Don't rely solely on your spellchecker as it would miss these common mistakes:-

"part time" or "party time"

"great" or "grate"

"six" or "sex" or "sax"

"rapid" or "rabid"

"clerk" or "cleric"

A good way to check a resume is to ask a friend to read resume to you, whilst you follow a copy. It's amazing how many errors you can pick up. And it is quite a thought provoking exercise having your resume read aloud. This method is what's known as "reading back" and is adopted in legal and financial professions for important documents.

5. Fluff, Long-windedness and Jargon With up to 400 resumes per vacancy, recruiters have very limited time. They will spend on average no more than 20 seconds on each resume. They want applicant to make their job easier by getting to point quickly. Reveal benefits of hiring you for job and cut fluff and superfluous language. Remember what MDR is of your resume...to get interview.

It is not to reveal what a nice person you are, or how many children you have or that your sports team won 6 games on trot while you were captain. YAWN YAWN

"Sometimes some people can take an age to make point that they intended to make at start, but then they get carried away with padding and irrelevant facts within their sentence, which leads recruiter who is reading to conclude they have not read their resume, nor know where heck this point is leading."

Long-windedness does not help if you see what I mean. :-)

Try this motto...

"Get to point!"

Candidates who include fluff, cliche, long-windedness and those than hide behind esoteric words break flow of their resume and thus alienate reader.

Communicate information necessary to evaluate your ability to do job. Use language that is appropriate to industry or field, but be aware that jargon may not speak to those who are intermediaries between you and ultimate hiring manager. Your resume must appeal to widest possible audience. It is often said that you should aim your resume at an 18-year old with limited knowledge of your industry, if you want to appeal to widest audience...it is like journalists are taught when writing articles to reach widest possible audience in a clear and concise way.

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6.Set a SMART goal: Now that you know what you want to achieve or become, you need to define it by making it a goal. Your goal has to be Specific, Measurable (you need a standard to help you know when you’ve achieved it) and Motivational (it’s got to inspire you and keep you motivated), Attainable and Attractive, Realistic (no point setting an unrealistic goal such as “I want to be a millionaire this evening”) and Timed (State when you hope to achieve it).

7.Plan and Take Action: Work out a plan of action. Break down plan into baby steps. Take a step or two each day, reminding yourself that each step is bringing you closer to your goal. Perform each act to best of your ability, filled with faith, determination and purpose to reach your goal. Most importantly, be consistent.

8.Persistence: Do not give up until you have achieved what you desire. In course of things, be willing to change any part of your plan which turns out not to work, and try something else. Thomas Edison did not give up in his quest to invent light bulb, even though he’d ‘failed’ 10,000 times. Now that’s persistence! See every failure as a stepping-stone to success and as a temporary set back. Learn from it and push on towards your goal.

9.Gratitude: Maintain an attitude of gratitude, knowing that your dream is about to become a reality. Refuse to grumble when circumstances look contrary. Refuse to complain. Be grateful for where you are now, and for where you are headed. Look around for things to be grateful for. You’ll be surprised to find quite a few.

10.Become a giver. In your relationships, always think in terms of what you can do for other person. What goes round comes round. After all, whatever dreams you have most likely involve interacting with other people. Be kind and generous to all; you never know where your breakthrough will come from.

11.Be in know: Find out everything you can about your situation/goal. Read books, listen to tapes, and talk to experts, whatever it takes. This will help you make wise decisions and keep you confident as you go along.