6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck

F***, you left out a few details and dates but this post pretty much covers my resume! 🙂

Thanks so much for the post! I went through my resume as I read and made some changes 🙂

awesome! thanks ! this (and all your other resume building tips ) are really going to come in handy, assuming I ever finish grad school . =D

Thanks TONS for this! So I guess the main thing is to write specifics in the resume so that potential employers can see good examples of you “experience” and “responsibilities”… this resume stuff is really helpful!

Time to revisit the old resume =)

Time to adjust my resume, I think.
I’ve used all those bad word before …

Excellent article. I’m writing a resume now so I will be sure to keep these suggestions in mind.

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Interesting, useful and funny. Good stuff.

Some good tips but uh, have you ever written a resume that was under 3 pages? I try to keep all mine to one page and it’s tough. Some of these sentences are twice as long as the buzz words!

so instead of writing “ahum ahum…” in the comments, i’d write the following:

“read this post twice and sent it to 29% percent of my friends, who said they loved it and may send it further”.

Excellent article. You did, however, gloss over one of my favorites in number 5’s “bad” with “Detail oriented public relations professional.” If a person truly pays attention to detail, they would know that “detail-oriented” should be hyphenated. So should “public-relations” in this case, but who’s counting.

How did I know you’re a technical writer? I didn’t have proof until your last comment.

I’m a tech writer, as well, and just posted to our church forums that I am available to help with resumes (what with the job market the way it is, I’ve already had more than one person take me up on my offer). I’ll be sure to run any resumes through your checklist before I pronounce them done! 🙂

Nice post, good to see the emphasis on quantifying what the CVee has done in their career. Forwarded to my wife who’s looking for work at the moment, I’ll be sharpening up my CV with these tips as well, and also reading the rest in the series – thank you!

This is a great article. I’ll remember these tips if times get hard and, if I have to job hunting. :p

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Wonderful article.

Keep up the good work.

All the Best,
Allison Worthington

Excellent post!
I don’t agree completely on point three… but thanks for sharing this CV amendment manual 🙂

Fox, that’s a really nice article – congrats! I know that I have to make changes to my resume ASAP 🙂

I implemented all of your suggestions but still haven’t gotten a job offer. Maybe it’s because of my BO?

Sheesh. Now I have review my resume, again. LOL! Seriously, this is helpful and I’m looking forward to using this advice! Thanks!

meh, you could summarize all 6 points by saying:

give details and examples, don’t be vague.

We have probably all been guilty of using some of these at one time or another; clearly “action verbs” are better to use. Re: # 4 the GOOD example, “worked with” is also as trite as any of the other other bad examples – probably better to say, “guided” or “directed”…well, you get the point…Nice article.

I would like to add tot his that you should be careful about some of these detailed items. When I look over a resume and see stuff like this I get kind of irritated, the person sounds like they are kind of bragging and it looks stupid when you get TOO detailed by including items that the person reading the resume may not see the importance of.

Thank you! – Great advice – although that means I’ve got to edit one more time.

It’s just basically about being specific.

Thank you SO much for this guide. Having just been laid off, I’ve been sending out a lot of resumes lately, all of which had job descriptions beginning with “Responsible for …”

These problem words have been removed, and the first of the new versions is being sent out right now! Thanks again!

You forget…without “Keyword” jargon like the bad phrases, most HR professionals I know will skip over the resumes.

I have had many problems in the past with such practices since they do not understand or know anything EXCEPT to look for those keywords.

I agree that those phrases are worn, and overused. However I still use them not because I cant think of a better way, but so my resume will be forwarded to the guy that needs to see it.

I just wish I could make 2 resumes…one for the HR reps, and then one for the hiring manager that would better understand the duties and actual qualifications.

Most of your updated language is 2x as long. Resume’s should not be more than 1 page and unless you have worked in 1 field and 1 job these chages seem a bit wordy. It’s just too much detail to use all over the resume and it sounds pompous.

