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What are your least favorite resume words? My own is "utilize" — there isn't a single instance I can think of where it would be inappropriate to substitute "use." Every time I read "utilize" on a resume I always feel like the writer is trying to be unnecessarily fancy.
Answer below by Erin Berkery-Rovner, career advisor and former recruiter.
Various. It is single-handedly the most useless adjective on a resume — it essentially boils down to saying nothing new about the nouns that it prefaces
Worked on various projects.
Held various jobs over the course of the internship.
Used various word processing programs.
Wrote various words on my resume to sound important. Read more...
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