Bad Job Resume 1: Reason leaving a company
Posted March 26th, 2009 by SamanthaSometimes I really don’t understand what’s behind the mind of a jobseeker. Today, as I was browsing through some resume to shortlist some candidates for a few sales position, I came across this resume which I find it so wrong. I am not saying that there’s a particular way the resume is right or wrong, but this is way too out:
[All companies' name and job description has been changed of course 
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Sales Executive (Jan 2009 - Present)
ABC Company, Kuala Lumpur
- In charge of company sales, ensure sales target is met, meeting customers, develop new sales account.
Reason of Leaving: Salary too low, work long hours (9am - 10pm), no allowance claim, no OT, poor working condition, no future.
Sales Assistant (May 2008 - Dec 2008)
BCD Company, Petaling Jaya
- Take care of the shop, entertain walk in customer, greet customer, introduce company products (plumbing)
Reason of Leaving: Salary too low, dirty working environment, too pressure, no commission
Sales Personnel (Jan 2008 - Apr 2008)
SOGI Shopping Complex, Kuala Lumpur
- Store assistant for the shop, ensure company cleanliness, greet customer, give out flyers, calculate everyday sales figure and report to supervisor.
Reason of leaving: Low salary, stand whole day doing nothing, waste of time.
… I am speechless. Needless to say, the applicants was rejected right away.
[Sam] If you were to write a reason for leaving the company, unless with a very valid reason like to “continue my studies for a degree”, “Family relocated to Penang”; otherwise, I would suggest that you don’t say anything at all.
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7 Responses to “Bad Job Resume 1: Reason leaving a company”
April 11th, 2009 at 1:45 am
tq samantha..really usefull informations
http://www.getjobs4u.com
April 21st, 2009 at 9:32 pm
really good stuff. thanks for the info. in fact, it was really funny too.
May 5th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
must i mention the reason of leaving in my resume? if yes, how should i write it professionally; or should i leave it to be spoken in the interview. please help, thank you
February 25th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Text resumes will be around for a long time. Because everyone can type.
But everyone cannot write a story or a poem.
So, there will also be a demand for expert / professional resume – writers, for a long time to come.
But with thousands of ( often well-written ) resumes flooding the mail-boxes of recruiters, even these get ” deleted ” without being opened !
Ever-increasing number of recruiters feel that graphical / visual / audio resumes have an edge over plain text resumes – prompting Human-Resource managers to patronize path-breaking job-portals such as
http://www.VisualCV.com
which inspired me to come-up with my own innovative portal
http://www.CustomizeResume.com
( it is easy to be inspired, but , at the age of 77 , difficult to implement ! )
With regards
hemen parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Mumbai — India
February 26th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
well worth the read.I found it very informative as I have been researching a lot lately on practical matters such as you talk about…
March 30th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
As compared to a jobseeker writing her own resume, a resume written by a professional expert resume-writer would any day prove better.
But
Before sending that well-written resume to a recruiter, can a jobseeker figure-out in advance what would happen if that resume
gets ” rated / ranked / scored ” by recruiter ?
gets compared automatically with resumes of other applicants ?
Will she get an interview-call ?
To know what is likely to happen , she has to just type “Resume Rater” in Google / Yahoo / Bing , and download this software tool ( free and without even login ) from any of the 35+ websites. Then rate her resume.
Resume Rater mimics the ” resume-evaluation ” process of recruiters’ minds but does it in an unbiased / objective way.
Resume Rater is absolutely non – discriminatory.
Regards
hemen parekh
Jobs for All = Peace on Earth
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July 23rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Unemployed Girls, Beware !
Here are some findings of Pew Research Center’s Global Attitude Project ( in association with the International Herald Tribune – July 2010 ) :
There is a pronounced gap between a belief in the equality of the sexes and how that translates into reality.
In China, India, Indonesia and Jordan, equal-rights supporters think, most of the adjustments necessary to establish equality have already been made.
In nations ( Europe / USA ) where equal rights are already mandated, women seem stymied by a lack of real progress.
More than 50% in 10 of 22 countries said that when jobs are scarce, they should go to men.
Surely they have not read the survey conducted by Psychology Professor Keith Laws ( University of Hertfordshire ), which found that girls are better than boys when it comes to multi-tasking !
May be my 2 unemployed grand-daughters have still some hope !
With regards
hemen parekh
http://www.CustomizeResume.com
Jobs for All = Peace on Earth
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