Wow! Let’s post some obnoxiously obvious information in a way that panders to my audience and I’m sure everyone will love me! Article is pure balls. Write about something useful.

But how will the headhunters knwo that I’m detail oriented if my resume doesn’t say “detail oriented”?

Never mind the resume, Fox – this is sound advice for any type of writing!

Good to know. Got 5. Twitts from different people.

Great guide, now I know what not to do when I decide to get a job.

Very nice advice. I’ve learned a lot.

It’s funny, but these six words were commonly suggested in the 90s as words that would be important to have a “searchable” resume…

Way to help people stay unemployed.

If you can’t show that you are educated and experienced in a page or two, you won’t get the job regardless of what words you do or don’t put on your resume.

Also, if you work in HR, and are throwing out applications because these words and phrases are in their resume, you should be burned at the stake.

It’s not these words, it’s how horribly vague people are. They do this intentionally, to try to fool you into thinking they know what they’re talking about. All of these words and phrases can be good, so long as the sentence or short paragraph they are in are descriptive to the point of interest.

It would be advantageous if you could also include the notion that passive voice in a resume (or in most technical writing) is not good and something to be avoided!

(Or in other words, Use Active Voice. Avoid Passive Voice.)

wow, love your post! I really need this tips to polish up my resume. Thanx.

Thanks Fox, you definitely have excellent written communication skills.

Love it, love it, LOVE IT! First time came across this blog, and this series. And I am proud to say that if this series was a test, I would’ve scored 100%. I started reading this post with resume alongside, and was quite happy by the end. Then I thought, eh, why not try the previous 4 posts? I was sleepy at 2AM, and I’m PUMPED at 3.15 right now.

I got some good advice early on, and one thing I would want to share with younger readers is this: Start Early! It’s never too early to write a resume. Get started from Sophomore year of college, and you’ll have a shiny piece to flash at the folks sitting on the other end of the table.

Thanks for these incredible posts. Looking forward to the last part of this series.

Great article! I think most people resort to these phrases when they don’t really have much to put on a resume to begin with (someone with not a whole lot of work experience), but if you really have something to put on it yeah you should never generalize it or anything -details details details!

Overall this is good advice but if you say that you increased sales by 15% you better be able to prove it. Don’t just make up some number, don’t exaggerate, and most of all don’t lie.

If you are caught in a lie, your not getting the job.

At some point in your carreer – don’t you have better things to do than send a resume to a hiring manager ?

isn’t “word of mouth”, networking a much better way to get a job ?

I agree resumes shouldn’t be vague, but in my job searches I’ve noticed that most employers fail at job description writing. Cliched, nebulous catchphrases galore. I tailor my cover-letter and resume for each place I send it, and part of that includes using some of the same vocabulary they do when they describe what they’re looking for. I really, really hate the phrase “team player” (and I personally haven’t used it yet), but depending on the audience I think it would be appropriate to include it along with something concrete about it. (It can be an interesting exercise to try to figure out what they actually mean by something like “team player.” Do they mean “obeys boss without arguing”? Maybe “cares about the good of the company” or “won’t spend all day browsing the Internet for personal reasons”? Or perhaps “gives clients a good feeling about the company over the phone”? It may have nothing to do with working with groups.)

For writing I’ve been told “show, don’t tell,” but I’ve realized that good writing usually shows AND tells.

Thank you for publishing this article. I edited my resume as I read through the information. I must have done something right as I only used three of the “no no” words/phrases. I now have a better resume to send out and I will take the updated version with me to an interview.

You also hit Lifehacker!

Honestly, I only read a few comments, so I’m not sure if this was answered, but *Azurith* pretty much wrote what I want to!
My resume is fully guilty of..hmm…4 of the 6 “sucky words/ phrases”.. but thing is, I’ve only worked in 1 terribly generic entry-level job…then I did my BSc., and now I’m job searching again, while on contract at another administrative job… so, how can I really make my resume unsucky…
Hmm, maybe: “Efficiently answered all telephone calls that came in and routed them…”…but still, that is to make someone hire me?
Please help though..I need a job..and the state of the economy is not helping!
Thanks.

