can discuss about ho...

We’ve all done it — listed “proficient” next to a language or software on our resume  and prayed to all the gods the hiring manager didn’t really mean it when he listed it in the job description. Because, as you know deep down, “proficient” doesn’t mean you can say “Hello” in Spanish, or you know how to plug numbers into a spreadsheet. By including this, you’re stating that you can use your knowledge in your day-to-day job to improve and streamline a process. You should know that while some hiring managers will skim over this section, others might test you. Former recruiter Richard Moy says, “Whenever ‘language proficiency’ was included in a job I was recruiting for, it wasn’t enough for candidates to just add it to their resumes. I knew whoever we hired would actually have to speak that language. Therefore, we’d have to test their abilities during the interview process.” But have no fear, every skill can be learned, and I’ve got just the thing to learn them and boost ...