Of course the problem with heeding the advice in this column is if you don’t have any valid examples to back up your experience. For example, I can say I am responsible for “writing user guidelines on deadline,” but if I have not done anything great like writing “six user guides for 15,000 users two weeks before deadline,” I can’t very well say I did. What if I only wrote one user guide for 2 people? That’s not quite as impressive, therefore I will only say that I am responsible for writing the guidelines and not be more specific.

Congrats Mort on disagreeing with Squawk and… then saying nothing in your post. You proved her right with your proof that you’re right.

I don’t quite agree with Squawk either, altho’ I dearly love her (she saved my life after a motorcycle crash by feeding me strawberries and cream). One can’t always be concrete on a resume because… the truth sometimes hurts: lack of experience, lack of concrete details that you want this employer to know, lack of wanting your details to BE concrete and out there for people to read.

So my resume is a combo of sucky and socky (sock-it-to-me)

Some times its better to use those SUCK words , because it gives some abstract higher level impression. What we expect from a cv is to project some good impression to the employer. Only the employer needs more details. So if we can give a good expression from a cv , at the time of the interview we might stand to chance.

So i believe this post is not good for the people who seeks jobs.

Thanks so much for the post! I went through my resume as I read and made some changes..

Very fun post about resumes and the sucky words… couldn’t agree more…

Check out another humorous paper that hits home with resume writing: http://devonjames.com/write_resume.html called “How to Write a Resume that Truly Portrays Your Business Strengths While Saving Time and Deoderant on an Interview”…

Kinda long title but funny.

I agree that these phrases suck, but as with most resume tips I wonder what you’re supposed to write if you’re not a superhero who single-handedly increased sales by 30%, made the entire customer service department obsolete, and cut production costs by 15%?

haha… I love your article. My uncle taught me how to write a good techinal resume a few years ago. These are the exact things he showed me. I’ve been told twice in the two jobs that I’ve started in the past 4 years that my resume sold me. They just wanted me to come in to the interview so they could see I was real.

Thank you for making this public, as this is a major issue that affects a lot of workers. I may turn this into a post of my own just to spread the word, as this is something that EVERYONE should read. Thanks again!

Hello. I’m Canadian and now live in Britain. I find that the resumes I receive in Britain are even worse than the ones above. I am not sure whether the British don’t want to *brag* but I never see accomplishments in their resumes. I’ve been looking at resumes for some time and I always want to see what someone accomplished or initiated rather than what is obvious. In other words, great tips! Plus I think most north americans’ resumes could teach the British a thing or two.

One final note: I always write my resumes in present, active tense. Drives some disinterested readers crazy but it’s appeals to the interviewers I look to impress. My resume gets noticed and the interview always works out. Go figure.

Nice article!

I never thought they sucked until you pointed them out. Great work!

The points listed in this article could have been put in a single recommendation: Use action verbs.

I don’t think there is a single rule but in reality the best practice is to simply edit the resume according to the job you’re about to apply for. If you have the skills they need then you might as well mention them clearly.

I never enjoyed writing my resume. I always do a much better job when I’m writing it for a friend. That said, I’d suggest if you’re trying to write something for yourself you might as well consult a friend, a former co-worker or perhaps a family member.

Good Luck!

It seems like a lot of people think that it’s the resume that gets you the job. If you’re not using your networking contacts to get an interview, the resume gets you the interview and it’s up to you to back up what you put on your resume. I always think of the resume as the trailer to the movie and your interview as the feature film. If the trailer sucks or looks like something you’ve seen a million times before, you’re likely not going to see that movie; but if the trailer intrigues you and draws you in, chances are you want to go see the movie in theatres.
I am pretty sure that weak metaphors are a bad thing to put on your resume, too.

I just found this post from Live Door News Japan — first of all “excellent post” I think I’ll give my resume a polish. The person who translated into Japanese was by Miho Akutsu for Slow Media Work, she is a writer for “All About” as well.

Glad to have found your site!!!

Helpful post. Thanks!

Great article! I’ve been meaning to update my resume for a while… this gives me a good excuse to do so. 🙂

Actually, I have a resume question. I’m applying for theater jobs and internships – I’m graduating college in just a few weeks, but my degree is not in theater. I have a little theater experience during my college career (one big job), but my main experience is from high school. Should I include that experience on my resume, even though it’s from high school?

I suppose I can forgive you since it’s for a writing project. My regular round of PF blogs is good, but I like the Foxy flair.

Excellent article! Very insightful.

I’m a junior in college. I have been preparing my resume for my graduation. We have a career services department at my college. I had one of the women look over my resume. Some of the corrections she made were adding these words to the resume. Maybe she should take a look at this site.

Great article, and very true. The number one thing to remember when writing resumes has to be DETAILS.

Interesting you are advising people to demonstrate they over estimate as a rule of thumb. Not sure that adds value to CVs

” … three months before deadline” highlights poor estimating skills.

There is a balance between bullish advertising and making yourself look like a grabbing budget player.

At the end of the day even if one was given a lofty deadline by a client, professionalism should compel us all to tell them so and re-plan.

I love this post. Thanks for the info. I need to check my resume to make sure that I’m doing things right.

I am reading everywhere about computer systems that scan for key words. Many of these terms you veto are ‘key words’ that are in the job advertisements. Wouldn’t getting rid of these terms hinder your resume because of this?

Great article and content.

I wonder your thoughts on brevity. Many of the examples you provided here have a longer string of words to replace the one ‘sucky’ word….

Love this article.
I do have one more tip and/or something to keep in mind when editing your resumes:

although phrases such as “detail-oriented”, “team player”, and “hard working” are generic and more often than not just FILLER words in a resume, it’s important to note that most companies don’t have the resources to individually review resumes…so they use software that scans resumes for keywords and only selects those which have a high percentage match of those specific keywords which directly affects those which fall onto the Hiring Manager’s desk.
So sometimes those filler words will get your resume into the right hands.

And sometimes they just suck!
It’s important to tailor your resume to the specific job posting…

Great list of sucky words.

I have two additions…

“Synergy” – this word makes me want to spew.

“Proven track record” – if everyone read your article, they will understand why this is a frustrating phrase. I also read recently that it is the most commonly used phrase on resumes.

Thanks!

Well it doesn’t hurt or loose anything if you try to keep up with this article. For me I think this is helpful insight but not absolute. Vacancies have a lot of elements -timing, personality, skills and more.

The only thing worse than “detail oriented” is “detail orientated.” That one makes my teeth hurt!

I’m just about to write a CV (resume) to apply for an internship in New York (I’m from Manchester, UK) and had no clue where to start and how to make myself stand out from all the other aplicants…

All the information provided above is excellent! I really feel inspired and hopefully will at least get an interview now with my new CV!!!

Very HELPFULLLL, I’ll try to fix up my resume. I think it contains many sucks cause I used a some bad words…
and all that I can say is
Many Thanks
Merci beaucoup
Grazie mille
Vielen Danken
Shukran gazilan
Shnorhakalutjun
Arigato

I couldn’t agree more with this blog. I’m a hiring manager and run a job search support group and I see hundreds of resumes that just don’t say enough to me. I want tangible descriptions of what you’ve done and how it was successful. I have a problem. Show me you are the solution. I agree with some of the posts that you do need a summary or headlines that quickly define your professional profile, but then get to the action. Good advice that I will pass on to my group.

I would like to share that some MNC uses a system to generate resumes based on some of the keywords meant for the position advertised. This saves time for processing which equals cost-saving.

You never know, that it’s the system that is generating the conclusion, even though you thought you might have did your best and the top-notch for that job.

Nice article indeed.

Too bad this author hasn’t realized that “you’ve got” sucks, too.

some i agree with – some i don’t
but i guess every opionion is at least worth a read in these hard economic times.

Thanks, very helpful

Well I agree that language is stupid, but I take great exception with:

“Hiring managers can identify sucky words in seconds, leaving your resume work worthless.”

What planet are you from? Hiring Managers invented these sucky phrases – they are on every job ad – that’s why they appear on people’s resumes. People don’t talk in stupid, bureaucratic phrases by nature, they learn to do so in trying to work the system – now the system is telling them not to?

For those who think that words like “Responsible for” or “detail-oriented” are keywords: try to understand that not all words in job description are “keywords”. They merely state that they need someone responsible for such and such tasks. They don’t want to see them in your resume. Unless you want to look like absent-minded profane.
“Keywords” are technical words, or words specific to the industry.
Don’t “copy” job descriptions blindly – yes it’s less work, but it makes your resume useless.

I disagree with pretty much every single thing wrote here. These are things that are considered almost mandatory by almost every single employer I know and even things I require when I look at resumes. I don’t care about explicit facts, they take up too much room. I want brief descriptions and we’ll cover the rest in an interview.

Thanks, some of these helped me. The advice is sound, even if the examples aren’t always very creative (almost all referenced a numerical stat to prove value, the absolute easiest scenario!).

Plus, saying you worked within a diverse group of people “to deliver financial reporting software three months before deadline” doesn’t even suggest your team dynamics are a strength. You may have accomplished that in spite of you being a poor team player, meaning something else unmentioned is the actual strength. These things can all be very hard (or impossible) to do when you don’t have an easy out and you’re intent on doing them correctly.

Having said that, you being so specific in your article is part of what made it more useful than most, as well as more open to criticism, so kudos!

How about this one…
” I am a people person ”

As opposed to ??? a dog person? cat person? The above statement is often seen on resumes for Human Resources or other service oriented jobs. Don’t tell me you are one – demonstrate it instead!

Stee

These aren’t really words but phrases.

Very helpful, I just got a better idea on how to sell mey skills being more specific, providing numbers, percentages costs… etc etc rather than just saying, I contributed to company’s costs reduction by reducing man power, down times and material expenses.

Thanks for these very helpful tips!…

this is helpful

I want to make it clear that this is neither a comment on the usefulness of the post nor it is a personal vendetta against any of you out there who have contributed to the quality discussion – of course including the blogger. Yes, it is a justified rant.

My honest opinion is an outcome of experiences over many years – of the so called HR industry – which has become inefficient and fussy. It has become a machine with almost zero tolerance in terms of the input that it can process. It is so limited by its narrow compatibility with the human reality. Where is the H in the HR? [“…oh it was right there yesterday..god knows where is it now..huh! right they are loaded with work, isn’t that good? right, you work at work, that’s work!, that’s how it works, but does it really work?”]

Listen up, you are not sitting there to get impressed by the stuff (resumes) that you read (!?!). You are there to find a right match for the job. That’s it! Somebody teach that wisdom to those thoughless recruiters?? If they choose to use some of that H in the HR, they’d always remember that people are looking for jobs! and that most of them are probably desperate!

The industry, always, starts a new trend/fad it wants jobseekers to follow so that you can sit on its seats comfortably and not get bored by the so called sucky words. Well, eventually to jobseekers’ misfortune, you get bored:) That simply means that you are not enjoying your work!:) isn’t it?:) What’s the whole deal about ‘if you cannot sell yourself well, you probably won’t sell the org either’? Come on.. throw away your inertia. Don’t sloth yourselves. Analyse! Understand! Yours is not the place to behave like audiences of entertainment shows! Do the damn job! If you have no spheres to accept greater responsibility for the industry that you are working within, then you quit!

Words are words. Unfortunately they do not match telepathic perfection. They are USED to communicate. That’s the ONLY purpose. And HR industry is supposed to practice the art of subtle magic, to be the instrument of change for organisations – not to change the bloody trends (?!?). Jobseekers are not there to scratch your ego or please your senses. When irritation starts riding your sense of judgement, it’s time for reflection. Don’t give them jobseekers reasons to wonder why the HR industry is thriving all over the globe. Surely, if it did its job well, right people would find right jobs, right companies would find right candidates and one word – ‘stability’ – would replace the whole HR conspiracy theory.

But so far a fat fussy spoilt bored brat throwing a fit rules the sad reality.

Thank you for the information. I’ve read all this article and learned a lot. But this topic about words or phrases that suck is a little contradictory as many of those words are actually listed in the job descriptions and are keywords. Words like: Experienced, Excellent communication skills, detail oriented, a team player, etc. are very common in job descriptions for restaurant servers for instance. Do you recommend to avoid those words in all cases? Thank you again for your information.

So what do you do when what you were “responsible for” doesn’t lend itself to numerical results?

I’m in the legal profession and while the number of cases won might suffice, that’s far from the kind of description of skills and results employers are looking to receive.

Prepared 37 cases for litigation at once? Drafted 42 demand letters in one day?

I really like the post, but finding it hard to use in my particular profession.

I keep hearing that you need to quantify your resume. However, I am in marketing, not sales and have no access to the numbers. They usually say marketing has no ROI, so how do I get around that?

I don’t know…in IT one common and useful type of hybrid resume includes a short Skills section followed by a more detailed chronological Experience section under which you include highlights and accomplishments. I think it’s unnecessary to turn your skills section into a redundant experience section if the those skills are validated by specific accomplishments in the other section.

Great tips, as valid today as when they were written. Possibly more so with so many resumes out there on the market. Have a small bone to pick with #4 though – from a recruiting standpoint, it’s good for your audience to know that yes, you’re a great team player, but if you’ve also worked solo on projects, say that as well. Anything mentioning “team performance” needs to emphasize *your* role on the team. Great post, though.

The advice in this article is fine if you’re looking for a sales job, but what about regular jobs that are just ordinary such as waitress, barista, receptionist, day are worker, CNA, custodial…the jobs MOST new non-college grad jobseekers are looking for? You can’t measure those kinds of jobs by percentages.

I’ve heard the exact opposite of this. I just graduated from College 2 years ago and I am still seeking work, so perhaps my professor is wrong, and I need to change things, but I was told that professionals still have very busy schedules to keep and that hiring someone is usually just thrown on top of those duties. Therefore, the first thing they will often look at is how wordy the resume is, and throw it out based on that. Writing “Short and Sweet” was always what I was told. “Tell them what they need to know in as little words as possible. No fleshing out the english and being proper. Builtpoints, lists, and 1-4 word sentences are a resume-readers favorite things. Now I know this was written a few years ago, so have things changed again, or am I being taught wrongly?

When I worked in retail probably 95% of all the resumes came through me, and I could share some horror stories (one kid came in with their mom and she filled out the application form for him). But one of the worst was a guy who came in with a three page resume (it was a slow day so I did read it), that had nothing to do with the job he was applying for (or any other in the store) and was so obnoxiously rude to me it wasn’t even funny.

So while I agree with the merits of this article, it means nothing if what you put on your resume isn’t relevant. And it doesn’t hurt to be nice to the person you’re giving it too either. (The way I see it, if you’re rude to them, you’re not going to be polite to the customers, now are you?)

Loved the article!
I have written and read several articles on what to avoid or what to include in a resume. Your straight forward approach gets the job done. You made me giggle to myself as I read through your examples. I see them so often and they just make me shake my head. Thank you for the blunt and entertaining method.

Kerry,

Excellent post. Quantifying your results via numbers, percentages, or awards, is an excellent strategy to use to ensure your resume is effective. In addition, only include information which is relevant and recent (within the past 10-15 years) to avoid age discrimination. Great advice!

Drew Roark, CPRW

I’m starting to think that half of the posters on here are mediocre workers who have no accomplishments to list because they haven’t strived for more than the bare minimum. If this isn’t the case, one should be led to believe that they could find a way to quantify their experience and not necessarily in terms of numbers. On a side note, I’ve also come to the realization that applications and resumes aren’t a one-road route. It varies by industry and employer. Everything from a large corporation to an entrepreneur looking for their next investment consider different resume approaches appropriate or desirable.

I have tried both these styles. I can honestly say I saw no difference in outcome.
It is almost impossible to quantify a secretarial or reception job. But you can give examples of unique responsibilities you were given, or new skills you acquired.
I currently tailor my resume to the job description, but if you are attempting to apply for several positions in one company via an online tool, that is impossible, so it becomes generic.
My last employer has cut almost 2000 positions from a 6000 strong work force. I was laid off, rehired within a month, laid off the following year. My co worker had a BA and was working as a receptionist, and had been averaging 3 applications a month for 4 years.
It seems it is no longer what you know but who you know.
For example, for three jobs I sent applications for there were 55, 69 and 93 acceptable applications passed to the search committees. Two I did not get interviews for. Unfortunately this company also has a rule that the committee must interview 4 applicants, but most of the positions are already taken by the interim worker.
The third is my best hope, as I have a friend who has spoken to the manager for me.
That particular manager is old school, and will probably be looking for the buzz words.
I also have glowing written references from previous employers, but as most applications are placed online, I have no way of submitting them, so I usually fall back on the ” written references available upon request” line but have yet to be asked for them.

the most important thing is to explain what you done.
This will set you apart. when you take your ownership.

If you want to say you helped in some way give an example of what you did to enable the benefit to the company or others in making it transpire.
just saying: helped 5 people is too bland. you have to show them and explain. Remember you only have seconds to get the employers attention

the power statements have to flow and the words have to be in away that entices the employer to interview you or hire you on the spot.

follow this frame work— what you done , then what was the issue that needed to be resolved, then finally what was the benefit to the companies and others were when providing the solution if any.

The employer would ask you such things in an interview as well but they want what results you have provided. Numbers, percentages, and comparisons.
In doing so you position yourself to the employer as if in a way that says this is what i have done and this is what i can do and this is what the results are to become even better if you hire me.

if you want what i can only provide then lets come to the table and get this contract done for an agreement to work together.
There are words that say you done something but you want to show them in your words from the field your in when explaining.

of I helped contributed assisted results

these are just as bad
because powerstatements are taking ownership of results
purpose is to show when explaining how you did the things you have done in a concise way

Such as
Qualified new projects to sensitive behavioral indicators for tightening inadequate queries and in researching enriched efficiency from 50% to 80%.

don’t mean to tease any one here with this and wanting to know more about what results i get for companies.
This is how it is always been done and it is to get to where your trying to go and that’s to get the job.
Everyone wants to be successful and get the position they desire to settle down with in life.

“When do i start work”?
Following up is the another way to say i was there then and you needed more time for the answers i always had that i can provide now when you hire me.
Just showing the employer you are a one of a kind person is un avoidable.

#7 – References Available Upon Request.

Really??? We thought you’d say no if we asked for them. Smh…

I disagree. Detail oriented (sans hyphen) works just fine, unless you are anally retentive. Current grammar style says to not hyphenate when it’s obvious and only include it when it’s necessary.

The basic rule I follow as an Editor-in-Chief of a tech pub is this:
Use the least amount of ink possible.

So if you must use certain punctuation marks to clarify, do; otherwise, don’t waste the ink. Every extra nonvalue added mark (case in point) just adds clutter and one more thing that the eyes and brain have to process, and if it doesn’t add value because the meaning is already clear, there is no need for it.